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| Consumer Expenditure Survey
United States Department of Labor.
This survey relates food expenditures of consumers to their income and characteristics. |
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| Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program Final Report: Fiscal 2007 Activities
USDA. Economic Research Service.
This report provides a summary of Food Assistance and
Nutrition Research Program (FANRP) including a general overview of the program, the FANRP activities of fiscal year 2007, a list of all
FANRP-sponsored publications released in fiscal 2007;
and all FANRP-sponsored publications
released in previous fiscal years. |
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| Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures, 1970-97
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Presents historical data on food consumption, prices, and expenditures by commodity and commodity group, supply and use, prices, total expenditures, and U.S. income and population. April 1999 |
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| Food Surveys Research Group
USDA. ARS. Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center.
Provides dietary survey data about food consumption patterns in the United States. Articles regarding USDA dietary intake research methods are also available. |
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| General Information |
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| Eligible Food Items
USDA. Food and Nutrition Service.
Explains what items may be purchased with SNAP benefits. |
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| Reports/Guidelines |
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 | Are Lower Income Households Willing and Able To Budget for Fruits and Vegetables?
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Households have a number of needs and wants that all compete for scarce resources. Given this situation, are low-income households, in particular, generally willing and able to budget for healthful foods like fruits and vegetables, or are other goods and services, including other foods, more of a priority? |
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| Dietary Assessment of Major Trends in U.S. Food Consumption, 1970-2005
USDA. Economic Research Service.
This report examines major trends in the amount of food available for consumption in the United States between 1970 and 2005. The report also estimates whether Americans are meeting Federal dietary recommendations for each of the major food groups. Findings show that for Americans to meet these recommendations, they would need to substantially lower their intake of added fats, refined grains, and added sugars and sweeteners and increase their consumption of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat milk and milk products. March 2008 |
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| Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs: FANRP Research Findings
USDA. Economic Research Service.
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. |
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| Food Stamp Participants' Access to Food Retailers
USDA. Food and Nutrition Service.
Discusses data from the National Food Stamp Program Survey on the food shopping opportunities of low-income households. Includes use of store types, distance traveled to stores, transportation to stores, shopping behaviors and satisfaction with shopping opportunities. July 1999 |
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 | How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables?
USDA. Economic Research Service.
This analysis uses AC Nielsen Homescan data on 1999 household food purchases from all types of retail outlets to estimate an annual retail price per pound and per serving for 69 forms of fruits and 85 forms of vegetables. July 2004 |
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| South Carolina Food Stamp and Well-Being Study: Well-Being Outcomes Among Food Stamp Leavers
USDA. Economic Research Service.
"This study examines data from a survey of families in South Carolina who left the Food Stamp Program (FSP) between 1998 and 2000. Study results show that families with rising incomes are less likely than families with lower incomes to experience food hardships or other adverse events or to have a negative view about life changes." September 2006 |
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| The Costs of Benefit Delivery in the Food Stamp Program: Lessons From a Cross-Program Analysis
USDA. Economic Research Service.
"This study compares the Food Stamp Program (FSP) with eight other public assistance programs across four measures of program effectiveness—administrative costs, error payments, program access, and benefit targeting. Results show that the FSP and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) present contrasting patterns. Low administrative costs also appear to be inversely associated with good program access for recipients. Also, programs that are more highly targeted tend to have higher benefit delivery costs." March 2008 |
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| The Relationship of Earnings and Income to Food Stamp Participation: A Longitudinal Analysis
USDA. Economic Research Service.
"This study considers the role that the dynamics of household income plays in determining FSP participation. The two main objectives of the analysis are to (1) determine the extent to which nonparticipation can reasonably be attributed to temporary low income, and (2) assess why some households that appear to have long-term low income do not participate." November 2003 |
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| Who Has Time To Cook? How Family Resources Influence Food Preparation
USDA. Economic Research Service.
This study finds that household time resources significantly affect how much time is allocated to preparing food. The results are relevant for the design of food assistance programs as well as for improving our understanding of how different family time resources affect consumption behavior. May 2007 |
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| Online Tools |
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| Eat Right When Money's Tight
USDA. NAL. SNAP-Ed Connection.
A collection of resources provided to assist SNAP-Ed providers working with participants in an environment of rising food prices. |
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 | Stretching Your Food Dollars
Oregon State University.
Part of Eat Well for Less, a series of self-paced, Web-based learning modules. The Stretching Your Food Dollars learning module is divided into two parts: Strategies at Home and Strategies at the Store. Each part is divided into various sub-topics which contain a discussion and an important concept/take home message. The module should take about 20 minutes to complete. |
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Last Modified: Sep 23, 2008 |
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