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Project Redirection, 1980-1983

  • Project Redirection, 1980-1983

    Investigators: Denise Polit

    Project Redirection was a pilot program designed to help disadvantaged pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers achieve economic self-sufficiency. From 1980 to 1983 investigators compiled data from three interviews with participating teens (at baseline, 12 months, and 24 months) in order to evaluate the efficacy of Project Redirection in aiding pregnant or parenting teens as compared to a similar non-Redirection control group. Community-based organizations in four locations arranged a variety of services for Redirection participants including Individual Participant Plans (IPPs), peer group sessions, and community women (local volunteers for support and for positive role models). These services were designed to facilitate the teenagers' participation in educational, vocational, and/or parenting training programs. On average, teenagers stayed with the program for one year. Initial subjects had enrolled in program sites between September 1980 and July 1981 and, along with a comparison group, comprise Sample I. In the fall of 1981, funds became available to enlarge the research sample. Teens enrolled in the program between March 1981 and March 1982, together with an additional group of comparison teens, comprise Sample II. Sample II teens were not administered a baseline interview, since the decision to enlarge the sample came after many Sample II teens were already enrolled in the program. Because Sample II teens were not studied at baseline, many baseline variables for this group were obtained at the 12- month survey. Other baseline variables are missing for the entire Sample II group. Eighty-six percent of the original teenagers (675 of 789) completed the follow-up interviews. The DAAPPP file consists of information on 958 variables gathered from these 675 teens.Note for users of DAAPPP Data Sets #01-B1DAAPPP data sets 01 through B1 are comprised of a User's Guide, SPSS syntax files (*.SPS or *.SPX) and raw data files only. Most of these datasets contain SPSS syntax files that use Job Control Language (JCL) from 1980s versions of SPSS-X. Because the syntax is old, the syntax files require editing to conform to the current syntax standards used by SPSS/Windows or SPSS/Unix. If you require technical assistance in using or editing these syntax files, please contact Sociometrics' Data Support Group at 800.846.3475 or socio@socio.com.

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Re-Evaluating the Costs of Teenage Childbearing, 1988-1991

  • Re-Evaluating the Costs of Teenage Childbearing, 1988-1991

    Investigators: Saul D. Hoffman, E. Michael Foster, and Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr.

    In 1991 two researchers, A. T. Geronimus and S. Korenman, startled many researchers and policymakers with findings that early childbearing was not as devastating to the socioeconomic lives of teen mothers as was long perceived. By using "fixed-effects methodology" and comparing socioeconomic outcomes for sisters who had first births at different ages (with data from the 1982 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women), Geronimus and Korenman concluded that teenage childbearing has little socioeconomic consequences and that the negative effects of teenage childbearing primarily reflect unmeasured family background rather than the true consequences of teen birth. The purpose of this study was to attempt to replicate the above findings using data from the longitudinal survey: the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a national survey of American families conducted since 1968 by the Institute for Social Research. The 1968-1987 PSID family-individual files provide up to 20 years of annual demographic and socioeconomic information for all individuals in the original sample of approximately 5,000 households. The PSID oversampled poor families, but when weighted to reflect the initial sampling probabilities and subsequent attrition, the data are nationally representative. The statistical technique known as fixed-effects model can be employed to analyze parts of these data. Initially used for analyses of repeated observations over time, this technique accounts for individual-specific effects that are unobserved but fixed across repeated observations. The fixed-effects model frequently has been applied to the analysis of siblings but until recently was not used to analyze the socioeconomic consequences of teenage childbearing.

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Reaching for Excellence in Adolescent Care and Health, 1996-2000

  • Reaching for Excellence in Adolescent Care and Health, 1996-2000

    Investigators: Basic Science and Clinical Science Groups, Adolescent Medicine HIV/AIDS Research Network

    The Reaching for Excellence in Adolescent Care and Health (REACH) Project was an observational study designed to better understand HIV disease progression and co-morbidity in adolescents, with the ultimate goal of improving the health care management of adolescents living with HIV. The study sample includes both HIV infected adolescents and high-risk HIV uninfected adolescents, between the ages of 12 through 18 years, who were recruited from clinics throughout the United States during the late 1990s. The study utilized five primary methods of data collection: 1) direct face-to-face interview, 2) Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Administered Interview (ACASI), 3) medical record abstraction, 4) physical examinations, and 5) laboratory examinations. REACH includes data on 578 adolescents who were observed for an average of one and a half years, providing unique opportunities to study extensive biomedical, behavioral and psychosocial outcomes. Examples of topics covered in this data set include: Antiretroviral and contraceptive drug adherence Health-related quality of life Sexual and drug-related behaviors HIV status disclosure Social support Health care utilization Alcohol and drug treatment Physical examinations Laboratory examinations (e.g., immunologic, virologic, hormonal, cervicography, STI testing) REACH participant data are available as standard and sensitive data files. Standard data files primarily include information collected via subject data collection forms, in addition to the majority of the laboratory results. Sensitive data files include confidential subject information such as urine drug screen results, the Health Behavior Questionnaire, the ACASI, and derived variables for such data. Separate ID numbers for the standard and sensitive data files were assigned and data from these files cannot be linked without access to the linkage file decoding data or the acquisition of the merged sensitive dataset files from Sociometrics. Additionally, biologic specimens collected by the study are available for analysis. Investigators who are interested in utilizing REACH sensitive data files and/or specimens are required to submit a research proposal and IRB correspondence to Sociometrics that approves the proposal with no concerns about identifiable information or conflicts with the data.

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Rehabilitation Services Administration-Social Security Administration Data Link, 1988

  • Rehabilitation Services Administration-Social Security Administration Data Link, 1988

    Investigators: Rehabilitation Services Administration, Social Security Administration

    The State-Federal Program of Vocational Rehabilitation provides individualized vocational rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities to help them attain, maintain, or regain employment. In the course of providing these services, State Rehabilitation Agencies maintain case records on all of the individuals requesting services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. In an effort to improve program evaluation through the exchange of statistical information, the Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) have established a Data Link. The continuing exchange of RSA-SSA Data was established in law with Section 141 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1992. The merging of records of these two agencies has advanced the understanding of the rehabilitation experience of disabled persons by providing their employment, earnings, and beneficiary history following the receipt of services through the State-Federal Program of Vocational Rehabilitation. The RSA-SSA Data Link allows researchers to examine key issues regarding rehabilitation, including whether or not rehabilitated persons remain employed and for how long; the earnings of rehabilitated persons in the years following case closure; how earnings of rehabilitated persons compare to those of persons who could not be rehabilitated or who were not accepted for rehabilitation services; how well severely disabled individuals responded to their rehabilitation experience compared to their non-severely disabled counterparts; how frequently rehabilitated persons become publicly supported; whether or not rehabilitated persons are less likely to require public support than individuals who could not be rehabilitated or were not accepted for rehabilitation services; and the work histories of disabled persons in the years prior to their rehabilitative experience.

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