Community Food Assessment Program

Sources of Data for Community Food Assessments

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm

Center for Science in the Public Interest
http://www.cspinet.org

Directory of news media in the US
http://newsdirectory.com

Directory of newspapers in the US
http://newsdirectory.com/news/press/na/us

FedStats [data from federal agencies]
http://www.fedstats.gov

Food and Nutrition Services: Program Data
http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd

Food Research and Action Center
http://www.frac.org

Food Finder: Fast Food Facts
http://www.olen.com/food

Healthy People 2010: national baseline health data
http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/

Household Food Security in the United States, 2000
http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsec/

National Directory of Farmers' Markets
http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets

State and Local Government on the Net
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

US Census Bureau: American Factfinder
http://factfinder.census.gov

USDA Census of Agriculture
http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/

USDA Economic Research Service
http://www.ers.usda.gov

US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/

US National Agricultural Library
http://www.nal.usda.gov

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Community Food Assessment Program Resources:

• Assessment and Hunger Study Project Summaries
  
• Reports From Food Assessments and Related Studies Conducted Outside California
  
• Community Food Assessment Projects Currently Underway in California
  
• Frequently Asked Questions
  
• Survey Tools
  
• Other Helpful Resources for Community Food Assessments
  
• Sources of Data for Community Food Assessments
  
• Community Food Assessments and Policy

Funding provided by the California Department of Health Services and the California Nutrition Network, with funding support from the US Department of Agriculture.