Medicaid expansion and the Medicaid undercount in the American Community Survey. [PDF]
Health Serv Res, 2019 AbstractObjectiveTo measure discordance between aggregate estimates of means‐tested coverage from the American Community Survey (ACS) and administrative counts and examine the association of discordance with ACA Medicaid expansion.Data Sources2010‐2016 ACS and counts of Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program enrollment from the Centers for ...
Boudreaux M +3 more
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Reducing uncertainty in the american community survey through data-driven regionalization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest survey of US households and is the principal source for neighborhood scale information about the US population and economy.
Seth E Spielman, David C Folch
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Ultra-Orthodox fertility and marriage in the United States: Evidence from the American Community Survey [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2023 BACKGROUND: Amid low fertility rates in the industrialized world, some subpopulations have maintained high fertility rates. However, it has often been difficult to study these populations due to limitations in extant data sources.
Lyman Stone
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An evaluation of the American Community Survey indicators of disability. [PDF]
Disabil Health J, 2017 Collection of data in the Census for implementing disability legislation has been continuous since 1970 although the questions used have changed several times. Concerns have been raised about the ability of the newest question set developed for the American Community Survey (ACS) to adequately represent the population with disabilities because it does ...
Altman BM, Madans J, Weeks JD.
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The Effect of Data Swapping on Analyses of American Community Survey Data [PDF]
The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2015 Researchers from a growing range of fields and industries rely on public-access census data. These data are altered by census-taking agencies to minimize the risk of identification; one such disclosure avoidance measure is the data swapping procedure.
Nicolas Kim
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Patterns and causes of uncertainty in the American Community Survey. [PDF]
Appl Geogr, 2014 In 2010 the American Community Survey (ACS) replaced the long form of the United States decennial census. The ACS is now the principal source of high-resolution geographic information about the U.S. population. The margins of error on ACS census tract-level data are on average 75 percent larger than those of the corresponding 2000 long-form estimate ...
Spielman SE, Folch D, Nagle N.
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The Application of Community-Based Information from the American Community Survey in a Large Integrated Health Care Organization. [PDF]
Perm J, 2020 BACKGROUND The American Community Survey (ACS) is the largest household survey conducted by the US Census Bureau. We sought to describe the community-level characteristics derived from the ACS among enrollees of Kaiser Permanente Southern California ...
Liang Z, Nau C, Xie F, Vogel R, Chen W.
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Estimating uncertainty in a socioeconomic index derived from the American community survey [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2022 Socioeconomic indexes are widely used in public health to facilitate neighborhood-scale analyses. Although they are calculated with high levels of precision, they are rarely reported with accompanying measures of uncertainty (e.g., 90% confidence ...
Francis P. Boscoe +4 more
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Measuring Disability: An Examination of Differences Between the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning and the American Community Survey Disability Questions [PDF]
National health statistics reports, 2021 Objective-This report examines differences in survey reports of disability between two sets of disability questions, the Short Set on Functioning (WG-SS) developed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics (WG) and a set of disability questions ...
Julie Weeks +3 more
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Comparing denominator sources for real-time disease incidence modeling: American Community Survey and WorldPop [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2021 Across the United States public health community in 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and increased concern regarding racial/ethnic health disparities, there is widespread concern about our ability to accurately estimate small-area disease incidence rates
Rachel C. Nethery +7 more
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