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Small Area Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage From the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement and the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Small Area Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage From the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement and the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Introduction
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) project of the Small Area Estimates Branch (SAEB) is developing model-based estimates of the number of people not covered by health insurance (i.e. who are uninsured) for states and counties. There is broad public interest in health insurance coverage issues. Generally, health insurance coverage statistics are available only through national household surveys, and the estimates from these surveys vary widely for a number of well-documented reasons (Lewis et al., 1998). The Current Population Survey’s (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) are two commonly cited sources for health insurance statistics. Sample sizes are not large enough, however, that the surveys alone can produce sufficiently reliable state or sub-state estimates for many policy purposes.
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