Table I.C.2(1996) Average total employee contribution (in dollars) per enrolled employee for single coverage at private-sector establishments that offer health insurance by firm size and selected characteristics: United States, 1996

Characteristics	Total	Less than 10 employees	10-24 employees	25-99 employees	100-999 employees	1000 or more employees	Less than 50 employees	50 or more employees
United States	342	326	285	320	330	373	304	355
Industry group **
Agric., fish., forest.	329	--	--	--	--	--	208	436
Mining	422 *	105 *	851 *	690 *	978	125	520	403 *
Construction	321	414	265	291	311	341	327	313
Manufacturing	283	277	313	281	249	300	278	283
Transp., commu., util.	272	351	248 *	291	303	252	299	267
Wholesale trade	336	380	229	270	369	367	289	354
Retail Trade	416	345	388	407	453	424	371	431
Fin., ins., real est.	401	278	182	293	432	462	245	441
Services	344	317	276	329	315	400	300	361
Unknown	90 *	119 *	0	0	0	0	90 *	0
Ownership
For profit, incorporated	346	329	295	322	339	374	303	361
For profit, unincorporated	389	304	273	440	391	497	319	439
Nonprofit	307	337 *	196	264	280	360	275	313
Unknown	314	350 *	428 *	205 *	344	304	358	305
Age of firm
Less than 5 years	330	342	271	353	370	257	306	379
5-9 years	293	323	303	294	231	361	301	283
10-19 years	300	327	313	276	314	261 *	305	295
20 or more years	352	310	256	349	315	429	301	369
Unknown	361	369	357	294	380	361	319	362
Multi/single status
2 or more locations	359	352	257	325	348	370	279	363
1 location only	315	325	289	318	300	496 *	307	328
Percent full-time employees
Less than 25%	377	367 *	241	414	426	359	350	390
25-49 %	332	375 *	287 *	390	256	335	382	315
50-74 %	383	348	327	350	403	403	338	398
75% or more	338	320	282	311	322	372	296	352
Union presence
No union employees	349	313	297	320	342	413	303	371
Has union employees	301	498 *	146	259	287	314	284	303
Unknown	341	406	241	353	298	349	319	343
Percent low wage employees **
50% or more low wage	381	323	395	359	380	407	327	400
Less than 50% low wage	320	311	277	299	326	353	292	335
Unknown	376	474	284	419	317	385	389	375
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends. 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component.
Note: Definitions and descriptions of the methods used for this survey can be found in the Technical Appendix.
* Figure does not meet standard of reliability or precision.
-- Data suppressed due to high standard errors or no reported values in cell.
** Definitions of industry groups and low-wage employees changed in 2000. These data are not comparable to IC data prior to 2000. See Technical Appendix.

 

Table I.C.2(1996) Standard error for average total employee contribution (in dollars) per enrolled employee for single coverage at private-sector establishments that offer health insurance by firm size and selected characteristics: United States, 1996

Characteristics	Total	Less than 10 employees	10-24 employees	25-99 employees	100-999 employees	1000 or more employees	Less than 50 employees	50 or more employees
United States	7.00	21.09	20.89	13.70	13.33	13.59	9.15	10.38
Industry group **
Agric., fish., forest.	79.54	--	--	--	--	--	50.52	110.01
Mining	127.87 *	81.40 *	293.62 *	224.30 *	293.35	36.86	155.66	139.47 *
Construction	38.04	99.17	46.94	46.30	53.00	73.72	39.70	43.35
Manufacturing	15.19	28.90	38.21	26.08	24.54	23.57	29.37	16.70
Transp., commu., util.	37.93	64.12	78.66 *	49.27	32.19	65.24	45.90	42.26
Wholesale trade	23.87	70.89	47.60	24.44	60.63	45.81	26.19	31.64
Retail Trade	19.10	42.55	49.47	27.48	41.66	33.15	20.33	23.64
Fin., ins., real est.	11.08	40.09	37.06	60.16	48.82	31.99	23.49	9.82
Services	16.74	21.01	24.95	25.57	28.73	40.93	16.45	20.83
Unknown	116.19 *	115.04 *	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	116.19 *	0.00
Ownership
For profit, incorporated	7.02	27.77	22.45	19.32	21.65	17.53	12.74	11.84
For profit, unincorporated	41.46	25.84	32.59	78.25	35.48	117.03	14.95	59.11
Nonprofit	15.49	146.22 *	47.10	29.83	27.86	31.84	51.12	16.51
Unknown	42.59	159.54 *	144.21 *	64.65 *	82.08	51.55	63.18	44.78
Age of firm
Less than 5 years	30.66	58.07	60.68	55.52	55.99	39.48	31.05	51.38
5-9 years	18.54	27.02	38.20	34.77	54.50	59.32	15.79	33.02
10-19 years	14.61	35.00	39.92	28.75	45.36	91.89 *	14.59	21.28
20 or more years	17.94	35.07	27.55	27.72	20.15	33.11	17.50	22.61
Unknown	11.83	78.46	93.94	57.22	31.21	15.05	42.68	11.70
Multi/single status
2 or more locations	10.58	77.54	34.55	38.27	17.88	13.40	19.05	10.70
1 location only	14.38	20.27	24.18	16.61	23.87	158.42 *	11.38	27.32
Percent full-time employees
Less than 25%	49.19	126.76 *	63.49	100.87	80.28	73.78	59.89	63.79
25-49 %	16.33	116.06 *	92.02 *	67.58	41.38	26.06	56.81	17.01
50-74 %	23.75	64.19	40.36	31.65	60.33	37.27	35.21	27.62
75% or more	7.51	24.44	25.57	14.43	14.57	16.69	10.81	10.98
Union presence
No union employees	9.46	22.35	21.39	15.38	17.88	19.85	10.75	13.04
Has union employees	30.85	205.88 *	39.08	44.74	68.62	38.01	45.35	36.75
Unknown	19.25	52.17	56.75	45.97	29.77	25.25	36.23	21.27
Percent low wage employees **
50% or more low wage	19.04	57.75	52.63	49.64	33.54	50.28	34.16	26.75
Less than 50% low wage	6.05	24.32	22.96	17.81	19.59	11.14	9.63	8.43
Unknown	18.33	66.43	71.34	64.35	21.59	23.61	33.31	20.22
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends. 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component.
Note: Definitions and descriptions of the methods used for this survey can be found in the Technical Appendix.
* Figure does not meet standard of reliability or precision.
-- Data suppressed due to high standard errors or no reported values in cell.
** Definitions of industry groups and low-wage employees changed in 2000. These data are not comparable to IC data prior to 2000. See Technical Appendix.