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Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2018 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel
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Technical Documentation for the Fiscal Year 2018 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Quality Control Database and the QC Minimodel

Published: Oct 01, 2019
Publisher: Washington, DC: Mathematica
Human Services Nutrition Nutrition and Food Assistance Programs Federal Data Management

Associated Project

Using Microsimulation in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Policy Analysis

Time frame: 2016–Present

Prepared for:

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service

Clients

USDA

Authors

Kathryn Cronquist

Sarah Lauffer

Chrystine Tadler

Sarah Hong

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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