Estimating the prevalence of uninsured children; an evaluation of data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs, 2001

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• Personal Author:
  Blumberg, Stephen J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (U.S.) ; National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs revealed that 8.3% of children under 18 years of age were uninsured, a rate lower than the rate estimated by other national surveys. This report presents the results of an evaluation of the quality of this estimate, based on analyses of non-response, question design, interviewer and respondent effects, and the weighing and estimation process. National and State-level statistics on health insurance coverage for children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and for children without special needs are included in an appendix. SOURCE OF DATA: The National Survey of CSHCN is a survey module of the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey. This survey of parents and guardians collected health insurance coverage information for a national sample of 215, 162 children. Data were collected from October 2000 through April 2002. RESULTS: Compared with other surveys, weighted data from the National Survey of CSHCN describe a population with a slightly larger proportion of Hispanic children and children from households with higher incomes. The National Survey of CSHCN was also the only survey to use a child-level design: A randomized experiment that varied the health insurance questions found that repeating the coverage questions for each child produced lower unisurance rates than household-level questions that first asked if anyone in the househol was insured. CONCLUSION: Question design differences explain much of the discrepancy between survey estimates of the uninsurance rate, but a definitive conclusion regarding the relative accuracy of the uninsurance rates is not possible.
• Content Notes:
  By Stephen J. Blumberg ... [et al.].
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 26-27).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Bias (Epidemiology) Child Data Collection/methods Health Care Surveys Infant Medically Uninsured Research Design
• Source:
  Vital and Health Statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research ; no. 136 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2004-1336
• Series:
  Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  print; vi, 38 p.
• Issue:
  136
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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