§ 1397ii.
(b)
Adjustment to Current Population Survey to include State-by-State data relating to children without health insurance coverage
(2)
Additional requirements
In addition to making the adjustments required to produce the data described in paragraph (1), with respect to data collection occurring for fiscal years beginning with fiscal year 2009, in appropriate consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Commerce shall do the following:
(A)
Make appropriate adjustments to the Current Population Survey to develop more accurate State-specific estimates of the number of children enrolled in health coverage under subchapter XIX or this subchapter.
(B)
Make appropriate adjustments to the Current Population Survey to improve the survey estimates used to determine a high-performing State under
section 1397kk(b)(3)(B) of this title and any other data necessary for carrying out this subchapter.
(C)
Include health insurance survey information in the American Community Survey related to children.
(D)
Assess whether American Community Survey estimates, once such survey data are first available, produce more reliable estimates than the Current Population Survey with respect to the purposes described in subparagraph (B).
(E)
On the basis of the assessment required under subparagraph (D), recommend to the Secretary of Health and Human Services whether American Community Survey estimates should be used in lieu of, or in some combination with, Current Population Survey estimates for the purposes described in subparagraph (B).
(F)
Continue making the adjustments described in the last sentence of paragraph (1) with respect to expansion of the sample size used in State sampling units, the number of sampling units in a State, and using an appropriate verification element.
(3)
Authority for the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transition to the use of all, or some combination of, ACS estimates upon recommendation of the Secretary of Commerce
([Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531], title XXI, § 2109, as added [Pub. L. 105–33, title IV, § 4901(a)], Aug. 5, 1997, [111 Stat. 567]; amended [Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(6) [title VII, §§ 703(a), 705(c)]], Nov. 29, 1999, [113 Stat. 1536], 1501A–400, 1501A–403; [Pub. L. 110–173, title II, § 205], Dec. 29, 2007, [121 Stat. 2514]; [Pub. L. 111–3, title VI, § 602], Feb. 4, 2009, [123 Stat. 98]; [Pub. L. 111–148, title II, § 2102(a)(6)], Mar. 23, 2010, [124 Stat. 288].)