Age, Gender & Gender Identities

This report results from an investigation of the extent to which differential attrition from the research sample in the Channeling Demonstration might have led to biased estimates of program impact. Two analytical approaches were adopted--a heuristic approach and a statistical modeling approach.

This report analyzes the treatment and control groups in the National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration and concludes that the randomization procedure resulted in groups that are very similar on observable characteristics.

This summary is intended to restate the major research questions being addressed in the Pennhurst Longitudinal Study and provide executives, decisionmakers, and lay persons, in an extremely abbreviated form some tentative answers based on the analysis of the data collected to date.