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Description & Citation--Study No. 21962

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:21962
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR21962
 
Title:Current Population Survey, December 2006: Food Security Supplement
 
Alternate Title:CPS, December 2006
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
  United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics
 
  United States Census Bureau for the Economic Research Service. United States Department of Agriculture
 
Series:Current Population Survey Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and United States Census Bureau for the Economic Research Service. United States Department of Agriculture. Current Population Survey, December 2006: Food Security Supplement [Computer File]. ICPSR21962-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-07-23. doi:10.3886/ICPSR21962
 

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection is comprised of responses from two sets of survey questionnaires, the basic Current Population Survey (CPS) and a survey on the topic of food security in the United States, which was administered as a supplement to the December 2006 CPS questionnaire.

The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment. Data from the CPS are provided for the week prior to the survey.

All persons eligible for the labor force items of the basic CPS were also eligible for the supplement. The supplement was designed to be a proxy response supplement, meaning a single respondent could provide answers for all eligible household members, provided the respondent was a household member 15 years of age or older. The supplement was intended to research the full range of severity of food insecurity as experienced in United States households. Respondents were queried on how much the household spent for food, their use of federal and community food assistance programs, whether they were able to afford enough food, food sufficiency, and ways of coping with not having enough food.

Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income.

 
Subject Term(s):census data, compensation, demographic characteristics, economic conditions, employment, federal assistance, food aid, food preferences, food security, food shortages, full-time employment, Hispanic origins, household composition, households, hunger, income, industry, labor (work), labor force, part-time employment, population characteristics, wages and salaries, work, work experience, working hours
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:December 2006
 
Date(s) of Collection:December 2006
 
Unit of Observation:individuals within housing units
 
Universe:All persons in the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States living in households.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:These data are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed the data. Consistency checks and standardization of missing values were performed by the principal investigators. Users should contact the principal investigators if further information is desired.
 
  The file is sorted by state rank by core-based statistical areas (CBSA) rank by household identification number by line number.
 
  Users need to note that the supplement items were used by the supplement sponsor to produce a scaled measure of food insecurity. Responses to individual items in the supplement may not be meaningful measures of food insecurity. Measures that combine information from multiple items are generally considered to be more reliable measures of food security and food insecurity. Users are strongly encouraged to read the User Guide, which contains the questionnaires for the supplements and additional technical documentation.
 

Methodology

Sample:A multistage probability sample based on results of the decennial Census was used for the housing unit.
 
Weight:There are household and person supplement weights associated with the December 2006 Food Security supplement. Use these weights for tallying the supplement items. Limit the sample to one record per household for household tallies. Please refer to the User Guide for additional information concerning the creation and use of the weight variables.
 
Mode of Data Collection:computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI)
 
  computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2008-07-23
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Current Population Survey, December 2006: Food Security Supplement
 

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