Characteristics of National School Lunch and School Breakfast ProgramParticipants

摘要

The report represents the characteristics of schools and students by their schoolmeal program participation and certification status in the spring of 1992. The analysis is based on data from the most recent school nutrition data collection effort, the 1992 School Nutrition Dietary Assessment survey. First, the authors compare the demographic and economic characteristics of schools that offer both the NSLP and the SBP to schools that offer only the NSLP and schools that offer neither meal program. Second, they compare the attributes of students certified to receive free meals to those certified to receive reduced-price meals and those not certified. They also examine differences between particpating and nonparticipating students.