Description & Citation--Study No. 4701 |
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| ICPSR Study No.: | 4701 |
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Persistent URL:
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| Title: | Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study |
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| Principal Investigator(s): | Ronald Angel, University of Texas-Austin. Population Research Center |
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| Linda Burton, Pennsylvania State University. Population Research Institute |
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| P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, University of Chicago. Population Research Center |
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| Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University. Hopkins Population Center |
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| Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University. Hopkins Population Center |
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| Funding Agency: | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
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| Bibliographic Citation: | Angel, Ronald, Linda Burton, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Andrew Cherlin, and Robert Moffitt. Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study [Computer file]. ICPSR04701-v5. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-10-13. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04701 |
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| Summary: | This data collection is the third wave of an intensive study in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, which was initiated to assess the well-being of low-income children and families in the post-welfare reform era. The project investigates the strategies families have used to respond to reform, in terms of employment, schooling or other forms of training, residential mobility, and fertility. Central to this project is a focus on how these strategies affect children's lives, with an emphasis on their health and development as well as their need for, and use of, social services. For the first wave of the study, between March 1999 and December 1999, a random sample of approximately 2,400 households with children in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio were selected for interviews. Forty percent of the families interviewed were receiving cash welfare payments at the time of the interview. Each household had a child aged 0 to 4 or aged 10 to 14 at the time of the interview. The child and the child's primary female caregiver are the focus of the study. Extensive baseline information was gathered at the initial personal interview with the caregivers, tested younger children were assessed, and older children were interviewed. All interviews were conducted in-person using a computerized instrument. The third wave of data collection took place between February 2005 and January 2006, when the focal children were aged 5 to 10 or aged 15 to 20. |
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| Subject Term(s): | adolescents, child development, child rearing, child support, childhood, delinquency, delinquent behavior, domestic violence, education, family background, family history, family relationships, family size, family structure, fathers, health, health status, home environment, housing, income, job history, mothers, neighborhood characteristics, neighborhood conditions, occupational categories, parent child relationship, parental attitudes, physical characteristics, pregnancy, pregnancy history, schools, self concept, self esteem, sexual behavior, single mothers, social networks, symptoms, welfare, welfare reform, welfare services |
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| Geographic Coverage: | Boston, Chicago, Illinois, Massachusetts, San Antonio, Texas, United States |
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| Time Period: | March 1999 - February 2006 |
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| Date(s) of Collection: | March 1999 - February 2006 |
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| Unit of Observation: | individual |
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| Universe: | Families with incomes less than 200 percent of the government poverty line living in Boston, San Antonio, and Chicago. |
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| Data Type: | survey data |
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| Sample: | Between March 1999 and December 1999 a random sample of approximately 2,400 households with children in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio were interviewed. Forty percent of the families interviewed were receiving cash welfare payments at the time of the interview. Each household had a child aged 0 to 4 or aged 10 to 14 at the time of the interview. |
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| Mode of Data Collection: | face-to-face interview|computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) |
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| Extent of Processing: | CONCHK.PR/ FREQ.PR/ UNDOCCHK.PR/ MDATA.PR/ REFORM.DOC |
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| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the
summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the
file manifest. |
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| Restrictions: | This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Three Cities data files are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement in accordance with existing DSDR and ICPSR servicing policies. A Restricted Data Use Agreement is available for download on the download page associated with this data collection. |
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| Original ICPSR Release: | 2007-08-17 |
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| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2008-10-13. |
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| 2008-10-13 - SAS and Stata syntax files have been added that convert variable names in data files from previous waves to variable names that are consistent with the data files that ICPSR has released. |
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| 2008-07-31 - Principal primary investigators provided variable construction documentation files for Wave 1 and Wave 2 data. |
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| 2008-07-08 - Public and restricted versions are now available for Wave 1 and Wave 2. |
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| 2008-07-03 - SPSS syntax files added that convert variable names in data files from previous waves to variable names that are consistent with the data files that ICPSR has released. |
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| 2007-11-06 - Public versions are now available for the three restricted data versions previously released: Focal Child Interview Data, Continuing and New Caregiver Interview Data, and Separated Caregiver Interview Data. The primary investigator also deposited two datasets that include additional child age information detail. |
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| Dataset(s): | - DS1: Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use
- DS2: Continuing and New Caregiver Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use
- DS3: Separated Caregiver Interview Data, Wave 3, Restricted-Use
- DS4: Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 3, Public Use
- DS5: Continuing and New Caregiver Interview Data, Wave 3, Public Use
- DS6: Separated Caregiver Interview Data, Wave 3, Public Use
- DS7: Continuing and New Caregiver Interview, Wave 3, Child Age/Gender Addendum Data
- DS8: Separated Caregiver Interview, Wave 3, Child Age/Gender Addendum Data
- DS9: Focal Child Interview Data, Wave 2, Public Use
- DS10: Continuing and New Caregiver Interview Data, Wave 2, Public Use
- DS11: Separated Caregiver Interview Data, Wave 2, Public Use
- DS12: Continuing and New Caregiver Geocode Data, Wave 2
- DS13: Separated Caregiver Geocode Data, Wave 2
- DS14: Embedded Developmental Survey Data, Wave 2
- DS15: Main Interview Data, Wave 1
- DS16: Main Interview Geocode Data, Wave 1
- DS17: Embedded Developmental Survey Data, Wave 1
- DS18: Sociometrics Wave 1 Variable Name Conversion Syntax
- DS19: Sociometrics Wave 1-Embedded Variable Name Conversion Syntax
- DS20: Sociometrics Wave 2, Part 1 Variable Name Conversion Syntax
- DS21: Sociometrics Wave 2, Part 2 Variable Name Conversion Syntax
- DS22: Sociometrics Wave 2, Part 3 Variable Name Conversion Syntax
- DS23: Sociometrics Wave 2-Embedded Variable Name Conversion Syntax
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