Examples of State Survey Efforts
The 1998 Maine Health Insurance Coverage Survey
conducted by Mathematica for the University of Southern Maine and Maine Medicaid Agency:
- Cost about $150,000 (mostly public, with some private
funds).
- Surveyed 2,500 households with children through phone
interviews (75 percent response rate).
- Compared survey results to State Medicaid enrollment files.
- One-third of 450 households reporting Medicaid coverage
could not be linked to State files.
- Nearly 20 percent of those enrolled in Medicaid told surveyors
they were not.
Urban Institute "Assessing the New
Federalism" Survey of 13 States (AL, CA, CO, FL, MA, MI,
MN, MS, NJ, NY, TX, WA, WI):
- Average of 3,300 households per State interviewed.
- Round one conducted in 1997 (pre-SCHIP). Additional rounds
scheduled to be completed in 1999 and 2001.
- Oversamples lower-income families with children (30 percent of
50,000 households surveyed).
- Subsequent rounds will ask several SCHIP-specific questions.
Community Tracking Study Survey:
- Conducted by the Center for Studying Health System Change
and Mathematica Policy Research.
- Focuses on communities rather than States: 20,000
households in 60 communities nationwide will be included with oversampling of 12
high-intensity sites.
- Pre- and post-SCHIP surveys of insurance coverage will be
conducted (round one in 1996-97 and a subsequent round in 1998-99).
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