Graph and download economic data for Government social benefits: to persons: Federal: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (TRP6001A027NBEA) from 1961 to 2023 about assistance, social assistance, nutrition, food stamps, benefits, federal, food, government, GDP, and USA.

Analysis of ‘US Public Food Assistance’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/jpmiller/publicassistance on 13 February 2022.

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Context

This dataset focuses on public assistance programs in the United States that provide food, namely SNAP and WIC. If you are interested in a broader picture of food security across the world, please see Food Security Indicators for the World 2016-2020.

Initial coverage was for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Program, or simply WIC. The program allocates Federal and State funds to help low-income women and children up to age five who are at nutritional risk. Funds are used to provide supplemental foods, baby formula, health care, and nutrition education.

Starting with version 5, the dataset also covers the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more commonly known as SNAP. The program is the successor to the Food Stamps program previously in place. The program provides food assistance to low-income families in the form of a debit card. A 2016 study using POS data from SNAP-eligible vendors showed the three most purchased types of food to be meats, sweetened beverages, and vegetables.

Content

Files may include participation data and spending for state programs, and poverty data for each state. Data for WIC covers fiscal years 2013-2016, which is actually October 2012 through September 2016. Data for SNAP covers 2015 to 2020.

Motivation

My original purpose here is two-fold:

• Explore various aspects of US Public Assistance. Show trends over recent years and better understand differences across state agencies. Although the federal government sponsors the program and provides funding, program are administered at the state level and can widely vary. Indian nations (native Americans) also administer their own programs.

• Share with the Kaggle Community the joy - and pain - of working with government data. Data is often spread across numerous agency sites and comes in a variety of formats. Often the data is provided in Excel, with the files consisting of multiple tabs. Also, files are formatted as reports and contain aggregated data (sums, averages, etc.) along with base data.

As of March 2nd, I am expanding the purpose to support the M5 Forecasting Challenges here on Kaggle. Store sales are partly driven by participation in Public Assistance programs. Participants typically receive the items free of charge. The store then recovers the sale price from the state agencies administering the program.

Additional Content Ideas

The dataset can benefit greatly from additional content. Economics, additional demographics, administrative costs and more. I'd like to eventually explore the money trail from taxes and corporate subsidies, through the government agencies, and on to program participants. All community ideas are welcome!

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