| Source |
Field Research
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| Title |
Includes key respondent interviews with state and local office DES staff, other relevant agency staff, state and local advocacy and public interest groups, local employers, and employer and employee organizations.
Observations of program activities will focus on activities during which program policies, rules, and services are communicated to clients.
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Number of welfare staff, welfare administrators, and employer/work supervisors interviewed not reported.
Type of sample not reported.
Data collected Fall 1996, Spring 1998 and Fall 1999.
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| Sites |
EMPOWER research offices and designated EMPOWER comparison offices.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Response rate not yet available.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Site visits to research and comparison sites will be a half-day visit within 45 days after submitting evaluation plan.
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| Source |
Survey
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| Title |
Primary follow-up telephone and in-person survey with EMPOWER clients, Waves 1 and 2
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Wave 1:
1,000 welfare recipients participating in the EMPOWER program.
Random assignment of 500 in control group, 500 in experimental group.
Collected Spring 1998.
Wave 2:
400 welfare recipients who enter as new cases January-June, 1998, participating in the EMPOWER program.
Collected Spring 2001.
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| Sites |
Glendale, Arizona
Maryvale, Arizona
Peoria, Arizona
Chinle, Arizona
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Response rate not yet available.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
In Waves 1 and 2, a larger initial sample (2,000) participants) will be interviewed to allow for attrition, estimated at 10% each year for 2 ½ years, and a projected response rate of 78%. For Redesign implementation project, 60%.
Wave 1 consists of "existing cases", or EMPOWER participants randomly assigned in 10/95. Wave 2 consists of four sub-samples of cases, defined by their existing/new status (based on a separate cross-section for "new" cases) and their experimental/control status (selected from a panel of existing cases interviewed in Wave 1).
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| Source |
Survey
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| Title |
Small-scale, supplemental client telephone surveys
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
25 welfare recipients in each of two EMPOWER experimental subgroups affected by particular provisions (see Execution Notes).
Non-random assignment of respondents within the non-experimental treatment group.
Data collected Spring 1998, Spring 2001.
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| Sites |
Maricopa County, Arizona
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Response rate not yet available.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Participants are divided into subgroups based on particular provisions, including the 100-hour rule, IDAs, extended TMA/TCC benefits, time-limited eligibility, family benefit cap, teen parents affected by solo unwed minor parent limitation and/or mandatory JOBS participation, and JOBS sanction at first non-compliance. Each group will be oversampled to achieve the 25 interviews.
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| Source |
Focus Group
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
3 groups of 8-10 welfare recipients in EMPOWER subgroups affected by particular provisions (see Execution Notes).
Type of assignment not reported.
Data collected Spring 1998 and Spring 2001.
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| Sites |
Glendale, Arizona
Maryvale, Arizona
Peoria, Arizona
Chinle, Arizona
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Response rate not yet available.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
Participants are divided into subgroups based on particular provisions, including the 100-hour rule, IDAs, extended TMA/TCC benefits, time-limited eligibility, family benefit cap, teen parents affected by solo unwed minor parent limitation and/or mandatory JOBS participation, and JOBS sanction at first non-compliance. Participants from both experimental and non-experimental cases will be over-recruited by 50% to achieve adequate participation.
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| Source |
Interview
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| Title |
Telephone interview with employers using extended TMA/TCC benefits, to examine employer-provided health care and cost and coverage of child care plans
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
Number of employers not reported.
Type of sample not reported.
Data collection schedule not reported.
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| Sites |
Not reported.
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
Response rate not yet available.
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| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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| Source |
Administrative data
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| Title |
Program documents, data from automated systems and statistical reports, records on public benefits, JOBS program, child support enforcement, unemployment earnings, chil care, child protective services, IDAs, and other records
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| Sample Characteristics/Data Collection |
All program participants (welfare recipients), including welfare applicants denied benefits because they were solo unwed teen parents assigned to the experimental group or they were TPEP cases with more than 100 hours per month of employment assigned to the control group.
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| Sites |
EMPOWER:
Glendale, Arizona
Maryville, Arizona
Peoria, Arizona
Chinle, Arizona
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| Response Rate/Attrition Notes |
N/A
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| Additional Execution Notes |
No notes reported.
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