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In fact, household participation has been climbing so steadily that it has just surpassed the last peak set as a result of the immediate fallout following hurricane Katrina.
The latest data released by the Department of Agriculture shows that, on a year-over-year basis, household participation has increased 9.79% while individual participation, as a ratio of the overall population, has increased 8.26%.
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Individual participation, person participation as a percentage of the overall non-institutional population, shows program participation increasing now covering 12.42% of the civilian population.