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Community Tracking Survey - Household and Physician Survey Information

Oct. 09, 2008: The Community Tracking Survey (CTS) is conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. SHADAC hosted a conference call in March 2004 to provide information to state on the Household and Physician Surveys.  The first attachment...Read More

Report/Brief: Public program crowd-out of private coverage: What are the issues?

Oct. 09, 2008: This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Synthesis Project Report addresses the topic of crowd-out, or public coverage substitution for private insurance, examining the evidence on crowd-out and its implications for future policies to expand coverage. June 2004. Suggested citation:  Williams...Read More

Report/Brief: Summary Description of Weights in the CPS

Oct. 09, 2008: This brief contains a summary of the statistical weights used in the Current Population Survey's Annual Demographic Supplement. April 2001. Read More

CPS Verification Question - State Policy Implications

Oct. 09, 2008: Summary of SHADAC's September 2001 conference call discussing the Current Population Survey health insurance verification question added in 2000. September 2001.Read More

Report/Brief: What is Behind the 8 Percent Drop in the Uninsurance Rate?

Oct. 09, 2008: This document is a brief on the 8 percent drop in the uninsurance rate which resulted from the addition of a verification question to the Current Population Survey (CPS) health insurance module. August 2001.Read More

Report/Brief: How the CPS Measures Health Insurance Status and the New Verification Question

Oct. 09, 2008: In March 2000, the Census Bureau added a verification question to the Current Population Survey (CPS) health insurance module. This question resulted in a more accurate estimate of the rate of uninsurance. This brief describes the Census Bureau’s previous approach to measuring health insurance and...Read More

Approaches to Correct for the CPS Verification Item

Oct. 09, 2008: This paper provides a brief overview of two approaches to correct for the effects of the Current Population Survey health insurance verification item when constructing a time series. October 2003.Read More

Report/Brief: CPS Sample Design Description

Oct. 09, 2008: This brief contains an introduction to the sample design employed by the Current Population Survey (CPS), as well as information about the sampled household rotation schedule, the Annual Demographic Supplement, and survey weights. April 2003.Read More

Report/Brief: Revisions to the CPS: Impact on State Health Policy

Oct. 07, 2008: This brief contains information for the states on the addition of the uninsurance verification question to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS estimates of state uninsurance rates will be adjusted based on the new verification question. August 2001.Read More

Medicaid Under-reporting in the CPS and One Approach for a Partial Correction

Oct. 07, 2008: Survey estimates of public health insurance program enrollment tend to be lower than those compiled from administrative enrollment data for those same programs, a discordance which is particularly apparent for Medicaid. The crude Medicaid undercount in the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social...Read More

Summary of SHADAC’s Conference Call to Discuss the Revised CPS 2005 Health Insurance Estimates

Oct. 07, 2008: This document provides a description of the date processing error in the Current Population Survey that less to a misreporting of insurance coverage and the adjustment solution. In a small percentage of cases, some residents in a household were tabulated as "not covered" by insurance when they had...Read More

Historical Changes in CPS Health Insurance Coverage Items 1989 - 2005 Survey Years

Oct. 07, 2008: This document briefly summarizes the changes to the health insurance questions and fields on the CPS surveys and files for survey years 1989 - 2005, and includes a table that contains the fields that can be used to determine if a person had any health insurance coverage. March 2006.Read More

Summary of SHADAC Conference Call to Discuss the 2006 CPS Health Insurance Estimates

Oct. 07, 2008: Highlights from SHADAC's August 29, 2007, conference call discussing the health insurance coverage estimates from the 2006 Current Population Survey data release. September 2007.Read More

Summary of SHADAC Conference Call to Discuss the 2007 CPS Health Insurance Estimates

Oct. 07, 2008: Highlights from SHADAC's August 27, 2008, conference call discussing the health insurance coverage estimates from the 2007 Current Population Survey data release. September 2008.Read More

Summary of SHADAC Conference Call to Discuss the 2005 CPS Health Insurance Estimates

Oct. 07, 2008: Highlights from SHADAC's August 30, 2006, conference call discussing the health insurance coverage estimates from the 2005 Current Population Survey data release. September 2006.Read More

Summary of SHADAC Conference Call to Discuss the 2004 CPS Health Insurance Estimates

Oct. 07, 2008: Highlights from SHADAC's August 31, 2005, conference call discussing the health insurance coverage estimates from the 2004 Current Population Survey data release. September 2005.Read More

Summary of SHADAC Conference Call to Discuss the 2003 CPS Health Insurance Estimates

Oct. 07, 2008: Highlights from SHADAC's August 27, 2004, conference call discussing the health insurance coverage estimates from the 2003 Current Population Survey data release. September 2004.Read More

Summary of SHADAC Conference Call to Discuss the 2002 CPS Health Insurance Estimates

Oct. 07, 2008: Highlights from SHADAC's October 1, 2003, conference call discussing the health insurance coverage estimates from the 2002 Current Population Survey data release. October 2003.Read More

State Adjustment Ratio for the 1998 CPS

Oct. 07, 2008: In the March 2000 Supplement to the CPS, a new verification item was added to the health insurance module. The verification item asked those people who responded that they did not have any of the specific types of health insurance whether they were uninsured. To accurately gauge health insurance...Read More

Report/Brief: Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy

Oct. 07, 2008: This report presents the achievements of SHADAC in its first six years, with descriptions of our expertise and accomplishments in bridging the gap between research and policy. August 2007.Read More

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