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.