Health Insurance Dynamics: Methodological Considerations and a Comparison of Estimates from Two Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To highlight key methodological issues in studying insurance dynamics and to compare estimates across two commonly used surveys.

Data sources/study setting

Nonelderly uninsured adults and children sampled between 2001 and 2011 in the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

Study design

We utilized nonparametric Kaplan-Meier methods to estimate quantiles (25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles) in the distribution of uninsured spells. We compared estimates obtained across surveys and across different methodological approaches to address issues like attrition, seam bias, censoring and truncation, and survey weighting method.

Data collection/extraction methods

All data were drawn from publicly available household su

SUBMITTER: Graves JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5034207 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature