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Child Nutrition Programs: Recommended Data

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Image of a little girl showing a lunch box full of nutritious foodsFANRP Project Database—Provides details on FANRP research projects, both past and ongoing, including the project's objective, funding level, researchers, and expected completion date. See projects under Child and Adult Care, School Lunch and Breakfast, and Summer Food Service.

National Data Sets Useful in Child Nutrition Research—Brief descriptions of national surveys and data sets with links to their sources. Surveys and data sets relevant to child nutrition include: the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B); the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K); Food and Nutrition Service Program Operations Data; the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF); the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD); and the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Eating and Health Module (ATUS) Data Set—The Eating & Health (EH) Module of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects data to analyze relationships among time use patterns and eating patterns, nutrition, and obesity; food and nutrition assistance programs; and grocery shopping and meal preparation. This data set can be used to measure where, when, and how long Americans eat, and also with whom they are eating. Estimates, analysis, and microdata files are available for 2006 and 2007 data.

 

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Updated date: October 7, 2009