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WIC Program
Racial/Ethnic Group Enrollment by Categories
April 2006
Racial/Ethnic Data Used in the Report
(published November 2008)
Racial/ethnic data reported on Abt Associates, Inc. for PC2006 was by
88 WIC State agencies and based on reports submitted by 1,885 WIC local
agencies.
The State-maintained automated system of racial/ethnicity from the PC
2006 data set contained WIC enrollment information from six (6)
categories, which made up 96.78 percent of enrollment. The 6 categories
were: American Indian, Asian, Black, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander,
White, and Multiple Race. The remaining 3.22 percent was
found in the No Race Reported category. Caution should be used in
comparing results across groups; missing data must always be considered
in gauging differences between, among, or across groups or categories of
WIC participants.
Please note that WIC enrollment differs from WIC participation. WIC
enrollment is defined as individuals certified to receive WIC benefits
for specific time periods, including individuals who did not claim or
use the food instruments issued during those time periods. WIC
participation is defined as the number of individuals who picked up food
instruments during the designated time periods.
Highlights
Enrollment for the WIC Program in April 2006 totaled 8,772,216 1/. Of
this total, Whites accounted for 4,849,557 (55.28%), Blacks
1,715,433 (19.56%), American Indian 1,344,422 (15.33%),
Multiple Race 256,244 (2.92%), Asian 255,629 (2.91%),
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 68,598 (.78%). The Race Not Reported
category accounted for the remaining 282,333 (3.22%) of enrollment.
Total Women enrolled in the WIC Program were 2,205,595 (25.14%),
Infants 2,272,625 (25.91%), and Children 4,293,996
(48.95%).
TABLE 1 - Composition of Racial/Ethnic Participant Enrollment
TABLE II - Total Racial/Ethnic Participant Enrollment
TABLE III – Composition of Ethnic Participant Enrollment
TABLE IV – Total Ethnic Enrollment by
Region and State
Pie Chart of Racial/Ethnic Participant Enrollment
1/ These data represent nearly complete counts of all Women,
Infants, and Children participating in the WIC Program as of April 2006.
In a small number of cases, analytic weights continue to be needed to
achieve accurate representation of each State and local agency caseload.
The use of weights may result in individual counts being reported with
decimal places. The report only uses whole numbers of individuals. Minor
differences (3-6 individuals, depending on the level of aggregation)
between counts reported here and counts reported in the WIC Participant
and Program Characteristics 2004 are due to rounding. For a more
complete discussion of the WIC reporting system and analytic
methodology, please see the above report, which is available at:
http://www.fns.usda.gov/oane/menu/published/wic/wic.htm
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