DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37673.v1
title: Parents and Children Together (PACT) Responsible Fatherhood (RF) Study Data Collection, Kansas, Minnesota, and Missouri, 2012-2015
title: Parents and Children Together: Effects of Four Responsible Fatherhood Programs for Low-Income fathers, United States, 2012-2015
title: Version 1

description: Parent and Children Together (PACT) Responsible Fatherhood (RF) project is an examination of the effects of federally funded responsible fatherhood programs. This project was interested in learning about service implications, the needs and experiences of participants, and the effectiveness of these services. To examine how parenting, relationships, socioeconomic status, and well-being are being affected by responsible fatherhood programs. This dataset is focused on individuals representing a few in the population. The 4 programs that participated in the Responsible Fatherhood study were: Connections to Success in Kansas and Missouri, Fathers' Support Center in Missouri, FATHER Project at Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota, and Urban Ventures in Minnesota. This data collection covered topics such as parental involvement, parenting skills, relationship status, child engagement, employment, criminal justice involvement, housing stability, and mental well-being. The demographic variables are race, age, monthly income, and education level.
description: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the responsible fatherhood field so that funders, developers, researchers and providers can work together to learn, adapt, and improve programs.
description: The evaluation team selected four grantees to participate in the PACT evaluation: Connections to Success, Fathers' Support Center, FATHER Project at Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota, and Urban Ventures. The evaluation team selected these programs for their intensity of services, capacity for recruitment and enrollment, ability to adhere to random assignment due to an absence of similar services in their areas. Fathers who applied for 1 of the 4 RF programs were randomly assigned to a program group that was offered RF services or to a control group that was not. The control group received information about other services in the community and could choose to participate in those.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed consistency checks..
description: Response Rates: The 12-month follow up survey: 72 percent of fathers.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Baseline Survey Data File DS2: 12-Month Follow-up Survey Data File DS3: Program Participation (PACTIS) Data File DS4: 12-Month Analysis Data File DS5: Analysis Weights File
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)
description: Fathers enrolled in a Responsible Fatherhood program who met the following criteria: male, 18 years or older, and had at least 1 biological or adopted child.
description: The PACT RF programs enrolled men into the study sample from December 2012 through March 2015, with the specific sample intake period varying somewhat across programs. Fathers who applied for one of the four RF programs in PACT were randomly assigned to a program group that was offered RF services or to a control group that was not. The control group received information about other services in the community and could choose to participate in those. A follow-up survey was conducted at approximately 12 months after study enrollment.