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Accumulation of Wealth and Social Capital Among Low-Income Renters (AWSC-R) Year One Final Report [PDF]
RTI International Statistical, Survey and Computing Sciences, Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Authors: Don Akin, Brian Burke,Gretchen Buczkowski, Kathleen Considine, Kim Gadsden-Knowles, Laura Flicker, Jennifer Wallin, Bill Yeager
September 2004

The Accumulation of Wealth and Social Capital among Low-Income Renters (AWSC-R) is a longitudinal panel study that follows renters for five years. The study sample is designed to be a control group for the Community Advantage Panel Survey (CAPS), an ongoing study of the accumulation of wealth and social capital among low- to moderate-income new homeowners. The purpose of AWSC-R is to assess how being a renter affects families socially and economically and determine how renters differ from homeowners who live in the same areas. To this end, the Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina contracted with RTI International to conduct the data collection for AWSC-R. This report details the design, instrumentation, tracing plan, data collection methods, case management system, and project management, for the baseline telephone survey conducted in Year 1 of the AWSC-R study.