Food & Nutrition Assistance

• Child Nutrition Programs
• Food Assistance & Nutrition Research Program (FANRP)
• Food Security & Hunger
• Food Stamp Program
• WIC Program

Eating and Health Module (ATUS)

The Eating & Health (EH) Module of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects data to analyze relationships among time use patterns and eating patterns, nutrition, and obesity; food and nutrition assistance programs; and grocery shopping and meal preparation. This data set can be used to measure where, when, and how long Americans eat, and also with whom they are eating. Estimates, analysis, and microdata files are available.
5/21/2008 9:00:00 AM

Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program Database

The Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) supports a broad spectrum of food and nutrition assistance research. ERS has compiled an electronic database of the hundreds of peer-reviewed reports and articles based on FANRP-supported research published at ERS and elsewhere. The database is searchable by title, lead author, topic, year of publication, and data set analyzed as well as by exact word(s) or phrases contained in the publication’s bibliographic citation.
12/4/2007 9:00:00 AM

Food Security Status File: Survey of Program Dynamics

The Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) Food Security Status Files contain summary food security status information for households interviewed in the SPD in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. Each file matches to the corresponding year's SPD data file at the household level. The SPD data files contain information on demographic and social characteristics for each member of interviewed households as well as data on all sources of income and assistance received from public assistance programs.
1/23/2006 3:50:00 PM

Food Security Supplement: Current Population Survey

The Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) is the source of national and State-level statistics on food insecurity and hunger reported by USDA in its series that Measures Food Security in the United States. 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. Food security data have been collected by the CPS-FSS annually since 1995.
9/20/2001 12:00:00 PM

Food Security Supplement: Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 Food Security Status File

The ECLS-K Food Security Status Data File contains summary food security status information for households of children in the 1998-1999 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K).
9/20/2001 1:00:00 PM

Food Stamp Map Machine

To increase the ease and utility of public access to county-level food stamp data, ERS has developed the Food Stamp Program Map Machine. The interactive web-based mapping application allows users to create maps of any part of the country, displaying information about poverty levels, Food Stamp Program participation, and program benefits at the county level. The Map Machine also illustrates program participation dynamics, showing how caseloads are increasing in some counties and decreasing in others. The underlying data, from the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, may be downloaded for use in investigations of how policy changes and local economic conditions affect program participation.
5/20/2003 11:00:00 AM

How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables?

In this data product, ERS has calculated total pounds or pints purchased at retail, total dollars spent, average retail price, serving size, servings per pound or pint, and dollars per serving for each form of 57 fruits and vegetables. This collection of spreadsheets contain all the data used in the report and are presented to show exactly how ERS arrived at the costs per serving figures. Each table also includes a short narrative that complements the statistics for each fruit and vegetable, detailing the nutritional benefits of each fruit and vegetable and divulging little known facts (or trivia) as well. This information should provide users with a clearer understanding of the costs of produce, the nutrient density of most fruits and vegetables, and their contributions to a healthy diet.
8/6/2004 3:00:00 PM

RIDGE Project Summaries Database

The Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics Program (RIDGE) summarizes research findings of projects that were awarded grants in a given year. This new database allows users to obtain a customized list of RIDGE projects and summaries, search by keywords, project, research center, investigator, or year.
11/28/2007 12:00:00 PM