"An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess the effects of government policies on communities and families. In addition, poverty statistics are essential in determining the size and composition...

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Evaluating the Evidence for the Impacts of Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Other Aspects of Social Connection on Mortality -- 3 Health Impacts of Social Isolation and Loneliness on...

Front Matter -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 ERS's Current Consumer Food and Nutrition Data Infrastructure -- 3 Data and Knowledge Gaps -- 4 Strategies to Strengthen the Infrastructure of a Consumer Food Data System -- References -- Appendix A: Summary, First Meeting, April 16, 2018 --...

"Business structures, employment relationships, job characteristics, and worker outcomes have changed in the United States over the last few decades--in some ways unpredictably. A high level of interest exists among policy makers and researchers in addressing concerns about the future of work in...

Introduction -- Background: USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service and Economic Research Service -- Dimensions of farm complexity -- Conceptual issues : defining farming, farms, farmers, and agriculture -- The growing complexity of farm business structure : implications for data...