Sources of Health Insurance and Characteristics of the Uninsured : Updated Analysis of the March 2006 Current Population Survey

On March 23, 2007, the Census Bureau announced that it had revised its estimates for the number of people with and without health insurance after discovering a coding error that affected a small number of individuals. This paper updates data originally published October 2006 in EBRI Issue Brief no. 298, based on the earlier Census Bureau data, because of the subsequently corrected Census Bureau estimates of health insurance coverage. The first part of this paper examines how the Census Bureau correction has affected the estimated number of people without health insurance by various demographic and job characteristics. The second part of this paper presents the updated figures from the October 2006 report. The Current Population Survey is discussed in more detail in the appendix