ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the methodology employed in our tracking study of children in foster care. The first part of the chapter provides a critical overview of the conceptual issues that must be considered when undertaking any kind of evaluation research in the field of alternative care. This first section also describes the analytical framework that was developed for the study as a whole. The second part of the chapter then provides a detailed description of the methodology and the measures on which most of the later chapters are based.
