ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

assess coverage in the state led the Center for State Health Policy to produce this report. We would also like to thank Jim Branscome at the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality who provided considerable assistance in acquiring special request data from the MEPS-IC survey and assistance in data interpretation. At the Center for State Health Policy, we would like to acknowledge the contributions of Felicity Tsikiwa, Paul Hamborg, Dorothy Gaboda, and Mario Kravanja for their data management support and statistical consultation, and Lori Glickman, Publications Manager, for assisting with report production. Finally, we thank The Robert Wood Johnson Founda-tion for their sponsorship and support of this project. 1INTRODUCTION This databook presents an overview of employer-sponsored health insurance in New Jersey based on three years of data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Insurance Component (MEPS-IC), a national survey of 23,000 employers sponsored by the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Data are reported for selected categories of employers, plans, and employees in the United States, New Jersey, and neigh-boring states of New York and Pennsylvania. In addition to comparing offer rates, eligibility and enrollment, premi-ums, and employee contributions in New Jersey, the United States, New York, and Pennsylvania for all establish-ments and by firm size, we report data by other firm characteristics such as type of ownership, industry, and th