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Four Welfare Employment Studies, Arkansas, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, and San Diego, California, 1982-1985 (ICPSR 38059)

Released/updated on: 2022-07-21

Geographic coverage: San Diego, Baltimore, United States, California, Virginia, Arkansas, Maryland

Time period: 1982-01-01--1985-12-31

This collection contains two- to three-year Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and earnings follow-up data, which are based on unemployment insurance records. These data are available from four of MDRC's welfare employment studies conducted in the 1980s in the following locations: Arkansas, Virginia, Maryland (Baltimore), and San Diego SWIM. In addition to these follow-up data, demographic information is provided for each sample member. These data were used in a paper assessing nonexperimental techniques for estimating the effects of employment and training programs. Note that the files included in this package do not include data on Cook County, Illinois, which is found in the report "Subgroup Impacts and Performance Indicators for Selected Welfare Employment Programs".

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The Project on Devolution and Urban Change: Client Survey, Cleveland, 1998-2001 (ICPSR 38092)

Released/updated on: 2022-05-09

Geographic coverage: United States, Ohio, Cleveland

Time period: 1998-01-01--2001-12-31

This package contains files and documentation for the Cleveland survey data from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change (Urban Change, for short). The larger project is examining the implementation and effects of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in four urban counties: Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Philadelphia, Miami-Dade, and Los Angeles. The study's focal period of the late 1990s through the early 2000s was one of prolonged economic expansion and unprecedented decline in unemployment. The study thus captures the most promising context for welfare reform: one of high labor market demand and ample resources to support families in the process of moving from welfare to work. The included files are the longitudinal client survey data used in Welfare Reform in Cleveland: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods.

The data file consists of one SAS data set containing responses to two waves of interviews on education, training, employment, family and household composition, housing, income, material hardship, welfare, health and health care, fertility and childbearing, parenting, child outcomes, child care, domestic violence, substance use, and demographic background. Some sensitive questions have been dropped from this file.

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The Project on Devolution and Urban Change: Client Survey, 4 United States counties, 1998-2001 (ICPSR 38094)

Released/updated on: 2022-03-14

Geographic coverage: United States, Ohio, Los Angeles, California, Florida, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Miami

Time period: 1998-01-01--2001-12-31

This study contains data files and documentation for the survey data from all four sites of the Project on Devolution and Urban Change (Urban Change, for short). This study examines the implementation and effects of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in four urban counties: Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Philadelphia, Miami-Dade, and Los Angeles. The study's focal period of the late 1990s through the early 2000s was one of prolonged economic expansion and unprecedented decline in unemployment. The study thus captures the most promising context for welfare reform: one of high labor market demand and ample resources to support families in the process of moving from welfare to work.

The included data set is a concatenated version of the longitudinal client survey data used in the following MDRC publications:

Welfare Reform in Cleveland: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods. (September 2002)
Welfare Reform in Philadelphia: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods. (September 2003)
Welfare Reform in Miami: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods. (June 2004)
Welfare Reform in Los Angeles: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods. (August 2005)

The files consist of one SAS data set containing responses to two waves of interviews on education, training, employment, family and household composition, housing, income, material hardship, welfare, health and health care, fertility and childbearing, parenting, child care, domestic violence, substance use, and demographic background.

These data are a Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped for release, but not checked or processed.

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Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll # 2006-VUL: Vulnerable Populations, United States, 2006 (ICPSR 38366)

Released/updated on: 2022-03-10

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2006-01-01--2006-12-31

This catalog record includes detailed variable-level descriptions, enabling data discovery and comparison. The data are not archived at ICPSR. Users should consult the data owners (via the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research) directly for details on obtaining the data.

This collection includes variable-level metadata of Poll # 2006-VUL: Vulnerable Populations, a survey from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by ICR-International Communications Research. Topics covered in this survey include:

Knowledge of maximum yearly income for family of 4 to be considered to be living in poverty
Knowledge of proportion of United States children who do not complete high school
Proportion of children living in poverty who do not complete high school
Government aid to children of legal immigrants
Favor/oppose continuing government support for children in foster care until age 25
Most important services for government to spend more money on for children in foster care
Responsibility for paying for long-term care for older adults
Preferred place to be if elderly and ill/disabled
Long-term care insurance
Seriousness of gun/domestic violence in the community

The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092321]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 108 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.

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Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll: The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, United States, 2013 (ICPSR 38382)

Released/updated on: 2022-03-10

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2013-01-01--2013-12-31

This collection includes variable-level metadata of the 2013 poll The Public's Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress, a survey from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted by Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Topics covered in this survey include:

Most important Congressional issues
Role of government in health care system
One way to improve health care
When to work on budget deficit
Best way to reduce deficit
Support for program spending reductions
Support for deficit reduction proposals
View of 2010 healthcare law
Importance of government insurance programs to family
Medicare working well
Wealthier seniors paying higher premiums
Changes to Medicare to reduce deficit
Raising eligibility age
Need for Medicare reductions
Program cuts without increasing costs
State government priorities
Medicaid working well
State participation in Medicaid funding
Greatest health threats to Americans
Priorities of federal spending
Preventative care saving money in long run

The data and documentation files for this survey are available through the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research [Roper #31092360]. Frequencies and summary statistics for the 185 variables from this survey are available through the ICPSR social science variable database and can be accessed from the Variables tab.

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U.S. Mothers' Pension Records: 1911-1930 (ICPSR 100199)

Released/updated on: 2016-08-15

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1911-01-01--1935-01-01

The Mothers' Pension Program was a needs-based program, established on a state-by-state basis between 1911 and 1931. The first state to pass the program was Illinois in 1911, and by 1931, all but four states had passed a program to aid mothers with dependent children. Mothers in need of pensions applied for them at the county-level. At present, 80,000 individual case files have been collected. For some states, the full universe of counties that provided MP benefits have been collected if found, while for others only a subset of counties have been found—but if a county has records, the universe of records has been collected by the researchers of the Mothers' Pension Project. For an historical account of the Mothers' Pension program in each state, see the Mothers' Pension Project Website here: http://individual.utoronto.ca/shari_eli/datamp.html. Records have been collected for the following 14 states: Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. In some states, all or nearly all records are no longer extant due to short retention schedules set by states or privacy restrictions. The records contained in this extract pertain to those used in the folllowing article: A. Aizer, S. Eli, J. Ferrie, A. Lleras-Muney (2015). "The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families." American Economic Review, April 2016.

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Welfare Dimensions Summary Scores (WDSS): Measuring State Welfare Policy Variations and Change in the United States, 1996-2003 (ICPSR 33561)

Released/updated on: 2012-09-07

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1996-01-01--2003-12-31

The Welfare Dimensions Summary Scores (WDSS) project provides quantitative evidence on welfare policies across all states and the District of Columbia from 1996 through 2003, or immediately following a redesign of United States welfare policy that freed states to create public assistance contexts specific to their own economic environments. The purpose of this study is to categorize textual welfare policy guidelines into dimensions and quantified scores across states throughout the post welfare reform implementation period. The data is composed of measures based upon the Urban Institute's Welfare Rules Database (WRD), which provides a longitudinal textual account of the changes in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) rules in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the 1996 to 2003 period. Specifically, the researchers used the WRD database to code individual welfare rule items for each state during the study time period, eventually producing 18 welfare policy dimensions. These scores range from negative (the lowest indicating greatest leniency) to positive (the highest indicating greatest stringency) values. These quantitative measures can serve to measure the variation across states, and changes over time, in welfare policy guidelines from 1996 through 2003.

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CBS News Telenoticas Survey, October 1996 (ICPSR 4481)

Released/updated on: 2008-05-29

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1996-10-01--1996-10-31

This poll, fielded October 23-27, 1996, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicit public opinion on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Respondents were asked to give their opinions of President Bill Clinton and his handling of the presidency and issues such as foreign policy. Several questions asked how much respondents had been paying attention to the presidential campaign, whether they were likely to vote in the election for president, which candidate they would vote for if the presidential and United States House of Representatives elections were being held that day, whether they had favorable opinions of the candidates and trusted them, and who they expected to win. Respondents were asked to rate the condition of the national economy, whether they thought trade with other countries, such as Mexico and Canada, was good for the United States economy, whether they approved of the way Bill Clinton was handling relations with Cuba, Mexico, and Canada, and the importance of these countries to the United States' interests. Several questions asked for respondents' opinions on welfare, including whether most people on welfare were immigrants or belonged to a specific ethnic group, whether respondents approved of a recent law that changed the welfare system, and whether eligibility for welfare should be limited. A series of questions asked respondents whether trade restrictions were necessary, whether they favored the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), whether it should be expanded to other Latin American countries, and how many foreign products respondents had purchased in the past few years. Respondents were asked for their opinions on immigration to the United States, including the effects of immigration on society, whether immigrants should be eligible for entitlements programs and other benefits, and the country of origin of current legal and illegal immigrants. Information was also collected on whether respondents considered themselves part of the conservative Christian movement, and Hispanic respondents were asked about their country of birth and that of their ancestors. Additional topics included abortion, affirmative action, race and gender discrimination in job hiring practices, the trade embargo against Cuba, and whether the government should be more involved in people's lives and do more to solve national problems. Demographic variables include sex, race, age, household income, education level, political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter participation history and registration status, employment status, military service, whether respondents had any children under the age of 18, household union membership, length of time living at current residence, and type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural).

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ABC News Welfare Reform Poll, January 1995 (ICPSR 3834)

Released/updated on: 2008-01-29

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1995-01-01--1995-01-31

This special topic poll, fielded January 8-9, 1995, sought respondent views on welfare reform and the O.J. Simpson trial. Respondents were asked whether they would favor a reduction in welfare to help shorten the budget deficit and if they would prefer to limit welfare to two years for adults able to work. Opinions were also gathered as to who should and shouldn't receive welfare and the general sentiment towards welfare. Respondents were asked to speculate whether welfare recipients were lazy or just down on their luck. Questions also included whether respondents were willing to pay more in taxes to support job training and education programs that try to help people get off welfare. Topics included the coverage of the O.J. Simpson case, whether Simpson would get a fair trial, and the respondent's idea of whether Simpson was guilty. Demographic information includes political identification, political philosophy, level of education, date of birth, urban/suburban/rural residence, ethnicity, yearly income, and sex.

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Survey of State Welfare Policymakers, 1996: [United States] (ICPSR 3279)

Released/updated on: 2002-03-14

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1996-01-01--1996-12-31

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of citizen input into state welfare and Medicaid policymaking during the early to mid-1990s. The survey, which was conducted during October 1996-February 1997, queried 257 state officials (state legislators, social service agency directors, and senior advisors to governors) about the impetus for welfare reform, the methods used to measure public preferences, and the effectiveness of welfare policies. Policymakers were also asked how much input they sought from the general public and which part of state governments took the most active role in initiating the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Medicaid reforms during the 1990s.