This webinar is the third in SHARE's Great Research Conversations series and features Economist Sharon Long, Senior Economist at SHADAC, and Audrey Gasteier,  Director of Healt

Call, K. T., M. Davern, and L. A. Blewett. 2007. "Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage: Comparing State Surveys to the Current Population Survey." Health Affairs 26(1):269-78.

This survey method guide discusses the three approaches used in the literature to answer to the question of what it means for a person to be underinsured. These approaches, economic, structural and attitudinal, may be used individually or in combination for a comprehensive measurement of whether or not health care coverage may be considered adequate. January 2004.

This report from the SHADAC Survey Guidelines Series contains a discussion of the considerations related to designing surveys to measure race and ethnicity in surveys of health insurance coverage. May 2003.

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.

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.

The Coordinated State Coverage Survey (CSCS) is a household telephone survey developed by SHADAC staff for estimation of health insurance coverage at the state level.

• The first attachment describes the core survey instrument that includes questions about health insurance status and basic demographic information.
• The second attachment provides a flowchart of the CSCS content.
• The third and fourth attachments are a sample questionnaire from the 2007 Minnesota Health Access Survey (Word or PDF versions).

This document contains specific questions to ask potential survey vendors. Question topics include experience, interviewing capabilities, data cleaning, and deliverables. February 2001.