State Planning Grant Data Workgroup

Focus and Goals

The SPG Data Workgroup will be responsible for providing data to inform the SPG Model Development and Leadership Workgroups on who the Virginia working uninsured/underinsured are and why they are uninsured. The primary goals of the SPG Data Workgroup are:

Provide guidance to ensure appropriate data collection methodology and analyses to answer questions required for the HRSA Final Report.
Develop a set of questions regarding the working uninsured/underinsured that will need to be answered in order to adequately inform the SPG Model Development Workgroup on who the working uninsured/underinsured are and why they are uninsured/ underinsured.
Provide guidance to ensure the appropriate data collection methodology and analyses to answer the questions developed in goal 2 as best as possible within budget constraints.
Develop a set of questions regarding employers who have a high percentage of employees who are uninsured/underinsured that will need to be answered in order to adequately inform the Model Development Workgroup as to who these employers are and why they have a high percentage of employees who are uninsured/underinsured.
Provide guidance to ensure the appropriate data collection methodology and data analyses to answer the questions developed in goal 4 as best as possible within budget constraints.
Review and critique work products developed through the SPG in terms of the soundness of data collection methodology, analyses, and interpretation.

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Meeting Notes and Work Products

Meeting Date	Agenda	Minutes	Information/Background Materials
April 7, 2004	Agenda	Minutes	SHADAC Survey Guidelines Series: Measuring Health Insurance Coverage in Surveys (pdf) A collaboration of health policy analysts providing strategies used to collect quantitative data on the number and characteristics of uninsured individuals.
April 14, 2004	Agenda	Minutes	Virginia Sampling Plan Draft (pdf)
April 21, 2004	Agenda	Minutes	SHADAC Household Survey Description (pdf) 2004 Virginia Health Care Insurance and Access Survey On-Line Data and Survey Codebook SHADAC Househould Survey Instrument (Word Doc)
January 5, 2005	Agenda	Minutes	Blewett et al: "Monitoring the Uninsured: A State Policy Perspective" (pdf) Vital and Health Statistics Paper: Estimating Prevalance of Uninsured Children (pdf) Shadac briefing papers: Issue 3; Issue 5; and Issue 9 (pdf)
February 9, 2005	Agenda	Minutes
Additional Documents:			CPS Coverage Data from SHADAC (pdf) Congressional Research Service Memo on Medicaid Undercount Insurance Coverage: Maps and Graphs MEPS-IC Employer Survey Description (pdf) Lewis et al: "Assessing the New Federalism" (pdf) Virginia Insurance Coverage Data Sources (pdf) Snapshot of Health Coverage Provided by Virginia Small Businesses (pdf) SPG Data Workgroup Members List (pdf) Virginia Health Insurance and Access Survey: Technical Report (pdf)