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Oregon Health Insurance Survey

Welcome

The Oregon Health Insurance Survey (“OHIS”) is a survey of people in Oregon. It asks questions that help us understand how well the health care system is working for people – from how many people have health insurance, to how much they pay in medical bills, to their ability to get care when they need it. 

Read the OHIS Data Profile to learn more about this data source. The data profile includes helpful information such as:

  • How the data are collected
  • Things to remember when interpreting OHIS data

Data Dashboards


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Insurance Coverage

Explore data about health insurance rates by different demographics, reasons people are uninsured, and more.

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The Uninsured

Explore uninsurance trends by different demographics, eligibility for coverage among the uninsured, and more. 






Coming soon!

Learn about the impacts of underinsurance and high out-of-pocket costs on people’s ability to access care in our new OHIS Cost Dashboard (anticipated late summer 2024).

Supplemental Dashboards

Resources

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To request reports or data briefs from prior years, email ohis.admin@odhsoha.oregon.gov

Read the OHIS data profile for a general overview of how the data are collected, including timing and frequency, sampling (who is represented in the survey) and changes to the survey since 2011. For more detailed information, explore the resources below.

2021 Survey Documentation

To request documentation for prior years' surveys, em​ail ohis.admin@odhsoha.oregon.gov​ 

Although the OHIS dashboards have been recently expanded to reflect most of the questions that are asked in the survey, there are many ways of interpreting the data – and not every view is readily available in our public reporting. The good news is that if you want to see data in a way that isn’t shown in the dashboards, OHA staff can probably provide that for you. 

To request data that are not in the dashboards, visit the Health Analytics Data Request page​ and submit a general data request form, or email ohis.admin@odhsoha.oregon.gov. Sometimes a request can’t be fulfilled because the numbers are too small to be reliable, but OHA staff will help you understand what’s available.

​Questions? Please contact Rebekah Gould:

​There are some other national surveys, such as the American Community Survey (ACS), that ask people whether they have health insurance. But the results from those surveys may be different than OHIS because the data are collected differently. Therefore, data from OHIS and other surveys aren’t directly comparable. Learn more about other data sources that provide health insurance rates and how they differ from OHIS.