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9780309076234: Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues
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ISBN 10: 0309076234 ISBN 13: 9780309076234
Publisher: National Academies Press, 2001

Synopsis

This volume, a companion to Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, is a collection of papers on data collection issues for welfare and low-income populations. The papers on survey issues cover methods for designing surveys taking into account nonresponse in advance, obtaining high response rates in telephone surveys, obtaining high response rates in in-person surveys, the effects of incentive payments, methods for adjusting for missing data in surveys of low-income populations, and measurement error issues in surveys, with a special focus on recall error. The papers on administrative data cover the issues of matching and cleaning, access and confidentiality, problems in measuring employment and income, and the availability of data on children. The papers on welfare leavers and welfare dynamics cover a comparison of existing welfare leaver studies, data from the state of Wisconsin on welfare leavers, and data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth used to construct measures of heterogeneity in the welfare population based on the recipient's own welfare experience. A final paper discusses qualitative data.

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About the Author

Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs, Michele Ver Ploeg, Robert A. Moffitt, and Constance F. Citro, Editors, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council

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Publisher
National Academies Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0309076234
ISBN 13 
9780309076234
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
537
Editor
Citro Constance F., Moffitt Robert A., Ploeg Michele Ver