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Delta Food Outlets Study

The Delta Food Outlets Study was an observational study designed to assess the nutritional environments of 5 towns located in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi. It was an ancillary study to the Delta Healthy Sprouts Project and therefore included towns in which Delta Healthy Sprouts participants resided and that contained at least one convenience (corner) store, grocery store, or gas station. Data were collected via electronic surveys between March 2016 and September 2018 using the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS) tools. Survey scores for the NEMS Corner Store, NEMS Grocery Store, and NEMS Restaurant were computed using modified scoring algorithms provided for these tools via SAS software programming. Because the towns were not randomly selected and the sample sizes are relatively small, the data may not be generalizable to all rural towns in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi.

Dataset one (NEMS-C) contains data collected with the NEMS Corner (convenience) Store tool.
Dataset two (NEMS-G) contains data collected with the NEMS Grocery Store tool.
Dataset three (NEMS-R) contains data collected with the NEMS Restaurant tool.

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FieldValue
Tags
nutrition environment
convenience stores
grocery stores
restaurants
Lower Mississippi Delta
rural
assessment
NP107
Modified
2022-09-28
Release Date
2019-04-10
Identifier
920c63e1-a525-4b43-85fb-e7fb47045b0e
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area
POINT (-90.729012 33.743119)
POINT (-91.052314 33.383461)
POINT (-90.852898 33.176105)
POINT (-90.890925 33.404834)
POINT (-90.771987 33.601492)
Publisher
Ag Data Commons
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location
Bolivar and Humphreys counties, Lower Mississippi Delta region, Mississippi
Temporal Coverage
March 1, 2016 to September 1, 2018
License
Creative Commons CCZero
Data Dictionary

https://data.nal.usda.gov/dataset/delta-food-outlets-study/resource/49d2...
Contact Name
Thomson, Jessica
Contact Email
jessica.thomson@usda.gov
Public Access Level
Public
Program Code
005:040 - Department of Agriculture - National Research
Bureau Code
005:18 - Agricultural Research Service
Extended Metadata: 
FieldValue
Authors
Thomson, Jessica L. (ORCID)
Peer Reviewed
No
Intended Use
These are survey data collected using the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey tools. They can be used to describe and compare nutrition environment scores for convenience stores, grocery stores, and restaurants located in 5 towns in the rural Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi.
Use Limitations
These data were collected on 5 specific towns in the rural Lower Mississippi Delta region of Mississippi. Because the towns were not selected randomly and the sample sizes are relatively small, generalizability of the data is limited.
Equipment or Software Used
Nutrition Environment Measures Survey tools
Snap Surveys
SAS, version 9.4
Funding Sources
Agricultural Research Service
6401-51000-001-00D
Primary Article

Thomson, J. L., Goodman, M. H., & Landry, A. S. (2020). Measurement of Nutrition Environments in Grocery Stores, Convenience Stores, and Restaurants in the Lower Mississippi Delta. Preventing Chronic Disease, 17. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.190293

AgID: 6949579
Related Articles

Goodman, M., Thomson, J., & Landry, A. (2020). Food Environment in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Food Deserts, Food Swamps and Hot Spots. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(10), 3354. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103354

AgID: 7019811

Thomson, J. L., & Landry, A. S. (2020). Three datasets for nutrition environment measures of food outlets located in the Lower Mississippi Delta region of the United States. F1000Research, 9, 1307. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.27192.1
Dataset DOI (digital object identifier)
10.15482/USDA.ADC/1503704
Product Type
Dataset
FieldValue
OSTI Identifier
ISO Topic(s)
environment
health
location
State or Territory
Mississippi
National Agricultural Library Thesaurus Term
observational studies
towns
Mississippi Delta region
Mississippi
grocery stores
surveys
nutrition
restaurants
algorithms
computer software
data collection
Ag Data Commons Keywords
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Nutrition

Suggested Citations:

(original article) Thomson, J. L., Goodman, M. H., & Landry, A. S. (2020). Measurement of Nutrition Environments in Grocery Stores, Convenience Stores, and Restaurants in the Lower Mississippi Delta. Preventing Chronic Disease, 17. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.190293

(dataset) Thomson, Jessica L. (2019). Delta Food Outlets Study. Ag Data Commons. https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1503704. Accessed 2023-12-07.