This chartbook was compiled by SHADAC for the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota to highlight how Minnesota is doing on a number of key indicators of child health. It draws on data from a variety of sources to look at how Minnesota’s children fare in terms of health insurance, health care access and use, health status, and health behaviors. Where possible, comparisons are made within regions of the Minnesota, to neighboring states, and to national averages.  October 2010.

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This page provides an archive of SHADAC's September 30, 2010 webinar to discuss the 2009 health insurance coverage estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS).  This webinar featured experts from the U.S. Census Bureau who reviewed the estimates, discussed the comparison between the ACS and CPS and responded to questions from the audience.  We'd like to extend a special thanks to the Census Bureau for participating in this webinar.

Resources related to the webinar and questions that arose during the discussion are below, followed by the archive video of the webinar.

SHADAC Resources:

• PDF download of the webinar slides.
• Issue brief, "Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the Uninsured."
• Issue brief, "Comparing Health Insurance Estimates from the ACS and the CPS."
• Issue brief, "Comparing State Uninsurance Estimates: SHADAC-Enhanced CPS and CPS."
• Issue brief, "Reclassifying Health Insurance Coverage for the Indian Health Service in the Current Population Survey: Impact on State Uninsurance Estimates."
• Research Data Center at the University of Minnesota (contact SHADAC if you would like more information about using the RDC).

Census Bureau Resources:

• Health Insurance Estimates main page.
• Logical edit working paper, "Applying and Evaluating Logical Coverage Edits to Health Insurance Coverage in the American Community Survey."
• ACS brief, "Health Insurance Coverage of Children Under Age 19: 2008 and 2009."
• ACS Content Tests (see Report P.4 for disability).
• The 2010 CPS replicate weights are available as a separate file via FTP at this link.
• ACS distribution of interviews by mode is in Figure 7.2 of the ACS Design and Methodology documentation.

Note:  the webinar recording cover slide errantly refers to September 30, 2009.  The correct year is 2010.

The purpose of this brief is to introduce health policy data users to the American Community Survey, explain how it differs from the Current Population Survey, and provide guidance on issues to consider in deciding when to use each survey.   September 2010.

Download a PDF of the brief.

SHADAC has developed and made available a Current Population Survey (CPS) data series (the "SHADAC-Enhanced CPS") that makes several adjustments to the CPS estimates to account for survey changes over time.  This brief compares the CPS estimates as published by the Census Bureau to the SHADAC-Enhanced CPS estimates over time and across states for 2007-08. 

Download a PDF of the brief.

Companion resources to this brief:

• SHADAC Issue Brief #19, "Historical Changes in Current Population Survey Health Insurance Coverage Items for Survey Years 1988 Through 2009."
• SHADAC Technical Brief, "SHADAC-Enhanced Current Population Survey Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: A Summary of Historical Adjustments."
• SHADAC technical brief, "Using SHADAC-Enhanced Current Population Survey Health Insurance Coverage Microdata Variables," provides information on how to locate and use the enhanced variables.