FSLNCHFRC
Household children received free/reduced-cost lunches at school during past month
- Codes
- Description
- Comparability
- Universe
- Availability
- Flags
- Questionnaire Text
- UnHarmonized Variables
Codes and Frequencies
Description
FSLNCHFRC indicates whether the children in the household between the ages of 5 and 18 received free or reduced cost lunch at school in the past 30 days.
This variable is part of the Food Security Supplement.
Comparability
This variable is comparable across available years, but the universe changes over time. Between 1995 and 1999, this question is asked only of households with incomes below 185% of poverty. From 2000 forward, higher income households that reported running short of money for food (FSSHORT) are also included in the universe.
Universe
- 1995-1999: Households below 185% poverty that contain a child between the ages of 5 and 18.
- 2000-2021: Households below 185% poverty or have run short of money for food in the past year that contain a child between the ages of 5 and 18.
- Apr 2001: Households in months-in-sample 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 who are below 185% poverty or have run short of money for food in the past year and who contain a child between the ages of 5 and 18.
- 2022: Households below 185 percent of the poverty line, or households that indicate they often or sometimes do not have enough to eat or have enough but not the kind of food they want to eat, or report being short of money for food and tried to make their food/food money go further in the last year, and contain a child between the ages of 5 and 18.
Availability
| Years | Jan | Feb | ASEC | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1996 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | X | - | - | - |
| 1997 | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1998 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - |
| 1999 | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2000 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | X | - | - | - |
| 2001 | - | - | - | X | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | X |
| 2002 – 2022 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | X |
