This working paper describes a three-question telephone screener used with the National Beneficiary Survey to standardize interviewers' assessments of whether sample members had the capacity to complete a survey or if a proxy was needed. Results show that interviewer training on how to use the...

Describes two applications of a method for reweighting a survey or administrative records database to borrow strength and improve the precision of state estimates. The first is estimating the numbers and characteristics of children without health insurance. The second is microsimulation of...

This working paper describes a three-question telephone screener used with the National Beneficiary Survey to standardize interviewers' assessments of whether sample members had the capacity to complete a survey or if a proxy was needed. Results show that interviewer training on how to use the...