DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37289.v4
title: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation, United States, 2011-2016
title: Version 4

description: The Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) study was designed to produce rigorous evidence for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers about the effectiveness of nine career pathways approaches that sought to increase credentials, employment, and self-sufficiency among low-income, low-skilled Americans. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, PACE included nine program-specific evaluation reports. The study was led by Abt Associates, in partnership with MEF Associates, The Urban Institute, and the University of Michigan. Each program-specific evaluation included an implementation study that examined the design and operation of the program and enrolled students' participation patterns, and an impact study that used an experimental design to measure differences in educational and employment outcomes between individuals randomly assigned to a group that could receive services from the PACE program (treatment group) and a group that could not but could participate in other services in the community (control group). Program impacts were measured 18 to 24 months following random assignment, depending on the program. Follow-up impact reports will cover three and six years after random assignment. The collection includes the following 7 data files: Analysis Data File (9,242 cases; 152 variables); Basic Information Form Data File (9,242 cases; 79 variables); Case Manager/Advisor Data File (108 cases; 223 variables); Instructional Staff Data File (135 cases; 510 variables); Manager/Supervisor Data File (41 cases; 202 variables); First Follow-up Data File (7,139 cases; 1,432 variables); Self-Administered Questionnaire Data File (9,242 cases; 96 variables);
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: Created variable labels and/or value labels.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Presence of Common Scales: See data documentation.
description: Response Rates: All study participants completed the Baseline Information Form (BIF) and Self-administered Questionnaire (SAQ) Response rate for the 18-month follow-up survey was 77.2 percent
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation (PACE) Analysis Data File DS2: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation (PACE) Basic Information Form Data File DS3: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation (PACE) Case Manager/Advisor Data File DS4: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation (PACE) Instructional Staff Data File DS5: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation (PACE) Manager/Supervisor Data File DS6: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation (PACE) First Follow-up Data File DS7: Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education Evaluation (PACE) Self-Administered Questionnaire Data File
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI)
description: computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)
description: face-to-face interview
description: on-site questionnaire
description: telephone interview
description: All participants enrolled in the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) study (N=9,295). Smallest Geographic Unit: Program Site