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Characteristics of SNAP Households: Fiscal Year 2012

Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

This annual report provides details on the demographic characteristics and economic circumstances of SNAP households at both the national and the State level. In 2012, one-person households comprised more than half the caseload (50.3 percent) and the average SNAP household benefit declined by $7 to $274.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
Publisher Food and Nutrition Service
Maintainer
Identifier USDA-FNS-44
Data Last Modified 2014-02-14
Rights Public
Public Access Level public
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Data Quality True
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Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Program Code 005:056
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash b43492bfe0eb65396aa0f2093df06eb36d68886a96592dcdfc59c40f924a5a48
Source Schema Version 1.1

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