Section 5.7.1

5.7.1 - Employment Status of Adults in Household

Client respondents provided information on their households' current employment status. Tables 5.7.1 and 5.7.2 present the findings regarding all adults in the households.

Table 5.7.1

EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF ADULTS IN HOUSEHOLD

	Pantry	Kitchen	Shelter	All
Percentage of employed adults
Among adult clients coming to program sites	24.7%	27.7%	22.0%	25.0%
Among all adults in client households ¹	31.0%	29.8%	27.3%	30.7%
Percentage of client households with one or more adults employed	40.1%	33.9%	31.5%	38.9%

Employment status of adults in the client households

Zero working	59.9%	66.1%	68.5%	61.1%
One working	31.2%	28.8%	29.4%	30.8%
Two working	7.4%	4.7%	1.9%	6.7%
Three working	1.3%	0.1%	0.2%	1.1%
Four or more working	0.3%	0.2%	0.0%	0.2%
TOTAL	100%	100%	100%	100%
SAMPLE SIZE (N)	24,436	5,441	2,882	32,759

Source
This table was constructed based on all responses to Question 6 of the client survey

Notes
For adult clients coming to program sites, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 0.2% for pantry clients, 0.2% for kitchen clients, 0.1% for shelter clients, and 0.2% for all clients. The percentages in this table, unlike those in most other tables, were calculated without leaving out item nonresponses. Because this table was constructed combining responses to several questions, excluding item nonresponses could have caused confusion. All responses were weighted as described in Chapter 3 and in the Technical Appendix volume to represent all emergency food clients or households of the A2H network.

1. The sample sizes for this variable are 40,875 for the pantry, 7,382 for the kitchen, 3,261 for the shelter, and 51,518 for all combined. For all adults in the household, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 0.2% for pantry clients, 0.2% for kitchen clients, 0.1% for shelter clients, and 0.2% for all clients.