This report examines the child care preferences of 382 mothers with children under age six who received Aid to Families with Dependent Children during the 14-month period beginning September 1983. The project included interviewing these women twice and using models to predict their satisfaction with child care arrangements.
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Advanced SearchPreferences, Perceptions, and Child Care Turnover: Patterns Among Welfare Mothers
This study investigates factors associated with changes in the child care arrangements of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients. To conduct the study, the authors interviewed a sample of AFDC recipients in 1984 and 1985, examined welfare case records, and developed models predicting AFDC mothers' transitions into and out of child care.
Head Start: What Do We Know About What Works?
Head Start programs provide comprehensive child development, educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to predominantly low income preschool children and their families.
Factors Associated with Ending Caregiving Among Informal Caregivers to the Functionally and Cognitively Impaired Elderly Population
This study investigated factors associated with the decisions of principal informal caregivers of the activity of daily living (ADL) dependent elderly living in the community to end caregiving. Data were from the 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS), the 1982 Informal Caregiver Survey and 1984 NLTCS Longitudinal Follow-up.
Measuring the Activities of Daily Living: Comparisons Across National Surveys
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
A Report on Infants and Children with HIV Infection in Foster Care
Approximately 800 HIV-infected children nationally were in foster care placement as of June 1989. This study was designed to define the specific problems related to providing foster care to children with HIV infection.
The Activities of Daily Living, National Surveys and Long-Term Care Cost Estimates: Two Current Initiatives
This paper was presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 17-21, 1989. It focuses on several problems associated with making estimates using activities of daily living and highlights some of the methodological work carried out or sponsored by HHS to overcome these problems. [14 PDF pages]
Evaluation of the 1989 Child Care Supplement in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
This report summarizes the results of a special experiment in the collection (from 347 mothers) of detailed current and retrospective child care information carried out in conjunction with the 1989 (11th round) wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
Measuring the Activities of Daily Living Among the Elderly: A Guide to National Surveys
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
A Pilot Study fo the Adequacy of Post-Hospital Community Care for the Elderly: Final Report
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services