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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 health insurance rates by different demographics, reasons people are uninsured, and more.
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Cost

Explore data about the cost of health care by different demographics.

Resources

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.

2024 Survey Documentation

To request documentation for prior years' surveys, email Coverage.Analytics@oha.oregon.gov.


​​August 12, 2025: ​Note on Underinsurance reporting

Rates of underinsurance from the Oregon Health Insurance Survey (OHIS) were previously reported in an OHA Cost Growth Target Program Health Impacts Report in 2021 and an OHIS Factsheet in 2017. After careful review of those reports and more recently collected data, OHA staff have determined that the underinsurance rates derived from OHIS and other surveys have problems with validity and reliability due to data and methodology issues. Therefore, OHA does not plan to report underinsurance rates from OHIS moving forward.​


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. 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 can be sent to Coverage.Analytics@oha.oregon.gov.

​Questions? Please contact the OHIS team at:

​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.