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Appendix D: Sources of Information Show in the Charts and Table in Chapters 5 Through 14

The charts show the corresponding interview question with the reports table.  Reports from "Who We Serve" (Chapters 5 through 9) were asked client questions.  Reports from "How We Serve" (Chapters 10 through 14) were asked agency questions.

Table

Client Question

5.1.1

Client data

5.2.1

2.  Sex
3.  Age
4.  Relationship
6.  Employment
7.  Are there any children age 0-5 years in household?
11.  Are you Spanish, Latino, or of Hispanic descent or origin?
11a.  Would that be Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, some other Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino group?
12.  What is your race?

5.2.2

2.  Sex
3.  Age
4.  Relationship
5.  Citizen
6.  Employment
9.  Are you married, living with someone as married, divorced, separated, or have you never been married?
10.  What is the highest level of education you completed?
81a.  What is the ZIP code where you live?
82.  Are you a registered voter?

5.3.1

2.  Sex
3.  Age
5.  Citizen

5.3.2

2.  Sex
3.  Age
5.  Citizen

5.4.1

9.  Are you married, living with someone as married, widowed, divorced, separated, or have you never been married?

5.5.1

10.  What is the highest level of education you completed?

5.6.1

11.  Are you Spanish, Latino, or of Hispanic descent or origin?
11a.  Would that be Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, some other Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino group?
12.  What is your race?

5.7.1

6.  Employment

5.7.2.1

6.  Employment
12a.  Is respondent working?
13.  You mentioned that you are not working now.  How long has it been since you worked?
14a.  Is this job a managerial or professional job?
15.  Are you participating in any gov’t sponsored job training or work experience programs, such as Welfare to Work or the food stamp employment training program?

5.7.2.2

3.  Age
6.  Employment

5.8.1

Federal Poverty Level Table

5.8.2

29.  What was your total income last month before taxes?
29a.  What was your household’s total income for last month?

5.8.3.1

29.  What was your total income last month before taxes?
30.  What was your household’s main source of income last month?

5.8.3.2

6.  Employment
25.  Did you get money in the last month from any of the following….?
29.  What was your total income last month before taxes?

5.8.4.1

29.  What was your total income last month before taxes?
31.  What was your household’s total income before taxes and other deductions last year from all sources, including Social Security and other gov’t programs?

5.9.1.1

16.  Please tell me the kind of place where you now live.
17.  Do you own, rent, live free with someone else?
18.  Were you late paying your last month’s rent or mortgage?
81.  Does your household receive Section 8 or Public Housing Assistance?

5.9.2.1

19.  Do you have access to a place to prepare a meal, a working telephone, and a car that runs?

6.1.1

42.  “The food I/we bought just didn’t last, and I/we didn’t have money to get more.” (Often, sometimes, never true)
43.  “I/We couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals.” (Often, sometimes, never true)
44.  In the last 12 months, did you ever cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn’t enough money for food?
44a.  How often did this happen?
45.  In the last 12 months, did you ever eat less than you felt you should because there wasn’t enough money to buy food?
46.  In the last 12 months, were you ever hungry but didn’t eat because you couldn’t afford enough food?
47.  In the last 12 months, did you ever not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food?

6.1.2

42.  “The food I/we bought just didn’t last, and I/we didn’t have money to get more.” (Often, sometimes, never true)
43.  “I/We couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals.” (Often, sometimes, never true)
44.  In the last 12 months, did you ever cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn’t enough money for food?
44a.  How often did this happen?
45.  In the last 12 months, did you ever eat less than you felt you should because there wasn’t enough money to buy food?
46.  In the last 12 months, were you ever hungry but didn’t eat because you couldn’t afford enough food?
47.  In the last 12 months, did you ever not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food?

6.2.1

42.  “The food I/we bought just didn’t last, and I/we didn’t have money to get more.” (Often, sometimes, never true)
43.  “I/We couldn’t afford to eat balanced meals.” (Often, sometimes, never true)

6.3.1

44.  In the last 12 months, did you ever cut the size of your meals or skip meals because there wasn’t enough money for food?
44a.  How often did this happen?
45.  In the last 12 months, did you ever eat less than you felt you should because there wasn’t enough money to buy food?
46.  In the last 12 months, were you ever hungry but didn’t eat because you couldn’t afford enough food?
47.  In the last 12 months, did you ever not eat for a whole day because there wasn’t enough money for food?

6.4.1

3.  Age
6b.  How many of the other people in your household are children less than 18 years old?
48.  Is there at least one child under 18 in household?
49.  “My child was not eating enough because I/we just couldn’t afford enough food.” (Often, sometimes, never true)
50.  In the last 12 months, did your child ever skip meals because there wasn’t enough money for food?
51.  In the last 12 months, was your child ever hungry but you just couldn’t afford more food?

6.5.1

52.  In the past 12 months, have you or anyone in your household every had to choose between:  paying for food and paying for medicine or medical care; paying for food and paying for utilities or heating fuel; paying for food and paying for rent or mortgage?

7.1.1

32.  Have you ever applied for Food Stamps?
33.  Are you receiving Food Stamps now?
34.  Did you receive Food Stamps in the past 12 months?
36.  How long have you been receiving Food Stamps?
37.  How many weeks do your Food Stamps usually last?

7.2.1

38.  Why haven’t you applied for the Food Stamp Program?

7.3.1

35.  Why don’t you receive Food Stamps now?

7.4.1

7a.  Do any of your younger-than-school-age children go to day care?
8.  Does the government pay part of the cost of day care?
41.  In which, if any, of the following programs do you currently participate?

7.5.1

26.  Did you receive general assistance, welfare, or TANF at any time in the past two years?
27.  Was that assistance ever stopped during the past two years?
28.  Why was your assistance stopped?

7.6.1

40.  Where do you do most of your grocery shopping?

8.1.1

20.  Would you say your own health is excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?
21.  Is anyone in your household in poor health?

8.2.1

22a-f.  Do you have any of the following kinds of health insurance?
23.  Do you have unpaid medical or hospital bills?
24.  In the past 12 months, have you been refused medical care because you could not pay or because you had a Medicaid or Medical Assistance card?

9.1.1

56.  How many different food pantries gave you food in the past month?
57.  How many different soup kitchens gave you meals in the past month?

9.2.1

53.  Please rate how satisfied you are with the food that you and others in your household receive here.
54.  When you come here, how often are you treated with respect by the staff who distribute food?

9.3.1

55.  If this agency weren’t here to help you with food, what would you do?

10.1.1

Agency Question

10.2.1

1.  Record the total number of emergency shelters, pantries, kitchens, and other programs you currently operate.

10.3.1

1.  Record the total number of emergency shelters, pantries, kitchens, and other programs you currently operate.

10.4.1

3b.  In what year did each selected program open?

10.5.1

4.  For each selected program, please indicate which of the following services, if any, are currently being provided.

10.5.2

4.  For each selected program, please indicate which of the following services, if any, are currently being provided.

10.5.3

27.  Does your agency operate any of the following types of facilities?

10.6.1

28.  Type of agency.

10.7.1

18.  Do the selected programs currently serve any of the following groups?

10.8.1

7.  Compared to 3 years ago, that is, 2001, is this program providing food to more, fewer, same number of clients?

10.9.1

19.  In which of the following ways does the client mix change during the year for any of the selected programs?

11.1.1

6.  During a typical week, approximately how many meals are served and/or bags or boxes of food distributed by each of the selected programs?
6a.  How much does a typical bag or box usually weigh?

11.2.1

6c.  How many different persons or households did you serve on the last day you were open?  And how many meals were served and/or bags or boxes of food distributed by each of the selected programs on that day?

12.1.1

17.  Is the continued operation of the selected programs threatened by one or more serious problems?

12.2.1

13.  During the past year, about how often did each of the selected programs have to reduce meal portions or reduce the quantity of food in food packages because of a lack of food?

12.3.1

9.  During the past year, did the selected programs turn away any clients for any reason?
10.  For which of the following reasons did each selected program turn clients away?
12.  During the past year, approximately how many clients did each selected program turn away?

12.3.2

11.  What were each selected program’s two most frequent reasons for turning away clients?

12.4.1

14.  In your opinion, during a typical week, how much more food, if any, does each of the selected programs need in order to adequately meet their demand for food?  Your best estimate is fine.

13.1.1

8.  For each selected program, approximately what percent of the distributed food comes from the food bank?
8a.  Do the selected programs distribute government or USDA commodities?
8b.  Approximately what percent of the distributed food comes from other sources?

13.2.1

15.  Currently, how many paid staff are employed by each of the selected programs?
16.  During the past week, how many volunteers assisted and the number of volunteer hours for each selected program.

13.3.1

23.  Please indicate for each selected program, which of the following categories of products are purchased with cash from sources other than your food bank?

14.1.1

24.  What categories of food and non-food products do you need that you are not getting now, or need more of from your food bank to meet your clients’ needs?

14.2.1

25.  If the food supply you receive from your food bank were eliminated, how much of an impact would this have on your program?

14.3.1

26.  Does your program need additional assistance in any of the following areas?