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Title: Child Support Assurance: Effect of Applying State Guidelines to Determine Fathers' Payments
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Child Support Assurance: Effect of Applying State Guidelines to Determine Fathers' Payments Report to the Secretary-designate of Health and Human Services, GAO/HRD-93-26. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, 1993 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: General Accounting Office (GAO) (pre July 2004) Keyword(s): Child Support; Fathers, Absence; Fertility; Income; Poverty; Self-Reporting Researchers interested in noncustodial fathers regard the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) as one of the best sources of data on young noncustodial fathers. We used the 1988 interviews from the NLSY to analyze a limited segment of the overall population that would be affected by child support assurance. From these data, the most recent available at the time of our work, we constructed the variables of income and poverty status. We used the NLSY sampling weights to compute estimates for our study population--young noncustodial fathers in the United States, aged 23 to 31 in 1988. Because these estimates are based on data from a sample, each estimate has an associated sampling error. We computed sampling errors at the 95 percent confidence level, using the procedure outlined in the NLSY technical sampling report. Except where noted, the sampling errors for the estimates presented in this report were + or - 5 percentage points or less. Our analysis is limited to young noncustodial fathers who were aged 23 to 31 years old at the time of the interview in 1988. Research indicates that noncustodial fathers tend to underreport children for whom they do not provide. Because we relied on self reports to identify noncustodial fathers, our estimates are representative of fathers who are able and willing to report their paternity. Information is not available regarding the establishment of court-ordered child support awards for men in the NLSY. We assumed that paternity could be established for self-reporting noncustodial fathers and that they represent the universe of young fathers whose children could be eligible for a minimum assured benefit. |
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General Accounting Office. Child Support Assurance: Effect of Applying State Guidelines to Determine Fathers' Payments. Report to the Secretary-designate of Health and Human Services, GAO/HRD-93-26. Washington, DC: General Accounting Office, 1993. |