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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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... Such surveys as the March Income Supplement to the Current Population Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and the Survey of Income and Program Participation were developed and refined over many years to serve these purposes. Now, major changes to health and social welfare programs raise concerns that existing national surveys are no longer adequate for monitoring trends and informing policy debate.
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... Without accurate information on program rules, it will not be possible to use household survey data to accurately estimate program eligibility and participation rates, to develop questions that appropriately reflect program variations, or to assess the quality of survey reports of participation and benefits received. Validating the accuracy of responses is critical to ensure the continued relevance of survey data.
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... Altered survey content that affects the comparability of measurements is one problem that may be hard to avoid; there is also the problem of estimating how respondents would have behaved if the programs had not changed. The workshop was organized to address two general issues how to keep national household surveys relevant for program monitoring and analysis and how federal program and statistical agencies can work together more effectively to this end but workshop participants also acknowledged that other agencies and other data sources are important in an era of program Revolution.
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Key Terms

  • welfare programs
  • household surveys
  • national household
  • program participation
  • national surveys

  • program monitoring
  • estimate program
  • statistical agencies
  • welfare program
  • program devolution

  • existing national
  • program rules
  • program analysis
  • program eligibility
  • national statistics

  • informing policy
  • state experimentation
  • current population
  • survey reports
  • program costs

  • appropriately reflect
  • programs raise
  • care industry
  • sweeping changes
  • food stamp

  • workshop brought
  • reducing welfare
  • participation rates
  • involve tradeoffs
  • considerable leeway


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