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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 2002
Autores: | Nord,   Mark; Andrews,   Margaret S.; Carlson,   Steven.
Data: | 2004-12-09
Ano: | 2003
Palavras-chave: | Food security; Food insecurity; Hunger; Food spending; Food pantry; Soup kitchen; Emergency kitchen; Material well-being; Food Stamp Program; National School Lunch Program; WIC; Food Security and Poverty.
Resumo: | Eighty-nine percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year 2002, meaning that they had access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households were food insecure at least some time during that year. The prevalence of food insecurity rose from 10.7 percent in 2001 to 11.1 percent in 2002, and the prevalence of food insecurity with hunger rose from 3.3 percent to 3.5 percent. This report, based on data from the December 2002 food security survey, provides the most recent statistics on the food security of U.S. households, as well as on how much they spent for food and the extent to which food-insecure households participated in Federal and community food assistance programs. Survey responses indicate that the typical food-secure household in the U.S. spent 35 percent more on food than the typical food-insecure household of the same size and household composition. Just over one-half of all food-insecure households participated in one or more of the three largest Federal food assistance programs during the month prior to the survey. About 19 percent of food-insecure households—3.0 percent of all U.S. households—obtained emergency food from a food pantry at some time during the year.
Tipo: | Report
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

15429

http://purl.umn.edu/33857

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

United States Department of Agriculture&gt;Economic Research Service&gt;Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Reports

Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 35

Formato:

53

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