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Abstract: Focusing particularly on female victims, the victimology and intimate partner violence literatures characterize victims of household violence as theoretically and empirically different from victims of non-household violence. Moreover, this literature suggests that these two types of victimization have distinct structural correlates, with household violence linked to structural level indicators of women’s status, while non-household violent victimization is linked to more generally criminogenic forces such as economic disadvantage and social disorganization. Using law enforcement data from a large southwestern city, we test these hypotheses by examining the similarities and differences in the demographic profiles and victimization and offending histories of female victims of household and non-household violence. We also examine variation in the structural correlates linked to rates of female household and non-household victimization. Preliminary analyses show that victims of household violence are generally older and have broader offending histories, but similar victimization histories than do those who are victims of non-household related crime. Macro level analyses examining the influences of neighborhood characteristics (i.e. census block group data) on rates of household and non-household related violence also reveal some differences. We conclude with a discussion of the theoretical and empirical implications of these findings.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This article studies the influence of trust problems on household outsourcing. Because household and caring tasks have a significant meaning to household members, the explanation of third party involvement in household work calls for a more subtle approach than merely transferring ideas on the household division of labor—as previous outsourcing studies have done. The transaction cost approach seems a promising strategy to understand the effect of trust problems on household outsourcing, as earlier applications to organizational decision-making and financial arrangements of couples have proven to be successful. New hypotheses are derived from transaction cost theory, and are tested using data on 992 Dutch households with at least one working partner. Analyses show that trust matters in household outsourcing. The likelihood of problems is important: possibilities to monitor the efforts of outsourcing suppliers increase the likelihood of outsourcing tasks that allow direct monitoring. Households’ general belief in the trustworthiness of other people is the most important factor in explaining outsourcing of tasks that involve risk.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper uses data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households conducted in 1987-88 to compare the division of labor by gender in adult, heterosexual, married couples who have either only biological children or at least one adoptive child. Three potential patterns are introduced: 1) Adoptive and non-adoptive parents could divide labor by gender in similar ways, 2) Adoptive parents could have a more traditional division of labor, or 3) Adoptive parents could have a more egalitarian division of labor. Analyses of time spent on “female-stereotypic” tasks support pattern three, indicating that adoptive fathers contribute more time to household tasks than non-adoptive fathers and adoptive mothers less time than non-adoptive mothers relative to the time their spouses spend. The more egalitarian division of labor for adoptive parents is discussed as potentially stemming from the planned nature of adoption, the lack of cultural barriers to fathers’ involvement in domestic matters, and/or the less traditional composition of adoptive families.

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Abstract: As part of a long-term effort to improve the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) core interview, Census Bureau staff implemented numerous changes throughout the SIPP questionnaire, and evaluated those changes in a series of field experiments. One main objective identified for the demographics sections of the instrument, was to design a new roster and a new set of non-standard roster probes to collect a more complete initial roster and to capture marginal and tenuously attached household members. An earlier paper (Chan 2003) has discussed positive results on the newly designed roster procedures and probes. Little is known about the long-term prospects of tenuously-attached household members in SIPP. These members were either enumerated by the initial roster and later reported not usually living in the household or were almost-missed household members identified by roster probes during the first wave of the Survey of Income and Program Participation field tests. Currently, SIPP revisits sample households 9 times over 3 years. What happens to the Wave 1 tenuously-attached people in later waves of the survey? Do they remain "in" (according to SIPP definitions) the households where we first identified them, or do they move out with some frequency, or even come and go? Do these people provide useful data? Answers to these questions have major implications for the future design of the SIPP interview. What's the best way to continue to probe for this category of likely-to-be-missed persons in the eight followup survey waves? How do we balance the survey's coverage quality against respondent burden? This exploratory research will utilize data from the second and third Methods Panel field tests (2 waves were administered) and will explore at least the short-term prospects for continued survey participation for tenuously-attached household members.

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Abstract: Enhancing Data Collection from "Other Language" Households

Authors: Mary Cay Murray, Mike Battaglia, Jessica Cardoni, Abt Associates Inc.

The national Immunization Survey (NIS) measures vaccination coverage among children aged 19-35 months in the U.S., the 50 states, and 28 urban areas. The NIS is conducted by Abt Associates for the National Immunization Program and the National Centers for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It uses a random-digit-dial telephone survey to identify age-eligible chcildren. The NIS samples over 3 million telephone numbers annually, makes over 12 million calls, identifies 900,000 households, and interviews over 34,000 parents/guardians with age-eligible children. Screening and interviewing are conducted in Spanish as well as English.

Since 1995, the NIS has used the AT&T Language line to include households in the study that do not speak either English or Spanish, i.e. "other language" households. This AT&T service provides simultaneous translations for telephone calls in many languages. By taking advantage of this service, the NIS is able to include many households that would otherwise be excluded from the survey. In this paper, we examine the languages that are most commonly used in the NIS and the chanages in the use of those languages over the years. We look at the impact of using the AT&T Language Line on the screening, interviewing, and provider consent rates for the NIS. We also examine the impact of the use of this service on the etimation of vaccination rates for the United States as a whole, for the 4 Census regions and for specific IAP areas with relatively large numbers of households using this service.