Summer Food Service Program Map Machine

Overview

ERS developed the Summer Food Service Program Map Machine to target potential expansion of USDA’s Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). This interactive web machine combined data on 2001 SFSP sponsors and sites, Census 2000 data on small geographic areas, and school census data. Users could create maps that showed at a glance whether SFSP sites were located in areas of the highest need and whether some qualified areas had been overlooked. The Map Machine also allowed users to analyze program coverage using the underlying data from the three databases.

Map the Data

Access the SFSP Map Machine by initiating a data search below:

Get the Raw Data

SFSP sites and sponsors data for 2001 are available for download from the links below. The SFSP sites and sponsors data, as well as the field definitions, are comma-delimited text files. Right-click on the link to save the data. The comma-delimited files can be imported into most database and spreadsheet software programs.

• 2001 SFSP Sites
• Site Field Definitions
• 2001 SFSP Sponsors
• Sponsor Field Definitions

Related data from other government agencies:

• NCES 2000-01 Common Core Data

Instructions/Helpful Hints

Learn more about the data layers and get help using the SFSP Map Machine.

Related Resources

• USDA Food and Nutrition Service's Summer Food Service Program site—The home page for the Summer Food Service Program.
• Food Action and Research Center's Summer Food Service Program site—SFSP information and links.
• Child Nutrition Programs Briefing Room