| Food Stamp Participants 1 | Participants as a Percent of: | Child Participants As a Percent of: | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal Year | Including 2 Territories (in thousands) | Excluding Territories (in thousands) | Children Excld. Terr. (in thousands) | Total Population 3 | All Poor Persons 3 | Pre-transfer Poverty Population 4 | Total Child Population 3 | Children in Poverty 3 |
| 1962 | 6,554 | 6,554 | NA | 3.5 | 17.0 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1965 | 5,167 | 5,167 | NA | 2.7 | 15.6 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1970 | 8,317 | 8,317 | NA | 4.1 | 32.7 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1971 | 13,010 | 13,010 | NA | 6.3 | 50.9 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1972 | 14,111 | 14,111 | NA | 6.7 | 57.7 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1973 | 14,607 | 14,607 | NA | 6.9 | 63.6 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1974 | 14,288 | 14,288 | NA | 6.7 | 61.1 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1975 5 | 17,152 | 16,320 | NA | 7.6 | 63.1 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1976 | 18,628 | 17,033 | 9,126 | 7.8 | 68.2 | NA | 13.8 | 88.8 |
| 1977 | 17,161 | 15,604 | NA | 7.1 | 63.1 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1978 | 16,077 | 14,405 | NA | 6.5 | 58.8 | NA | NA | NA |
| 1979 6 | 17,758 | 15,942 | NA | 7.1 | 61.1 | 57.1 | NA | NA |
| 1980 | 21,173 | 19,253 | 9,876 | 8.5 | 65.8 | 60.7 | 15.5 | 85.6 |
| 1981 | 22,518 | 20,655 | 9,803 | 9.0 | 64.6 | 60.8 | 15.5 | 78.4 |
| 1982 | 22,224 | 20,392 | 9,591 | 8.8 | 59.3 | 56.3 | 15.3 | 70.3 |
| 1983 | 23,300 | 21,668 | 10,910 | 9.3 | 61.4 | 58.5 | 17.4 | 78.4 |
| 1984 | 22,379 | 20,796 | 10,492 | 8.8 | 61.7 | 58.5 | 16.8 | 78.2 |
| 1985 | 21,380 | 19,847 | 9,906 | 8.3 | 60.0 | 56.6 | 15.7 | 75.3 |
| 1986 | 20,904 | 19,381 | 9,844 | 8.1 | 59.9 | 56.2 | 15.7 | 76.5 |
| 1987 | 20,583 | 19,072 | 9,771 | 7.9 | 59.2 | 55.6 | 15.5 | 76.1 |
| 1988 | 20,095 | 18,613 | 9,351 | 7.6 | 58.6 | 55.2 | 14.8 | 75.1 |
| 1989 | 20,266 | 18,778 | 9,429 | 7.6 | 59.6 | 55.6 | 14.9 | 74.9 |
| 1990 | 21,529 | 20,020 | 10,127 | 8.0 | 59.6 | 55.7 | 15.8 | 75.4 |
| 1991 | 24,115 | 22,599 | 11,952 | 8.9 | 63.3 | 59.3 | 18.3 | 83.3 |
| 1992 | 26,886 | 25,370 | 13,349 | 9.9 | 66.7 | 64.0 | 20.1 | 87.3 |
| 1993 | 28,422 | 26,952 | 14,196 | 10.4 | 68.6 | 63.8 | 21.0 | 90.3 |
| 1994 | 28,878 | 27,433 | 14,391 | 10.4 | 72.1 | 66.8 | 21.0 | 94.1 |
| 1995 | 27,989 | 26,579 | 13,860 | 10.0 | 73.0 | 67.6 | 20.0 | 94.5 |
| 1996 | 26,875 | 25,494 | 13,189 | 9.5 | 69.8 | 64.6 | 18.8 | 91.2 |
| 1997 | 24,148 | 22,820 | 11,847 | 8.4 | 64.1 | 59.9 | 16.7 | 83.9 |
| 1998 | 20,969 | 19,745 | 10,524 | 7.2 | 57.3 | 53.8 | 14.7 | 78.1 |
| 1999 | 19,322 | 18,146 | 9,332 | 6.5 | 56.3 | 52.5 | 13.0 | 77.2 |
| 2000 | 18,240 | 17,120 | 8,743 | 6.1 | 55.0 | 51.7 | 12.1 | 75.5 |
| 2001 | 18,383 | 17,297 | 8,819 | 6.1 | 52.6 | 49.3 | 12.0 | 75.2 |
| 1 Total participants includes all participating States, the District of Columbia, and the territories (including Puerto Rico). The number of child participants includes only the participating States and D.C. (the territories are not included). From 1962 to 1983 the number of participants includes the Family Food Assistance Program (FFAP) that was largely replaced by the Food Stamp program in 1975. The FFAP participants (as of December) for the seven years shown during the period from 1962 to 1974 were respectively: 6,411; 4,742; 3,977; 3,642; 3,002; 2,441; and 1,406 (all in thousands). From 1975 to 1983 the number of FFAP participants averaged only 88 thousand. 2 Participation figures in column 1 from 1982 on include enrollment in Puerto Rico’s Nutrition Assistance Program (averaging 1.2 to 1.5 million persons a month under the nutrition assistance grant and higher figures in earlier years under Food Stamps) as shown in Table FSP 5. 3 Includes all participating States and the District of Columbia only--the territories are excluded from both numerator and denominator. Population numbers used as denominators are the resident population—see Current Population Reports, Series P25-1106. For the persons living in poverty used as denominators, see Current Population Reports, Series P60-210. 4 The pretransfer poverty population used as denominator is the number of all persons in families or living alone whose income (cash income plus social insurance plus Social Security but before taxes and means-tested transfers) falls below the appropriate poverty threshold. See Appendix J, Table 20, 1992 Green Book; data for subsequent years are unpublished Congressional Budget Office tabulations. 5 The first fiscal year in which food stamps were available nationwide. 6 The fiscal year in which the food stamp purchase requirement was eliminated, on a phased in basis. Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, National Data Bank, the 1996 Green Book, and U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Poverty in the United States: 2001," Current Population Reports, Series P60-219 and earlier years. |
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