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local agency ID or service site ID may be reported according to the level the State Agency feels appropriate. At a minimum, State agencies must provide agency names and addresses for each ID provided on their files. ☒Case ID. A unique record number for each participant which maintains individual privacy at the national level. (This may not be the case number used in the State agency's MIS for the individual.) Participant or Case IDs for each participant should continue to maintain individual privacy at the national level. ☒Client Date of Birth. Month, day and year of participant's birth reported in MMDDYYYY format. ☒Client Race/Ethnicity. The classification of the participant into one of the five (5) racial/ethnic categories: For race: American Indian or Alaskan Native; Asian; Black or African American; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; and White. For ethnicity: Hispanic or Latino; Not Hispanic or Latino. ☒Certification Category. The category---one of five (5) possible categories---under which a person is certified as eligible for WIC benefits: pregnant woman; breastfeeding woman; postpartum woman (not breastfeeding); infant (under 12 months); or child (12-59 months). ☒Expected Date of Delivery or Weeks Gestation. For pregnant women, the projected date of delivery (MMDDYYYY format) or the number of weeks since the last menstrual period as determined at WIC Program certification. ☒Date of Certification. The date the person was declared eligible for the most current WIC Program certification. Month, day, and year should be reported in MMDDYYYY format. ☒Sex. For infants and children, male or female. ☒Priority Level. Participant priority level for WIC Program certification. ☒Participation in TANF, SNAP, Medicaid. The participant's reported participation in each of these programs at the time of the most recent WIC Program certification. ☒Migrant Status. Participant migrant status according to the federal WIC Program definition of a migrant farm worker (currently counted in the FNS 798 report). ☒Number in Family/Household or Economic Unit. The number of persons in the family/household or economic unit upon which WIC income eligibility was based. A self-declared number in the family/household or economic unit may be reported for participants whose income was not required to be determined as part of the WIC certification process. These participants include adjunctively income-eligible participants (due to TANF, SNAP, or Medicaid participation) and those participants deemed income eligible under optional procedures available to the State Agency in Federal WIC Regulations, Section 246.7(d)(2)(vi-viii) (means-tested programs identified by the State for automatic WIC Program income eligibility, income eligibility of Indian and 6