NSCH Codebooks
The DRC’s codebooks provide the SAS, SPSS and Stata syntax and documentation used to create National Survey of Children's Health indicators and subgroups displayed on the DRC’s interactive data query. The codebooks below were developed by the Data Resource Center to assist with data analysis of the NSCH. If you have additional questions, please submit them on the ask a question page.
When using the codebooks created by the CAHMI DRC, please be sure to use the following citation in any publication, report or peer-reviewed journal article:
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) [Year of publication]. [YEAR] National Survey of Children’s Health: Child and Family Health Measures, National Performance and Outcome Measures, and Subgroups, [format eg. SAS/SPSS/Stata] Codebook, Version [insert version], Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). Retrieved [mm/dd/yy] from childhealthdata.org
We encourage you to keep us informed about your publications and presentations based on these data. To facilitate that, the CAHMI will be contacting you in a few months. Since the main mission of the Data Resource Center is to facilitate dissemination and utilization of the results of the National Surveys, we are always delighted to be able to identify real-life examples of how planners, families, grant writers, researchers, and child health policy advocates are using survey results to promote better health and improve access to and quality of children’s health care services.
Data Alert! In 2024, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Census Bureau revised imputation and weighting by race and ethnicity for the NSCH. The updated weights have been applied to the 2022 and 2021-2022 NSCH data query findings and DRC constructed datasets, but have not been applied to the 2016-2021 NSCH data query and DRC datasets. Due to the imputation and weighting changes, the estimates on the DRC archived interactive data query (2016-2021) are not comparable to estimates produced using datasets with the updated weights available on the U.S. Census Bureau’s website. Estimates with new weights for the DRC indicators and measures displayed on the archived data query for the 2016-2021 NSCH can be created by applying the codes available in the DRC codebooks to the updated public use files provided on the U.S. Census Bureau’s website. Please read the weighting revisions technical document for more information.
2022 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) Topical
2021-2022 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical)
2021 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical)
2020-2021 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical - two years combined)
2020 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical)
2019-2020 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical - two years combined)
2018-2019 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical - two years combined)
2019 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical)
2018 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical)
2017-2018 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical - two years combined)
2017 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical)
2016-2017 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical - two years combined)
2016 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) (Topical)