| Source |
Field Research
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| Title |
Site visits to community-based organizations
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
2 rounds of site visits to the four GAPS service providers.
Data collected in mid-1998 and mid-1999.
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| Sites |
4 GAPS service providers in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
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| Additional Execution Notes |
During these visits, researchers conducted in-depth interviews with GAPS case managers, ACAO and Foundation staff and other service providers to which GAPS participants were referred.
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| Source |
Program descriptions and documents
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| Title |
Service logs maintained by program staff
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Service logs maintained by GAPS program staff; Program staff collected these data on the 467 participants who entered the program through June 1998.
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| Sites |
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
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| Additional Execution Notes |
GAPS program staff documented the services they provided by recording information about their contacts with or on behalf of GAPS participants on standard contact logs that MPR developed.
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| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
State administrative welfare records
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Data on welfare receipt from 467 participants in the GAPS program.
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| Sites |
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Includes information covering the period from 5 years before their enrollment in GAPS through 18 months after their enrollment.
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| Source |
Survey
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| Title |
Telephone follow-up surveys
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Two follow-up surveys were conducted. To assure an adequate follow-up period, the sample for the first survey was restricted to the 355 GAPS participants who enrolled in the program through March 1998. The second survey sample included the 467 participants who enrolled in GAPS through June 1998. First survey was conducted from July through September 1998 (an average of 8 months after program enrollment).
Second survey was conducted from September through December 1999 (an average of 22 months after program enrollment).
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| Sites |
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Of the 467 GAPS participants who entered the program through June 1998, a total of 378 completed the second follow-up survey, for a response rate of 81%.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Both surveys included questions about participants’ backgrounds, work histories, barriers to employment, experiences with GAPS, income sources, and employment outcomes.
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