Studies of welfare populations
Subtitle: data collection and research issues
By: Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs ; Michele Ver Ploeg, Robert A. Moffitt, and Constance F. Citro, editors ; Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council
Contributors: Ver Ploeg, Michele; Moffit, Robert A; Citro, Constance F. 1942-; Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academy Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Public welfare -- Statistical methods; Social surveys; Public welfare -- Research -- Methodology
Other titles: Welfare populations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Survey data. Designing surveys acknowledging nonresponse / Robert M. Groves and Mick P. Couper. Methods for obtaining high response rates in telephone surveys / David Cantor and Patricia Cunningham. High response rates for low-income population in-person surveys / Charlene Weiss and Barbara A. Bailar. Paying respondents for survey participation / Eleanor Singer and Richard A. Kulka. Adjusting for missing data in low-income surveys / Leyla Mohadjer and G. Hussain Choudhry. Measurement error in surveys of the low-income population / Nancy A. Mathiowetz, Charlie Brown, and John Bound; title: Administrative data. Matching and cleaning administrative data / Robert M. Goerge and Bong Joo Lee. Access and confidentiality issues with administrative data / Henry E. Brady, Susan A. Grand, M. Anne Powell, and Werner Schink. Measuring employment and income for low-income populations with administrative and survey data / V. Joseph Hotz and John Karl Scholz. Administrative data on the well-being of children on and off welfare / Richard Barth, Eleanor Locklin-Brown, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, and Barbara Needell; title: Qualitative data. The right (soft) stuff : qualitative methods and the study of welfare reform / Katherine S. Newman; title: Welfare leavers and welfare dynamics. Studies of welfare leavers : data, methods, and contributions to the policy process / Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest. Preexit benefit receipt and employment histories and postexit outcomes of welfare leavers / Michele Ver Ploeg. Experienced-based measures of heterogeneity in the welfare caseload / Robert A. Moffitt. Appendix : agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations