What is the cancer incidence rate in your state?
Find out at the CDC’s website. They have incidence information by cancer type and gender for all states between 1999 and 2012. Below is a sample chart you can produce with these data.
Tag: Data
What is the CPS?
The CPS is the Current Population Survey (CPS). This survey is administered by the Census and is one of the most widely used surveys in social science, particularly economics. A paper by Pascale et al. (2015) provides an overview of the survey and its quesitons related to health insurance: The CPS is a monthly labor…
Public Employee Health Insurance Data Sources
What data sources are available to measure active and retired public employees health insurance? A study by Morrill (2014) outline several data sources that identify federal, state, and local government employees to answer this question. The following tables are excepted from her article. Sources: Melinda Sandler Morrill. Active and retired public employees’ health insurance: Potential data sources.…
CPS updates its health insurance question
The Current Population Survey (CPS), a large monthly survey administered by the Census Bureau, is not only designed to measure labor force participation and employment, but is also used to measure health insurance coverage. Health insurance coverage information is collected once each year through the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), which is administered February through April. However,…
Macroeconomic Variables Around the World
What is the GDP of Azerbaijan? What is the Estonia’s exchange rate? Is inflation a problem in Sri Lanka? To answer all these questions, you need a variety of macroeconomic variables from each of these countries. Further, these measures must be standardized across countries. Wouldn’t it be nice if this data exist? It turns out…
Useful Data Files for Simulation Modelling
In recent years, researchers have created a number of complex simulation models to estimate future trends and the impacts of policy changes. Some of the more prominant models include: RAND Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts (COMPARE) CBO’s Health Insurance Simulation Model (HISim) Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Reform Simulation Model (HIRSM), Future Elderly Model (FEM) These…
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Databases
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of databases and tools intended to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of the U.S. health care system. HCUP results from Federal-State-Industry partnership to build a comprehensive all payer data system. A summary of the databases available from…
What happened to the Census?
The year 2010 marks the last for the decennial Census. Although you might miss the ad campaigns every 10 years, the Census hasn’t really disappeared completely. Instead, it’s being replaced by the American Community Survey (ACS). Although the goals of the ACS are similar to those of the Census, its approach is very different. Rather…
CPS undercounts Medicaid Enrollees
Survey estimates of Medicaid enrollment are 43 percent lower than raw Medicaid program enrollment counts. Why is this the case? Roebuck and Liberman (HSR 2009) find that many people are not reporting that they have Medicaid coverage. “43 percent of Medicaid enrollees answering the CPS as though they were not enrolled and 17 percent reported…
Unemployment and Population Data on Google
Google has created easy to use charts on U.S. population and employment from public-use data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Instructions of how to use this data can be found here (video). Here are some examples I created: Unemployment in 3 Southern California Counties. Population Growth in 8 Midwestern…