The WIC Vendor Listing is compiled and published to provide WIC Participants with readily identifiable locations they can use to cash their WIC Benefits. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) offers nutrition education, breastfeeding support, referrals and a variety of nutritious foods to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding or postpartum women, infants and children up to age five to promote and support good health. WIC improves the health of pregnant women, new mothers and their infants and children. The foods provided through WIC are a good source of nutrients often missing from the diets of women and young children. WIC participants have longer, healthier pregnancies and fewer premature births.
This dataset has the following 8 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| County | county | text | New York State county designations. | Kings Bronx Queens New York Suffolk view top 100 |
| Type | type | text | Type of vendor; a grocery, a grocery with formula, a pharmacy, or a grocery with pharmacy. | Grocery Pharmacy Only Grocery w/ Pharmacy inside view top 100 |
| Facility Name | facility_name | text | Name of the vendor, with identifier if a chain. | Key Food C-Town Supermarkets Fine Fare Ideal Food Basket Foodtown view top 100 |
| Street Address | street_address | text | GIS street location identification. | Broadway Main St Main Street White Plains Road Myrtle Ave view top 100 |
| City | city | text | City of vendor location. | Brooklyn Bronx New York Staten Island Yonkers view top 100 |
| State | state | text | State of vendor location, there are a few non-NYS vendors. NY – New York, OU – Out of NYS. | NY VT NJ PA view top 100 |
| ZIP | zip | text | Postal zip code. | 11220 11219 10453 11368 11211 view top 100 |
| Location | location | location | view top 100 |