NotesNotesThere were two significant changes to the BRFSS sampling methodology beginning with the 2011 survey: • The BRFSS sampling frame was expanded to include sampling of cell phones • The weighting methodology was changed from post-stratification to iterative raking. Both changes were piloted and evaluated for three years prior to implementation in 2011, and were found to improve the representativeness of the BRFSS sample. However, these changes in the methodology were found to have a significant impact on rates calculated from BRFSS data. Consequently, BRFSS data prior to 2011 should not be directly compared to data from 2011 forward. As a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the BRFSS definition of disability was modified from being based on 2 questions (“Are you limited in any way in any activities because of physical, mental, or emotional problems?” and “Do you now have any health problem that requires you to use special equipment, such as a cane, a wheelchair, a special bed, or a special telephone?”) to 6 questions (“Are you deaf or do you have serious difficulty hearing?”, ” Are you blind or do you have serious difficulty seeing, even when wearing glasses?”, ”Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions?”, ”Do you have serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs?”, ”Do you have difficulty dressing or bathing?”, and ”Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping?”). Data collection for this new definition of disability was initiated on the BRFSS in 2016. Prior data that was based on the 2-question definition, has been renamed as “Limitation status”, and has been preserved in this table through 2017. Beginning in 2015, New York State modified the sampling methodology for the BRFSS survey to support calculation of rates at a regional level. These regions are defined based on Medicaid’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Paym
DisclaimersLimitations1) Data are sample-based, and therefore have sampling error and potential non-sampling error. 95% confidence errors are provided to indicate the degree of sampling error. 2) Data are self-reported, and therefore are subject to respondents’ misunderstanding of questions, personal biases, nonresponse, etc.
Dataset SummaryUnitsPercent of population with health care coverage/Percent of population without health care coverageCoverageNYS residents, age 18 and overGranularityNew York City/Rest of StateTime Period2007-2010OrganizationOffice of Public HealthDataset OwnerCenter for Community Health/Division of Chronic Disease and Prevention/Bureau of Chronic Disease Evaluation and ResearchData FrequencyAnnuallyPosting FrequencyAs Needed
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