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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.
Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study is an ongoing research project in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio to monitor
the consequences of welfare reform for the well-being of children and families. The Wave 2 Embedded Developmental Study (EDS), which
is a part of the longitudinal follow-up, includes interviews of a subset of children 3-6 years of age and their caregivers. It
consists of videotaped assessments of children's behaviors, caregiver-child interactions, and observations of childcare settings.
The interviews were conducted between October 2000 and June 2001 in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio. 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 mothers' 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 in-depth picture of the environments and processes
that affect children during early childhood than can be obtained through standard survey instruments. Detailed, process-oriented
measures that provide information not easily collected in standard surveys were gathered. Wave 1 of the EDS contained three
components: (1) an additional home visit with mother and child, which included 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 included observational ratings of the care and an interview with the childcare provider; and (3) an interview with the
child's biological father. In wave 2, however, only the mother and childcare provider interviews and observations were conducted.
In addition, the "mother" interviews were conducted with the focal child's primary caregiver; separated caregivers from the main survey
were not included in the Wave 2 EDS sample. The Wave 2 EDS data set contains 670 cases and 1676 variables.
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