Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) Final Evaluation Dataset

Dataset Summary

Agency:	Department of Labor
Sub-Agency:	Employment and Training Administration
Category:	Labor Force, Employment, and Earnings
Date Released:	01/20/2010
Date Updated:	12/31/2009
Time Period:	January 2005 - October 2009
Frequency:	Data was collected at five points in time during the demonstration
Description:	"Project GATE was a random-assignment demonstration project designed to help public workforce system clients create, sustain or expand their own business. The cornerstone of the evaluation of Project GATE was random assignment. A total of 4,198 applicants to Project GATE were randomly assigned to either the program group or the control group. Members of the program group were offered GATE services; members of the control group were not. This dataset is the final data from the evaluation and includes administrative data from the six and eighteen month follow-ups and survey data from the six month, eighteen month, and sixty month follow-ups of program participants. " (more)

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Dataset Information

Data.gov Data Category Type	Raw Data Catalog
Specialized Data Category Designation	Research
Keywords	entrepreneurship, small business, demonstration, random assignment, One Stop Career Centers, Small Business Development Centers, Small Business Administration, self employment, unemployed, unemployment insurance,
Unique ID	1516

Contributing Agency Information

Citation	http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/FullText_Documents/Growing%20America%20Through%20Entrepreneurship%20%2D%20Interim%20Report%2Epdf and http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/FullText_Documents/Findings%20from%20the%20Evaluation%20of%20Project%20GATE%20Report%2Epdf
Agency Program Page	http://www.doleta.gov
Agency Data Series Page	http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/keyword.cfm

Dataset Coverage

Unit of Analysis	person
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Geographic Coverage	Demonstration Project Participants in Maine, Minnesota and Pennsylvania

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Additional Dataset Documentation

Technical Documentation	http://wdr.doleta.gov/research/keyword.cfm
Additional Metadata

OMB Control No. 3090-0284