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NLPES Site Map Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission of the Virginia General Assembly "Award Winning Reports" Click here to start Table of Contents Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commissionof the Virginia General Assembly Federal Child Support Requirements Approaches to Developing Guidelines Deviating from Mandate Research Activities CES Data Qualities PPT Slide CES Sample Comparisons(One-Parent Households) Overview of Four Steps in Estimating the Costs of Raising Children Step 1:Measure Individual Household Spending(Repeat for Each Observation) Step 2:Identify Proportion Due to Children(Repeat for Each Observation) Step 3: Calculate Household Spending on Children(Repeat for Each Observation) Step 4: Estimate Prevailing Spending on Children(One Regression for Each Level of Household Composition) Overview of Study Findings JLARC’s Submission for Method Award JLARC’s Submission for Method Award(Point 1) Example of Regression Model(SAS HTML Output for Utilities Spending, One-Parent, One-Child Households) Example of Regression Model(SAS HTML Output for Utilities Spending One-Parent, One-Child Households) Example of Spreadsheet Model JLARC’s Submission for Method Award(Point 2) Child Share Allocation Methods Per Capita v. Average Use Average Increase in House Size(Mean Rooms, Two-Parent Households) JLARC’s Submission for Method Award(Point 3) Estimated Expenditures on ChildrenCan Be Used in Two Ways What Percentage of Households Are Spending More than Amounts in Guidelines? What Percentage of Households Are Spending More than Amounts in Guidelines? Using Prevailing Estimated Expendituresto Determine AlternativeChild Support Guidelines Total Monthly Spending on Children(Two-Parent, Two-Child Households) Full Report Available PPT Slide Author: Daniel Oney NLPES Contact: bob.boerner@ncsl.org NLPES Home Page: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/nlpes/ Other information: NLPES Fall Training Conference September 5-8, 2001 Marriott Country Club Plaza Kansas City

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