Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study
The Three-City Study project is an intensive study in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio to assess the well-being of low-income children and families in the post-welfare reform era. The project investigates the strategies families have used to respond to reform, in terms of employment, schooling or other forms of training, residential mobility, and fertility. Central to this project is a focus on how these strategies affect children's lives, with an emphasis on their health and development as well as their need for, and use of, social services.
The study comprises three interrelated components: longitudinal surveys, embedded developmental studies, and contextual, comparative ethnographic studies. DSDR has available data for all three waves on including child data, continuing and new caregiver data, and separated caregiver data as well as the embedded development survey data.
Data, Documentation, & Online Analysis
- Description & Citation
- Browse Documentation Files
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- Analyze & Subset (online analysis)
- Related Literature
User Tools & Support
- Wave Comparison & Tools
- Crosswalk Tool
- Sociometrics & ICPSR variable name conversion syntax
- Sociometrics Wave 1 (SPSS 133K)
- Sociometrics Wave 1-Embedded (SPSS 80K)
- Sociometrics Wave 2, Part 1 (SPSS 28K)
- Sociometrics Wave 2, Part 2 (SPSS 105K)
- Sociometrics Wave 2, Part 3 (SPSS 69K)
- Sociometrics Wave 2-Embedded (SPSS 63K)
- Merging Datasets (forthcoming)
- Sampling Weights Tutorial
- Weighting (PDF 70K)
- Why Weight (PDF 574K)
- User's Guide (PDF 77K)
- Email List
- July 21-23 2008 Workshop presentations
