DOI: 10.3886/icpsr36356.v1
title: Bridging the Gap, Elementary School Data (Food and Fitness Survey)
title: Version 1

description: The Food and Fitness Survey is part of the larger Bridging the Gap (BTG) research program, which is a research initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The primary goals of the Food and Fitness survey project were to obtain nationally representative information on school practices, and to obtain information about the association between district-level wellness policies and practices in those schools. Food and Fitness involved annual surveys of school-level respondents at elementary schools from the 2006-07 to the 2012-13 school years. This study contains data from these surveys for public and private elementary schools from the 2006-07 to the 2012-13 school years.
Topics of the surveys include school characteristics, school meal options and prices, food advertisements in schools, food practices in classrooms and school functions, meal times during the day, physical education facilities and curriculum, methods of transportation to and from school, school wellness policies, school beverage guidelines, the "Nutritional Guidelines for Competitive Foods", school vending machines, and a la carte as well as school store food and beverage offerings.
description: Nonresponse-adjusted data weights were calculated by the consultants at the Institute for Social Research. These calculations adjusted for potential differences in patterns of responding by schools with different demographic characteristics. The weights accounted for the following school characteristics: census region; urbanicity; percentage of white students; percentage of black students; percentage of Latino students; Title 1 eligibility; number of grade 3 students; region x percentage black students; and region x percentage Latino students.
description: Response Rates: Response rates vary annually.
description: For public schools, a two-stage selection approach was used, with a nationally-representative sample of districts selected first, followed by a sample of schools from within those districts. In Years 1-5 the sampling approach used a probability proportional to size (pps) method, switching to a stratified simple random sample (stsrs) for Years 6-8. The private school sample was drawn using a single stage probability proportional to size (pps) design in which the measure of size variable was the number of grade 3 students enrolled in the school.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Public Schools Year 1 (2006-2007 school year)
DS2: Private Schools Year 1 (2006-2007 school year)
DS3: Public Schools Year 2 (2007-2008 school year)
DS4: Private Schools Year 2 (2007-2008 school year)
DS5: Public Schools Year 3 (2008-2009 school year)
DS6: Private Schools Year 3 (2008-2009 school year)
DS7: Public Schools Year 4 (2009-2010 school year)
DS8: Private Schools Year 4 (2009-2010 school year)
DS9: Public Schools Year 5 (2010-2011 school year)
DS10: Private Schools Year 5 (2010-2011 school year)
DS11: Public Schools Year 6 (2011-2012 school year)
DS12: Private Schools Year 6 (2011-2012 school year)
DS13: Public Schools Year 7 (2012-2013 school year)
description: Public and private elementary schools in the United States. Smallest Geographic Unit: census region
description: mail questionnaire; web-based surveyThe data files, setups and record layout files are encoded with the UTF-8 character encoding standard.For more information on the Bridging the Gap, Elementary
School Data (Food and Fitness Survey), please visit the Bridging the Gap Web site.