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The Welfare, Children and Families Study is a longitudinal study of children and their caregivers in
low-income families that were living in low-income neighborhoods in three cities in 1999. The purpose of the
study is to investigate the consequences of policy changes resulting from the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). The survey was designed to provide information on the health
and cognitive, behavioral, and emotional development of children and on their primary caregivers' labor force
behavior, welfare experiences, family lives, use of social service, health, and well-being.
The Embedded Developmental Study (EDS) was developed to gain a more detailed and valid picture of the environments
and processes that affect children during early childhood that cannot be obtained through standard survey
instruments. The EDS was focused on preschoolers because children in this age range embark upon developmental paths
that, in turn, drive later intellectual, social and physical growth. Mothers also face challenges during this period
in providing appropriate warmth, limit setting, and learning opportunities, as well as in meeting the great time
demands of caring for preschool children and finding appropriate alternate care.
The survey gathered detailed, process-oriented measures that provide information not easily collected in standard
surveys. The EDS contains three components: (1) an additional home visit with mother and child, which includes
videotaped tasks for the child and the mother-child together, as well as an additional mother interview; (2) a visit
to the child's primary care provider (other than the mother), which includes observational ratings of the care and an
interview with the childcare provider; and (3) an interview with the child's biological father. The EDS was
undertaken with nearly all children ages two to four in the survey. It mirrored the main survey in its timeline;
with all portions of the EDS completed while the main survey was conducted in the field. Of the approximately 2,400
children who were selected in the first year of the survey, about half were between birth and four years in age. The
approximately 700 focal children aged two to four were included in the EDS (n=737).
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JHU has released a new data file containing a cross-wave person-level
identifier.
View documentation
CWPDA #01-04 has been updated. The following 12 variables have been affected,
PCH20235 "PHF39 HOW OFTEN FATHER SAW FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 2"
PCH20239 "PHF42 HOW OFTEN FATHER SAW FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 3"
PCB20243 "PHF45 HOW OFTEN FATHER SEES OR VISITS FOCAL CHILD NOW"
PCH20338 "PHF80 HOW OFTEN FATHER FIGURE VISIT FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 2"
PCH20342 "PHF83 HOW OFTEN FATHER FIGURE VISIT FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 3"
PCB20346 "PHF86 HOW OFTEN FATHER FIGURE VISIT OR SEE FOCAL CHILD"
KRH20498 "PHG29 HOW OFTEN GM / MOTHER SEE OR VISIT FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 2"
KRH20502 "PHG32 HOW OFTEN GM / MOTHER SEE OR VISIT FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 3"
KRB20506 "PHG35 GRANDMOTHER / MOTHER SEE OR VISIT FOCAL CHILD NOW"
KRH20612 "PHG70 HOW OFTEN GMFIG SEE OR VISIT FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 2"
KRH20616 "PHG73 HOW OFTEN GMFIG SEE OR VISIT FOCAL CHILD AT AGE 3"
KRB20620 "PHG76 HOW OFTEN GRANDMOTHER FIGURE SEE OR VISIT FOCAL CHILD NOW"
Documentation providing descriptive statistics for all affected variables is included with the data set.
If you have any questions, please contact Sociometrics' Research Support Group at socio@socio.com or call Sociometrics at (650) 949-3282