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Title Food shopping patterns and geographic access to food : comparisons and data / Mary Henderson, editor
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Food and beverage consumption and health
Food and beverage consumption and health series.
Contents Where do Americans usually shop for food and how do they travel to get there? initial findings from the national household food acquisition and purchase survey / Michele Ver Ploeg, Lisa Mancino, Jessica F. Todd, Dawn Marie Clay and Benjamin Scharadin -- SNAP participation, food security, and geographic access to food / James Mabli -- Access to affordable and nutritious food : updated estimates of distance to supermarkets using 2010 data / Michele Ver Ploeg, Vince Breneman, Paula Dutko, Ryan Williams, Samantha Snyder, Chris Dicken and Phil Kaufman
Summary The National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) is the first survey to collect unique and comprehensive data about food purchases and acquisitions for a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. This book compares shopping patterns of (1) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) households to low- and higher income nonparticipant households, (2) participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to nonparticipants, and (3) food-insecure to food-secure households. Ensuring that Americans have adeq
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Grocery shopping -- Social aspects -- United States
Food consumption -- United States
Food supply -- United States
Grocery trade -- United States
Choice of transportation -- United States
COOKING -- General.
Choice of transportation
Food consumption
Food supply
Grocery trade
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Henderson, Mary, editor
LC no. 2020679033
ISBN 9781634831420
163483142X