Table 166b: Ethnicity - People age 12 or older who needed treatment for any illicit drug use and who received such treatment at a specialty facility in the past year, by ethnicity, United States, 2001

			Non-Hispanic
	Total		All races		White		Black or African American		Hispanic (all races)
Population group	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total	17.3	1.5	17.5	1.7	15.0	1.5	28.7	4.6	15.9	3.5
Age
12-17	10.2	1.3	10.0	1.3	11.1	1.5	*	*	*	*
18-44	17.9	1.9	19.0	2.1	15.2	1.8	33.5	5.5	10.7	2.6
45-64	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
65 and over	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
Gender
Male	14.6	1.7	14.4	1.7	12.9	1.8	21.5	4.7	*	*
Female	21.8	2.9	22.4	3.2	18.5	2.6	*	*	*	*
Educationa
Less than high school graduate	19.5	3.3	21.4	3.8	17.3	3.3	*	*	*	*
High school graduate	22.9	3.0	22.5	3.1	18.2	3.0	*	*	*	*
At least some college	14.0	2.7	14.1	3.0	12.4	3.0	*	*	*	*
Residence location
Urban (MSA)	18.3	1.8	18.6	2.0	15.5	1.8	30.4	4.9	16.4	3.8
Rural (Non-MSA)	12.4	2.0	12.4	2.1	12.9	2.4	*	*	*	*

^aEducation status only available for persons 18 years old or older.

*Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: SE: Standard error; MSA: Metropolitan Statistical Area

Note: The population categories used in this table are as reported from the source of the data (see below).

Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Office of Applied Studies, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 2001.

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