New 2024 NSCH Datasets & Codebooks Available

Announcing the Analysis Ready 2024 NSCH Single-Year Datasets and Codebooks

(In addition to new 2023-2024 NSCH U.S. Maps and Comparison Tables)

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 single year 2024 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) datasets and codebooks. Additionally new 2023-2024 NSCH interactive U.S. maps and state comparison tables are now available on childhealthdata.org.

This latest release provides timely, ready-to-use data to better understand the health and well-being of children ages 0-17 across the U.S. (n= 51,375). We hope that the release of these datasets and codebooks empowers you to explore the NSCH data independently, conduct your own analyses, and answer questions most relevant to your work.

DRC datasets are available in SPSS, SAS, Stata and CSV formats with codebooks that include detailed documentation and the syntax used to generate estimates featured in the DRC’s interactive data query.

New and Noteworthy

Single-Year Data for Multi-Year Analysis

The availability of single-year datasets allows users to combine multiple years of NSCH data to conduct more robust, multi-year analyses. This approach increases sample size and analytic power, particularly for subgroup and state level analyses and examination of less common outcomes. Guidance on combining datasets and appropriately adjusting weights is available in the NSCH Guide to Multi-Year Analysis provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Be sure to review 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.

Enhanced State-Level Comparisons

Explore the new 2023-2024 NSCH Across-State Comparison Tables and Across-State Comparison U.S. Maps with National Performance Measures, National Outcome Measures, and Standardized Measures, to quickly identify states or populations experiencing the greatest challenges or strongest outcomes across key indicators.

Using the interactive U.S. maps and tables, you can easily download visuals to incorporate into your own presentations, reports, and advocacy materials. These ready-to-use graphics can help you clearly communicate key findings to your audience to strengthen your impact.

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Additional NSCH Resources

For more information and resources on the NSCH, 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.

Have Questions or Need Technical Assistance?

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.