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Fiscal Year 2022 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database

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posted on 2024-07-08, 21:42 authored by Mia Monkovic, Joshua Leftin, Alma Vigil, Francisco Yang, Nima Rahimi, Andrew Wen

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) 2022, SNAP served an average of 41.2 million people monthly and paid out $114 billion in benefits, including emergency allotments to supplement SNAP benefits due to 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 FY 2022.

Funding

USDA-FNS: 12-3198-23-F-0016

History

Data contact name

Burt, Kameron

Data contact email

kameron.burt@usda.gov

Publisher

Ag Data Commons

Use limitations

The COVID-19 public health emergency resulted in an incomplete FY 2020 sample in the raw data file. FNS granted States temporary waivers on conducting QC reviews, starting in March 2020. Very few States collected QC data from March 2020 through May 2020. Most States opted to conduct QC reviews from June 2020 through September 2020, although FNS was unable to provide its usual level of oversight of the sampling procedures. Furthermore, monthly State samples for this period were often smaller than usual. As a result of these limited and incongruent data, Mathematica developed three separate SNAP QC databases for FY 2020. The first covers the pre-pandemic period of October 2019 through February 2020. The second covers the waiver period of June 2020 through September 2020 for the 47 States and territories that provided sufficient data for at least one of those months. The third combines the pre-pandemic period and the waiver period databases. The FY 2022 database contains data from all 12 sample months of the fiscal year (October 2021 through September 2022). Most States and territories contributed data for all 12 months. The exceptions were Alaska, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Rhode Island, and the Virgin Islands, all of which do not have sample data for at least one month.

Temporal Extent Start Date

2021-10-01

Temporal Extent End Date

2022-09-30

Frequency

  • 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;

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

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    Keywords

    FNSFood SecurityFood StampsSupplemental Nutrition Assistance ProgramSNAP

    Licence

    U.S. Public Domain

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