CalWORKs Datasets
Datasets from a study of CalWORKs, California’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.
The California Budget Act of 2012—Senate Bill (SB) 104—included significant reforms to California’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program known as CalWORKs (California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids).
To understand if SB 1041 achieved its objectives and if there were any unintended consequences, the California Department of Social Services awarded an evaluation contract to RAND. The final report was released in January 2020.
Below are the datasets from this evaluation. All files are in SAS XPORT format unless otherwise noted.
1998 All County Information Survey
- Readme File
Brief description of available ACIS data files
- ACIS Data
SAS transport file containing a SAS data set of the 1998 ACIS. Created using SAS version 8 on a Windows NT Pentium/III-420 computer. Please note, the SAS data set does not contain the text from the verbatim-response questions.
- ACIS Data ASCII format
ACIS Data in a comma separated file. The contents of this data file are identical to those found in the SAS transport file under the link ACIS Data.
- ACIS Data Formats
SAS macros containing formats and format associations for the variables in acis1999.sd2. %formats executed within a proc format statement will create the formats used when reporting on the data. %fmtstmt within a reporting procedure (such as print, freq, or report) will associate each variable in the data set with a format created by the %formats macro.
- ACIS Description
SAS contents and frequencies on all variables in the data set.
1999 All County Information Survey
- Readme File
Brief description of available ACIS data files
- ACIS Data
SAS transport file containing a SAS data set of the 1998 ACIS. Created using SAS version 8 on a Windows NT Pentium/III-420 computer. Please note, the SAS data set does not contain the text from the verbatim-response questions.
- ACIS Data ASCII format
ACIS Data in a comma separated file. The contents of this data file are identical to those found in the SAS transport file under the link ACIS Data.
- ACIS Data Formats
SAS macros containing formats and format associations for the variables in acis1999.sd2. %formats executed within a proc format statement will create the formats used when reporting on the data. %fmtstmt within a reporting procedure (such as print, freq, or report) will associate each variable in the data set with a format created by the %formats macro.
- ACIS Description
SAS contents and frequencies on all variables in the data set.
