Data from: Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii

This online supplement contains data files and computer code, enabling the public to reproduce the results of the analysis described in the report titled “Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii” published by USDA FNS in July 2023. The report is available at: https://www.fns.usda.gov/cnpp/tfp-akhi. The online supplement contains a user guide, which describes the contents of the online supplement in detail, provides a data dictionary, and outlines the methodology used in the analysis; a data file in CSV format, which contains the most detailed information on food price differentials between the mainland U.S. and Alaska and Hawaii derived from Circana (formerly Information Resources Inc) retail scanner data as could be released without disclosing proprietary information; SAS and R code, which use the provided data file to reproduce the results of the report; and an excel spreadsheet containing the reproduced results from the SAS or R code. For technical inquiries, contact: FNS.FoodPlans@usda.gov.

Resources in this dataset:

• Resource title: Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii Online Supplement User Guide File name: TFPCostEstimatesForAlaskaAndHawaii-UserGuide.pdf Resource description: The online supplement user guide describes the contents of the online supplement in detail, provides a data dictionary, and outlines the methodology used in the analysis.

• Resource title: Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii Online Supplement Data File File name: TFPCostEstimatesforAlaskaandHawaii-OnlineSupplementDataFile.csv Resource description: The online supplement data file contains food price differentials between the mainland United States and Anchorage and Honolulu derived from Circana (formerly Information Resources Inc) retail scanner data. The data was aggregated to prevent disclosing proprietary information.

• Resource title: Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii Online Supplement R Code File name: TFPCostEstimatesforAlaskaandHawaii-OnlineSupplementRCode.R Resource description: The online supplement R code enables users to read in the online supplement data file and reproduce the results of the analysis as described in the Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii report using the R programming language.

• Resource title: Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii Online Supplement SAS Code (zipped) File name: TFPCostEstimatesforAlaskaandHawaii-OnlineSupplementSASCode.zip Resource description: The online supplement SAS code enables users to read in the online supplement data file and reproduce the results of the analysis as described in the Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii report using the SAS programming language. This SAS file is provided in zip format for compatibility with Ag Data Commons; users will need to unzip the file prior to its use.

• Resource title: Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii Online Supplement Reproduced Results File name: TFPCostEstimatesforAlaskaandHawaii-ReproducedResults.xlsx Resource description: The online supplement reproduced results are output from either the online supplement R or SAS code and contain the results of the analysis described in the Thrifty Food Plan Cost Estimates for Alaska and Hawaii report.