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Data Tables from the 1997 SPD

• Caution Statement about the 1997 SPD Data Tables
• 1997 SPD Data Tables in Adobe .PDF Format

1997 SPD Bridge Technical Documentation (in PDF format)

1997 SPD Bridge Technical Documentation (in WordPerfect 6.1 format - REQUIRES PKUNZIP to decompress files)

1998 Experimental File Technical Documentation (in PDF format)

1998 SPD User Note - Weighting Fix

SPD Analytic Report SPD 2001-1: Preparing to Measure Welfare Reform Using the Longitudinal Survey (in PDF format)

First Longitudinal File Technical Documentation for Data Years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997 (in PDF format)

Second Longitudinal File Technical Documentation for Data Years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 (in PDF format)

SPD Users' Guide - 2002 (in PDF)

Working Papers

• SPD97-1: Tracking Devolution: The Survey of Program Dynamics
• SPD97-2: What Are the Issues in Implementing the Survey of Program Dynamics?
• SPD97-3: Measuring the Impact of Welfare Reform: Issues in Designing the Survey of Program Dynamics Questionnaire
• SPD97-4: SPD Pretest Evaluation Report
• SPD98-1: Teens Talk: Are Adolescents Willing and Able to Answer Survey Questions?
• SPD98-2: Report on Cognitive Interview Results for the 1999 SPD
• SPD98-3: Developing Children's Data for the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
• SPD98-4: Summary Report - 1998 SPD Taped Interviews
• SPD98-5: Measuring the Impact of Welfare Reform with the Surveyof Program Dynamics
• SPD99-1: Proposal for Incentives in the 1999 SPD
• SPD99-2: Comparing Reponse Rates for SPD, PSID and NLSY
• SPD99-3 SPD99: Proposal to provide incentives in the upcoming 1999 Survey of Program Dynamics
• SPD99-4: What Can the SPD Adolescent SAQ Tell Us About the Well-being ofAdolescents in the Aftermath of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act?
• SPD99-5: Results of cognitive testing on the Residential History Module for the Survey of Program Dynamics 2000
• SPD99-6: Survey of Program Dynamics 1997 Bridge survey and Current Population Survey 1997 March supplement: Evaluating selected demographic data
• SPD99-7: The Survey of Program Dynamics: A New Source of Data to Explore the Effects of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act on Adolescents
• SPD99-8: Evaluation of the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) Exploratory Attrition Study
• SPD99-9: Measuring Welfare Reform, Preliminary Results from the Survey of Program Dynamics
• SPD99-10: The Survey of Program Dynamics - A Mid-Term Status Report
• SPD2000-1: The Iowa Survey of Program Dynamics Feasibility Study (in PDF Format)
• SPD2000-2: Measuring Welfare Reform: Questions from Four Census Bureau Surveys
• SPD2001-1: Documentation of Child and Family Well-Being Measures in the 1998 Wave of the Survey of Program Dynamics (in PDF Format)
• SPD2002-1: Use of the Survey of Program Dynamics for Studying the Implications of Welfare Reform for Families and Children (in PDF Format)
• SPD2002-2: A First Look at the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) Longitudinal Data (in PDF Format)
• SPD2002-3: Complex Problems - Complex Data: Welfare Reform and the Survey of Program Dynamics (in PDF Format)

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