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Enhancing the Value of the American Community Survey for ACA Evaluation: Developing More Timely Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage
Publication Year: 2013

This brief explores the pathways by which subannual ACS estimates could be developed, the feasibility of these pathways, the challenges associated with the development of subannual estimates, and potential next steps to generate subannual estimates.  While the focus of this brief is on developing subannual state-level estimate of health insurance coverage in particular, the strategies discussed could apply to other measures (e.g., employment, family income, and housing arrangements).

NHIS Questionnaire Changes Addressing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Publication Year: 2013

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) made a number of changes to the National Health Interview Survey questionnaire in response to new data requirements generated by the need to monitor the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on the health care system.  These changes were first implemented in the 2011 survey, were slightly modified in the 2012 survey, and are intended to be included in future year of the NHIS.  This brief describes these changes and how they will assist researchers and policymakers monitor and inform health reform.

Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the Uninsured
Publication Year: 2012

Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count the Uninsured

State-Level Health Insurance Coverage Estimates from the 2010 American Community Survey
Publication Year: 2012

This issue brief provides state-level estimates of health insurance coverage by age and income from the 2010 American Community Survey (ACS).  The maps and tables included in this brief provide state-level estimates for the nonelderly population (age 0 to 64), children (age 0 to 18), and nonelderly adults (age 19 to 64). Within each age group, we also present separate estimates for the low-income population (people with family incomes at or below 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines).

Defining Family for Studies of Health Insurance Coverage
Publication Year: 2012

In this brief we describe an important decision that should be considered in analyses of health insurance coverage using survey data:  Defining the "family unit" for examining insurance coverage, often called the health insurance unit.  We propose a general definition of the health insurance unit and provide Stata and SAS code to facilitate implementing that definition.