TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - Michele Ver Ploeg A2 - David M. Betson TI - Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program: Final Report SN - 978-0-309-08962-3 DO - 10.17226/10804 PY - 2003 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10804/estimating-eligibility-and-participation-for-the-wic-program-final-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Food and Nutrition KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences KW - Surveys and Statistics AB - This report reviews the methods used to estimate the national number of people eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) under full funding of the program. It reviews alternative data sets and methods for estimating income eligibility, adjunctive eligibility (which occurs when people are eligible for WIC because they are enrolled in other federal public assistance programs) and nutritional risk, as well as for estimating participation if the program is fully funded. ER -