Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.