For the first time, the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual report Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2013 includes statistics from two surveys: the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS) and the American Community Survey (ACS).In addition to comprehensive statistics on health insurance coverage by detailed characteristics using data from the CPS, the report presents historical trends and year-to-year changes using data from the ACS because the redesigned health insurance section in the CPS resulted in a break in the health insurance coverage time series. This technical brief demonstrates that changes in health insurance coverage, as measured by either survey, present consistent results. Thus, the ACS can provide this important measure of change in place of the CPS estimates between 2012 and 2013.

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Working Paper

Comparing 2010 SIPP and 2013 CPS Content Test Health Insurance Offer

2014

This brief compares employment-based health insurance offer and take-up rates in the 2013 CPS Content Test to those found in the 2010 SIPP.

Working Paper

Changing the CPS Health Insurance Questions and the Implications

November 06, 2013

This report highlights results of the content test with those from the 2013 CPS ASEC.

Working Paper

Using the SIPP for Research on the Older Population

September 1985

Answering policy questions about the elderly and their role in American society has been hampered by the specialized nature of existing data sets.

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