As part of an evaluation of the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency program (TTW), Mathematica Policy Research conducted Round 4 of the National Beneficiary Survey (NBS) in 2010. The survey, sponsored by the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Office of Retirement and Disability...

Presentation for the International Blaise User Conference, Gatieau, Quebec, Canada.

Presented at the International Conference on Telephone Survey Methodology, Miami, FL.

This working paper describes a three-question telephone screener used with the National Beneficiary Survey to standardize interviewers' assessments of whether sample members had the capacity to complete a survey or if a proxy was needed. Results show that interviewer training on how to use the...

Presented at the International Conference on Telephone Survey Methodology, Miami, FL.