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 2023-2024 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) datasets and codebooks. These analysis-ready datasets and codebooks (plus additional resources) are available through childhealthdata.org and are designed to help you move quickly from question to insight!

The 2023-2024 NSCH datasets, available in SAS, SPSS, Stata, and CSV, include data from 106,537 children ages 0-17 years. The DRC codebooks, accompanying each dataset, provide the programming code and documentation used to produce the estimates in the DRC’s interactive data query.

Researchers and analysts can use these data to examine more than 400 child health measures, including the new Title V MCH Block Grant national performance and outcome measures. Examples include:

• Child and Adolescent Flourishing
• Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)
• Family Resilience
• Medical Home
• Mental Health Treatment or Counseling
• School Readiness
• Whole Child Risk Index (including Medical, Social, and Relational Domains)

The field has spent a lot of time talking about children’s health; now is the time for real action. Despite strong systems and programs in place, many children and families still face significant challenges, and awareness alone will not solve them. That is why the DRC exists: not just to add to the discussion, but to provide the data needed to drive action, inform decisions, target resources, track progress, and achieve measurable improvements in children’s and families’ health.

Quick Links to Key DRC Resources

The DRC is here to support your use of NSCH data for impact and change in research, policy, and practice. In addition to the interactive data query, visit the DRC NSCH Overview page to learn more about the survey and explore numerous resources such as:

• Fast Facts
• Guides to Topics and Questions
• Methodology Reports
• Survey Instruments
• A Crosswalk of Survey Items

Additional resources are available at HRSA MCHB’s NSCH webpage, including NSCH Data Briefs. NSCH public use data files can be found on the U.S. Census Bureau’s NSCH page.

Have questions about the NSCH?

If you have any technical assistance (TA) requests, please visit our "Ask Us a Question" page. There you will find common TA questions and responses. If you still cannot find what you need, submit your question through a TA request form and we will get back to you as soon as possible!

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.

The CAHMI is a center within the Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.