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Selected Analysis

 

The analysis in this report is largely descriptive, presenting tabulations of key client and agency characteristics for the three types of programs that have been included in the study. In addition to supporting this descriptive work, the data assembled for this study provide extensive opportunities to gain additional insight into the relationships between key variables through cross-tabular analysis of the survey results. Such analysis can be conducted internally within each of two basic data sets (the client data and the agency data), and it can also be performed across the two types of data, using a merged client/agency file.

Time considerations precluded our undertaking extensive cross-tabular work in the initial round of analysis, since it was desired to make the basic descriptive tabulations available as quickly as possible. However, in order to illustrate some of the types of cross-tabular work that can be undertaken, this section presents the results of a limited number of lines of cross-tabular analysis. The specific cross-tabulations that have been conducted in this work were chosen by A2H staff, with input from the Technical Advisory Group for the project. Except where otherwise noted, the tabulations in this section are aggregated across the three types of agencies that were studied-pantries, emergency kitchens, and shelters. Percentage figures in the tables are based on weighted data, while the sample sizes indicated are the number of usable responses for related variables.

 

15 - Selected Cross-Tabular Analysis

15.2.1 - Income in 2000 and Food Security

15.2.2 - Health and Food Security

15.2.3 - Food Stamp Receipt and Food Security

15.2.4 - Having Children and Household Food Security

15.2.5 - Having Young Children and Food Security

15.2.6 - Having Seniors or Children and Food Security

15.2.7 - Citizenship Status and Household Food Security

15.2.8 - Having Young Children and Food Security Households with at Least One Member Being Noncitizen

15.3.1 - Housing Status and Income in 2000

15.3.2 - Home Ownership and Income in 2000

15.3.3 - Education and Income in 2000

15.3.4 - Food Security Status and Income in Year 2000

15.3.5 - Having Seniors or Children and Income in 2000

15.3.6 - Medicaid and Income in 2000

15.4.1 - Urban/Metropolitan Status and Child Food Security Questions

15.4.2 - Urban/Metropolitan Status and Responses to Three Child Food Security Questions

15.4.3 - Urban/Metropolitan Status and Elderly Clients

15.4.4 - Urban/Metropolitan Status and Food Stamp Receipt/Eligibility Status Based on Previous Month's Income

15.5.1 - Food Security Status and Household Tradeoffs

15.5.2 - Having Seniors or Children and Household Tradeoffs

15.6.1 - Reasons for Respondents or Their Households Currently Not Receiving Food Stamps

15.6.2 - Reasons Why Clients Never Applied for Food Stamps

15.7.1 - Food Stamp Receipt and Responses to Six Household Food Security Questions