Supports for Families

Learn more about the strategies and research rationale associated with Supports for Families.

Instructions:

• Hover over any region to see the major indicator.
• Click on any region in the map to generate the breakdown of parent survey questions below the map.

Zogby Analytics was commissioned by TQEE to conduct a new survey of 2,507 Tennessee parents with a child under age 9. The survey is large-scale, new (administered June 23, 2022 through August 1, 2022), and has a sampling frame that matches the Tennessee demographics (race, age, family size) for households with a child under age 9, labor market conditions in Tennessee (earnings, sector of work), and regional populations. Based on a confidence interval of 95 percent, the margin of error for the 2,507 surveys is +/- 2.0 percentage points. The regional analysis is based on regional oversampling.

Parent survey questions and resultant skip logic for this indicator were adapted from the Census Pulse survey:

• In the last 3 months, how difficult has it been for your household to pay for usual household expenses, including but not limited to food, rent or mortgage, car payments, medical expenses, student loans, and so on?
• In the past 3 months, how often have you had to access social support (WIC, SNAP, TennCare, food pantries, etc.)?

Northeast TN includes the following counties: Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington

West TN includes the following counties: Decatur, Dyer, Hardeman, Haywood, Hardin, Lake, Madison, McNairy and Weakley

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