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This data set is also available as part of the Three-Cities Comprehensive Collection. Click here to view details on the comprehensive collection.
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 during wave 1 of the study (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.
Data for wave 1 come from completed interviews conducted between March and December, 1999 with 2,402 children and
their caregivers in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio. The population of inference is children age birth to 4 and 10
to 14 who have a female primary caregiver, whose caregivers self-identify as non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic
African-American, or Hispanic of any race, and who live in families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty
line, living in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, or San Antonio.
The wave 2 data come from completed interviews conducted between September 2000 and June 2001 with 2,250 caregivers
and 2,158 of the children from wave 1. The children in wave 2 are between the ages of 1 and 7 or 10 and 16.
Please Note: Before the Three-City Study data set can be shipped, we must have a signed copy of the Use Agreement (fax copy is OK) in our office. The original is to be kept by the ordering institution or individual, and EVERY person who accesses the data set must read and sign the agreement. There is no need to send us additional copies of the agreement as new users add their signatures. However, the Principal Investigator and Johns Hopkins University reserve the right to audit the Use Agreement Form. To expedite your shipment, it is helpful to download the Use Agreement, and fax it back to Sociometrics at (650) 949-3299. Due to the necessity of the Use Agreement, this data set is not available for download.
*All dataset orders include Raw Data, SPSS Program Statements, SAS Program Statements, an SPSS portable file, machine-readable versions of the codebooks and instruments when available and a User's Guide. Codebooks, Instruments, and additional User's Guides can also be purchased separately.
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JHU has released a new data file containing a cross-wave person-level
identifier.
View documentation
Sociometrics has issued an errata notice describing a data processing error. Please download the notice shown below:
JHU has issued errata notices describing two minor discrepancies in
Wave 1 (CWP01-04) and Wave 2 (CWP 24-29) of the Three-Cities datasets.
Please download the errata notices here: