Current Population Survey (CPS) data
What are prior authorizations, referrals, and Essential Health Benefits? Our experts define common health insurance terms to help readers understand foundational concepts in health policy and insurance.
2026 marks the 30th year of the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), what they call their “30 Years of Impact.” To honor CHCF’s 30th anniversary, this post will highlight a sample of SHADAC/CHCF projects spanning the last 10 years.
The following blog post and infographic explores newly released 2025 Current Population Survey (CPS) data on national-level health insurance coverage rates, including 2025 rates of private insurance coverage (e.g, employer-sponsored insurance), public coverage (e.g., Medicaid), and uninsurance.
SHADAC consistently updates measures on our data tool, State Health Compare (SHC), in order to provide users with the most up-to-date available data. In this post, we review the health data sets and measures that have been recently updated with data from the ACS, CPS, BRFSS, and more.
Accurate estimates of uninsured rates (the percentage of people that do not have insurance coverage, also referred to as uninsurance) are important in understanding trends and the impacts of actions, events, or shifts in the economic landscape that may affect health insurance coverage. Learn more… Read more
"FPG" and "FPL" are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same. In fact, there are important differences between them. This blog explains key differences between the federal poverty guideline and federal poverty level along with current values based on family size and household makeup.
This blog documents the expected 2025 releases of data from many federal health-related surveys and the data's current status—published (on-time or delayed); not yet published; or status remains uncertain.
The following blog post and infographic explores newly released 2024 Current Population Survey (CPS) data, including changes in national-level health insurance coverage rates by demographic characteristics such as age, employment, race/ethnicity, immigration status, poverty status, and Medicaid… Read more
On Thursday, September 25th at 1:00 PM CST, SHADAC hosted a webinar covering the release of the latest health insurance coverage estimates from 2024. The estimates come from two key federal surveys conducted by the U.S.
In response to uncertainty about whether the federal government may eliminate or scale back important surveys, SHADAC has undertaken a new project called State Alternatives for Health Data Continuity, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Learn more about the project in this blog.