Overview
This data section provides information about publicly
available national surveys that include questions from
the U.S. Food Security Survey Module. Some of the data
files are provided here on the ERS website, others may
be accessed online from other sites, or ordered on CD-ROM.
Technical information is provided to facilitate the appropriate
use of the data.
Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS)
The CPS-FSS is the source of national and State-level statistics
on food insecurity and hunger used in USDA's annual
reports on household food security. The CPS is a monthly
labor force survey of about 50,000 households conducted
by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Once each year, after answering the labor force questions,
the same households are asked a series of questions (the
Food Security Supplement) about food security, food expenditures,
and use of food and nutrition assistance programs.
Go to CPS-FSS data,
documentation, and user notes.
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten Class
of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)
The ECLS-K is an ongoing effort by the U.S. Department of
Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
The study follows a nationally representative sample of
approximately 22,000 children from kindergarten through
fifth grade. One purpose of the program is to provide data
to test hypotheses about the effects of a wide range of
family, school, community, and individual variables on children's
development, early learning, and early performance in school.
In the spring of 1999, the ECLS-K included the Food Security
Core Module in a survey of the parents of children in the
study.
Go to the ECLS-K Food Security Status
data, documentation, and user notes.
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Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Food Security
Files
The PSID is an ongoing longitudinal survey, begun in 1968,
of a representative sample of U.S. individuals and their
families. There are two supplements to the PSID that include
food security data.
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Child Development Supplement (CDS)—In
1997, PSID supplemented its core data collection with
data on parents and their 0- to 12-year-old children,
the Child Development Supplement (CDS). The objective
of this study is to provide researchers with a comprehensive,
nationally representative, longitudinal data base
of children and their families with which to study
the dynamic process of early childhood development
and education. The 1997 PSID-CDS survey of the children's
primary caregivers included the Food Security Core
Survey Module. The PSID-CDS Food Security Data File
along with documentation (in the same zipped file)
can be downloaded
from the PSID-CDS data page at the University
of Michigan. This file was prepared by ERS to facilitate
analysis of food security in households of children
in the PSID-CDS. It matches to the Primary Caregiver
Data File by the CASE_ID variable and provides both
interval-level and categorical measures of each household's
food security status. The PSID-CDS Primary Caregiver
Data File to which it matches and other PSID-CDS data
files are also available from the PSID-CDS data page.
- PSID 1999 Family Food Security Status
Data File—The PSID 1999 survey included the
18 questions in the U.S. Food Security Survey Module.
The PSID 1999 Family Food Security Status Data File
along with documentation (in the same zipped file)
can be downloaded from the PSID
website at the University of Michigan. This file
was prepared by ERS to facilitate research on food
security in PSID families. It matches to the PSID
1999 Family Data File and provides both interval-level
and categorical measures of each family's food security
status. Two sets of food security variables are provided,
one based on the Household Food Security Scale and
the other (for families with children) based on the
Children's Food Security Scale. The PSID 1999 Family
Data File to which the food security file matches,
along with many earlier PSID files for the same persons
and documentation and other information on the study
are also available from the PSID website.
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Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
The SPD is an annual survey, beginning in 1997, of households
that had been interviewed periodically during several earlier
years in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
(SIPP). The SPD was designed specifically to monitor and
assess outcomes of welfare program changes that started
in 1996. It includes questions on a broad array of topics
including income, employment, use of food and nutrition
assistance programs, and receipt of cash welfare. Beginning
in 1998, the SPD included the U.S. Household Food Security
Survey Module. Food security status files are available
for 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Go to the SPD Food Security Status Files data,
documentation, and user notes.
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Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
The SIPP 1996 and 2001 Wave 8 Food Security Data Files
contain summary food security status information for each
household that was interviewed in the Wave 8 Topical Modules
on Adult Well-Being, conducted in 1998 and 2003, respectively.
The food security status variables were calculated based
on responses to five questions from the U.S. Food Security
Survey Module that were included in the SIPP Topical Modules.
The SIPP Wave 8 Food Security Data Files match to the
main SIPP Wave 8 Topical Module Data Files at the household
level.
Go to SIPP Wave 8 Food Security data,
documentation, and user notes.
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