Studies of welfare populations : data collection and research issues / 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, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ver Ploeg, Michele.

Moffit, Robert A.

Citro, Constance F. (Constance Forbes), 1942-

Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Statistical methods.

Public welfare.

Social surveys.

Public welfare--Research--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Welfare populations

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academy Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Survey data. Designing surveys acknowledging nonresponse/ Robert M. Groves and Mick P. Couper

Methods for obtaining high response rates in telephone surveys/ David Cantor and Patricia Cunningham

High response rates for low-income population in-person surveys/ Charlene Weiss and Barbara A. Bailar

Paying respondents for survey participation/ Eleanor Singer and Richard A. Kulka

Adjusting for missing data in low-income surveys/ Leyla Mohadjer and G. Hussain Choudhry

Measurement error in surveys of the low-income population/ Nancy A. Mathiowetz, Charlie Brown, and John Bound

Administrative data. Matching and cleaning administrative data/ Robert M. Goerge and Bong Joo Lee

Access and confidentiality issues with administrative data/ Henry E. Brady, Susan A. Grand, M. Anne Powell, and Werner Schink

Measuring employment and income for low-income populations with administrative and survey data/ V. Joseph Hotz and John Karl Scholz

Administrative data on the well-being of children on and off welfare/ Richard Barth, Eleanor Locklin-Brown, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, and Barbara Needell

Qualitative data. The right (soft) stuff : qualitative methods and the study of welfare reform/ Katherine S. Newman

Welfare leavers and welfare dynamics. Studies of welfare leavers : data, methods, and contributions to the policy process/ Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest. Preexit benefit receipt and employment histories and postexit outcomes of welfare leavers / Michele Ver Ploeg. Experienced-based measures of heterogeneity in the welfare caseload / Robert A. Moffitt. Appendix : agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780309509807

9786610184255

9780309170383

0309170389

9781280184253

1280184256

9780309509800

0309509807

OCLC:

52787064