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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.);
National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (U.S.); National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.); Less -
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).
Subject:
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Adolescent
Bias (Epidemiology)
Child
Child Health Services
Data Collection
Health Care Surveys
Infant
Medically Uninsured
Medically Uninsured Persons
Methods
Research
Research Design

Series:
Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research ; no. 136; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2004-1336;
Vital and health statistics. Series 2, Data evaluation and methods research ; no. 136; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2004-1336; Less -
Document Type:
Journal Issue;
Name as Subject:
National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (U.S.); National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (U.S.);
National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (U.S.); National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (U.S.); Less -
Genre:
Statistics;
Place as Subject:
United States;
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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