This report presents preliminary findings on the effect of service interventions that can be synthesized from the state projects’ evaluations, which are the first component of the national evaluation to be completed. The findings reflect the likely effects of the state projects based on...

To monitor and evaluate programs for children receiving Supplemental Security Income, policymakers need reliable information on the children’s health and health care. This study compared the quality of data from the National Survey of SSI Children and Families with data from the National...

Data from the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) provide information on current and potential beneficiaries served by Social Security Administration (SSA) programs. SSA also links administrative records to the records of...

Describes the characteristics of the roughly 10,000 participants who enrolled in the 18 SPI projects from January 1999 through March 2003. Participants faced significant barriers to employment, including severe disabilities and limited education and employment experience. Two-thirds were...

This issue brief compares the quality of data collected for the National Beneficiary Survey (NBS), a survey of people with mental and physical impairments, via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI).