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WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2014

By Thorn B, Tadler C, Huret N, Trippe C, Ayo E, Mendelson M, Patlan K, Schwartz G, Tran V

WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2014 (PC 2014) summarizes the demographic characteristics of participants in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nationwide in April 2014. 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 2014 is the most recent in a series of reports generated from WIC State management information system data biennially since 1992.

Contractor: Insight Policy Research

This research was funded by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.

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Date Added
December 27, 2017

Citation
Thorn B, Tadler C, Huret N, Trippe C, Ayo E, Mendelson M, Patlan K, Schwartz G, Tran V (2015) WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2014. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. Available online: https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wic-participant-and-program-characteristics-2014