This article discusses an experiment embedded in the 2008 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services that tested whether prefilling some fields in the annual questionnaire would encourage continued facility participation. The option, offered to facilities that completed a web...

Home and community support services, such as skilled nursing and help with bathing, have become an important part of the services offered by Medicaid. The provision of these services is thought to prevent or delay institutionalization. This report summarizes Mathematica’s survey methods for...

This report summarizes the College Experiences Survey data collection procedures and results. The survey was part of the College Student Attrition Project conducted by the Survey Research Center at Princeton University, an evaluation to better understand the factors associated with college...

Summarizes existing survey instruments that focus on welfare populations, especially those with sections covering barriers to employability and self-sufficiency, and recommends measures and questions to include in a new instrument that states and counties can use to conduct telephone surveys of...

This project studied the feasibility of conducting a national representative customer satisfaction survey of Child Support Enforcement (CSE) parents. CSE ensures that noncustodial or absent parents provide adequate support for children who live in another household with a custodial parent, a...

Reports initial findings from a synthesis and reanalysis of all available evidence on whether quasi-experimental evaluation designs produced unbiased estimates of the impacts of education, training, and welfare programs. This methodological paper tries to understand conditions under which...