| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
Longitudinal, consolidated, current, and archival records on AFDC/TANF, Unemployment Insurance (UI), and Food Stamps from 1992 to 2001
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Data from the households with children who received Food Stamps at any point (1992-present).
Sample of AFDC/TANF recipients and non-recipients drawn from universe of food stamp recipients.
Data collected for 10 years.
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
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| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| Source |
Survey
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| Title |
Recipient survey
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
2 cohorts will be drawn (May 1995, May 1997) from all Food Stamp recipients aged 18-45, who are heads of households that include at least one child.
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
First survey wave: 79% completion rate; 3,690 completions.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Respondents must reside in neighborhoods with high welfare concentration and/or high poverty.
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| |
| Source |
Secondary data
|
| Title |
Review of laws, regulations and procedures, and local media stories of welfare reform
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
N/A
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| |
| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Key informant interviews with administrators and other key personnel associated with institutions that are located in or near the 3 target neighborhoods
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Institutions that provide child care; employment and training services; health care; emergency food and housing services; and other services to welfare recipients.
20-30 agencies per site.
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Not yet available.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Budget expenditure records will be collected from institutions to document total funding and funding services.
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| |
| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Formal and informal individual and group key informant interviews with staff members, employers, clients, and worksite supervisors
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Key central office administrators, directors and other personnel of three welfare and welfare-to-work offices.
Interviews conducted at least annually.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Observations of welfare staff-recipient interactions in welfare offices in target neighborhoods.
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| |
| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Ethnography includes focus groups and repeated in-depth interviews
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
20-30 adult female welfare recipients who are the heads of households that have children.
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| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Respondents must reside in neighborhoods with high welfare concentration and/or high poverty.
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| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
Census statistics, crime statistics, housing measures, vital statistics records, AFDC and TANF records, UI records, tax assessor data, child welfare records, population estimates, and food stamp records
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
All neighborhoods in each city/county.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Includes comparison of target neighborhoods with other low-income neighborhoods in the same cities to better understand generalizability of findings.
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| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
Staff Survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
3,000-4,000 staff from across the four sites; two rounds of interviews.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Not yet available.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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