Demographic Research #5265
Food Insecurity among Homeless and Precariously Housed Children in the 
United States: Lessons from the Past

Authors: Barrett A. Lee & Adam M. Lippert

Data used: National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC) 

Software used: Stata v.16; RStudio v.1.4.1717-3

What's included here:
1. Stata syntax file recoding study variables from NSHAPC data set, implementing multiple imputation, estimating regression models, and retaining marginal mean predicted probabilities of the outcome (child food insecurity) for graphing.

2. Stata syntax file recoding CPS 1996 data for comparison of food insecurity between low-income domiciled families and those from the NSHAPC study. 

3. R Markdown file used to graph predicted probabilities of the outcome (see Figs 3 & 4).


Users can obtain the NSHAPC data from the following (select 'client data'):
https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/1996/demo/nshapc/nshapc-datasets.html

Users can obtain CPS data from the following (select September 1996):
https://www.nber.org/research/data/reading-current-population-survey-cps-data-sas-spss-or-stata


Key measures and variables used from the NSHAPC file to make them:
Number of child dependents present: H2105-H2705 
Rural oversample indicator: revdef
Repeat survey taker flag/did not finish interview flag: H0023 H0025
Adult - felt hungry: H1185 H1186
Adult - whole day w/out eating: H1188
Adult - consumes < 3 meals/day: H1184
Child - skipped meal: H1305 H1183
Child - felt hungry: H1307 H1183
Child - whole day w/out eating: H1309 H1183
Child - consumes < 3 meals/day: H1304 H1183
Current homeless status: homlss
Age of children in R's care: H2101-H2701 H2102-H2702 H2105-H2705
Proportion of kids in 'school': H2111-H2711 H2113-H2713 H2129-H2729 H2105-H2705 
Stayed with family/friends: H0420 H0427 H0434 H0930 H0937 H0944
Parental exposure to abuse in childhood: H1600-H1602
Alcohol or drug abuse problem: ALC_NOW DRG_NOW
Mental health problems index: MH_ASI
Victimization while homeless: H1596-H1599
Ever incarcerated: H1592 H1594
Parent's educational adversity: H1127 H1130 H1131 
Parent lived in foster care as child: H0574-H0579 H1039-H1044
Chronic health problems (diabetes, hypertension, arthritis): H1446 H1448 H1451
Urban Institute's education var: educ 
Employment: H1311-H1316
Has worked half or more of adult life: H1344 
Received financial support from kin/friends: H1360-H1363
Relationship status: H1134 H1135
Food stamp receipt amount: H1374 H1375
Governmental assistance (current): GBX_NOW 
Housing subsidy (current or previously): H1377 H1387
Received in-kind assistance: H1405-H1416
Met dental/medical needs of children: H1583 H1559
Location where respondent was recruited: screen 
Urban-suburban-rural location: urbrural 
Age in years: H0021 H0022
Sex/gender: H1084 
Race: race 
Self-reported income categories: incgrp
Visited outreach worker or drop-in center past 7 days: H0297 H0305 H0799 H0807
Used extreme sources for income:  H1364-H1367
Medicaid receipt: H1399
Last medical checkup: H1467
Most urgent needs (R self-report): H1814

              

Key measures and variables used from the CPS file to make them:
Household sampling weight: hwhhwgt 
Family income: hufaminc 
Poverty indicator: hrpoor 
Respondent age: peage 
Contiguous US indicator:gestcen 
Household id: hrhhid 
Adult - whole day w/out eating: hes11 hes11a hes16 hes28 hes30 
Adult - felt hungry: hes11 hes11a hes16 hes35 hes36 
Adult - skipped meal: hes11 hes11a hes16 hes24 hes26 
Child - skipped meal: hes43 hes45 hes11 hes11a hrpoor 
Child - felt hungry: hes47 hes48 hes11 hes11a hrpoor 
Child - whole day w/out eating: hes50 hes51 hes11 hes11a hrpoor 
Number persons living in household: rnumhou 
Determine household head: perrp 
Respondent marital status: pemaritl 
Respondent race: perace 
Respondent Hispanic ethnicity: prhspnon