Lessons learned from the national household food acquisition and purchase survey in the United States

Kirlin, John A.; Denbaly, Mark

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.08.013

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“…Limitations of the FoodAPS data set are explored and described in detail in prior studies (52,53) . Two limitations of particular relevance for this study are FoodAPS' crosssectional nature and its reliance on self-reported food purchase and acquisition data.…”

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation and current restricted food expenditures: implications for policy

Leschewski

Kuhns

2020

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: National concerns over food insecurity and obesity have prompted legislation seeking to further restrict Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) purchases. The objective of this study is to provide insight on the potential impact of proposed purchase restrictions by comparing SNAP participant and income-eligible non-participants’ expenditures on current SNAP-restricted foods, that is, hot foods, prepared foods, alcohol, vitamins and meal supplements. Design: Cross-sectional study. Bivariate analysis and multivariable regression analysis with an instrumental variables approach were employed to compare the probability of purchasing and expenditures on current SNAP-restricted foods among SNAP participants and income-eligible non-participants. Setting: National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey, 2012–2013. Participants: 2513 households, of which 1316 were SNAP participants and 1197 were income-eligible non-participants. Results: Both the share of households purchasing and household expenditures on current SNAP-restricted foods were similar among SNAP participants and income-eligible non-participants. Conclusions: Results provide further empirical evidence that proposed SNAP purchase restrictions on sugar-sweetened beverages, snack foods and luxury foods are unlikely to have a meaningful effect on SNAP household food purchases.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation and current restricted food expenditures: implications for policy

Leschewski

Kuhns

2020

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Future rounds of FoodAPS data collection will undoubtedly benefit from the lessons learned from designing and implementing a comprehensive survey collecting high-quality data on the foods acquired by American households. The challenges and obstacles encountered have been documented by a number of articles, including the following: the five evaluation reports previously mentioned (Krenzke and Kali 2016;Li, Van de Kerckhove, and Krenzke 2016;Maitland and Li 2016;Petraglia, Van de Kerckhove, and Krenzke 2016;Yan and Maitland 2016); a report prepared by Mathematica, the original FoodAPS contractor (Cole and Baxter 2016); a journal article outlining the lessons learned (Kirlin and Denbaly 2017); and other methodological studies (e.g., Hu et al 2017). The most fundamental challenges in collecting FoodAPS data include response burden and response rates, response fatigue and underreporting, confirming SNAP participation, measuring income, food identification, and technology limitations.…”

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The National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey: Innovations and Research Insights

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Evidence-based policies that effectively address adverse public health trends, including the increasing burden of diet-related disease and food insecurity, require quality and comprehensive data. For food and nutrition policy, that means data on household and individual food choices and the many factors influencing food demand, including income, food assistance program participation, food security status, and the local food environment. To meet this data need, the USDA sponsored the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS), an innovative survey that collected nationally-representative data on household food purchases and acquisitions, including from low-income households and households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). To further enable and enrich analysis, the household survey data were linked to SNAP administrative records, USDA nutrient data, and geographic information related to the local food environment. This article provides a thorough overview of FoodAPS, including the rationale for the survey, recent research findings and insights on American diet quality, food assistance programs, and food environment, as well as the challenges encountered from developing, collecting, and processing the data.

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“…These data are crucial for understanding food demand. Although these data have some drawbacks—including store and item coverage (see Kirlin and Denbaly )—they nevertheless have established a benchmark for helping understand how the retail market can impact choices.…”

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“…More detail about FAFH data collection can be found in Todd and Sharadin (, pp. 2–5) and Kirlin and Denbaly ().…”

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Food Access, Program Participation, and Health: Research Using FoodAPS

Bitler

Gregory

2019

Southern Economic Journal

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This piece is an introduction to the symposium on Food Access, Program Participation, and Health: Research using FoodAPS. The symposium includes articles presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Food Security on December 7 and 8, 2017. The research herein was supported by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, grant number 59‐5000‐5‐0115. The grant included funding to study the effects of various food assistance programs on outcomes, using data from the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS). We describe the programs and the FoodAPS data, and point out highlights from the articles.

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Lessons learned from the national household food acquisition and purchase survey in the United States

Cited by 10 publications

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation and current restricted food expenditures: implications for policy

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participation and current restricted food expenditures: implications for policy

The National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey: Innovations and Research Insights

Food Access, Program Participation, and Health: Research Using FoodAPS

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