Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change Summary of a Workshop (1998) / Chapter Skim
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. The statistical agencies played little role in the development of PRWORA; they must now work closely with the agencies that are involved in assessing the effects of changes in health and welfare programs if national household surveys are to be able to provide relevant information for analysis purposes.
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that have provided useful information in the past and that could both contribute to and build on improvements in the major national household surveys. Given that national surveys cannot carry the entire burden of providing needed data for program analysis, workshop participants stressed the importance of forming partnerships that could provide useful data for linking with national surveys, supplementing them, and evaluating the quality of their responses.
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In addition, MEPS is linked to other health-related surveys: the sample for MEPS is a subsample of NHIS, which provides a rich set of data on health status and conditions, and the MEPS employer questionnaire is the same as that used for the National Employer Health Insurance Survey (NEHIS) , which is a large annual survey of employers about their health insurance plans.
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