Studies of Welfare Populations

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, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Introduction; 3 1 Designing Surveys Acknowledging Nonresponse; 4 2 Methods for Obtaining High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys; 5 3 High Response Rates for Low-Income Population In-Person Surveys; 6 4 Paying Respondents for Survey Participation; 7 5 Adjusting for Missing Data in Low-Income Surveys; 8 6 Measurement Error in Surveys of the Low-Income Population; 9 7 Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data; 10 8 Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data; 11 9 Measuring Employment and Income for Low-Income Populations with Administrative and Survey Data; 12 10 Administrative Data on the Well-Being of Children On and Off Welfare; 13 11 The Right (Soft) Stuff: Qualitative Methods and the Study of Welfare Reform; 14 12 Studies of Welfare Leavers: Data, Methods, and Contributions to the Policy Process; 15 13 Preexit Benefit Receipt of Employment Histories and Postexit Outcomes of Welfare Leavers; 16 14 Experienced-Based Measures of Heterogeneity in the Welfare Caseload; 17 Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations; 18 Index