An Introduction to Redesigned Health Insurance Coverage Questions in the 2014 Current Population Survey’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement

This brief discusses the addition of new and modified health insurance coverage questions to the 2014 CPS. The question series was completely redesigned to:

• Improve the measure of past year coverage
• Add a point in time measure
• Collect additional information related to health reform (exchange participation and employer-offers of coverage)
• Provide coverage by month