Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues ; Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs

Abstract

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