Databases for Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children: A Workshop Summary

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.

• 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