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Indicators of Welfare Dependence,
Annual Report to Congress, 2004.
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 directed the Secretary of Health and Human
Services to study the most useful statistics for tracking and predicting
dependence on three means-tested cash and nutritional assistance programs:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Food Stamps, and Supplemental
Security Income (SSI). This is the most recent of these annual reports,
the prior ones are:
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence,
Annual Report to Congress, 2003
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence,
Annual Report to Congress, 2002
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence,
Annual Report to Congress, 2001
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence, Annual Report
to Congress, 2000
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence,
Annual Report to Congress, 1998
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Indicators of Welfare Dependence, Annual
Report to Congress, 1997
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Trends in the Well-Being of Americas
Children and Youth, 2003 edition.
The most recent edition of an annual report on trends in the well-being of
Americas children and youth, it provides the policy community with
comprehensive data on the well-being of children and youth. (This report
is available in PDF format mostly. If necessary, you can download a
free copy of the Adobe Acrobat
Reader.) Printed copies of these reports are available from the
Government Printing Office. Previous
reports:
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Indicators of Child, Family,
and Community Connections, 2004.
Family indicators typically include measures such as family structure, employment
and poverty status, and benefit receipt. However, these indicators do not
fully portray how families function as a unit and as part of society. To
lay the groundwork for addressing this issue, ASPE contracted with Mathematica
Policy Research Inc. and Child Trends to produce a chart book of Indicators
of Child, Family, and Community Connections. The chart book presents illustrative
examples of how currently available data can be used to generate indicators
of the social context of families, and assesses the need for additional data
and measures in several domains. A selection of important areas for further
development are discussed in the
Companion Volume of Related
Papers.
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Neighborhoods and Health: Building Evidence
for Local Policy, May 2003
This project focuses on the development, analysis, and use of neighborhood
health indicators pertaining to children and youth. Using data provided by
five data intermediary organizations (located in large cities) that participate
in the Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP), Urban Institute conducted
a cross-site analysis and provided technical assistance to these organizations
as they conducted site-specific ecological analyses. Both types of analyses
examine at the census tract level relationships between health outcomes
pertaining to children and youth, census data, and contextual variables and
also look at changes in these relationships over the past decade. Site-specific
findings will be used in planning, implementing, and evaluating local health
policies and programs. Geospacial analysis using mapping techniques are used.
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Advancing States' Child Indicators
Initiatives, May 2002
This project promoted state efforts to develop and monitor indicators of
the health and well-being of children and helped to institutionalize the
use of indicator data in state and local policy work. Partnerships
of state government agencies with responsibilities for addressing
childrens issues were invited to apply for grants. At a minimum,
the partnerships were to include the agencies with lead responsibilities
for childrens programs, including childrens health programs,
and the welfare and income support programs. Grants were awarded to thirteen
states: Alaska, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland,
Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia.
An additional state, California, was added with the support of the Packard
Foundation. The Chapin Hall Center for Children provided technical
assistance to the states.
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Archive of AFDC Data, August
2000.
This archive contains virtually all the available micro data on the
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC) program. The archive contains all the person and family level
information from the AFDC Characteristics Files from 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973,
1975, 1977, and 1979, plus all the AFDC Quality Control Data from 1983 through
1997. The raw data, corresponding codebooks, commands to create SAS
datasets, and other supporting files are available for downloading at the
web site hosted at the Urban Institute. The Characteristics Files are
from surveys of AFDC recipients conducted every two years, while the Quality
Control (QC) data are annual and were collected by the states. Both
types of data were large samples. Also at the web site, you can use
the crosstab tool to do quick tabulations of the 1997 data without downloading
the raw data or creating a dataset.
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Assessment of Major Federal Data Sets for Analyses
of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander Subgroups and Native
Americans
These two reports assess the capability of several federal surveys to provide
data on major subgroups of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islanders (e.g.
Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, and Filipinos) and on American
Indian or Alaska Natives (AIANs). The Task
2 Report: Inventory of Selected Existing Federal Databases, May
2000, contains an inventory of major databases used by HHS analysts with
information about how the race/ethnicity response categories were designed,
interviewing policies, sample sizes, and publication policies. The
Task 3 Report: Extending the Utility
of Federal Databases, May 2000, assesses the ability of the databases
to provide data of adequate precision on selected Hispanic and API subgroups
and AIANs. The report also suggests and evaluates methods to enhance
the ability of surveys to provide reasonably reliable statistics about these
populations. Prepared by Westat.
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