Section 15

15 - Selected Cross-Tabular 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.