Table 1.

Unadjusted CACFP Participation Rates Among Licensed Child Care Centers by Region

USDA regionsa	Full sample, % (N=93,227)	Low-income areas, % (n=17,229)
Mid-Atlantic	29.94	59.45
Midwest	38.83	58.93
Mountain Plains	32.15	49.27
Northeast	27.20	58.94
Southeast	47.63	60.46
Southwest	43.78	57.78
West	28.72	45.92
Total	36.48	57.49

Note: Boldface indicates statistical significance. A Bayesian model was used to compare the participation rates of different regions to the overall participation rate. To determine statistical significance, the 95% Bayesian credible interval (CI) for the deviations of each region from the grand mean (total) were used in an unadjusted model. A Bonferroni-corrected significance level of 0.63% was used to consider the number of groups compared. If the Bayesian CI associated with a region does not include 0, the result is considered statistically significant.

^aUSDA regions²⁶: Midwest: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin; Mid-Atlantic: District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia; Mountain Plains: Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming; Northeast: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont; Southeast: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and South Carolina; Southwest: Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah; and West: Alaska, California, Idaho, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.

USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture; CACFP, Child and Adult Care Food Program.