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Report/Brief: Measuring Income in Health Insurance Surveys

Oct. 09, 2008: This report from the SHADAC Survey Guidelines Series contains a discussion of the considerations related to designing surveys to measuring income in surveys of health insurance coverage. May 2003.Read More

Report/Brief: Measuring Health Insurance Coverage in Surveys

Oct. 09, 2008: This report from the SHADAC Survey Guidelines Series contains a discussion of the considerations related to designing surveys to measure health insurance coverage. May 2003.Read More

Squeezed: How Costs for Insuring Families are Outpacing Income

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2008 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. In this report, we use data from ongoing federal...Read More

Report/Brief: Whose Kids are Covered?

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2007 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. This report contains graphs on the characteristics...Read More

The Coverage Gap: A State-by-State Report on Access to Care

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2006 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. This report includes analysis of health...Read More

Shifting Ground: Changes in Employer- Sponsored Health Insurance

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2006 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. This report includes data from an ongoing federal...Read More

Report/Brief: Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States, 2005

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2005 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. This report includes characteristics of the...Read More

Report/Brief: Characteristics of the Uninsured: A View from the States, 2004

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2004 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. This report includes characteristics of the...Read More

Report/Brief: A Profile of Minnesota Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care

Oct. 09, 2008: This brief report includes analysis from the 2001 and 2004 Minnesota Health Access Surveys and the 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. May 2006.Read More

Protecting America's Future: A state-by-state look at SCHIP and uninsured kids

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2007 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. This report contains several tables comparing the...Read More

Report/Brief: A Needed Lifeline: Chronically Ill Children and Public Health Insurance Coverage

Oct. 09, 2008: This report was released for the 2008 Cover the Uninsured Campaign, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to highlight the fact that too many Americans are living without health insurance and to demand solutions from our nation's leaders. The report includes a state-by-state analysis on...Read More

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

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