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Resource | Research | Participation Characteristics Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: FY 2007

 This report provides information about the demographic and economic circumstances of food stamp households in fiscal year 2007. 

12/08/2008
Resource | Research | Participation Characteristics Characteristics of Food Stamp Household FY 2000

This report presents the characteristics of food stamp households nationwide in fiscal year 2000 (October 1999 to September 2000). This information on household characteristics comes from FSP household data for fiscal year 2000 collected by FNS for quality control purposes. 

10/02/2001
Resource | Research | Participation Characteristics National Survey of WIC Participants

Since 1992, FNS has produced biennial reports on WIC participant and program characteristics based on the WIC Minimum Data Set compiled from state management information systems. The 20 items included in the MDS are collected as part of ongoing WIC operations and consist primarily of in formation related to participant eligibility.

10/01/2001
Resource | Research | Participation Characteristics Prevalence of Overweight Among WIC Children

This study examines the trends in the prevalence of overweight among WIC children during the 1990s. The study is based on data collected by the biennial WIC Participant and Program Characteristics Studies (1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998). 

07/01/2001
Resource | Research | Participation Characteristics School Lunch Eligible Non-Participants

The School Lunch Eligible Non-Participants Study, conducted for USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, was designed to determine "why children eligible to participate for free and reduced-price meals do not apply or participate" in school nutrition programs.

12/01/1994
Resource | Research | Participation Characteristics WIC Program and Participants Characteristics 1994

The 1994 study of WIC program and participant characteristics (PC94), like the 1992 study (PC92), is substantially different from earlier efforts to collect data on WIC participants. PC94 employs the prototype reporting system which was developed by FNS for the 1992 study and which routinizes the collection of participant information from state WIC agencies. 

04/01/1994
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