Texas Cancer Information - Health Insurance Coverage in Texas Counties

Health Insurance Coverage in Texas Counties

To help Texans better understand issues surrounding access to health care services, Texas Cancer Information is now providing easy access to estimates for the number of insured and uninsured in Texas and in each Texas county.

The health insurance estimates are from the U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Health Insurance Estimates. The U.S. Census Bureau's Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) program develop model-based estimates of health insurance coverage for counties and states, building upon the work of the U.S. Census Bureau's Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program. The program is partially funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP).

The SAHIE program models health insurance coverage by combining survey data with population estimates and administrative records and are based on data from the following sources:

The Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS)
Demographic population estimates;
Aggregated federal tax returns
Participation records for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp program
County Business Patterns
Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) participation records
Census 2000

2006 and 2007 data for Texas counties include estimates of people with and without health insurance by:

Ages 0-64, 18-64 and 40-64
Sex
People of all incomes and people at or below 200 percent or 250 percent of the poverty threshold
Ages 0-18, all incomes and at or below 200 percent of poverty
Measures of uncertainty of the estimates

2006 and 2007 data for the state of Texas include estimates of people with and without health insurance by:

Ages 0-64, 18-64, 40-64 and 50-64
Sex
All Races, White not Hispanic, Black not Hispanic, and Hispanic (any race)
People of all incomes and people at or below 200 percent and 250 percent of the poverty threshold
Ages 0-18, all incomes and at or below 200 percent of poverty
Measures of uncertainty of the estimates

Special notes from the SAHIE program regarding the data:

Details may not sum to totals and percents because of rounding. The percents were calculated before any rounding occurred. Rounding error will be more prominent for small counties.
A margin of error (MOE) is the difference between an estimate and its upper or lower confidence bounds. Confidence bounds can be created by adding the margin of error to the estimate (for an upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (for a lower bound). All published margins of error for the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates program are based on a 90 percent confidence level.
The number in a demographic group is the number of people in the poverty universe in that age, sex, and race/Hispanic origin group.

Please refer to the U.S. Census Bureau SAHIE Methodology page at http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/methods/index.html for more details about the methods and data sources used. For additional assistance regarding the SAHIE data or information regarding other states, visit the U.S. Census Bureau's Model-based Small Area Health Insurance Estimates (SAHIE) for Counties and States site at http://www.census.gov/did/www/sahie/index.html.

Note: Information at the national level only is now available for 2008 in the U.S. Census Bureau publication Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008 (P60-236RV) on the U.S. Census Web site at http://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf.

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Region:	Texas Texas County

Year(s):	2006 2007

Race(s)/Ethnic Group(s): (Total only race available for counties)	Total (all races) White Alone, Not Hispanic Black Alone, Not Hispanic Hispanic (Any Race)

Sex(es):	Both Sexes Male Female

Income(s):	All Income Levels At or Below 200% of Poverty At or Below 250% of Poverty (state level only)