Small-Area Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage for California Legislative Districts (American Journal of Public Health)

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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Publication Authors:

• Hongjian Yu, Ph.D.
• Ying-Ying Meng, DrPH
• Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck, PhD, MPH
• Mona Jhawar
• Steven P. Wallace, PhD