State Estimates of Uninsured Children, January 1998

Final Report

By:
Allen L. Schirm
John L. Czajka

May 17, 2000

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

• OVERVIEW

1. Introduction
2. Purpose of the Tables in This Report
3. Methodology
4. Estimates of the Uninsured
5. Illustrative Estimates of Uninsured Children Eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP
6. Caveats About These Estimates

• STATE ESTIMATES

1. TECHNICAL APPENDIX

• REFERENCES

TABLES

1.1     COMPARISON OF DIRECT SAMPLE AND MODEL-BASED ESTIMATES OF THE PERCENTAGE OF CHILDREN UNDER 19 WHO WERE UNINSURED IN 1997

I.2     UNINSURED RATES BY POVERTY LEVEL: MODEL-BASED ESTIMATES

I.3     STATES ESTIMATES OF UNINSURED, MEDICAID ELIGIBLE, AND SCHIP-ELIGIBLE CHILDREN

I.4    UNINSURED CHILDREN TO WHOM HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE MAY BE EXTENDED BY SCHIP

I.5    STATE COVERAGE OF CHILDREN UNDER 200 PERCENT OF POVERTY

A.1    CONTROL VARIABLES/TOTALS USED IN REWEIGHTING

A.2    POTENTIAL PREDICTORS EVALUATED IN REGRESSION MODELS FOR POVERTY LEVEL AND UNINSURED RATE

The authors would like to thank several individuals who contributed to this work. We are especially grateful to Angela Schmitt for carrying out all of the extensive programming required to produce the database and the simulation model from which the state estimates reported herein were derived. We want to thank Alan Zaslavsky and Cara Olsen for their technical contributions and their assistance with numerous modeling issues that arose in the course of our work. We also want to recognize Mark Brinkley for producing the state tables and Margo Rosenbach for providing helpful comments on an earlier draft of the report.

Where to?

Top of Page
Table of Contents

Home Pages:
Office of Health Policy (HP)
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Last updated September 17, 2000