The Food Stamp Program provides assistance to millions of families each month. This report examines how long families tend to receive food stamps, and what circumstances lead them to enter and exit the program. About half the families that begin receiving benefits participate for eight months or...

This report describes the design and development of the first MAX Enrollee Master file for 2005 and 2006. This file gives researchers a more effective means of linking Medicaid records over time and across states.

This report details the criteria and process behind the design and implementation of the Medicaid Analytic eXtract Provider Characteristics file, a uniform provider file for each Medicaid provider in MAX.

This report provides information on the participation patterns of infants and children who were enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) from 2001 through 2003. Several aspects of participation were examined including at what age and under...

During the 1990s, the Food Stamp Program caseload experienced both substantial growth and decline. Between 1990 and 1994, it increased by more than 44 percent; after 1994, it declined through 2001 by 43 percent. Following this drop, the caseload grew again, by about 38 percent through January...

This report describes the creation of the MAX DOD 2009 update file and the MAX DOD 1999–2009 master file. It provides a brief synopsis of the data sources used in this process and presents quality control statistics about both files. The appendices include the file layout, data...

This report for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services describes the design and implementation of a uniform data set of provider characteristics, the Medicaid Analytic eXtract Provider Characteristics (MAXPC) file. Using the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System as its source,...