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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Appendix

Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs

AGENDA

Workshop on Data Collection for Low Income and Welfare Populations

December 16–17, 1999

Georgetown-Holiday Inn (Mirage I)

2101 Wisconsin Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.

Thursday, December 16, 1999

8:30a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00a.m.

Welcome and Introduction

Robert Moffitt, Panel Chair, Johns Hopkins University

Andrew White, Acting Director, Committee on National Statistics

Patricia Ruggles, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Session 1: Nonresponse in Surveys of the Low-Income Population

Chair: Richard Kulka, Research Triangle Institute

9:15a.m.–10:10a.m.

9:15a.m.

Designing Surveys Acknowledging Nonresponse

Authors: Robert Groves and Mick Couper, Institute for Survey Research, University of Michigan

9:45a.m.

Discussant: Mike Brick, Westat

9:55a.m.

Open Discussion Time

Session 2: Obtaining High Response Rates

Chair: John Adams, RAND

10:10a.m.–11:40a.m.

10:10a.m.

Methods for Obtaining High Response Rates in Telephone Surveys

Authors: David Cantor and Patricia Cunningham, Westat

10:40a.m.

High Response Rates for Low Income Population in In-Person Surveys

Authors: Barbara Bailar and Charlene Weiss, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago

11:10a.m.

Discussant: Betsy Martin, Census Bureau

11:25a.m.

Open Discussion Time

11:40a.m.

Break

11:50a.m.

Paying Respondents for Survey Participation

Authors: Eleanor Singer, University of Michigan and Richard Kulka, Research Triangle Institute

12:20p.m.

Discussant: Sandra Berry, RAND

12:30p.m.

Open Discussion Time

Luncheon/Address (NAS Green Building Refectory)

12:45p.m.

Lunch

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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1:30p.m.

Luncheon Address: Data Federalism

Chair and Introductions: Eric Hanushek, University of Rochester

Keynote Address: Janet Norwood, former Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

2:30p.m.

Break (Return to the Holiday Inn)

Session 3: Measurement Error Issues on Surveys of the Low Income Population

Chair: John Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research

2:45p.m.–3:40p.m.

2:45p.m.

Measurement Error in Surveys of the Low Income Population

Author: Nancy Mathiowetz, University of Maryland

3:15p.m.

Discussant: Jeffrey Moore, Census Bureau

3:25p.m.

Open Discussion Time

3:40p.m.

Break

Session 4: Obtaining Information on Eligible Non-Participants

Chair: Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University

3:50p.m.–5:00p.m.

3:50p.m.

Using Microsimulation and Administrative Data to Identify the Eligible Nonparticipants in Safety Net Programs

Authors: Linda Giannarelli, Sheila Zedlewski, Joyce Merton and Donald Alderson, The Urban Institute

4:20p.m.

Discussant: Harold Beebout, Mathematica Policy Research

4:30p.m.

Open Discussion Time

5:00p.m.

Reception (NAS Green Building, Room 130 and North Lounge)

6:00p.m.

Adjourn

Friday, December 17, 1999

8:30a.m.

Continental Breakfast

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Session 5: Administrative Data Topics

Chair: Joseph Hotz, University of California, Los Angeles

9:00a.m.–10:30a.m.

9:00a.m.

Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data

Authors: Robert Goerge and Bong Joo Lee, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago

9:30a.m.

Discussant: William Winkler, Census Bureau

9:40a.m.

Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data

Authors: Henry Brady and Anne Powell, University of California, Berkeley; and Werner Schink, California Department of Social Services

10:10a.m.

Discussant: Laura Zayatz, Census Bureau

10:20a.m.

Open Discussion Time

10:40a.m.

Break

Session 6: Qualitative Data Sources

Chair: Kathryn Edin, University of Pennsylvania

11:00a.m.–12:00p.m.

11:00a.m.

The Right (Soft) Stuff: Qualitative Methods and the Study of Welfare Reform

Author: Katherine Newman, Harvard University

11:30a.m.

Discussant: Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania

11:40a.m.

Open Discussion Time

Luncheon Address (Holiday Inn)

12:00p.m.

Lunch

12:45p.m.

Lunch Address: Measuring Child Outcomes

Chair and Introductions: Suzanne Randolph, University of Maryland Speaker: Kristin Moore, Child Trends

1:30p.m.

Break

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Session 7: Measuring Outcomes Relevant for Welfare Reform Evaluations

Chair: Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania

1:45p.m.–3:15p.m.

1:45p.m.

Measuring Employment Outcomes and Income with Administrative and Survey Data

Authors: Joseph Hotz, University of California, Los Angeles; and Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:15p.m.

Discussant: Howard Bloom, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

2:25p.m.

Open Discussion Time

2:35p.m.

Administrative Data on the Well-Being of Children On and Off Welfare

Author: Richard Earth and Eleanor Locklin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Barbara Needell and Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, University of California, Berkeley

3:05p.m.

Discussant: Matt Stagner, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services

3:15p.m.

Open Discussion Time

3:30p.m.

Workshop Summary

Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University

(Open discussion time and a summary of the workshop.)

4:00p.m.

Adjourn

Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Agenda of the Workshop on Data Collection for Low-Income and Welfare Populations." National Research Council. 2002. Studies of Welfare Populations: Data Collection and Research Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10206.
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This volume, a companion to Evaluating Welfare Reform in an Era of Transition, is a collection of papers on data collection issues for welfare and low-income populations. The papers on survey issues cover methods for designing surveys taking into account nonresponse in advance, obtaining high response rates in telephone surveys, obtaining high response rates in in-person surveys, the effects of incentive payments, methods for adjusting for missing data in surveys of low-income populations, and measurement error issues in surveys, with a special focus on recall error. The papers on administrative data cover the issues of matching and cleaning, access and confidentiality, problems in measuring employment and income, and the availability of data on children. The papers on welfare leavers and welfare dynamics cover a comparison of existing welfare leaver studies, data from the state of Wisconsin on welfare leavers, and data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth used to construct measures of heterogeneity in the welfare population based on the recipient's own welfare experience. A final paper discusses qualitative data.

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