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Food Assistance and Obesity: Measuring the Link—ERS hosted a workshop in July 2007 for researchers to discuss the merits of different data sets and methodologies in food assistance and obesity research. Discussion goals included sharing recent findings from ongoing and completed studies, increasing awareness of common empirical challenges and how to address them in obesity and food assistance studies, identifying research gaps, and identifying variables to add to survey instruments. For an agenda of the workshop with presentation titles, contact Katherine Ralston.
Methodology To Evaluate
the Outcomes of the Team Nutrition Initiative in Schools,
June 2006—This project develops a data collection
methodology to evaluate outcomes of Team Nutrition, a
voluntary USDA school-based initiative to promote nutrition
education, healthy eating, and physical activity. The
project uses information technology to collect high-quality
data while decreasing respondent and investigator burden
and lowering data collection and analysis costs. Seven
data collection instruments were developed: five collect
information from school personnel, one collects information
from students, and the seventh is an on-site observation
of the school environment. The pilot test and methodology
could be instructive and adapted by other States.
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