Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Skip to content

Delta Food Outlets Study

Metadata Updated: May 8, 2025

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. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Delta Food Outlets Data Dictionary. File Name: DFO_DataDictionary_Public.csvResource Description: This file contains the data dictionary for all 3 datasets that are part of the Delta Food Outlets Study.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset One NEMS-C. File Name: NEMS-C Data.csvResource Description: This file contains data collected with the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS) tool for convenience stores.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Two NEMS-G. File Name: NEMS-G Data.csvResource Description: This file contains data collected with the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS) tool for grocery stores.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel Resource Title: Dataset Three NEMS-R. File Name: NEMS-R Data.csvResource Description: This file contains data collected with the Nutrition Environment Measures Survey (NEMS) tool for restaurants.Resource Software Recommended: Microsoft Excel,url: https://products.office.com/en-us/excel

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

Downloads & Resources

Dates

Metadata Created Date April 10, 2024
Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 10, 2024
Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025
Publisher Agricultural Research Service
Maintainer
Identifier 10.15482/USDA.ADC/1503704
Data Last Modified 2025-04-28
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 005:18
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 2ab0d59e-5505-4a8b-8e1d-1262828f27e3
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Old Spatial {"type": "MultiPoint", "coordinates": -90.729012, 33.743119, -91.052314, 33.383461, -90.852898, 33.176105, -90.890925, 33.404834, -90.771987, 33.601492}
Program Code 005:040
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 03b974e1659ccbf87314fd5c2c17772db91930244ca805d835c59687559c3339
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial {"type": "MultiPoint", "coordinates": -90.729012, 33.743119, -91.052314, 33.383461, -90.852898, 33.176105, -90.890925, 33.404834, -90.771987, 33.601492}
Temporal 2016-03-01/2018-09-01

Didn't find what you're looking for? Suggest a dataset here.