The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), under a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce that the National Performance Measures (NPMs), National Outcome Measures (NOMs) and Standardized Measures (SMs) data findings from the 2023-2024 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) are now available on the DRC. More information about the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant and performance measurement system can be obtained at the MCHB website.

The NSCH is designed to provide national and state-level estimates on key indicators of health and well-being of children, their families and communities, as well as information about the prevalence and impact of special health care needs. The combined 2023-2024 NSCH dataset includes data from 106,537 children ages 0-17 years. By leveraging this larger analytic sample size, data users can analyze small population groups and rare outcomes that are not sufficiently represented in a single year sample as well as produce national and state-level estimates with smaller standard errors.

Visit childhealthdata.org for more information and resources about the NSCH, such as content maps, fast facts, guide to topics and questions, changes across years, survey methodology, survey instruments, and more! There are also numerous resources available at HRSA MCHB’s webpage on the NSCH. Public use files are also available through the U.S. Census Bureau’s NSCH page.