This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national and state-level estimates of low-income uninsured children and could be effectively used as criteria for monitoring children's health insurance coverage.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
Part I: Workshop Summary
1 Introduction
2 The Changing Policy Context
3 Federal Surveys
4 Administrative Databases
5 State Data Collections
6 Modeling Strategies for Improving Estimates
7 Looking Ahead
References
Part II: Background Papers
8 Monitoring Children's Health Insurance Coverage Under CHIPRA Using Federal Surveys--Genevieve Kenney and Victoria Lynch
9 Health Insurance Coverage in the American Community Survey: A Comparison to Two Other Federal Surveys--Joanna Turner and Michel Boudreaux
10 Income and Poverty Measurement in Surveys of Health Insurance Coverage--John L. Czajka
11 Using Uninsured Data to Track State CHIP Programs--John McInerney
12 The Massachusetts Experience: Using Survey Data to Evaluate State Health Care Reform--Sharon K. Long
13 Small-Domain Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage--Brett O'Hara and Mark Bauder
Appendix A: Workshop Agenda and Participants
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee Members
Committee on National Statistics