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Health Insurance Data

This website provides access to current health insurance coverage data from the major federal surveys along with measurement, methodological, and evaluation studies relating to these data.

Contents

• Federal Data Sources on Health Insurance Coverage
• What's New
• Master Calendar for Release of Federal Estimates on Health Insurance Coverage
• Research and Methodology Reports
• Earlier estimates of the insured and uninsured
• Earlier research and methodology reports

Note: Some documents are in the PDF format and require a free reader.

Federal Data Sources on Health Insurance Coverage

• Current Population Survey (CPS), Bureau of the Census
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Bureau of the Census
• HHS Gateway to Statistics and Data

What's New

• Current Population Survey
  
  • Health Insurance Coverage: 2007
  • US Census Bureau: Small Area Health Insurance Estimates
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
  
  • The Uninsured in America, 1996–2007: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65 (in PDF, 5 pages)
  • The Uninsured in America, First Half of 2007: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65 (in PDF, 6 pages)
  • Health Insurance Status of Children in America, First Half 1996–2007: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 18 (in PDF, 6 pages)
  • The Long-Term Uninsured in America, 2003–2006: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65 (in PDF, 7 pages)
• National Health Interview Survey
  
  • Health Insurance Coverage: Early release estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, January-March 2008 (in PDF, 23 pages)
  • Health Insurance Coverage: Early release estimates from the National Health Interview Survey 2007 (in PDF, 24 pages)
  • State, Regional and National Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage for People under 65 Years of Age: NHIS, 2004-2006) (in PDF, 24 pages)

Master Calendar for Release of Estimates on
Health Insurance Coverage

Research and Methodology Reports

• Health Insurance Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau: Background for a New Historical Series (in PDF, 25 pages)
• Impact of Medicare and Medicaid Probe Questions on Health Insurance Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2005
• Impact of Medicare and Medicaid probe questions on health insurance estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2004

Earlier estimates of the insured and uninsured

• U.S. Census Bureau News on Income, Wealth, and the Uninsured, August 30, 2005.
• AHRQ Issues New Data on the Uninsured
• Health Insurance Coverage: Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2004 (19 page pdf file)

Earlier research and methodology reports

• Understanding Estimates of the Uninsured: Putting the Differences in Context, September 2005.
• Overview of the Uninsured in the United States: An Analysis of the 2005 Current Population Survey, September 2005.
• Microsimulation Adjustment of Medicaid and the Uninsured, April 2005.
  
• Estimating the Number of Individuals in the U.S. Without Health Insurance, April 2005.
  
• TRIM3's 2001 Baseline Simulation of the Medicaid and SCHIP Programs, February 2005.
  
• Research Note: The Long-Term Uninsured, August 2004.
  
• CBO Paper on How Many People Lack Health Insurance and For How Long, May, 2003

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Last Revised:  October 22, 2008

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