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Final Codebook (Public Use) and Technical Documentation: Survey Administration for the Summer 2000 Bureau of Transportation Statistics Omnibus Survey
No full textDTTS59-99-D-00489he Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has a requirement to conduct a national survey about satisfaction with transportation across all transportation modes. The information derived from this survey will be used as a primary source of data on satisfaction with travel and transportation, with a particular emphasis on highway-related travel. This survey also will serve as an information source for the modal administrators, both to support congressional requests, and to provide performance indicators for internal use by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). This study collected data for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Omnibus Survey during the summer of 2000. Data were collected from households in the U.S. using a random-digit-dialed telephone survey. The final completed sample size is 2,030 cases, and the total number of variables in the data set is 207. The data were collected by Battelle with assistance from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR), under contract with the BTS. This codebook provides technical documentation for this BTS Omnibus survey. Its primary goal is to document background information, sampling procedures, data collection, data elements and survey variables, response rates, and final weights. It also provides guidance on the selection of Form A and Form B versions of the questionnaire and the appropriate use of weights (also referred to as Survey A and Survey B)
Public acceptability of highway safety countermeasures /
No full textDistributed by NTIS."DOT HS-805-972.""Contract no. DOT HS-6-01466.""June 1981"--Vol. 3."Mathematica Policy Research, Inc."Description based on v. 3.Cover title.V.1. Background of study and methodology -- v.2. Safe driving conformance research -- v.3. Alcohol and drug research -- v.4. Pedestrian safety -- v.5. Summary report.Mode of access: Internet
Survey and research instruments that address the health effects of caregiving : final report
Get PDFRobert Weathers, Allison Hedley Dodd, Krista Harrison ; submitted to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities ; submitted by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. "Contract no.: 200-2001-00122(08).""MPR Reference no.: 6290-300."Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).2008200-2001-00122(08)1125
Assisting unemployment insurance claimants : the long-term impacts of the job search assistance demonstration /
No full text"This report was prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Unemployment Insurance Service by Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., contract number M-4361-00-97-30."Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet
Trends in the Composition and Outcomes of Young Social Security Disability Awardees
Get PDFWorking Paper: WP 2013-284A large share of new Social Security Disability (SSD) beneficiaries -- disabled workers and disabled adult children (DAC) -- are under age 40. Better information on the backgrounds, impairments, personal characteristics, and employment outcomes of these beneficiaries would help policymakers develop programs tailored to the needs and circumstances of various subgroups of such beneficiaries. We use administrative data on young SSD awardees first awarded benefits between 1996 and 2007 to examine trends in these awardees’ composition and outcomes. We find that the composition of young SSD awardees changed substantially during this period. In 2007, compared to 1996, relatively more SSD awards to individuals under age 40 went to DAC versus disabled workers; to disabled workers and DAC who had received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, especially as children, versus those with no SSI history; and to disabled workers and DAC with psychiatric disorders versus those with other types of impairments. We also find that disabled workers who received SSI as children are far more likely than those who did not receive SSI as children to earn more than 1,000 annually; and that both disabled workers and DAC are significantly less likely to earn more than 12 times the non-blind substantial gainful activity level (SGA) annually than they are to earn more than $1,000 annually. We discuss factors that may have contributed to the observed trends.Social Security Administrationhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/99127/1/wp284.pd
Simplified Reporting and Transitional Benefits in the Food Stamp Program Case Studies of State Implementation: Final Report
No full textIncludes bibliographic references. The study examines the experiences of four states that use the simplified reporting option of the Food Stamp Program (Arizona, Louisiana, Missouri, and Ohio). One section specifically discusses Arizona's use of transitional benefits
HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 2002
Get PDFEighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year 2002, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households were food insecure at least some time during that year. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 10.7 percent in 2001 to 11.1 percent in 2002, and the prevalence of food insecurity with hunger rose from 3.3 percent to 3.5 percent. This report, based on data from the December 2002 food security survey, provides the most recent statistics on the food security of U.S. households, as well as on how much they spent for food and the extent to which food-insecure households participated in Federal and community food assistance programs. Survey responses indicate that the typical food-secure household in the U.S. spent 35 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Just over one-half of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food assistance programs during the month prior to the survey. About 19 percent of food-insecure households3.0 percent of all U.S. householdsobtained emergency food from a food pantry at some time during the year.Food security, food insecurity, hunger, food spending, food pantry, soup kitchen, emergency kitchen, material well-being, Food Stamp Program, National School Lunch Program, WIC, Food Security and Poverty,
Haveman R.H. (Editor) : Microeconomic simulation models for public policy analysis, A 1978 conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, the National Science Foundation, Academic Press, U.S.A., 1980, vol 1 - Distributional impacts, vol 2 - Sectoral, regional and general equilibrium models
No full textDanila Nicolas. Haveman R.H. (Editor) : Microeconomic simulation models for public policy analysis, A 1978 conference sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc, the National Science Foundation, Academic Press, U.S.A., 1980, vol 1 - Distributional impacts, vol 2 - Sectoral, regional and general equilibrium models. In: Politiques et management public, vol. 1, n° 4, 1983. pp. 136-139
Household Food Security in the United States, 2004
Get PDFEighty-eight percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2004, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households were food insecure at least some time during that year. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 11.2 percent of households in 2003 to 11.9 percent in 2004, and the prevalence of food insecurity with hunger rose from 3.5 percent to 3.9 percent. This report, based on data from the December 2004 food security survey, provides the most recent statistics on the food security of U.S. households, as well as on how much they spent for food and the extent to which food-insecure households participated in Federal and community food assistance programs. Survey responses indicate that the typical food-secure household in the United States spent 31 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Just over half of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food assistance programs during the month prior to the survey. About 20 percent of food-insecure households3.5 percent of all U.S. households obtained emergency food from a food pantry at some time during the year.Food security, food insecurity, hunger, food spending, food pantry, soup kitchen, emergency kitchen, material well-being, Food Stamp Program, National School Lunch Program, WIC, Food Security and Poverty,
People at Centre Stage: evaluation summary report
Get PDFThis report presents the results of an evaluation of consumer-directed community aged care.
Consumer-Directed Care (CDC) is central to the aim of rendering community aged care more flexible and responsive. In Australia, it builds on experiences of consumer-directed community-based disability care and is intended to offer greater decisional authority to care recipients over the services they receive.
Since the 1990s, there has been growing interest among Australian community care providers, service users, and policy makers to ‘modernise’ and reform community aged care. A suite of reports were commissioned that highlighted the facts that:
fragmented programme arrangements in community care create planning and operational difficulties and inefficiencies;
the service provision model is too complex, making it difficult for lay people to access the services they need or are entitled to;
funding gaps exist throughout the care pathways;
the system is inflexible and unresponsive to transitions in people’s lives and/or illness trajectories;
the needs of a significant minority of care recipients are not sufficiently addressed, resulting in poor quality of care as well as resource wastage.
The People at Centre Stage (PACS) project aimed to address some of these issues. The aim of the project was to—within the limitations of current legislation and guidelines—develop, implement and evaluate a community aged care model that gives care recipients with more complex needs the option to have as much control of their own care as they aspire to and feel comfortable with. The project intended to offer a continuum of care ranging from customary case management to CDC.
This summary report provides a brief outline of the results of this evaluation. It is structured in two parts: following a brief overview of the PACS model, Part 1 outlines the key findings from the quantitative analysis, while Part 2 offers an overview of the qualitative findings. Part 2 deals exclusively with the experience of people participating in the intervention group
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