# Health Insurance Verify Variable

**URL:** <https://forum.ipums.org/t/health-insurance-verify-variable/3702>\
**Category:** CPS\
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/health-insurance-verify-variable/3702 "2020-08-20T15:32:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Salkever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@David\_Salkever](https://forum.ipums.org/u/David_Salkever)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/health-insurance-verify-variable/3702/1 "2020-08-20T15:32:08Z")

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Why is the “VERIFY” variable not available for the 2019 ASEC supplement, while it is for earli3r years?

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**Author:** ![Grace\_Cooper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/grace_cooper/32/376_2.png) [@Grace\_Cooper](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Grace_Cooper)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/health-insurance-verify-variable/3702/2 "2020-08-24T17:46:19Z")

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VERIFY was not included in the 2019 ASEC supplement due to changes made by the Census Bureau in how they process health insurance data. These changes are noted in the [2019 ASEC Updates Documentation](https://cps.ipums.org/cps/asec_2019_changes.shtml) and this [blog post](http://blog.popdata.org/2019asec/), which include the addition of new health insurance variables as well as removal of several variables.

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**Author:** ![David\_Salkever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@David\_Salkever](https://forum.ipums.org/u/David_Salkever)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/health-insurance-verify-variable/3702/3 "2020-08-24T19:42:30Z")

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Thanks very much. BTW, are the health insurance variables processed in the same way for the 2020 ASEC which is coming out soon as they were for the 2019?

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**Author:** ![Grace\_Cooper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.ipums.org/grace_cooper/32/376_2.png) [@Grace\_Cooper](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Grace_Cooper)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/health-insurance-verify-variable/3702/4 "2020-08-25T18:07:17Z")

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I am not aware of any plans to drop the editing procedures adopted for the 2019 ASEC; these should remain in place going forward and will be applied to the 2020 ASEC.