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Racial/Ethnic Group Enrollment by Categories
April 2002
Participant Characteristics (PC) Report
Racial/ethnic data reported to Abt Associates, Inc. for PC2002 was
provided by 84 of the 88 WIC State agencies. The data are based on reports
submitted by 2,170 WIC local agencies.
The state-maintained automated system from the PC2002 data set
contained racial/ethnicity WIC enrollment information from five (5)
categories, which made up 99.0 percent of enrollment. The 5 categories
were—American Indian/Alaska Native; Asian/Pacific; Black; Hispanic; and
White. The remaining 1.0 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 2002 totaled 8,016,916 1/. Of
this total, Hispanics accounted for 3,051,969 (38%), Whites 2,874,155
(36%), Blacks 1,621,914 (20%), Asian/Pacific Islanders 277,965 (4%),
American Indian/Alaska Native 114,566 (1%). The No Race Reported category
accounted for the remaining 76,347 (1%) of enrollment. Total Women
enrolled in the WIC Program were 1,934,204 (24.2%), Infants 2,062,682
(25.7%), and Children 4,020,030 or (50.1%). A summary analysis and graph
for the years of 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002 (Table III) are included to
show a difference of enrollment data.
Table I - Racial/Ethnic Participant
Enrollment by Region/State
Table II - Composition of Racial/Ethnic
Participant Enrollment -- Grouped by Women, Infants and Children by
Region and State
Table III - (Summary) -- Difference/Percent
Change in WIC Participant Enrollment -- Grouped by Racial/Ethnic
Categories - Fiscal Years 1996, 1997, 2000, and 2002
Pie Chart of Racial/Ethnic Participant
Enrollment Grouped by Categories
1/ These data represent nearly complete counts of all women, infants,
and children participating in the WIC Program as of April 2002. 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 2002 (FNS August 2003) 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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