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Health Data & Statistics Research Guide: Infants, Children & Adolescents

Infants, Children & Adolescents

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Kids Count Data Center
The Data Center includes health topics covering birth outcomes, health insurance, vital statistics, indicators by race and ethnicity, and more.  Create tables, maps, graphs, or raw data by state or across states by topic. 
The annual Kids Count Data Book is available for download.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Adolescent Health
FastStats about adolescent health includes links to relevant statistical tables and publications as well as pointers to related studies and programs.

Child Health
FastStats about children's health includes links to relevant statistical tables and publications as well as pointers to related studies and programs.

Adolescent and School Health - Data & Statistics
The Division of Adolescent and School Health presents a summary of major surveillance activities and links to studies such as the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, Global School-based Student Health Survey, Healthy Passages, School Health Profiles, and State-By-State Profiles.

Infant Health
FastStats about infant health includes links to relevant statistical tables and publications as well as pointers to related studies and programs.

Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative

National Survey of Children's Health.
Includes links to archived data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs

Interactive Data Search: Explore and compare survey variables/statistics from the 2016 survey on.

Environmental Protection Agency

America's Children and the Environment
"America’s Children and the Environment brings together, in one place, quantitative information from a variety of sources to show trends in levels of environmental contaminants in air, water, food, and soil; concentrations of contaminants measured in the bodies of mothers and children; and childhood diseases that may be influenced by environmental factors." The editions for 2019, 2013, 2003, and 2000 can be downloaded on the EPA website. 

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

Childstats.gov
"Offers easy access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education." Publishes America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, an annual report on the status of the nation's children, presenting 25 key indicators on critical aspects of children's lives.

March of Dimes

Peristats
Perinatal health statistics (births, prenatal care, infant mortality, delivery methods, health insurance, and demographic indicators) at the national, state, county and municiple level. Users can create tables/summaries of indicators.

UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)

UNICEF Data
Find statistical information about children by subject area (including child survival and health, child nutrition, maternal health, newborn care, HIV/AIDS, etc.) or by country.  Includes downloadable versions of the flagship publications State of the World's Children (going back to 1980) and Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era (2019)  UNICEF also has an interactive data visualization associated with Progress for Every Child.