Fiscal Year 2021 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest of the domestic nutrition assistance programs administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). SNAP provides millions of Americans with the means to purchase food for a nutritious diet. During fiscal year (FY) 2021, SNAP served an average of 41.6 million people monthly and paid out $108 billion in benefits, including emergency allotments to supplement SNAP benefits during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The characteristics of SNAP participants and households and the size of the SNAP caseload change over time in response to changes in program rules as well as economic and demographic trends. To quantify these changes or estimate the effect of adjustments to program rules on the current SNAP caseload, FNS relies on data from the SNAP Quality Control (QC) Database. This database is an edited version of the raw data file of monthly case reviews that are conducted by State SNAP agencies to assess the accuracy of eligibility determinations and benefit calculations for their SNAP caseloads. These data cover the last three months of FY 2021.
Funding
USDA-FNS: 12-3198-23-F-0016
History
Data contact name
Burt, KameronData contact email
kameron.burt@usda.govPublisher
Ag Data CommonsUse limitations
Because the COVID-19 public health emergency affected SNAP QC data collection throughout most of FY 2021, the raw FY 2021 SNAP QC data file includes complete data for only three months—July 2021 through September 2021—for most States. Consequently, the edited FY 2021 SNAP QC database is a three-month file, with data for July 2021 through September 2021. Most States and territories contributed data for all three months. The exceptions are Delaware, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Louisiana, all of which have sample data for only two months. • September data were removed for Delaware due to a small sample size and for Guam due to nonrepresentative data that could not meet weighting targets. • September data for the District of Columbia and August data for Louisiana were missing from the raw data and thus are not in the edited file. Because there is a single database for FY 2021, the two period-specific weight variables in the FY 2020 database, FYWGT_PER1 and FYWGT_PER2, were removed from the FY 2021 database.Temporal Extent Start Date
2021-07-01Temporal Extent End Date
2021-09-30Frequency
- annually
Theme
- Non-geospatial
ISO Topic Category
- economy
- health
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; quality control; databases; Food and Nutrition Service; Americans; diet; public health; households; data collection;OMB Bureau Code
- 005:84 - Food and Nutrition Service
OMB Program Code
- 005:056 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Pending citation
- No
Public Access Level
- Public