The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), in collaboration with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of the 2022-2023 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) datasets and codebooks. These resources are available through childhealthdata.org! The 2022-2023 NSCH dataset includes data from 109,265 children ages 0-17 years. The DRC codebooks, available in SPSS, SAS, and Stata, provide the syntax and documentation used to create the estimates on the DRC’s interactive data query.

Conduct your own analyses and learn how children are doing on more than 400 child health measures including new National Performance Measures (NPM), National Outcome Measures (NOM), and Standardized Measures (SM) for the Title V MCH Services Block Grant. The 2022-2023 combined year dataset includes an additional measure of children who met an expanded criteria for special healthcare needs. Check out the newest subgroup additions: an expanded measure of children with special health care needs and a measure of child flourishing.

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Visit the DRC NSCH Overview page to learn more and explore NSCH resources such as such as fast facts, guides to topics and questions, methodology reports, survey instruments, and a crosswalk of survey items. Additional resources are available at HRSA MCHB’s NSCH webpage, including the NSCH Data Briefs. NSCH public use data files can be found on the U.S. Census Bureau’s NSCH page. More information about the Title V MCH Block Grant and performance measurement system can be obtained at the MCHB website.

If you have any questions, please visit our “Ask Us a Question” page. There you will find FAQs and common technical assistance (TA) questions and responses. If you still cannot find what you need, please submit your question through a TA request form. Please note that we will respond once you submit your question or request through the webpage. Thank you.

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U59MC27866, National Maternal and Child Health Data Resource Initiative, $4.5M. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position of or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.