Users' Evaluation of the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (aka.FoodAPS)

Appendix D. Questionnaire

FoodAPS User Experience Survey

Thank you for participating in this survey on your experience with the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS). This questionnaire is divided into three sections, which are intended to capture input from either investigators or data analysts.

• If you are the investigator: please respond to sections A. Background (for investigators) and C. Recommendations (for investigators and data analysts).

• If you are the data analyst: please respond to sections B. Data Usage (for data analysts) and C. Recommendations (for investigators and data analysts).

A. Background (General questions intended for investigators)

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1. What motivated you and your research team to use FoodAPS data?

2. Which other datasets, if any, could you have used to answer your research question(s) if FoodAPS had not been available?

B. Data Usage (Specific questions intended for data analysts)

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3. Please consider the documentation materials you used or are using for your study. How well did these materials meet your needs?

	Check if used	Poorly 1	2		Neutral 3	4		Well 5		Comments (optional)
User’s Guide
Household-Level
Household Codebook
HH Geodata Codebook
Access Codebook
SNAP Eligibility Estimation Codebook
Individual-Level
Individual Codebook
Meals Codebook
Event and Item-Level
Places Codebook
FAH Events Codebook
FAH Items Codebook
FAH Item IRI Codebook
FAFH Supplementary Documentation
FAFH Events Codebook
FAFH Items Codebook
Nutrient
FoodAPS Nutrient Coding Overview
FAH Nutrient Codebook
FAFH Nutrient Codebook

3. (Continued) How well did these materials meet your needs?

	Check if used	Poorly 1		2	Neutral 3			4		Well 5	Comments (optional)
Geography Component
Retail Environment Study Codebook
Variable List: Retail Environment Study
Construction of Weekly Store-Level Food Basket Costs: Documentation

General comments on documentation (optional):

3. Please consider the data files you used or are using for your study. How well did these data files meet your needs?

	Check if used	Poorly 1	2	Neutral 3	4	Well 5	Comments (optional)
Household-Level Data
faps_household
faps_hhweights
faps_hhgeodata
faps_access
faps_snapelig_hh
faps_snapelig_unit
faps_snapelig_ind
Individual-Level Data
faps_individual
faps_reportstatus
faps_meals
Event and Item-Level Data
faps_places
faps_fahevent
faps_fahitem
faps_fahitem_iri
faps_fafhevent
faps_fafhitem
Nutrient Data
faps_fahnutrient
faps_fafhnutrient
Geography Component Data
BGMain­_v6
BGRestaurant_v2
Tract_v5
County_v6
basketprices
basketprices_raw

4. (Continued) How well did these data files meet your needs?

	Check if used	Poorly 1	2	Neutral 3	4	Well 5	Comments (optional)
Store Linker Files
PlaceID_IRI_TempERSID
PlaceID_TDLinx_TempERSID
PlaceID_TempERSID

General comments on data files (optional):

5. Compared to your experience using similar datasets, how long did it take you to orient yourself with FoodAPS? Please consider the time you took to review documentation, learn about the data enclave, and any other preliminary tasks. Please highlight your response or mark it with an X.

Less time		Usual time		More time
1	2	3	4	5

Comments (optional):

6. How would you rate the ease or difficulty of linking FoodAPS data files? Please highlight your response or mark it with an X.

Very easy		Neither easy nor difficult		Very difficult
1	2	3	4	5

Comments (optional):

7. How would you rate the ease or difficulty of applying survey weights to FoodAPS data? Please highlight your response or mark it with an X.

Very easy		Neither easy nor difficult		Very difficult
1	2	3	4	5

Comments (optional):

8. What barriers, if any, did you encounter when using FoodAPS data?

C. Recommendations (General questions intended for investigators and data analysts)

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9. What are your suggestions, if any, for adjustments for a next round of FoodAPS? For example, your response may consider sample size, groups for oversampling, content focus areas, questions to ask, etc.

10. Are there any other comments you wish to share?

11. Would you be willing to answer follow-up questions via telephone? The purpose of a follow-up telephone call would be to clarify answers provided in writing. Please highlight your response or mark it with an X.

Yes

No