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Small-area estimation of health insurance coverage for California legislative districts
Hongjian Yu1, Ying-Ying Meng, Carolyn A Mendez-Luck
1Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA. hyu@ucla.edu
Objectives:
To aid state and local policymakers, program planners, and community advocates, we created estimates of the percentage of the population lacking health insurance in small geographic areas of California.
Methods:
Finally, calibration ensured the consistency and stability of the estimates when they were aggregated.
Results:
Health insurance coverage among nonelderly persons varied widely across assembly districts, from 10% to 44%. The utility of local-level estimates was most apparent when the variations in subcounty uninsured rates in Los Angeles County (19%-44%) were examined.
Conclusions:
Stable and useful estimates of health insurance rates for small areas such as legislative districts can be created through use of multiple sources of publicly available data.
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