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Accuracy of self-reported private health insurance coverage

Studies on health insurance coverage often rely on measures self-reported by respondents, but the accuracy of such measures has not been thoroughly validated. This paper is the first to use linked Australian National Health Survey and administrative population tax data to explore the accuracy of self-reported private health insurance (PHI) coverage in survey data.

Citation:
Nguyen HT, Le HT, Connelly L, Mitrou F. Accuracy of self-reported private health insurance coverage. Health Econ. 2023

Keywords:
Australia; administrative data; health insurance; linked data; measurement error; survey misreporting

Abstract:
Studies on health insurance coverage often rely on measures self-reported by respondents, but the accuracy of such measures has not been thoroughly validated. This paper is the first to use linked Australian National Health Survey and administrative population tax data to explore the accuracy of self-reported private health insurance (PHI) coverage in survey data.