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Working Paper

Changes in Self-Rated Health Status by Demographic Characteristics among Adults, 2014-2017

May 07, 2024

We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to explore changes in health status over time by sex, age, and race and Hispanic origin.

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Working Paper

Re-Estimating Employer Contributions to Health Insurance in the CPS ASEC

March 2024

This working paper uses public data from the MEPS linked tot he CPS ASEC to estimate employer contributions to health insurance.

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Working Paper

Health Inclusive Poverty Measure in the United States: 2022

March 2024

This paper provides estimates of economic well-being using the Health Inclusive Poverty Measure for 2022.

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Working Paper

2022 American Community Survey Content Test: Health Insurance

November 2023

Results from the 2022 ACS Content Test of the questions about health insurance.

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Working Paper

Estimates of Health Insurance Coverage, 2013 to 2022

September 12, 2023

This paper describes the trends in health insurance coverage since 2013 while providing guidance on interpreting CPS ASEC data in the context of these changes.

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Working Paper

Alternative School Lunch Valuation in the 2022 Supplemental Poverty Measure

September 12, 2023

This paper describes the updated method for calculating and assigning school lunch values in the 2022 SPM.

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Working Paper

Case Notes to Explore Respondents' Interaction with Health Insurance

July 13, 2023

This poster uses field representatives’ case notes to explore respondents’ interaction with health insurance questions.

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Working Paper

Health Inclusive Poverty Measure Estimates in the United States: 2014 to 2021

May 18, 2023

This paper presents estimates of Health Inclusive Poverty in the United States from 2014 to 2021.

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Working Paper

Identifying Gentrification Using Machine Learning

April 20, 2023

The paper explores machine learning techniques to identify housing units at high risk of gentrification in Washington D.C. Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Working Paper

Web Respondents' Interaction with the ACS Health Insurance Questions

January 12, 2023

This paper evaluates web survey respondents’ interaction with the ACS health insurance questions using 2019 ACS web survey paradata.

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Working Paper

Effects of 2020 Census-Based Population Controls on 2020 Estimates

August 2022

This paper demonstrates the effect of using the 2020 Census-based population controls on the 2020 data by presenting key estimates using both the 2010 and 2020

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Working Paper

Examining the Impact of Medical Expenses on Supplemental Poverty Rates

June 2022

The paper examines the impact of deducting out-of-pocket medical expenses on Supplemental Poverty rates.

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Working Paper

Evaluating Health Insurance and Disability Estimates in the 2020 ACS

June 2022

This paper examines the 2020 ACS 1-year estimates of health insurance and disability using production method weighting and entropy balanced weighting.

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Working Paper

2022 ACS Content Test: Round 3 Cognitive Testing Results

May 13, 2022

This report summarizes results from Round 3 of cognitive testing, which gathered feedback from individuals in groups quarters facilities and Puerto Rico.

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Working Paper

The Impact of Alternative Inflation Adjustments on CPS ASEC Income Statistics

April 2022

This paper documents the implications of using chain type price indices to inflation adjust estimates of historical income and earnings statistics.

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Working Paper

2022 ACS Content Test: Round 1 and Round 2 Cognitive Testing Results

April 15, 2022

This report summarizes results from two rounds of cognitive testing for the 2022 ACS Content Test.

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Working Paper

Using WIC Administrative Data to Evaluate the SPM

March 2022

This paper links state administrative data on the WIC program to the CPS ASEC to assess the impact of WIC misreporting on the Supplemental Poverty Measure.

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Working Paper

Incorporating Health Insurance in Poverty Measurement: Implementing a Health Inclusive Poverty Measure in the United States

December 2021

This paper discusses the feasibility of incorporating a value of health insurance in the Supplemental Poverty Measure framework

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Working Paper

Evaluating Subannual Health Insurance Coverage in the CPS ASEC

September 10, 2021

This paper examines subannual health insurance coverage estimates in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).

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Working Paper

Gender and Employer-Sponsored Insurance

June 04, 2021

This paper examines if adding the value of employer-sponsored insurance to employee wages affects estimates of the gender compensation gap.

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Working Paper

Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the Redesigned CPS

October 30, 2020

How the redesign of the CPS ASEC processing system affected estimates of medical expenditures and medical burden.

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Working Paper

Subsidized Marketplace Coverage in the American Community Survey

September 17, 2020

This paper provides background on the new premium and subsidy question and presents estimates of subsidized Marketplace coverage.

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Working Paper

COVID-19 and Measuring Health Insurance Coverage in the 2020 CPS ASEC

September 15, 2020

This paper examines how changes to survey operations during the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced health insurance coverage estimates for the 2020 CPS ASEC

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Working Paper

Updates to Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures and Medicare Premiums

September 10, 2019

This working paper discusses the updates made to the processing of out-of-pocket medical expenditures and Medicare premiums.

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Working Paper

How did the questionnaire change affect health insurance estimates?

June 2019

In 2018, the Census Bureau fielded a Split-Panel test of the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).

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Working Paper

Health Insurance in the United States: Evaluating the Effects of Changes in the CPS ASEC

April 17, 2019

This presentation describes estimates of health insurance coverage using the 2017 CPS ASEC Research File.

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Working Paper

Uninsurance Estimates from the Redesigned Current Population Survey

April 17, 2019

This paper evaluates the quality of imputation procedures in the redesigned CPS ASEC.

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Working Paper

Health Insurance and Health Status for Same-Sex Couples

April 09, 2019

Family diversity has been increasing in the United States over the last few decades, especially as same-sex marriage and same-sex parenthood become more common.

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Working Paper

Health Insurance Coverage in the 2017 CPS ASEC Research File

January 23, 2019

This paper describes key changes implemented in the new processing system and present health insurance coverage estimates.

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Working Paper

Health Insurance Coverage CPS: Estimates from the 2017 Research File

January 23, 2019

This paper compare health insurance coverage estimates between the CPS ASEC production and research files.

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Working Paper

How did the questionnaire change affect health insurance estimates?

April 2018

In 2017, the Census Bureau fielded a Split-Panel test of the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).

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Working Paper

Health Insurance Coverage and Write-ins in the ACS

March 08, 2018

This project looks at the relationship between write-in use and health insurance coverage in the American Community Survey.

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Working Paper

Changes in Offer and Take-up of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance

December 2017

Poster presented at the 2016 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) conference.

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Working Paper

Measuring the Dollar Value of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Contribution: A Synthetic Approach

November 2017

This poster shows a new model-based estimate of employer contributions to health insurance premiums in the CPS ASEC using publicly available MEPS data.

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Working Paper

2016 American Community Survey Content Test: Health Insurance

September 27, 2017

Results from the 2016 ACS Content Test of the questions about Health Insurance.

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Working Paper

Health Conditions and the Population with Disabilities

April 2017

The Relationship Between Health Conditions and the Core Disability Question Set, Presented at the 2017 Population Association of America Meeting.

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