Employment Retention and Advancement Evaluation Project

As part of the 12-month follow-up of this project, participants in the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) program in 14 sites across the country were contacted at the 12-month anniversary of their random assignment into the study.

HumRRO developed an extensive database system to manage close to 10,000 cases from nearly 100 monthly cohorts that were handled during the 37-month data collection period. This 12-month CATI follow-up interview achieved an average response rate of 77 percent (74% - 81% per site).

The 42-month follow-up, involved three sites across the country with approximately 4,000 sample members. Field trackers located respondents who no longer resided at their last-known address. HumRRO was involved in the questionnaire development phase of the project and had ongoing responsibility for data collection, data processing, and database management tasks.