| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
AFDC monthly program extract files
Vermont unemployment insurance wage and benefit data
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Files and data for 10,997 welfare applicants and recipients (both program and control group members) and
17,723 cases from non-research districts.
Collected from July 1992 to date.
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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 |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
Background assignment data (Biweekly files, including case composition and computerized background survey data) and ACCESS data (Vermont’s automated eligibility system)
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Files and background data for 10,997 welfare applicants and recipients (both program and control groups) and
17,723 cases from non-research districts.
Collected at time of assignment.
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| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
Monthly food stamp program extract files
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Data collected for 10,997 welfare applicants and recipients (both program and control groups) and
17,723 cases from non-research districts.
Collected from July 1994 to date.
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| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
Monthly Medicaid eligibility files.
Cumulative child support receipts.
Child care data.
Data on Reach Up activities and participation.
Data on transitional child care support.
Unemployment Insurance Records.
Aggregate data on confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect.
Child Outcomes data.
Data on Program activities.
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Files for 10,997 welfare applicants and recipients (both program and control groups).
17,723 files from non-research districts.
Data collection schedule not reported.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
Telephone survey to test understanding of WRP
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
93 welfare recipients.
All members of program and control groups assigned between October 15 and 31, 1994.
Data collected approximately two months after assignment.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
144 respondents fielded.
Reported response rate:
65%
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
Self-administered staff survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Welfare and Reach Up staff.
82 eligibility staff, 72 Reach Up staff.
Sampling method not reported.
Data collected in 1996.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
90% plus
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Focus Group
|
| Title |
Focus Group
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
40 single parent welfare recipient cases assigned to the group subject to a time limit in 8/94-9/94.
Collected February/March 1996.
|
| Sites |
Barre, Vermont
St. Albans, Vermont
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
163 fielded.
Reported Response rate:
24.5%
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
In-person small-scale survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
All community service employment supervisors and their employees (number in sample not reported).
Data collected in 1998.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Not yet available.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
Mixed-mode 42-month survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Welfare recipients (number in sample not reported).
Sampling method not reported.
Collected 42 months after assignment.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
2000 completions expected (80% response rate)
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
Completed.
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