Presentation by Jeanette Ziegenfuss at the American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference (AAPOR), in Chicago, IL, May 14 2010.

This report is a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the income data and their utility for policy-related analyses in eight major surveys: the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS); the American Community Survey (ACS); the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS); the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS); the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey Cost and Use files (MCBS); the Health and Retirement Study (HRS); and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID).

This report provides a comparison of four national surveys that measure health insurance coverage to asess fundamental methodological issues that impact the variation in health insurance coverage estimates seen among these surveys.  The surveys compared include the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS), the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey’s Household Component (MEPS), and six state surveys.   This report was prepared by SHADAC researchers for the U.S.

Presentation by Kathleen Call at the 2009 Maximizing Enrollment for Kids meeting in Washington, DC, September 25 2009.

SHADAC's American Community Survey (ACS) Data Release Webinar, held on September 23, 2009, can be viewed by clicking the link below. The initial presentation is about 30 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of question and answer.

A PDF version of the powerpoint presentation can be found in the Downloads section below.

The number of uninsured Americans is large and growing over time, yet there continues to be debate about exactly how many Americans are uninsured. Researchers use data from several different national surveys to estimate the number of uninsured people in America and discrepancies in their estimates are common.  This brief compares estimates of health insurance coverage from four national health surveys sponsored by the federal government, identifies the differences in their estimates of uninsurance, and identifies  common themes.  September 2009.

On July 27, 2009, the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) hosted a conference call featuring Robin Cohen, PhD, senior statistician in the Division of Health Interview Statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics. Dr. Cohen discussed early release findings from the 2008 National Health Interview Survey, published in the June 2009 report, "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2008," by Robin A. Cohen and Michael E.