Section 5.9.2.1

5.9.2.1 - Household Resources

Clients indicated if their households have access to a kitchen, a working telephone, or a working car. Responses are presented in Table 5.9.2.1.

Source
This table was constructed based on usable responses to Question 19 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 access to a place, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 0.6% for pantry clients, 0.5% for kitchen clients, 0.5% for shelter clients, and 0.6% for all clients.

For working telephone, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 0.8% for pantry clients, 0.4% for kitchen clients, 0.7% for shelter clients, and 0.7% for all clients.

For clients with running cars, missing, don't know, and refusal responses combined are 0.9% for pantry clients, 0.4% for kitchen clients, 0.2% for shelter clients, and 0.8% for all clients.

Findings about selected household resources presented in Table 5.9.2.1 include:

• Overall, 91.2% of the clients have access to a place where they can prepare a meal.
• 96.8% of the pantry clients have access to a place where they can prepare a meal.
• 75.6% of the kitchen clients have access to a place where they can prepare a meal.
• 42.9% of the shelter clients have access to a place where they can prepare a meal.
• Overall, 76.0% of the clients have a working telephone.
• 79.2% of the pantry clients have a working telephone.
• 60.4% of the kitchen clients have a working telephone.
• 65.0% of the shelter clients have a working telephone.
• Overall, 46.6% of the clients have a working car.
• 51.4% of the pantry clients have a working car.
• 27.6% of the kitchen clients have a working car.
• 19.4% of the shelter clients have a working car.