WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2016

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Research and Data

Research Reports

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Assessing/Improving Operations

Breastfeeding

Participation Characteristics

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Summary (94.57 KB)

Final Report (5.89 MB)

Appendices (6.34 MB)

WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2016 (PC 2016) summarizes the demographic characteristics of participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nationwide in April 2016. It includes information on participant income and nutrition risk characteristics, estimates breastfeeding initiation rates for WIC infants, and describes WIC members of migrant farm-worker families. PC 2016 is the most recent in a series of reports generated from WIC state management information system data biennially since 1992.