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Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2017 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel
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Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2017 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Published: Oct 01, 2018
Publisher: Washington, DC: Mathematica
Human Services Nutrition Nutrition and Food Assistance Programs Federal Data Management

Clients

USDA

Authors

Sarah Lauffer

Alma Vigil

Chrystine Tadler

Elaine Wilcox-Cook

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.

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