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Wireless Substitution Continues to Rise

New estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics show a continued rise in wireless-only households, or households that do not have a landline telephone but did have at least one wire

SHARE Webinar Recording Available: Using the NHIS to Evaluate State Health Reform

SHARE hosted a webinar on September 1, 2010, about the use of federal and state survey data for evaluating the impact of health reform at the state level.  A recording of the event,

Using the National Health Interview Survey to Evaluate State Health Reform: Findings from New York and Massachusetts

Publication Year: 
2010

Presentation by Sharong Long and Karen Stockley (Urban Institute) at the National Center for Health Statistics conference in Washington, DC, August 17 2010.

Can Post-Stratification Adjustments Do Enough to Reduce Bias in Telephone Surveys that Do Not Sample Cell Phones? It Depends

Publication Year: 
2010

Presentation by Kathleen Call at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, BC, August 2 2010.

NHIS 2009 Health Insurance Coverage Estimates Released

June 21, 2010. The National Center for Health Statistics released its report, "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2009."   The estimates of health insurance coverage are the first national estimates released for 2009.  The report includes estimates for the US and for the 20 most populated states.

2009 NHIS Uninsurance Estimates Released

The National Center for Health Statistics has released 2009 health insurance coverage estimates from the National Health Interview Survey.  The report, "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2009," provides the first look at uninsurance estimates for 2009 for the nation overall and for the 20 largest states in terms of population.

Highlights from SHADAC's NHIS State-Level Health Insurance Estimates Conference Call

Publication Year: 
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.

NCHS Health Insurance Estimates Released

July 1, 2009. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) today released two new reports relating to health insurance estimates.

New Research Data Center to Open at UMN

February 3, 2009.  The University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) and Minnesota Population Center (MPC) recently received approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and United States Census Bureau to open the Minnesota Research Data Center (MNRDC) in January of 2010. The RDC allows access to confidential (non-public) data for research in a highly secure environment and has potential applications across the university.

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