The National Survey of America's Families: An overview of the health policy component

Citation
G. Kenney et al., The National Survey of America's Families: An overview of the health policy component, INQUIRY-J H, 36(3), 1999, pp. 353-362
Citations number
20
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science","Health Care Sciences & Services
Journal title
INQUIRY-THE JOURNAL OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION PROVISION AND FINANCING
ISSN journal
0046-9580 → ACNP
Volume
36
Issue
3
Year of publication
1999
Pages
353 - 362
Database
ISI
SICI code
0046-9580(199923)36:3<353:TNSOAF>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
This report describes one aspect of "Assessing the New Federalism," a multi -year research project, started by the Urban Institute in 1996, to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal gover nment to the states. The project combines case studies in 13 diverse states with analyses of data drawn from a wide range of sources, including a new household survey-the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). The NSAF which contains nationally representative data from almost 45,000 families, was fielded in 1997 and 1999, and is planned for 2001 and again at subsequ ent two-year intervals. In this paper, we provide an overview of the NSAF's purpose; the sampling approach and methods; the questionnaire content, wit h particular emphasis on questions of interest to health policy researchers health policy research planned by Urban Institute staff; and the timetable for public release of the NSAF data.