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In order to assess to examine the relationship between employment status and the receipt of <br />public assistance at follow -up, survey respondents were classified into two categories (1) <br />Employed at the end of the calendar year, and (2) Unemployed at the end of the calendar <br />year. As can be seen in Table 3 -13, a significantly higher proportion of respondents who <br />were unemployed on at the end of the 2008 calendar year report receiving public assistance <br />z <br />during the quarter than those who were employed; x (1, N= 186) 17.23,p <.001. <br />Table 3 -13 Follow -Up Clients Receiving at least one Form of Public Support/ Assistance <br />During the Quarter of Enrollment by Employment Status <br />largest proportions rate their physical health as being `Excellent" or <br />"Very good." Treating this item as a continuous variable, the mean <br />rating of physical health is 3.37, less than half way between "Good" and "Very good. <br />As also shown in Table 3 -14, the largest proportion of survey respondent's rate their mental <br />health as being "Excellent" followed by the next largest proportion who rate it as being <br />"Good" and "Very Good. Again, treating this item as a continuous variable, the mean rating <br />of mental health is 3.84, slightly higher than the mean rating for physical health. Mean <br />rating of physical health is positively related to mean rating of mental health, meaning that <br />respondents who rate their physical health highly, rate their mental health highly as well; <br />this relationship is statistically significant; r =.443, p <.01. Interestingly, ratings of physical <br />and mental health are not related to respondent employment status at the end of the quarter <br />in which they enrolled. <br />