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Filling Knowledge Gaps

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Filling Knowledge Gaps

Although not designed to provide information on homeless families, the Fragile Families database has provided information that is useful in filling some of our knowledge gaps with respect to homeless families. One important gap that this data set helps fill is providing information on a national sample of homeless families, rather than being restr
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Caveats and Qualifications

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Caveats and Qualifications

Several important qualifications need to be kept in mind when reviewing all of these findings. One issue is the relatively small number of households in this poverty sample that were ever homeless during the period examined (less than 100). The small number of cases limits how much can be said even descriptively about these families. In addition,
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Summary of Results

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Summary of Results

The reanalysis of the Fragile Families database shows that even among women who are extremely poor (at or below 50% of the poverty level), the risk of being homeless is not very large. Using a very broad definition of homelessness, less than one in ten (8%) of the women in this poverty sample indicated that they had been homeless for even 1 night
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Discussion

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Discussion

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Predicting Residential Stability and Homelessness

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Predicting Residential Stability and Homelessness

A second set of analyses were performed to answer the questions:
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Descriptive Analyses and Results

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Descriptive Analyses and Results

Descriptive analyses were conducted with all of the variables shown in Table 5-2 . These analyses were conducted to examine differences among the combined residential groups on the range of variables listed in Table 5-2 . Alcohol and drug use were combined to create a single substance use variable. Several measures of mental health status — c
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Potential Risk and Protective Factors

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Potential Risk and Protective Factors

Variables to be examined were selected in part based on characteristics that were found to be important in past research along with those proposed by members of an Expert Panel, convened to guide the conceptualization of the typology (a detailed meeting summary is included in Chapter 3 ).
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Creating and Describing Residential Outcome

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Creating and Describing Residential Outcome Groups

Detailed residential information was collected on participants in the Fragile Families study at the Year 1 and Year 3 followup surveys. This residential information found in each survey included:
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Defining the Sample for Reanalysis

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Defining the Sample for Reanalysis

The Fragile Families data set includes families from diverse income backgrounds, ranging from those far beneath the income poverty level to those who have relatively high levels of income. For an analysis examining the risk factors for homelessness, it is important that the groups being compared have an equivalent probability of experiencing the c
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Database Description

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Database Description

The Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study, also referred to as the "The Survey of New Parents," is designed to track a cohort of new parents and their children over a 5-year period. The purpose of the study is to provide new information on the strengths, conditions, and relationships of both wed and unwed parents and how Federal and state po
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Methodology

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Methodology

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Introduction

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Introduction

As noted in Chapter 4 , through an extensive review of existing data sets, a data set was identified with potential for informing the development of a typology of homeless families. The Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study (Reichman, N.E., Teitler, J.O., Garfinkel, I., McLanahan, S., 2001) follows a birth cohort of new parents and their ch
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5. A Reanalysis of the Fragile Families and Child

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. 5. A Reanalysis of the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study

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Proposed Secondary Analyses

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Proposed Secondary Analyses

Among the studies reviewed, there are three data sets that hold the greatest promise for informing these typology efforts. These data sets include the NSAF, Women's Employment Study, and the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study. The best prospect is the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study, which has the following strengths:
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Summary

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Summary

The current homelessness research provides an extensive understanding of currently homeless families' characteristics and service needs and, to some degree, the patterns of residential instability they faced prior to becoming homeless. However, as a whole, the existing studies lack geographic diversity and do not provide the ability to understand
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Special Population Studies

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Special Population Studies

The remaining four data sets examined are from studies that contain data on specific populations in selected areas of the country. Three of the studies are focused on low-income families in one or more selected cities across the country. One study, the Chicago Women's Health Risk Study (CWHRS), includes a one-time sample of women in Chicago seekin
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General Population Studies

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. General Population Studies

Three of the data sets are ongoing, general population studies that are widely known and have been analyzed for a variety of research purposes. Two, the NLS and the PSID, are national, longitudinal studies, and the other is a large, national cross-sectional survey of families, NSAF. The three national data sets identified have potential for inform
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Review of Data Sets

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Review of Data Sets

Seven data sets were identified as warranting further consideration for possible reanalysis. In this section, each of these data sets is reviewed in detail, including their structure and content. Then, the nature of the reanalysis that is indicated, including the type of questions that could be addressed, and how the results could inform the typol
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Identification of Potential Data Sets

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Identification of Potential Data Sets

Data sets were sought that could extend the understanding of homelessness beyond currently homeless families to a broader sample of families who may have been homeless in the past or may be at particular risk of homelessness in the future. Some of the candidate data sets are ones that Westat has previously analyzed, such as the Survey of Income an
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Introduction

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Introduction

The literature review in Chapter 2 identifies key knowledge, as well as gaps in that knowledge, related to homeless families and families at risk of homelessness that will be critical to the development of a relevant typology for the purposes of this study.

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