Community Advantage Panel Survey: Data Collection Update and Analysis of Panel Attrition

Publication Date

February 2009

Author(s)

Client/Funder

Ford Foundation

We provide an update of the Community Advantage Panel Survey (CAPS) data collection activities that occurred in 2008 and describe our data collection plans for 2009.

We first summarize the CAPS sampling strategy and data collection progress and then consider upcoming survey plans, attrition concerns, and the extent to which 2008 survey completers are representative of baseline respondents and other Self-Help Community Advantage Program (CAP) borrowers.