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Table 3 Statistical Comparisons of Volunteers’ Satisfaction (n (%) reporting ‘very satisfied’) by School Street Site

From: Promoting children’s health through community-led street interventions: analyzing sustained voluntarism in Canadian School Streets

Survey Question

Category

Pooled Total

(n=56)

SS A (n=31)

SS B (n=25)

Chi-Square Statistic

Fisher's Exact Test (2-sided)

p-value

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Overall, how satisfied were you with your experience volunteering for the SS program?

Overall satisfaction

50 (91)

27 (90)

23 (92)

0.066

1.000

How satisfied were you with the following specific aspects of this volunteer position?

Communications

53 (96)

29 (97)

24 (96)

0.017

1.000

Shift length

53 (96)

30 (100)

23 (92)

2.491

0.202

Scheduling

52 (95)

30 (100)

22 (88)

3.808

0.088

Interactions with other volunteers

52 (95)

29 (97)

23 (92)

0.576

0.585

Feeling appreciated by community organization

50 (93)

25 (86)

25 (100)

3.724

0.115

Training

50 (91)

26 (87)

24 (96)

1.437

0.362

Shift operations

41 (89)

28 (93)

21 (84)

1.222

0.394

Shift timing

48 (89)

26 (90)

22 (88)

0.037

1.000

Shift frequency

46 (85)

28 (97)

18 (72)

6.413

0.019

Interactions with parents

45 (82)

23 (77)

22 (88)

1.177

0.318

Feeling appreciated by parents

44 (82)

21 (72)

23 (92)

3.413

0.086

Interactions with residents

28 (60)

8 (35)

20 (83)

11.495

0.001

Feeling appreciated by school staff

28 (58)

9 (39)

19 (76)

6.7

0.018

Feeling appreciated by residents

21 (49)

5 (28)

16 (64)

5.495

0.031

  1. The p-values in bold represent differences between volunteers of School Street A and School Street B; bolded p-values are statistically significant at p<0.05
  2. SS School Street