Datasets / Nutrition Assistance in Farmers Markets: Understanding the Shopping Patterns of SNAP Participants


Nutrition Assistance in Farmers Markets: Understanding the Shopping Patterns of SNAP Participants

Published By Department of Agriculture

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

This study was undertaken to understand why some SNAP participants shop at farmers markets and others in the same geographic area do not. Results suggest that SNAP participants buy most of their fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers markets. Of those who shop at farmers markets, overall value including quality and price are major reasons for shopping at markets. Of those who do not, reasons for not shopping at farmers markets centered on convenience.