Studies of Welfare Populations:
Data Collection and Research Issues

Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs

Edited by:
Michele Ver Ploeg, Robert A. Moffitt, and Constance F. Citro
Committee on National Statistics
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
National Research Council

2002

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Contents

• Members of the Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs
• Acknowledgments
  
• Introduction

Part I:  Survey Data

1. Designing Surveys Acknowledging Nonresponse
2. Methods for Obtaining High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys
3. High Response Rates for Low-Income Population In-Person Surveys
4. Paying Respondents for Survey Participation
5. Adjusting for Missing Data in Low-Income Surveys
6. Measurement Error in Surveys of the Low-Income Population

Part II:  Administrative Data

7. Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data
8. Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data
9. Measuring Employment and Income for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data
10. Administrative Data on the Well-Being of Children On and Off Welfare

Part III:  Qualitative Data

11. The Right (Soft) Stuff:  Qualitative Methods and the Study of Welfare Reform

Part IV:  Welfare Leavers and Welfare Dynamics

12. Studies of Welfare Leavers:  Data, Methods, and Contributions to the Policy Process
13. Preexit Benefit Receipt and Employment Histories and Postexit Outcomes of Welfare leavers
14. Experienced-Based Measures of Heterogeneity in the Welfare Caseload

Appendix:  Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations [not available online]

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