| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Program (CASAS)
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
33,000 welfare recipients.
Sample of all program and control group members.
Collected prior to random assignment.
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| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Basic reading and math test included in assessment.
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| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
Automated Welfare Payment Records measuring welfare receipt/payment levels and Food Stamp benefits
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Records for 33,000 welfare recipients.
Sample of all program and control group members.
Collected up to 2 years prior to random assignment and through 6/93.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
California State Unemployment Insurance Earnings and Benefits Records measuring employment/earnings data and Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefit payments
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Records for 33,000 welfare recipients.
Sample for all program and control group members.
Collected up to two years prior to random assignment through 6/93.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
GAIN in-person registrant survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
3,544 completed interviews with welfare recipients (single-parent families).
1,925 program and 1,619 control group members.
Collected 26 - 37 months after random assignment.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate: 80%
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
GAIN-26 Form (measuring background characteristics such as race/ethnicity, family composition, education and training, and welfare and employment history);
Case file participation data
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Computerized records for 9,421 welfare recipients in Alameda and Los Angeles counties.
Sample of all program group members for participation data. Background data (GAIN-26) collected on all experimentals and controls.
Manual records for welfare clients in San Diego, Tulare, Butte, and Riverside counties.
Random subsample of 1,439 program group members.
Collected for 5 years after random assignment.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
MDRC self-administered Staff Activities and Attitudes Survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
960 completed questionnaires for GAIN staff.
Collected 1 and 2 years after program initiation.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate: 94%-100% across sites.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Survey administered to all GAIN staff in each site.
|
| |
| Source |
Interview
|
| Title |
In depth, in-person, non-structured interviews
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Interviews with program case managers and administrators (number in sample not reported).
Data collection schedule not reported.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
Fiscal and program participation data to estimate costs and benefits of GAIN program
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Data obtained from tables in U.S. department of Health and Human Services; U.S. Congress, House Committee on Ways and Means; and communications with administrators in the U.S. Department of Labor, California Regional Office, and the California Department of Social Services.
Collected 7/88 until 6/93.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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