Note: I just want to run this so that we have something in the supplement about dental. We can cut either the worker characteristics chunk or the geographic areas chunk, or we could turn the geographic areas part into a map.
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Dental Rules
Markets where the take-up rate is higher for employer-sponsored dental insurance than for employer-sponsored health insurance.
| Medical | Dental | Take-up rate gap, in percentage points | |
| Worker Characteristics | |||
| All workers …………………………………….. | 75 | 78 | 3 |
| White-collar occupations …………………. | 76 | 78 | 2 |
| Blue-collar occupations …………………… | 80 | 84 | 4 |
| Service occupations ……………………….. | 61 | 68 | 7 |
| Full time ………………………………………… | 77 | 80 | 3 |
| Part time ……………………………………….. | 54 | 62 | 8 |
| Geographic Areas | |||
| Metropolitan areas ………………………….. | 76 | 78 | 2 |
| Nonmetropolitan areas ……………………. | 74 | 80 | 6 |
| New England …………………………………. | 73 | 74 | 1 |
| Middle Atlantic ……………………………….. | 72 | 79 | 7 |
| East North Central ………………………….. | 78 | 81 | 3 |
| West North Central …………………………. | 78 | 80 | 2 |
| South Atlantic ………………………………… | 75 | 75 | 0 |
| East South Central …………………………. | 79 | 81 | 2 |
| West South Central ………………………… | 76 | 77 | 1 |
| Mountain ……………………………………….. | 71 | 77 | 6 |
| Pacific …………………………………………… | 76 | 80 | 4 |
| Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Compensation Survey, March 2005 | |||
In case we want to turn this into a map, the 9 census divisions are defined as follows:
New England–Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
- Middle Atlantic–New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
