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Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2008

WIC Participant and Program Characteristics summarizes the demographic characteristics of WIC participants nationwide in April 2008, along with information on participant income and nutrition risk characteristics, a national estimate of breastfeeding initiation for WIC infants, and a description of WIC members of migrant farmworker families.

01/01/2010
Resource | Research and Data | Participation Rates WIC Eligibles and Coverage - 1994 to 2007; Estimates of the Population Eligible for WIC Benefits

WIC provides food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and health care and social service referrals to nutritionally at-risk low-income pregnant women, new mothers, infants, and children through age 4. This report offers updated estimates of the population that met these criteria and was eligible for WIC benefits in each of the years 1994 through 2007.

09/01/2009
Resource | Research and Data | Participation Characteristics Dynamics of WIC Program Participation by Infants and Children, 2001 to 2003

This report provides information on the participation patterns of infants and children who were enrolled in WIC from fiscal years 2001 through 2003.

04/01/2009
Resource | Research and Data | Food/Nutrient Analysis Diet Quality of American Young Children by WIC Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004

This study uses the most recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to examine the diets of children who received WIC benefits. The report compares the diets of WIC-participant children to the diets of income-eligible nonparticipant children and higher income children who were not eligible for WIC benefits. 

07/01/2008
Resource | Research and Data History of the National School Lunch Program

School food service programs such as we have in 1971 did not just happen over-night nor even during the past decade. Preceding today's programs is a long history of more than a hundred years of development, of testing and evaluating, and of constant research to provide the best in nutrition, nutrition education, and food service for the nation's millions of children in school. 

01/17/2008
Resource | Research Plans Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption through the USDA Nutrition Assistance Programs

This report summarizes the actions and initiatives implemented since 2002 to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among participants in the nutrition assistance programs. The following areas addressed are policy, guidance, and initiatives, programs, nutrition education and promotion, collaboration and coordination, grants, reports, and emerging initiatives and resources.

01/01/2008
Resource | Research and Data | Assessing/Improving Operations WIC Participant and Program Characteristics 2006

The WIC Participant and Program Characteristics (PC 2006) report summarizes demographic characteristics of WIC participants nationwide in April 2006, along with information on participant income and nutrition risk characteristics. A national estimate of breastfeeding initiation for WIC infants is included. The report also describes WIC members of migrant farm-worker families.

12/01/2007
Resource | Research and Data Survey of the Public Health Nutrition Workforce: 2006-07

Report. Survey of the Public Health Nutrition Workforce: 2006-07

10/29/2007
Resource | Research and Data | Nutrition Education Nutrition Education Research Review

To assist nutrition educators in their use of relevant research, FNS conducted a review of studies on: Message framing, Use of interactive technology to tailor messages, and Intervention intensity. The review was intended to document how these specific features of nutrition messages and interventions influence the likelihood of promoting more healthful food choices.

06/01/2007
Resource | Research and Data | Participation Characteristics Tables Describing the Asset and Vehicle Holdings of Low-Income Households in 2002

The tables in this report summarize the asset and vehicle holdings of five low-income household groups by their food stamp asset and income eligibility status in September 2002.

05/01/2007
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