| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
Human Services Agency Administrative Data
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
563 randomly sampled individuals from San Joaquin County administrative data on one- or two-parent cases in March 2000, selecting from those work participation requirements and English, Spanish, Vietnamese or Cambodian language of record.
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| Sites |
San Joaquin County, California
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Not applicable.
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| Source |
Survey
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| Title |
Face to Face Interviews
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Cross section of adult CalWORKs recipients in March 2000.
Baseline: n=492
12-month follow-up: n=242*
Female 83.3%
Race/ethnicity Black 17.9%, White 33.7%, Hispanic 33.9%, Vietnamese 8.1%, Cambodian 6.3%
Age 18-24 29.9%, 25-34 33.7%, 35-44 26.0%, 45-59 10.3%
Language of record: English 84.1%, Vietnamese 5.7%, Spanish 5.9%, Cambodian 4.3%
Two-parent case 13.8%
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| Sites |
San Joaquin County, California
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Recruited and interviewed 87.3% of sample frame at baseline. * Follow-up participation rate, 86% (of 281 selected for re-interview)
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| Additional Execution Notes |
2 waves of interviews (Baseline, 12 months).
Baseline conducted April — September 2000
12 month follow-up conducted April - September 2001
Conducted in English, Spanish, Cambodian or Vietnamese.Each recipient was also questioned about one randomly selected child in his or her family for this interview. * Wave 1 sample was stratified and a subset of respondents were selected for Wave 2 interviews. Stratification of sample for follow-up implies need for weighted analysis. At each interview, representativeness compared to the original baseline sample was examined. Weights correct for distortions in Wave 2 sample introduced by stratification
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| Source |
Interview
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| Title |
Semi-structured interviews
County personnel interviews
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
N=10 county social services and behavioral health care services personnel
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| Sites |
San Joaquin County, California
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Not applicable.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Conducted between December 2000 and March 2001.
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| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
California Medi-Cal Eligibility Determination System (MEDS) and Employment Development Department (EDD) data
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Match on as many as possible of survey respondents, with current consent forms
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| Sites |
Statewide data for respondents sampled in San Joaquin County, California
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N = 489 respondents with current release forms matched with State data
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Data complete from January 1994 through June 2002
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