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Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change Summary of a Workshop (1998) / Chapter Skim
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... Coordination among federal statistical agencies for all of these kinds of methodological research would be beneficial so that research can be conducted in a cost-effective manner and research findings can inform improvements in all of the major national household surveys. DATA VALIDATION Monitoring and assessment of health and social welfare programs in the new environment will require accurate measures of program participation and benefits, of characteristics that are needed to estimate program eligibility, and of outcome variables.
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  • benefit levels
  • work requirement
  • program participation
  • household surveys
  • national household

  • administrative data
  • program eligibility
  • eligibility criteria
  • statistical agencies
  • federal statistical

  • major national
  • survey responses
  • welfare programs
  • work requirements
  • welfare program

  • social welfare


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