# Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Access to Food

## Main Overview

This products consists of 4 datasets relating to access to food. Three of the 4 datasets are for populations within the United States. They consist of Food Security within the US, Food and Nutrition Service Programs within the US and The Food Access Research Atlas. One dataset consists of data for international food security among middle and lower income countries of the world.

## Data Sources

This listing contains the following four datasets that pertain to Access to Food in the United States and the world. More datasets may be added to this product in future.

### DEI-food-access-research-atlas

Presents an overview of food access indicators for low-income and other census tracts using different measures of supermarket accessibility;

Provides food access data for populations within census tracts; and offers census-tract-level data on food access that can be downloaded for community planning or research purposes.

#### Source:

- [US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service](https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/)

- Frequency: Annual

- Formats: CSV

- [Code on GitHub](https://github.com/rearc-data/dei-food-access-research-atlas)

### DEI-food-nutrition-service-programs

Provides selected statistical information on activity in all major Food and Nutrition Service Programs (FNS). These include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); child nutrition programs (National School Lunch, School Breakfast, Child and Adult Care, Summer Food Service and Special Milk); and food distribution programs (Schools, Emergency Food Assistance, Indian Reservations, Commodity Supplemental, Nutrition for the Elderly, and Charitable Institutions).

#### Source:

- [USDA Program Data Overview](https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/overview)

- Frequency: Annual

- Formats: CSV

- [Code on Github](https://github.com/rearc-data/dei-food-and-nutrition-service-programs-data)

### DEI-food-security-international

This dataset measures food availability and access for 76 low- and middle-income countries. The dataset includes annual country-level data on area, yield, production, nonfood use, trade, and consumption for grains and root and tuber crops (combined as R&T in the documentation tables), food aid, total value of imports and exports, gross domestic product, and population compiled from a variety of sources.

#### Source:

- [US Department of Agriculture](https://data.nal.usda.gov/dataset/international-food-security-0)

- Frequency: Annual

- Formats: CSV

- [Code on Github](https://github.com/rearc-data/dei-food-security-international)

### DEI-food-security-US

The CPS Food Security Supplement was conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the Economic

Research Service (ERS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Supplement questions were

asked of all interviewed households, as appropriate. The supplement was intended to research the full

range of severity of food insecurity as experienced in U.S. households.

#### Source:

- [US Census Bureau](https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/cps/cps-supp_cps-repwgt/cps-food-security.html#cpssupps)

- Frequency: Annual

- Formats: CSV

- [Code on Github](https://github.com/rearc-data/dei-food-security-US)

## Contact Details

- If you find any issues with or have enhancement ideas for this product, open up a GitHub issue and we will gladly take a look at it. Better yet, submit a pull request. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated :heart:.

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