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Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

This study explores the extent to which states collect data on housing status and homelessness from applicants for the two largest HHS mainstream programs that may serve individuals or families experiencing homelessness: Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Interviews were conducted with TANF and Medicaid directors in all
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Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households:

Assessing Asset Data on Low-Income Households: Current Availability and Options for Improvement

This report identifies three data sets as the most reliable and informative data sources for understanding low-income households' assets and liabilities: the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The report also details the limitations of these data
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Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts:

Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts: Summary of Data Warehouse Efforts in Nine States

This report provides information about State child support enforcement offices experiences with data warehouses; that is, how they are used to help manage program operations, assess program effectiveness and efficiency, and inform policy development. This report summarizes findings from discussions with staff in nine states about the development,
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Gaps and Strategies for Improving American Indian

Gaps and Strategies for Improving American Indian/Alaska Native/Native American Data

This report identifies gaps in AI/AN/NA data on health and well-being, strategies for improving AI/AN/NA data availability and quality, and some current initiatives underway within HHS and other federal agencies that are intended to improve these data.
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Data on Health and Well-being of American Indians

Data on Health and Well-being of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Other Native Americans

This data catalog is a compilation of existing data sources pertaining to American Indian/Alaska Native/Native American (AI/AN/NA) populations. In the first component of this project, the contractor has identified existing sources of socioeconomic and health data using national and some state-level surveys. Information on 68 data sources including
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Life on Welfare: The Active TANF Caseload In

Life on Welfare: The Active TANF Caseload In Maryland

This study of Maryland's Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) caseload was undertaken to provide policy makers and program managers with empirical data on the characteristics, circumstances, and prospects of the adults and children who currently receive cash assistance. As caseloads have declined across the country, most research and poli
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TANF Caseload Survey: Common Instrument

TANF Caseload Survey: Common Instrument

Based on the summary report, Survey Design for TANF Caseload Project, Summary Report and Recommendations, that reviews existing survey questions and scales focused on potential barriers to employment among TANF recipients, ASPE finalized this survey instrument, the TANF Caseload Survey, for use in the six state studies.
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Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States: Final Report

This project, which resulted in both a key highlights issue brief and a full report, examines how a state's ability to fund social welfare programs affects its state spending choices on programs to support low-income populations. The project includes a two-part study of state spending on social services. The first part uses existing data sources t
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Measures of Material Hardship

Measures of Material Hardship

This report summarizes what is known about the measurement of material hardship and its application to research with low-income families with children. It discusses challenges in defining and measuring material hardship, reviews how such measures have been in recent research, and presents analyses of data from the Survey of Income and Program Part
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Survey Design for TANF Caseload Project: Summary

Survey Design for TANF Caseload Project: Summary Report and Recommendations

This report presents research to assist states and counties in studying their current Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) caseloads. This research consists of a summary review of existing survey instruments that focus on welfare populations, especially those with sections covering barriers to employability and self-sufficiency, as well
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Relationship Strengths in Married Families:

Relationship Strengths in Married Families: Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships, Data and Variable Codebook

Principle Investigator: Elizabeth C. Hair, Child Trends Project Page: Relationship Strengths in Married Families
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Exploration of Options for the Collection of

Exploration of Options for the Collection of Marriage and Divorce Statistics at the National, State, and Local Levels - Project Page

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American Community Survey: New Survey Questions

American Community Survey: New Survey Questions Enable Measurement of Marital Transitions

  ASPE RESEARCH BRIEF American Community Survey: New Survey Questions Enable Measurement of Marital Transitions October 2008 This Research Brief is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/MarriageDivorceStats/ACSBrief/rb.shtml
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Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

Homelessness Data in HHS Mainstream Programs

Homelessness Data in Health and Human Services Mainstream Programs Final Report Winter 2009 Prepared for: Office of Human Services Policy Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Health Resources and Services Administration U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Prepared by: Michelle Wood, Lauren Dunton,
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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Administrative Data

Sample Data Available to the Public  
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2000 Green Book

2000 Green Book

COMMITTEE ON WAY AND MEANS U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVE The 2000 Green Book Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdicition of the Committee on Ways and Means October 6, 2000 (17th edition) Prepared for the use of Members of the Committee on Ways and Means by members of its staff. This document has not been officially ap
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AFDC Data Archive

AFDC Data Archive

Comprehensive codebook from 1983-1997 [31 pages in PDF format]  
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Green Book

Green Book

The Green Book is compiled by the staff of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives from many sources and provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families wit
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BACKGROUND

Information on the Supplemental Poverty Measure - A Summary of 2013 Current Population Survey Data (October 2014). Background

The Census Bureau, in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), developed the SPM after years of research and collaboration. The SPM is based on the 2010 recommendations of an Interagency Technical Working Group, which included representatives from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the
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Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A

Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A Summary of 2014 Current Population Survey Data

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