Using American Community Survey data to expand access to the school meals programs /

"The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation's food security safety net, providing free or low-cost meals to millions of schoolchildren each day....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Estimating Children Eligible for School Nutrition Programs Using the American Community Survey, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Other Authors:	Schirm, Allen L., Kirkendall, Nancy J. (Nancy Jean)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2012]
Subjects:	School children > Food > United States. School children > Nutrition > Government policy > United States.
Online Access:	http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13409

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The school meals programs
Technical approach
Data analysis and results
A plan for implementing the AEO
Recommendations for future work.
Appendices: Glossary of acronyms and terms
Estimates of eligible students using the American Community Survey
Model-based estimates for school districts and school attendance areas
American Community Survey (ACS) and small area income and poverty estimates (SAIPE)-like tabulations requested from the U.S. Census Bureau
Data collected from school districts
Addiitonal information about the panel's analyses
Causes of systematic differences between American Community Survey (ACS) and administrative estimates.