USDA Economic Research Service Briefing Room
" "  
" "

 
Briefing Rooms

Print this page Print | E-mail this page E-mail | Bookmark & ShareBookmark/share | Translate Translate | Text only Text only | resize text smallresize text mediumresize text large

Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: Recommended Data

Contents
 
Contents
 

National data useful in food and nutrition assistance research—Brief descriptions of national surveys and data sets with links to the sponsoring organizations.

Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement—Now available from the Census Bureau on CD-ROM and on-line via the DataFerrett system. The CPS Food Security Supplement is a nationally representative survey of about 50,000 U.S. households conducted by the Census Bureau for ERS annually since 1995. The data include information on household food security, food expenditures, use of public and private food assistance programs, and other information on how households cope with limited food budgets.

FANRP Project Descriptions—The FANRP program has an extensive portfolio of research projects covering diet and health outcomes, food program targeting and delivery, and program dynamics and administration.Image of two little girls eating watermelon at the dining room table

 

For more information, contact: Victor Oliveira

Web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov

Updated date: April 8, 2009