In November 2016, the United States Department of Agriculture published a study that used “calendar year 2011 point-of-sale transaction data from a leading grocery retailer to examine the food choices of [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)] and non-SNAP households.”
In an appendix, the report ranks the total spending on major commodities by SNAP households and non-SNAP households — but as a PDF table. This repository contains the commodity spending table (Appendix A-4), converted to a tab-separated values file. That file contains seven columns:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
commodity |
The name of the commodity |
snap_rank |
The rank of this commodity, by spending, among SNAP households |
snap_spending |
The total expenditures ($ millions) on this commodity, in this study, among SNAP households |
snap_pct_of_total |
The percentage of all expenditures that this commodity accounted for, among SNAP households |
nonsnap_rank |
The rank of this commodity, by spending, among non-SNAP households |
nonsnap_spending |
The total expenditures ($ millions), in this study, among non-SNAP households |
nonsnap_pct_of_total |
The percentage of all expenditures that this commodity accounted for, among non-SNAP households |
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