Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2012 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and QC Minimodel

This technical documentation describes how the raw SNAP Quality Control data are cleaned and edited to create the SNAP QC database. It also describes how the QC Minimodel—one of FNS’s SNAP microsimulation models—uses the SNAP QC database to simulate the effect of various policy changes to SNAP on current SNAP participants.