Notes: State agencies could report up to 10 nutritional risk criteria for each participant. This figure shows all the risk criteria reported for every participant. When multiple risk criteria within the same nutritional risk were reported for one person, these criteria were combined and counted one time to accurately calculate the number and percentage of participants assigned a nutritional risk or broad risk category.
Participants with no nutritional risks reported are not shown but included in the denominator. In 2018, 0.1 percent of participants had no nutritional risks reported.
Source: Kline, N., Thorn, B., Bellows, D., Wroblewska, K., & Wilcox-Cook, E. (2020). WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2018. Alexandria, VA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service.
For more information on the nutritional risks of WIC participants, see chapter 5 of the report.