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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 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) datasets and codebooks. These downloadable datasets and codebooks are available through childhealthdata.org! The 2023 dataset contains data from 55,162 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 using 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 2023 NSCH is the 8th single-year dataset since the redesign of the NSCH in 2016. Starting with 2016, NSCH data files can be combined to analyze variables with small sample sizes or low-prevalence response options, especially for users conducting state-level analyses. Information on how to combine the datasets and apply proper weight adjustments is available in the Guide to Multi-Year Estimates provided by the US Census Bureau. Be sure to see the DRC’s guides to changes across survey years and its comprehensive crosswalk of survey items to learn how survey items have changed over the years and which measures can be combined.
For more information and resources on the NSCH, such as fast facts, guides to topics and questions, survey methodology and instruments, and more, please visit the DRC NSCH Overview page. 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.
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