  Good understanding of the cross sections for (anti)neutrino scattering off
nuclear targets in the few-GeV energy region is a prerequisite for the correct
interpretation of results of ongoing and planned oscillation experiments. To
clarify a possible source of disagreement between recent measurements of the
cross sections on carbon, we analyze the available data within an approach
based on the realistic spectral function of carbon, treating neutral-current
elastic (NCE) and charged-current quasielastic (CCQE) processes on equal
footing. We show that the axial mass from the shape analysis of the MiniBooNE
data is in good agreement with the results reported by the BNL E734 and NOMAD
Collaborations. However, the combined analysis of the NCE and CCQE data does
not seem to support the contribution of multinucleon final states being large
enough to explain the normalization of the MiniBooNE-reported cross sections.
