Databases for Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children

This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national and state-level estimates of low-income uninsured children and could be effectively used as criteria for monitoring children's health insurance coverage. Table of Contents Front Matter Part I: Workshop Summary 1 Introduction 2 The Changing Policy Context 3 Federal Surveys 4 Administrative Databases 5 State Data Collections 6 Modeling Strategies for Improving Estimates 7 Looking Ahead References Part II: Background Papers 8 Monitoring Children's Health Insurance Coverage Under CHIPRA Using Federal Surveys--Genevieve Kenney and Victoria Lynch 9 Health Insurance Coverage in the American Community Survey: A Comparison to Two Other Federal Surveys--Joanna Turner and Michel Boudreaux 10 Income and Poverty Measurement in Surveys of Health Insurance Coverage--John L. Czajka 11 Using Uninsured Data to Track State CHIP Programs--John McInerney 12 The Massachusetts Experience: Using Survey Data to Evaluate State Health Care Reform--Sharon K. Long 13 Small-Domain Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage--Brett O'Hara and Mark Bauder Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members Committee on National Statistics