The Project on Devolution and Urban Change: Client Survey, Cleveland, 1998-2001

This package contains files and documentation for the Cleveland survey data from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change (Urban Change, for short). The larger project is examining the implementation and effects of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in four urban counties: Cuyahoga (Cleveland), Philadelphia, Miami-Dade, and Los Angeles. The study's focal period of the late 1990s through the early 2000s was one of prolonged economic expansion and unprecedented decline in unemployment. The study thus captures the most promising context for welfare reform: one of high labor market demand and ample resources to support families in the process of moving from welfare to work. The included files are the longitudinal client survey data used in Welfare Reform in Cleveland: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods. The data file consists of one SAS data set containing responses to two waves of interviews on education, training, employment, family and household composition, housing, income, material hardship, welfare, health and health care, fertility and childbearing, parenting, child outcomes, child care, domestic violence, substance use, and demographic background. Some sensitive questions have been dropped from this file.