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Publication Date: April 2007
Publisher: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Leighton Ku
Research Area: Health
Keywords: Health insurance; Economic projections
Type: Report
Abstract:
On March 23, the Census Bureau announced that it has revised estimates of the number of uninsured people for 2004 and 2005, after it detected an error in how data from its CurrentPopulation Survey have been tabulated. The number and percentage of people who were uninsured in 2005 changed from 46.6 million (15.9 percent of the population) to 44.8 million (15.3 percent). The Bureau also stated that the same error occurred in previous years and “the effect of the revision is relatively constant from one year to the next,†so that there is little impact on trends in insurance coverage.