Table 5.

Comparison of social network composition measures for long-term homelessness and near-term homelessness.

Number of	Long-term Homelessness: Mean (Std. Dev.)				Near-Term Homelessness: Mean (Std. Dev.)
	Chronic	Non-Chronic	F	Sig.	Continuous	Intermittent	F	Sig.
Family Members	4.47 (4.51)	4.53 (4.55)	0.01	0.93	3.98 (4.13)	5.02 (4.84)	4.10	0.04
Sex Partners	3.07 (3.59)	2.83 (2.47)	0.21	0.65	3.15 (3.75)	2.90 (3.04)	0.41	0.52
Other Homeless	3.98 (4.96)	3.25 (3.73)	1.05	0.31	4.83 (5.29)	2.80 (3.88)	14.50	<0.001
Alters who Drink to Intoxication	6.19 (5.55)	7.55 (6.54)	2.49	0.12	6.96 (5.73)	5.86 (5.73)	2.78	0.10
Alters who Use Drugs	6.04 (5.91)	5.53 (5.89)	0.33	0.56	6.66 (6.11)	5.19 (5.58)	4.79	0.03
Alters who Have Risky Sex	3.91 (5.16)	4.94 (6.02)	1.66	0.20	4.85 (5.69)	3.27 (4.78)	6.85	0.01
‘Responsible’ Alters	0.78 (1.87)	1.11 (1.66)	1.41	0.24	0.52 (1.17)	1.18 (2.31)	10.21	<0.001
Alters who Care About Respondent	6.80 (5.83)	5.01 (4.47)	4.48	0.04	6.26 (5.74)	6.72 (5.57)	0.50	0.48
Alters who Provide Support to Respondent	8.09 (6.23)	6.31 (4.63)	3.94	0.05	7.37 (6.05)	8.22 (5.97)	1.53	0.22