Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/10206

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Studies of Welfare Populations

Data Collection and Research Issues

(2002)

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.

Contributor(s): National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Committee on National Statistics; 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

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National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/10206.

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537 pages | 6 x 9 |

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Paperback: 978-0-309-07623-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/10206

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xii
Introduction	1-10
1 Designing Surveys Acknowledging Nonresponse	11-54
2 Methods for Obtaining High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys	55-85
3 High Response Rates for Low-Income Population In-Person Surveys	86-104
4 Paying Respondents for Survey Participation	105-128
5 Adjusting for Missing Data in Low-Income Surveys	129-156
6 Measurement Error in Surveys of the Low-Income Population	157-194
7 Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data	195-219
8 Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data	220-274
9 Measuring Employment and Income for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data	275-315
10 Administrative Data on the Well-Being of Children On and Off Welfare	316-352
11 The Right (Soft) Stuff: Qualitative Methods and the Study of Welfare Reform	353-384
12 Studies of Welfare Leavers: Data, Methods, and Contributions to the Policy Process	385-414
13 Preexit Benefit Receipt of Employment Histories and Postexit Outcomes of Welfare Leavers	415-472
14 Experienced-Based Measures of Heterogeneity in the Welfare Caseload	473-500
Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations	501-506
Index	507-526

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