Food Access
This means having enough food available, but also being able to actually get and afford it.
What is food access?
This type of data can be counted, measured, or represented with numbers.
What is quantitative data?
This is when a survey question is written in a way that pushes people toward a particular answer
What is bias?
This is the information you are trying to collect through a survey or research project.
What is data?
YPAR stands for this.
What is Youth Participatory Action Research?
This refers to whether people have enough money to buy the food they need.
What is Affordability?
This type of data helps us understand people's experiences, opinions, stories, or explanations.
What is qualitative data?
“Don’t you agree that our neighborhood has terrible food options?” What is wrong with this question?
What is leading or biased?
A characteristic that can change from person to person or situation to situation is called this.
What is a variable?
True or false: The goal of YPAR is to collect information and then stop once the survey is finished.
What is false?
This factor can affect food access when someone does not have a car, reliable public transportation, or another way to get to a food source.
What is transportation?
“How many times did you visit a grocery store last month?” This is an example of what type of question?
What is quantitative?
“How much do you love the grocery stores in your neighborhood?” What makes this question problematic?
What is loaded or leading language?
If you are studying food access, name one variable you might measure.
What are income, transportation, distance to food, food cost, frequency of grocery shopping, etc.?
After collecting survey responses, this step helps researchers understand what the information is telling them.
What is analysis?
This describes how close or far someone is from a grocery store, food pantry, farmers market, or other food source.
What is geographic location?
“What makes it difficult for you to get the food you want?” This is an example of what type of question?
What is qualitative?
Which is more neutral:
A) “Why is food access so terrible here?” or
B) “How would you describe food access in your neighborhood?”
What is B?
This is a specific measurement you use to determine whether your project is making progress.
What is a metric of success?
After analyzing the data, young people and community members can use what they learned to do this.
What is take action/create change?
Name three factors that can affect whether someone has access to food.
What are affordability, transportation, location, availability, quality, time, disability/accessibility, or cultural appropriateness?
If you want to know both how many people experience a problem and why they experience it, what two types of information might you collect?
What are quantitative and qualitative data?
Why is it important to make survey questions neutral?
What is so people can answer honestly without being pushed toward a particular response?
Your goal is to increase young people's awareness of local food resources. Name one thing you could measure to determine whether you succeeded.
What is knowledge of available resources, number of people who can identify resources, resource use, etc.?
Put these steps in the correct order: Analyze → Identify an Issue → Take Action → Collect Data → Reflect
What is Identify an Issue → Collect Data → Analyze → Reflect → Take Action?