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5 Cross-Cutting Issues
Pages 23-27

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... Another common issue is the tremendous movement among insurance statuses and the problem of how to measure these changes. As indicated earlier, 27 states conduct their own surveys to attempt to measure the extent of these transitions.
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... The center is funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to provide technical assistance to states that are interested in collecting relevant data for state health policy. Lynn Blewett described what states want from national surveys.
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... DATA FOR TRACKING In order to model how children move among the health insurance statuses, it would be helpful to have a consistent family identifier in SCHIP and Medicaid data sets so that the health insurance status of children from the same family can be tracked. Also, matching information from different datasets is a valuable way to identify who is eligible for coverage but not using SCHIP.
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... QUALITATIVE INFORMATION In evaluating SCHIP, it is important to use qualitative as well as quantitative information. As the workshop discussions reflected, very little information has been available to indicate reasons for the failure of eligible children to enroll in SCHIP or the failure of those in the program to reenroll when the time for renewal arrives.
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... · An appropriate federal or private national agency should undertake the following: Develop a central repository for analytic expertise on methods for conducting sample audits. Disseminate analytical models for handling missing data and survey nonresponses in statistical modeling.
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