RESEARCH AREAS
RESEARCH AREAS
Overview:
UC DATA is known for its research and data archives on poverty, inequality, social insurance programs, immigration, and voting. We are also a center for basic and applied research on information systems and information retrieval and have actively sought to find ways to utilize administrative and other non-public data for high-quality social science research.
Our current research areas include: Demographics, Health Care/Health Policy, Immigration, Information Technology, Welfare/Social Insurance, Workers' Compensation and Voting. Select from the list of projects to view additional information on each.
UC DATA is known for its research and data archives on poverty, inequality, social insurance programs, immigration, and voting. We are also a center for basic and applied research on information systems and information retrieval and have actively sought to find ways to utilize administrative and other non-public data for high-quality social science research.
Our current research areas include: Demographics, Health Care/Health Policy, Immigration, Information Technology, Welfare/Social Insurance, Workers' Compensation and Voting. Select from the list of projects to view additional information on each.
Welfare/Social Insurance
- Advisory Panel on Research Uses of Administrative Data
- Assessing the Effects of Welfare Reform on California's Most Precarious Families
- Cal-Learn
- California Welfare Reform Impact Study
- California Welfare Time Limits Study
- California's Food Stamp Participation Rate, 1999 - 2001
- California's Immigrant Families and Welfare Reform
- Data Systems and Statistical Requirements for the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996
- Evaluating the CalWORKs Mandate: The California CalWORKs Survey Measure (Q5) and Immunization Rates of Preschool Children in Poverty
- Impact of Welfare Reform on Agricultural and Rural California Counties
- Tracking the Impact of SSI Program Changes: The Impact of the Zebley Decision on Transitions into SSI in California
Demographics
- American Citizen Participation Study, 1990
- Asian Pacific Rim Demographic Databook 1995
- California Latino Demographic Databook, 1st Edition: 1993
- California Latino Demographic Databook, 2nd Edition: 1998
- California Latino Demographic Databook, 3rd Edition: 2004
- Historical Census Rescue Project for Social Science Research
- Return on Investment: Educational Choices and Demographic Change in California's Future (2005)
- USA: A Century of Difference-A Russell Sage 2000 Census Project
Voting
Health Care Policy
- Assessing the Impact of Proposition 54
- Assessing the Impact of SB 87 on the Medi-Cal Enrollment of SSI Leavers and Welfare Leavers
- Changes in the Cuban Health Care System Since the Collapse of the Soviet Union
- Cuban Health Statistics at UCB
- Health Status, Health Insurance and Worker Mobility: A Study of Job Lock in California
- Hospital Nurses and their Unions in the Era of Managed Care
- Transitional Medi-Cal: A Study of the Participation Rate and Its Determinants
Workers' Compensation
- Audit Procedures for Workers Comp Insurance
- Evaluation of "Carve-out" Agreements in Workers' Compensation
- Evaluation of Medical-Legal Reports
- Permanent Disability Rating System Analysis
- Planning for a Comprehensive Database on California Aging
- Treating Physician Reports
- Uninsured Employer Tracking
Partnerships
- California Census Research Data Center
- California Work Pays Demonstration Project
- Developing an Information Infrastructure
- Ongoing International Collaboration with the Cuban Instituto de Informacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (IDICT)
Information Technology
- Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences: NSF SBE/CISE Workshop:
- Probabilistic Retrieval of Full-Text Document Collections Using Logistic Regression
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