Characteristics of streetworkers’ work and work environment based on research carried out on a particular group of streetworkers

Abstract

When helping another person we usually focus on what kind of help we offer and who we help. We often don’t pay attention to the person who offers help. The goal of this summary is to talk about that person – to show, who the volunteer is, in a specific context of street work with homeless people.[1] This article shows not only who streetworkers are, but it also shows their work ethics and their attitude towards the people they help. The research that has been done omits detailed stat analysis in order to focus full attention to parameters and indicators of this particular social study. Because of this process we manage to obtain a vivid and true image of a streetworker‘s agenda.[2]

[2] Lack of a more profound analysis is the result of having too small a sample for the research, and so analysis with the use of Student’s t-distribution test, chi-squared test, or testing the significance would not have much sense, and results of such analyses could not be extrapolated to a larger population. The study aimed at presenting a small but significant fragment of reality of supporting the homeless and it did not aspire to be a broad description of any population. Moreover, also the small scope of the article is a limitation for analyses carried out on small samples. See: A. Sokołowski, O niewłaściwym stosowaniu metod statystycznych (Kraków: Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie, StatSoft Polska, 2013), 8-9, also: Janusz Wątroba, Praktyczne aspekty szacowania liczebności próby w badaniach empirycznych (Krakwó: StatSoft Polska, 2013), 1-11.