| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Site visits
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Visits to 5 pilot offices.
Periodic visits.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
In-person Background Information Form (BIF)
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Records for 5,051 welfare recipients.
Sample of 2,652 program and 2,399 control group members.
Collected at baseline.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
90.6% program group welfare recipients.
90.7% control group welfare recipients.
68.4% program group welfare applicants.
64.4% control group welfare applicants.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Survey
|
| Title |
Telephone follow-up survey
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
1,600 welfare applicants and recipients.
Sample of 800 program and 800 control group members.
Collected at baseline and periodically thereafter (wave 1: March-May 1997; wave 2: completed in July 2000)
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
70% in each wave. Of wave one respondents, 77% reinterviewed in wave 2
|
| |
| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Periodic key informant interviews with senior program managers
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
7 key administrators at Department of Social Services, Department of Labor, and Delaware Economic Development Agency.
Periodic visits.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Reported response rate:
100%
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Focus Group
|
| Title |
Focus group
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Key constituencies (i.e. AFDC clients, employers, service providers, and advocates).
2 focus groups with clients who reached time limits: 1) 8 who did not participate in workfare; 2) 11 who did participate in workfare.
Data collected March, 1999.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
| Source |
Field Research
|
| Title |
Site visits to DOL and DSS contractors
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
DSS and DOL contractors (number in sample not reported).
Judgement sampling.
Periodic field visits.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Fielded sample number not reported.
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
A combination of observations and interviews will be used to assess contractors’ experiences and practices.
|
| |
| Source |
Administrative data
|
| Title |
Delaware Client Information System (DCIS).
Unemployment Insurance wage reporting system.
State’s immunization registration system.
Local school records.
Department of Services to Children, Youth, and Their Families databases.
|
| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Records for 18,000 welfare recipients.
|
| Sites |
All sites.
|
| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
|
| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
|
| |
