2018 WIC Coverage Rates by State, All Participant Categories

Sources: 2019 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS-ASEC) for US estimate, 2018 Puerto Rico Community Survey and census for territories, Census International Data Base, WIC administrative data.
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Definitions: "Women" includes pregnant, postpartum non-breastfeeding, and postpartum breastfeeding women. The "Number Eligible" and "Number of Participants" numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred. The coverage rates are based on the unrounded numbers which are available in the full report. The estimated coverage rates exceed 100 percent for infants in Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. This is likely a result of sampling variability in the survey data. The lower-bound range of the 95-percent confidence interval surrounding these rates is below 100 percent. See chapter 6 of the full report for more information on measures of statistical uncertainty for the eligibility estimates.