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Article: The effect of income question design in health surveys on family income, poverty and eligibility estimates.(Methods)
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- Health Services Research
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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Income is an important and challenging concept to measure in household health surveys. Income is highly associated with a wide array of important health, economic, and sociological outcomes (Williams 1990; Link and Phelan 1995; Krieger, Williams, and Moss 1997; Norris et al. 2003) and determining income levels is critical to policy analysts because public programs specify income cutoff points beyond which people are no longer eligible (e.g., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program) (Dubay and Kenney 2000). There are two principal challenges in measuring income in surveys. First, there are many potential sources of ...