TABLE 2
THE JOBS EVALUATION

PERCENT OF SAMPLE MEMBERS WHO WERE OR WERE NOT INVOLVED IN JOBS IN A TYPICAL MONTH,
 BY REASON,  FOR SAMPLE MEMBERS WHO HAD ATTENDED A JOBS ORIENTATION

Status During Month	                           Atlanta	Grand Rapids	Riverside

Involved in JOBS (%)	                             58.3	    76.2	    63.1
      Participated at all in a JOBS activity	     41.6	    41.9	    22.6
      Employed while receiving AFDC (a)	              7.2	    16.1	    29.3
      Sanctioned (i.e., AFDC grant reduced) 	      
      for not participating                           4.4	    16.9	     n/a
      Slated to be sanctioned	                      6.6	    10.2	    15.4

Not involved, for reasons potentially correctable 
with moreJOBS funding or changes in case monitoring	
      procedures (%)                                  22.6	     11.9	     16.1
      Child care issues	                               0.4	      1.0	      4.1
      No transportation available	               0.2	      0.3	      4.5
      JOBS activity provider issues (b)	               0.2	      0.4	      0.0
      Non-cooperation where sanctions were neither
       imposed nor requested during the month          7.8	      3.6	      4.3
      Case workers had lost track of clients,
       i.e., no documentation could be found 	      12.6	      6.5	      4.1
      as to why individuals were not participating
      Case workers slow to respond to changes in       1.9	      0.5	      0.2
       clients' situations

Not involved, for reasons essentially unrelated
 to JOBS funding or case monitoring procedures (%)     19.2	     11.8	     20.9
     Individual or family member ill or incapacitated	9.8	      5.7	      7.9
     Housing issues	                                0.6	      0.6	      2.4
     Other personal issues	                        0.7	      0.5	      7.2
     Became no longer JOBS-mandatory or verification
      of reason for status change from 
      JOBS-mandatoryto JOBS-exempt was pending	        1.2	      1.3	      4.1
     In assessment to determine next JOBS assignment	0.7	      0.7	      0.0
     Awaiting activity assignment from case worker	2.4	      2.4	      0.6
     Assigned to JOBS activity, waiting for it to begin	5.1	      3.7	      3.6

Sample size	                                      287/319	     295/332	     206/209

SOURCE:   MDRC calculations from MDRC-collected JOBS case file data.

NOTES:     The sample for this table consists of a random sample of individuals who were randomly assigned to a research
group as  part of the JOBS Evaluation from April 1992 through December 1992.
Two months were selected as the focus for the participation study - October and November 1992 -
and this table presents averages for these months.  Sample sizes are shown for each of the two months. 
Indicators shown in this table reflect individuals' statuses in at least one week during the month.  As a result,
individuals can be in more than one status in a month.   In this table, the three major statuses are prioritized
in the order shown.  If an individual was participating in one week and did not participate in another week in
the month because of a child care issue,  for example, the individual is shown in the "participated" row and
not in the "child care issues" row of the table.
Participation is defined as attending a job club, job search, education, training, work experience,
or life management skills activity at all during the month.  The participation rate includes participation in
client-initiated activities, such as education or training, as long as this activity met JOBS' requirements. 
In Riverside, individuals who were deferred because they were in self-initiated activities are also included.

Unlike Table 4.3, this table does not take scheduled or actual hours of participation into account.
As a result, some individuals are categorized as participants in this table but are non-participants
in Table 4.3 using Measure "D."  Individuals could be in more than one situation in the month within
each of the three major statuses; therefore, the percentages for sub-categories may exceed the percentage
for a category as a whole.

Tests of statistical significance were not calculated.
  (a) Includes a few individuals for whom verification of full-time or over-income-limit employment was pending.
  (b) Includes such issues as shortages in provider slots or funding and providers' offering services
 at a level  too difficult for the referred individual.