Summary of SHADAC's September 2001 conference call discussing the Current Population Survey health insurance verification question added in 2000. September 2001.

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.

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 discusses the effect of introducing the verification component. August 2001.

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.

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.

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.

Survey estimates of public health insurance program enrollment tend to be lower than those compiled from administrative enrollment data for those same programs, a discordance which is particularly apparent for Medicaid. The crude Medicaid undercount in the Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS), the most prominently used survey for policy research that measures health insurance coverage, was 32 percent in both 2000 and 2001. Given the important uses of the CPS data, improved understanding of the undercount in the CPS is crucial.

This document provides a description of the date processing error in the Current Population Survey that less to a misreporting of insurance coverage and the adjustment solution. In a small percentage of cases, some residents in a household were tabulated as "not covered" by insurance when they had in fact reported private or group coverage. This finding led to the Census Bureau’s recent downward revision of the number of uninsured from 15.9 to 15.3 percent or about 1.8 million fewer uninsured people in the U.S. in 2005. April 2007.

This document briefly summarizes the changes to the health insurance questions and fields on the CPS surveys and files for survey years 1989 - 2005, and includes a table that contains the fields that can be used to determine if a person had any health insurance coverage. March 2006.

Highlights from SHADAC's August 29, 2007, conference call discussing the health insurance coverage estimates from the 2006 Current Population Survey data release. September 2007.