California Women, Infants and Children Program Redemption by County

The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program is a federally-funded health and nutrition program that provides assistance to pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children under age five. WIC helps California families by providing food benefits to individual participants, which can be used to purchase healthy supplemental foods from about 4,000 WIC authorized vendor stores throughout the State. WIC also provides nutritional education, breastfeeding support, healthcare referrals and other community services. Participants must meet income guidelines and other criteria. Currently, 84 WIC agencies provide services monthly to approximately one million participants at over 500 sites in local communities throughout the State.

The data files provided contain information about the number of participants or families who redeemed their benefits and the subsequent dollar value of those redeemed benefits by the vendor county starting the calendar years of 2010 and forward. Please see the data dictionaries and full description for details.

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Field Value
Contact Email [email protected]
Program Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program
Homepage URL https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DWICSN/Pages/Program-Landing1.aspx
Temporal Coverage

2010 - present
Spatial/Geographic Coverage

California
Geographic Granularity County
Language English (EN)
Frequency Annually
De-Identification Method

In aggregate participant counts of less than 11, selective data suppression was used in order to ensure WIC participant anonymity. In counties with less than three vendors, selective data suppression was used in order to ensure WIC vendor anonymity. An asterisk ‘*’ is used to identify data suppression in the dataset. Participant data suppressed due to the small cell size is included in the county annual totals and statewide totals by participant category.
Source Link https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CFH/DWICSN/Pages/Program-Landing1.aspx
Data Collection Tool

Numbers are based on food vouchers redeemed.
License Terms of Use
Limitations Use of this data is subject to the CHHS Terms of Use and any copyright and proprietary notices incorporated in or accompanying the individual files.
Secondary Sources

For more information about the WIC Program please visit: http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/about-wic
Citation

Data Analysis, Research and Evaluation Section. Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Division, California Department of Public Health. 2023. WIC-Redemption-by-County-by-Participant-Category-Data.csv.
Last Updated October 10, 2023, 23:23 (UTC)