| Source |
Field Research
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| Title |
Key informant interviews with state officials, welfare office directors, supervisors, caseworkers, and members of community advisory and advocacy groups
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Interviews with state officials and officials from at least two localities in each state.
Data collected May-October 1997.
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Not yet available.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| |
| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
Program output, including percentage change in size of caseloads, child support collections, child poverty rates, program participation rates, diversion rates, employment rates and average earnings of families receiving assistance, overall case closure rates, job placement rates
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Data for each case study state at county and state level.
Collected 1995, 1996, and most current as of date of initial report.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| |
| Source |
Secondary data
|
| Title |
Case study supplementation. Studies from other organizations monitoring states’ welfare reforms, such as the Congressional Research Service (CRS), Urban Institute, Rockefeller Institute, and American Public Welfare Association.
Work on states’ approaches to decrease teen births without increasing abortions will be in conjunction with the HEHS’ Health Services Quality and Public Health Issues group.
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
All sources of secondary data not reported.
Data collection schedule not reported.
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| Sites |
Specific sites not reported.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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