Here, we are interested in the group of food stamp recipients, and we can filter the table to show only these data. We can use the “columns” button on the right -hand side of the screen to select the statistics we would like to see. Figure 31 shows the options that appear, and we can uncheck boxes that we don’t need. Let’s select the options to view raw numbers and percentages that pertain to the group of SNAP recipients.
Figure 31: Selecting table columns.
We’ve now obtained information on our resid ent group of interest but have not yet narrowed down the data to our county. We are viewing the default display that describes the entire United States. We can see that, for example, of all households receiving SNAP benefits in the US, 47.3 percent lived below the poverty level, and 52.7 percent had household income at or above the poverty level in 2019. If we instead filtered our table to households not receiving SNAP benefits (Try it!), we would see that only 8.4 percent had income below the poverty level among the latter group. In comparison, 91.6 percent had income at or above the poverty level in the same year. Looking at this data point alone tells us that SNAP recipients are a vulnerable group.
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