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    • National and State Level Estimates of WIC Eligibility and Program Reach in 2019

    Metadata Updated: May 8, 2025

    This report, the latest in a series of annual reports on WIC eligibility, presents 2019 national and state estimates of the number of people eligible for WIC benefits and the percents of the eligible population and the US population covered by the program, including estimates by participant category. The report also provides estimates by region, state, U.S. territory and race and ethnicity.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date May 14, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 14, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date May 8, 2025
    Publisher Food and Nutrition Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier USDA-FNS-160
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2022-04-08
    Rights true
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 000:00
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    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/national-state-level-estimates-eligibility-program-reach-2019
    Data Dictionary Type text/html
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    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/national-state-level-estimates-eligibility-program-reach-2019
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 000:000
    Publisher Hierarchy Department of Agriculture > Food and Nutrition Service
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash eb1368e52ae23d693dba8c00a103e492c759fe709cb6a406fb9a2cf93fae3688
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    System of Records https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/WICEligibles2019-Volume1.pdf

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