National Survey of Children's Health 2026

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) Health Resources Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA MCHB), the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) is designed to produce data on the physical and emotional health of American children under 18 years of age. The NSCH collects information on factors related to the well-being of children, including access to health care, in-home medical care, family interactions, parental health, school and after-school experiences, and neighborhood characteristics. For the 2019 NSCH, a sample frame of up to 240,000 household addresses will be used. Approximately 210,000 addresses will be included in the production survey, while approximately 25,000 addresses will be a part of the state oversample (selected from the following four states: Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wisconsin), which is new for 2020. The sample file is selected from the Census Master Address File (MAF) and supplemented with an administrative records-based flag identifying households with children. The target population consists of children under 18 years of age living in mailable residential housing units in the United States.

The latest form for National Survey of Children's Health 2026 expires 2023-05-31 and can be found here.