We used chi-square analyses to test whether demographic characteristics including age, ethnicity, education level, marital status, income, and receipt of public assistance differed by year of enrollment in the study.
The experience of receiving social assistance may differ for individuals, and may vary depending on the reasons for not being able to support oneself.
We were, however, unable to ascertain whether the trafficked women who registered for support with the IOM assistance programme differed from the trafficked women who did not, including in relation to health status.
Although both refugee and host populations reported subjective measures of attachment to their community and forming strong relationships within their community in similarly high proportions (Table 6), when asked concretely whether they could rely on members of their community for assistance, answers differed: though confidence intervals overlapped in many cases.
Assistance with questionnaire completion did not differ significantly between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal participants (Fisher's exact test p = .5), but did differ between age groups (Fisher's exact test p < .01).01
In an earlier study, Borjas and Hilton (1996) show that participation rates for cash-benefit welfare programs are the same for immigrants and natives, but differ greatly for food stamps, Medicaid, and housing assistance.
In addition, the VT/EAdimax ratio was higher with PSV (P <0.0001) but did not differ between PAV and NAVA regardless of the assistance level.
The proportion of pregnant adolescents according to age group does not differ statistically regarding the biological characteristics and prenatal care assistance.
Just as the culture of the Afrikaners differs significantly from that of the German-speaking community and as both of those cultures differ from that of the more varied technical-assistance community, so do African and Creole cultures differ.
The costs of search are allowed to differ depending on whether individuals are receiving unemployment insurance or Income Assistance to capture the notion that searching may be less costly while unemployed.
