WIC Participant Demographics

The Hawai‘i WIC Program is administered by the state’s Department of Health WIC Services Branch (WSB), which operates WIC clinics across the state. As part of ongoing planning and quality improvement activities, WSB engages in assessment and data analysis to better understand the characteristics of families enrolled in the WIC program.

WSB partnered with the University of Hawai‘i Center on the Family to analyze recent client participation data. The goal was to provide a more detailed description of client characteristics than is available through current reporting, including a focus on race and ethnicity that better reflects the state’s population.

The factsheets below show a snapshot of statewide and county-specific WIC participant characteristics such as race/ethnicity and participant category. For additional details, see the technical notes.

County Data