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PREFACE
The first two editions of the State-Level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing provided state and national policymakers with a wide array of useful data on health insurance coverage, health Status, and state demographic information. This edition provides more recent data related to the same issues, with some important exceptions. First, as discussed in Appendix Two, most of the tables in this edition use only two years of the Current Population Survey (CPS) instead of three; changes in the CPS sample frame meant that only the two most recent years of data could be used consistently. Second, Section B has been completely revised to reflect the shift in policy focus from employer-sponsored coverage initiatives to states' growing emphasis on increasing health insurance coverage for the low-income population. Finally, we have applied more stringent criteria for the "reliability" of survey-based estimates and do not show those based on either small weighted or unweighted counts as described in Appendix Two. We generally discourage using those tables that have appeared in previous editions with those in this volume for time-trend calculations. While we have made every attempt to maintain consistent definitions, some deviations were necessary for purposes of generating reliable estimates.
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