Section 9.1.1

9.1.1 - Number of Different Pantries or Kitchens Used

Clients were asked how many different pantries or kitchens they had used during the previous month. The results are shown in Table 9.1.1.

Table 9.1.1

NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PANTRIES OR KITCHENS USED

	Pantry Client Households	Kitchen Client Households	Shelter Client Households	All Client Households
Number of different food pantries clients or their families used during the previous month
None	n.a.	59.4%	83.8%	12.1%
One or more pantries
1 pantry	83.5%	28.2%	12.5%	72.6%
2 pantries	13.3%	8.3%	2.1%	12.1%
3 pantries	2.1%	2.3%	0.9%	2.1%
4 pantries	0.7%	1.0%	0.5%	0.8%
5 or more pantries	0.3%	0.8%	0.2%	0.4%
SUBTOTAL	100.0%	40.6%	16.2%	87.9%
TOTAL	100%	100%	100%	100%
Number of different soup kitchens clients or their families used during the previous month
None	86.4%	n.a.	55.3%	73.5%
1 kitchen	9.3%	77.1%	28.9%	19.3%
2 kitchens	2.4%	13.5%	5.9%	4.0%
3 kitchens	0.8%	4.9%	4.9%	1.6%
4 kitchens	0.4%	2.3%	1.7%	0.7%
5 or more kitchens	0.7%	2.2%	3.4%	1.0%
SUBTOTAL	13.6%	100.0%	44.7%	26.5%
TOTAL	100%	100%	100%	100%
SAMPLE SIZE (N)	24,436	5,441	2,882	32,759

Among the pantry clients, 83.5% used just one food pantry during the previous month. More information on the clients' use of the emergency food programs follows:

77.1% of the kitchen clients used only one soup kitchen, and 40.6% also used one or more pantries.
16.2% of the shelter clients used one or more pantries, and 44.7% of the shelter clients also used one or more kitchens.
13.6% of the pantry clients also used one or more kitchens.

Source
This table was constructed based on usable responses to Questions 56 and 57 of the client survey.

Notes
The percentages presented in this table are based only on usable responses, excluding missing, don't know, and refusal responses. All usable responses were weighted as described in Chapter 3 and in the Technical Appendix volume to represent all emergency food clients of the A2H network. The sample sizes (N) also include missing data.

For pantries used, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 3.1% for pantry clients, 3.4% for kitchen clients, 1.5% for shelter clients, and 3.0% for all clients.

For kitchens used, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 4.0% for pantry clients, 2.4% for kitchen clients, 1.7% for shelter clients, and 3.7% for all clients.

n.a. = not applicable.