Small Area Health Insurance Estimates: 2005 Release

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Small Area Health Insurance Estimates 2005
Release

• Lucinda Dalzell
• U.S. Census Bureau
• October 8, 2008
• 2008 SDC/CIC Annual Training Conference

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Outline

• Motivation for SAHIE program
• General Information about 2005 Release
• Frequently Asked Questions

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CPS ASEC

• Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the
  Current Population Survey
• National and state estimates of the number of
  uninsured women by
• Age, race, ethnicity, and income (national)
• Age and income (state)
• State-based design
• Limitation wide margins of error

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Motivation

• Potential uses for the CDCs NBCCEDP
• Estimate screening rates
• Outreach
• Produce reliable estimates of uninsured,
  low-income people in all counties
• Add additional data sources
• Modeled estimates

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Relevant Concepts

• Income-to-poverty ratios (IPRs)
• 200 or 250
• Health insurance coverage
• Uninsured definition
• What counts as health insurance?

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Other Surveys

• American Community Survey
• 2008 ACS data for 25 of counties in 2009
• All counties will have health insurance estimates
  in 2013
• 5-year estimate
• All other national surveys lack direct estimates
  of health insurance for each small area

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Small Area Income Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)

• An outgrowth of our successful modeling efforts
  of our SAIPE program
• Department of Education, in part, allocates Title
  I funds based on SAIPE estimates
• Estimates for children in poverty at the school
  district level

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Data Inputs

• CPS ASEC
• Census 2000
• Population Estimates
• Aggregated Administrative Records from
• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax returns
• Food Stamp Program participation
• County Business Patterns
• Medicaid
• State Childrens Health Insurance Program
  participation

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What We Are Releasing for 2005

• COUNTY estimates of people with and without
  health insurance coverage by age, sex, and income
• STATE estimates of people with and without health
  insurance coverage by age, sex, race/Hispanic
  origin, and income

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Contact Information

• U.S. Census Bureau
• Small Area Estimates Branch
• Phone [phone]
• http//www.census.gov/hhes/www/sahie/
• Email hhes.sahie_at_census.gov