Table 2
Selected Characteristics of Children with Special Health Care Needs            Ages 0 to 17, 2005-2006
	Never Safe	Sometimes Safe
Total	3.0	13.2	100
Current type of insurance coverage
Private	2.8	12.7	59.1
Public	3.2	13.7	28.0
Both public and private			7.3
Other comprehensive insurance			2.0
Uninsured	3.9	13.3	3.5
Uninsured at any time in past 12 months			8.8
	1.2	7.2
Usual source of care?	6.2	24.9
Yes	6.7	23.5	95.5
No	3.0	16.4	4.5
How often child is affected by the condition (past 12 months)
Never			37.5
Sometimes			40.6
Usually	7.3	23.0	8.3
Always	4.2	18.2	13.5
	1.2	7.7
How much has the condition affected the child's ability to do things (among those affected by the condition)?
A great deal	5.5	22.2	19.5
Sometimes	2.3	10.8	43.7
Very little			36.8
	1.1	5.3
Number of days of school missed due to injury/illness during the past 12 months	1.9	15.1
Zero			22.1
1 to 5			43.2
6 to 10			18.6
11 to 15	6.0	26.0	6.7
16 or more	16.2	30.3	9.4
Note: Types of limitations are not mutually exclusive and do not add up to 100 percent, as analysis identifies the percent of children with a given limitation. Source: Child Trends’ original analyses of data from the 2005 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs.