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Data and Methodological Issues for Tracking Former Welfare Recipients A Workshop Summary (1999) / Chapter Skim
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... While collecting information on a wide range of outcomes will give a good overall picture of the circumstances of those who have left welfare, it may also limit the depth at which information can be collected because resources to add questions to surveys are limited and because administrative data are limited in the outcome measures available. Child Outcomes One area in which the tradeoffbetween the depth and breadth of outcomes was particularly apparent is child outcomes.
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... Family Structure and Family Formation Outcomes Another set of outcomes that are potentially important for assessing the circumstances of those who have left welfare include family structure, family formation, and fertility. These outcomes encompass marriage and marital dissolution, household living arrangements, family functioning, and the fertility behaviors of recipients and former recipients.
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