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2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015
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Reference ID
USA_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
United States Census Bureau, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Food stamp recipiency (US2015A_FOODSTMP)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 319
End: 319
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Housing</span>
<br />Please answer the following questions about the house, apartment, or mobile home at the address on the mailing label.</p>

<p>15. In the past 12 months, did anyone in this household receive Food Stamps or a Food Stamp benefit card? </p>
<div class="i1">Include government benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Do NOT include WIC or the National School Lunch Program. <br /><br />[] Yes<br />[] No</div>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 No
2 Yes
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates a quality food stamp recipiency.
Universe
United States 2015: Private occupied households [discrepancies: none]

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Concept
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