Large swings in employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) coverage have occurred in recent months: Changes in access to ESI based on industry employment changes since February 2020
| Change in access, millions of workers | |
|---|---|
| Feb.–April 2020 | -9.049 |
| April–July 2020 | 2.868 |
| Feb.–July 2020 | -6.181 |
Notes: Industry-specific rates of ESI coverage were calculated from the ASEC for 2018. Then, the industry-specific rates of ESI coverage were applied to industry-level changes in employment taken from the CES, and then summed in each period. We use seasonally unadjusted data from the CES for our measures of employment change, as seasonal adjustments applied to data during extremely atypical periods can artificially smooth trends.
Source: Authors’ analysis using data from the Current Employment Statistics (CES) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS).
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