Comparing Methods for Imputing Employer Health Insurance Contributions in the Current Population Survey

Autor:	Alice Zawacki, Hubert P. Janicki, Brett O'Hara
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Actuarial science Current Population Survey media_common.quotation_subject Self-insurance Health insurance Professional employer organization Business Imputation (statistics) Census Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Payment health insurance employer contributions healthcare reform media_common
Zdroj:	SSRN Electronic Journal.
ISSN:	1556-5068
DOI:	10.2139/ssrn.2318480
Popis:	The degree to which firms contribute to the payment of workers’ health insurance premiums is an important consideration in the measurement of income and for understanding the potential impact of the 2010 Affordable Care Act on employment-based health insurance participation. Currently the U.S. Census Bureau imputes employer contributions in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey based on data from the 1977 National Medical Care Expenditure Survey. The goal of this paper is to assess the extent to which this imputation methodology produces estimates reflective of the current distribution of employer contributions. The paper uses recent contributions data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component to estimate a new model to inform the imputation procedure and to compare the resulting distribution of contributions. These new estimates are compared with those produced under current production methods across employee and employer characteristics.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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