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Title Studies of welfare populations : data collection and research issues / 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
Published Washington, DC : National Academy Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (x, 526 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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 -- 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 -- Qualitative data. The right (soft) stuff : qualitative methods and the study of welfare reform / Katherine S. Newman -- 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Public welfare -- Statistical methods
Social surveys.
Public welfare -- Research -- Methodology
Statistics -- Methodology
Social Welfare -- trends
Data Collection
Poverty -- statistics & numerical data
Data Collection -- methods
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Public welfare -- Statistical methods
Social surveys
SUBJECT United States
Form Electronic book
Author Ver Ploeg, Michele.
Moffitt, Robert A.
Citro, Constance F. (Constance Forbes), 1942-
Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs (U.S.)
LC no. 2001005893
ISBN 0309509807
9780309509800
1280184256
9781280184253
9786610184255
6610184259
Other Titles Welfare populations