San Joaquin County CalWORKs Needs Assessment and Outcomes Study: Study Types

Types of Studies

Type Descriptive/Analytical Study
Aim This study is designed to assess the needs and personal, community, and programmatic barriers to employment of TANF recipients at baseline (2000) and to re-examine their work, welfare and barrier status again 12 months later (2001)
 
Type Longitudinal/Prospective Study
Aim To provide a full description of the cross section of CalWORKs recipientsTo determine the relationship between barriers and subsequent program involvement and health, employment, income and other outcomes
 
Type Longitudinal/Prospective Study
Aim Combined Data Streams — Longitudinal administrative data on welfare and enriched with survey repeated measures of barriers and supports

To examine with multivariate methods the effects of barriers and supports on welfare and work outcomes.
To add to the literature an understanding of factors resulting in part-time vs. full-time work, work with and without welfare, and neither source of support, compared to reliance on welfare alone.