National Supported Work Evaluation Study, 1975-1979: Public Use Files

This study is an evaluation of the National Supported Work Demonstration project, a transitional, subsidized work experience program for four target groups of people with longstanding employment problems: ex-offenders, former drug addicts, women who were long-term recipients of welfare benefits, and school dropouts, many with criminal records. The program provided up to 12-18 months of employment to about 10,000 individuals at 15 locations across the country for four years. In ten of these sites -- Atlanta, Chicago, Hartford, Jersey City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, Oakland, San Francisco, and Wisconsin, 6,600 eligible applicants were randomly assigned either to experimental groups (offered a job in supported work) or to control groups, and an evaluation was conducted on the effects of the Supported Work Program. At the time of enrollment, each respondent was given a retrospective baseline interview, generally covering the previous two years, followed by up to four follow-up interviews scheduled at nine-month intervals. Two public use files were originally distributed for this data collection: Supported Work Employment and Earnings File, and Supported Work Deviant Behavior File. Each file contained data for up to five interviews, a cross-document dataset and an Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients follow-up. The Employment and Earnings File contains data from all interview modules except the drug and crime sections, and the Deviant Behavior File contains all variables on the Employment and Earnings File as well as additional information on drugs and crime. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients were further asked about children in school and welfare participation, while all non-AFDC respondents were questioned about any extralegal activities. Demographic items specify age, sex, race, marital status, education, number of children, employment history, job search, job training, mobility, household income, welfare assistance, housing, military discharge status, and drug use. Each respondent has up to six logical, fixed-length records, with each record corresponding to a completed interview (up to five) and one additional short "cross-document" record. A User's Guide describing the collection and its components is available and should be read before the collection or any part of it is ordered.

本研究对国家支持性工作示范项目进行了评估，该项目是一项针对四个长期存在就业问题目标群体的过渡性、补贴性工作经验计划：前罪犯、前吸毒者、长期享受福利救济的妇女以及辍学者，其中许多人有犯罪记录。该项目在全国15个地点为约10,000名个人提供了长达12-18个月的就业机会，持续四年。在这十个站点——亚特兰大、芝加哥、哈特福德、泽西城、纽瓦克、纽约、费城、奥克兰、旧金山和威斯康星州，6,600名符合条件的申请人被随机分配到实验组（提供支持性工作职位）或对照组，并对其支持性工作计划的效果进行了评估。在入组时，每位受访者都接受了一次回顾性基线访谈，通常涵盖前两年，随后每九个月安排一次最多四次的后续访谈。最初为此次数据收集提供了两个公共使用文件：支持性工作就业与收入文件和支持性工作偏差行为文件。每个文件包含最多五次访谈的数据，一个跨文档数据集以及抚养子女家庭补助（AFDC）接收者的后续信息。就业与收入文件包含除药物和犯罪部分之外的所有访谈模块数据，而偏差行为文件包含就业与收入文件上的所有变量以及关于药物和犯罪的附加信息。抚养子女家庭补助（AFDC）接收者还被问及其在校子女和福利参与情况，而所有非AFDC受访者则被问及任何非法活动。人口统计项目包括年龄、性别、种族、婚姻状况、教育程度、子女数量、就业历史、求职、职业培训、流动性、家庭收入、福利援助、住房、军事退役状态和药物使用。每位受访者最多有六个逻辑上固定长度的记录，每个记录对应一次完成的访谈（最多五次）以及一个额外的简短“跨文档”记录。一份描述收集及其组成部分的用户指南可供查阅，应在订购收集或其任何部分之前阅读。