Current Population Survey, December 2004: Food Security Supplement

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 2004 CPS questionnaire. The CPS Food Security supplement was sponsored and conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).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.The supplement was intended to research the full range of severity of food insecurity as experienced in United States households. The food security questions were asked of all interviewed households, as appropriate. 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.

本数据集由两类调查问卷的回复数据构成，分别为基础版现行人口调查（Current Population Survey，CPS），以及作为2004年12月CPS问卷附加模块开展的美国粮食安全主题调查。该CPS粮食安全附加模块由美国人口普查局为美国农业部（United States Department of Agriculture，USDA）下属的经济研究服务局（Economic Research Service，ERS）赞助并实施。现行人口调查为月度开展的劳动力调查，旨在提供美国人口经济状况与活动的当期估算数据。具体而言，该调查可提供总就业人数（涵盖农业与非农业就业）、非农业自营劳动者、非农业家庭企业中的家政人员与无报酬协助者、薪资雇员的相关估算，以及总失业人数的估算结果。CPS的统计数据对应调查开展前一周的情况。本附加模块旨在研究美国家庭所经历的粮食不安全的全谱系严重程度。所有符合条件的受访家庭均需回答粮食安全相关问题，受访者被问询的内容包括家庭食品支出额、联邦与社区粮食援助项目的使用情况、是否有足够财力购买充足食品、食品充足性，以及应对食品短缺的各类方式。本次数据集涵盖的人口统计变量包括年龄、性别、种族、西班牙裔血统、婚姻状况、退伍军人身份、受教育程度、职业与收入。