Monitoring Outcomes for Former Welfare Recipients:
A Review of 11 Survey Instruments

Table I. Dissemination of Survey Items

Survey	Topic Area(s) Disseminated	Resource Book	Presentation	ListServe	Mailed
Census Bureau’s Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)	Employment and earnings	X	X
Census Bureau’s Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)	Training	X	X
Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)	Training	X	X
USDA’s Food Insecurity Module in CPS	Food Security	X	X	X
Urban Institute’s National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF)	Insecurity/Deprivation (6 items)		X
	Child Well-Being (Sections C and N)			X
	Health (Sections B, E, and F)			X
	All			X
MDRC’s Urban Change	All				X
State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS)	Health			X
	Child Care			X
	Child Well-Being			X
Abt’s Family Transition Program	Employment and earnings	X	X
South Carolina Survey	Insecurity/Deprivation	X	X
Draft items developed by Mary Ellen Colten at U. Mass, Boston	11 items on Domestic Violence			X

Notes:

Resource Books with photocopies of surveys and other technical assistance items were distributed to all 60 participants at November grantee meeting.
Presentations were made at the November grantee meeting, on topics such as measuring employment and earnings, measuring insecurity/deprivation, and measuring child well-being.
The List-serve was used to disseminate web-site addresses and text of surveys, as well as to facilitate discussion among researchers.
MDRC mailed copies of the Urban Change survey to each of the 14 grantees.

E-mail the author, Julia Isaacs, julia.isaacs@hhs.gov

Last modified November 5, 1999