Integrated Data Base on Children’s Services

Chapin Hall Center for Children

Developed linked data sets

IL

Administrative data from child welfare, TANF, Medicaid, food stamps, special education, corrections, and mental health

Iowa Survey of Program Dynamics

Iowa State University and Census Bureau

Survey data collection

IA

Modified SPD survey instrument implemented with Iowa sample

Los Angeles Study of Families and Communities (LASFC)

RAND

Longitudinal/household study with child outcomes collection

Los Angeles County, CA

Administrative data, developmental assessments/ screenings for children, longitudinal survey of 3,250 households

Massachusetts Longitudinal Database for Research on Child Support Enforcement and Social Service Agencies

Chapin Hall Center for Children

Developing outcome indicators

MA

Constructing a longitudinal database of administrative data from TANF, Medicaid, food stamps, child enforcement, wage reporting, and new hires

Michigan Women’s Employment Survey

An urban county in MI

Simple random sample of 753 single mothers with children who received cash assistance in Feb. 1997; face-to-face interviews; in total, 3 waves of data to be collected