CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA 2012 ANNUAL SURVEY FINAL REPORT

Introduction
In December 2002, Catholic Charities USA (CCUSA) engaged the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University to assume responsibility for the CCUSA Annual Survey. Since that time, CARA and CCUSA have worked together to collect annual data from all CCUSA member agencies and affiliates in a format that is easy to use, stable over time, and able to produce the highest quality usable data for all involved. The paper version of the 2012 Annual Survey was modified slightly from the 2011 Annual Survey and expanded slightly from the 20-page format that was developed in the 2004 Annual Survey. CARA also modified the online version of the Annual Survey to improve reporting and ease of use. The 2012 Annual Survey includes new summary demographics of clients receiving services so that total unduplicated clients may be reported by race as well as age group. New questions were added to identify the number of unduplicated clients that are Hispanic/Latino(a) as well as the number of clients and agency staff who are veterans. In addition, the questions relating to mission and Catholic identity were substantially revised on the 2012 Annual Survey. Survey Timeline At the beginning of each calendar year, Catholic Charities USA member agencies and affiliates are asked to report statistical information for their main diocesan agency and branches as well as diocesan affiliated agencies, institutions, and residential facilities for the previous calendar year. In a few cases, these agencies actually report data for their most recently completed fiscal year. Thus, the data for this 2012 Annual Survey are collected in 2013 but reflect the statistical information for calendar year (or fiscal year) 2012. CARA mailed the 2012 Annual Survey questionnaire in late December 2012 to 175 executive directors of current and former Catholic Charities member agencies and to four affiliate members of CCUSA. The mailing included a page of instructions for accessing and completing the questionnaire online at the CARA website. Directors were asked to complete and return the survey to CARA by April 15, 2013. The first agency completed its survey online on February 4 and the final survey arrived at CARA in late June, 2013. Data collection was suspended on June 20, 2013. After repeated follow-up contact by CARA and by CCUSA a total of 141 agencies and affiliates participated in the 2012 Annual Survey, for a response rate of 79 percent (141 out of 179 possible). The response rate for current member agencies and affiliates is 84 percent (139 out of 166 possible). Respondents included member agencies in Pago Pago, American Samoa and Agana, Guam. All other responding member agencies and affiliates are located in the territorial United States.

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Limitations of the Data This report presents a comprehensive statistical profile of the number and characteristics of clients served by Catholic Charities member agencies and affiliates. It also presents the types of social services provided by Catholic Charities and the numbers of clients served in each type as well as special populations served by Catholic Charities, parish social ministry activities, and legislative advocacy. Finally, the report contains detailed information pertaining to the paid and volunteer staff of member agencies and affiliates as well as their financial resources and expenditures. The report presents aggregated totals from every responding agency, rather than other summary measures (such as averages or median values), so missing values will substantially affect the totals reported. Therefore, to make the data reported from year to year more comparable, CARA substituted 2011 data (where available) for member agencies that did not respond to the 2012 Annual Survey. Some parts of this report compare this years findings to those from previous years. While these comparisons may suggest some possible trends in the data, they should be interpreted with care. The number of participating member agencies and affiliates varies from year to year and not every agency answers every question in the survey each year. Due to variations in agency data collection methods, some agencies do not provide demographic information about the clients that they serve. In addition, a few agencies provide only summary data for the broad service categories, which cannot be disaggregated into detailed information about clients served within specific types of service. A summarizing category called unspecified has been added where necessary throughout the report to account for this lack of detailed information about clients. All summary statistics are as complete and accurate as possible, given data limitations.

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