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Publication Year: 2012

Presentation by SHADAC Research Assistant Peter Graven at the Minnesota Health Services Research Conference, held March 6, 2012 in St. Paul, MN.

This presentation and associated paper describe a model developed by SHADAC researchers to predict lack of insurance coverage for Minnesota counties using multiple data sources. While the results are exploratory in nature, the methodology allows for additional applications using the Bayesian framework developed.

Publication Year: 2011

Joanna Turner presented "Modeling Health Insurance Coverage Estimates for Minnesota Counties," at the Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, August 1, 2011 in Miami Beach, FL.

Publication Year: 2011

The Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program produces model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for all counties and states. Estimates for calendar years 2008 and 2009 were released in October 2011.  Currently, the SAHIE program is the only source of health insurance coverage estimates for all counties in the United States. This brief highlights what is new for this release, provides an overview of how the SAHIE estimates are developed, and compares the SAHIE model-based methodology to the American Community Survey.

Publication Year: 2011

This State Data Spotlight describes how the Office of Financial Management (OFM) in Washington State developed an estimation and projection model that can be used to predict county-level population estimates for 2010 through 2020.