Presentation by Lynn Blewett given during the NASHP Maximizing Enrollment for Children Webinar, Jan 21 2010.

1. SHADAC ResourcesNASHP MaxEnroll Webinar Lynn A. Blewett, PhD State Health Access Data Assistance Center University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN January 21, 2010 Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

2. SHADAC Data Resources State Survey Assistance State Survey Resource Center CPS/ACS Data Center 2

3. Survey Assistance State survey design and implementation Clarify variance between state estimates from different surveys Best practices – health insurance, income, race/ethnicity questions Assistance to states using SHADAC's Coordinated State Coverage Survey (CSCS), a survey tool for estimating insurance coverage rates in states - http://www.shadac.org/content/coordinated-state-coverage-survey-cscs Online library of state survey tools http://www.shadac.org/content/state-survey-research-activity 3

4. MaxEnroll States w/State Health Surveys

5. 5 Strengths: State Household Surveys Typically more sample than national data Flexibility in adding policy relevant questions Ability to over-sample and drill down to subpopulations Children, geographic units, race/ethnicity Analysts have data in hand Ability to do analysis in-house Quick turn-around Policy development: Simulation of policy options Program design and development, marketing and outreach

6. 6 Concerns: State Household Surveys Lack of comparability across states Variability in timing of surveys Most are telephone surveys – coverage issues due to large cell-phone coverage Inconsistency in data documentation Cost concerns limits number of variables Discrepancies with other data sources (survey and administrative data)

7. Data Center Online table and chart generator Designed to help health policy analysts build policy-relevant tables of health insurance coverage estimates. Easy to access. Easy to use. Estimates available from three sources CPS, as published by the Census Bureau. CPS, enhanced by SHADAC to account for historical changes in methodology. ACS, as published by the Census Bureau (coming soon). Trended data CPS estimates from survey years 1988 to the present. Easy to export 7

8. Data Center – Available Estimates Health insurance coverage Uninsured, Insured (private, government, and military) Counts, percents, standard error Table options Race/ethnicity Age Poverty Household income Sex Marital status (individual and family) Children in household Work status (individual and family) Education (individual and family) Health status (CPS only) Citizenship (ACS only) 8

9. Data Center - Getting there 9 Go towww.shadac.org Click on “Data Center”

10. 10 Contact Information Lynn A. Blewett, PhD State Health Access Data Assistance Center University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN www.shadac.org blewe001@umn.edu 612-624-4802