Food service delivery systems used in providing nutrition services to the elderly

Description

A grant from the Administration on Aging provided the support for this data collection. The data file contains information gathered on nutrition projects serving the elderly. The sample represents nutrition projects funded through Title IIIC of the Older American Act of 1965. This sample, which was stratified according to the rural or urban character of the project and its predominant delivery system (a total of ten categories), represented approximately ten percent of all nutrition projects in operation at the time. Variables in the dataset include project characteristics, sample site characteristics, meals served, number of meals served and prepared and participant/visitor contributions during two-day test period, background information on delivery systems, project-level labor and administrative costs, meal site labor and administrative costs, central kitchen labor and administrative costs, and capital expenses.