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WIC Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation
Data on Low Birth Weight, Very Low Birth Weight, Full Term Low Birth Weight, and High Birth Weight among WIC participants by prenatal WIC participation
WIC will maintain at least three years of data on our website. Local agency WIC staff can find previous years in the appropriate ANNUAL REPORTS folder in Infoview.
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Birth Weight Trends by Prenatal Participation
Birth Weight Trends by Prenatal Participation - Three Year Totals
Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and Location
Low Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and City of Residence
Low Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and by Race and Ethnicity - Annual
Low Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and by Race and Ethnicity – Three Year Totals
Data Tables
Tips for Navigating Interactive Data Dashboards (PDF)
Suggested citation: Minnesota WIC Information System. Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation in Minnesota WIC. Minnesota WIC Program: 2024.
Data includes infants with birth weights between 400 and 8000 grams and gestational age from 22 to 45 weeks.
Low birth weight (lbw) is weight at birth < 2500 grams.
Very low birth weight (vlbw) is weight at birth < 1500 grams.
Full term low birth weight (ftlbw) is weight at birth < 2500 grams among infants born at ≥ 37 weeks of gestational age.
High birth weight (hbw) is weight at birth > 4000 grams.
Prenatal WIC participation categories:
- ≥ 3 months: enrolled for three or more months of pregnancy
- < 3 months: enrolled for less than three months of pregnancy
- none: WIC participation postpartum only or never (only infant enrolled).
Methodology: Location and Race and Ethnicity (PDF)
Counts and percentages are based on number of infants on whom birth information was available.
* Totals and numbers breastfeeding < 5 are suppressed. Percentages are not calculated for locations with < 30 participants.
NH = Non-Hispanic
Data current as of June 2024.
Birth Weight Trends by Prenatal Participation
Birth Weight Trends by Prenatal Participation – Three Year Totals
Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and Location
Low Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and City of Residence
Low Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and by Race and Ethnicity – Annual
Low Birth Weight by Prenatal Participation and by Race and Ethnicity - Three Year Totals
Data Tables
Downloadable file of WIC Low Birth Weight data by Prenatal Participation (csv)
Downloadable file of WIC Low Birth Weight data by Prenatal Participation by City (csv)
Downloadable file of WIC Very Low Birth Weight data by Prenatal Participation (csv)
Downloadable file of WIC Full Term Low Birth Weight data by Prenatal Participation (csv)
Downloadable file of WIC High Birth Weight data by Prenatal Participation (csv)
For more information, please e-mail health.WIC@state.mn.us.