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.
This page provides information about the following surveys:
Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS)
The CPS-FSS is the source of national and State-level statistics
on food insecurity 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, Birth Cohort of 2001 (ECLS-B)
The ECLS-B, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), followed a nationally representative sample of approximately 14,000 children born in 2001 from birth through kindergarten entry. Food security information was collected in parent surveys in several waves of the survey. Food security data are in the main data files available from National Center for Education Statistics.
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Kindergarten Class
of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)
The ECLS-K was a series of surveys sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
The study followed a nationally representative sample of
approximately 22,000 children from kindergarten through
eighth grade. One purpose of the program was 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.
Several waves of the ECLS-K included the Food Security
Core Module in surveys 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. Food security information was collected in the following surveys:
- Child Development Supplement (CDS-I)—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 1997 PSID-CDS survey of the children's primary caregivers included the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module. Data (responses to individual food security questions as well as composite household food security status variables) are available from the PSID website at the University of Michigan.
- PSID 1999 Family Survey—The PSID 1999 family survey included the 18 questions in the U.S. Household 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. (It is one of the “Packaged Supplemental Data and Documentation” files.) Two sets of composite household food security status 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.
- PSID 2001 and 2003 Family Surveys—The PSID 2001 and 2003 family surveys included the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module. Responses to the food security questions are provided in the main data files, available from the PSID website at the University of Michigan. Composite household food security status variables are not provided. Users will need to calculate them following procedures outlined in the Guide to Measuring Household Food Security, Revised 2000.
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Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
The SPD was 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 included 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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