The CSCS is designed to achieve concise estimates of health insurance coverage by…

• targeting primary residences using county identifiers,
• establishing contact with person in household most knowledgeable about health insurance,
• enumerating who is in the household,
• selecting one "target" person at random,
• establishing the relationship of the target to all other household members,
• determining the target's current and prior year (annual) health insurance coverage, and
• obtaining current health insurance coverage info of all other household members (optional but recommended).

Based on annual insurance status, target respondents are sorted into the following groups:

1. employer based insurance all year,
2. individual coverage all year,
3. uninsured all year, and
4. had a spell of uninsurance during the past 12 months, and everyone else.

The CSCS also includes modules of additional questions specifically designed for these groups.

CSCS Description

CSCS Flowchart