New Releases

Nearly 1 in 5 School-Aged Children Have Some Kind of Basic Functioning Difficulty. New report shows children with and without functioning difficulty differ greatly in their use of educational and health care services. [PDF - 454 KB]

U.S. Ranked 30th in Infant Mortality. New report compares United States with Europe.

Fifteen Percent of Women Receive Antibiotics During Labor. New data come from 19 states that have adopted the new birth certificate. [PDF - 300 KB]

Provisional Vital Statistics for January 2009 Released. Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for January 2009.

Revised 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey Patient File. Public use micro-data files and documentation are now available for downloading. [PDF - 15 KB]

U.S. Pregnancy Rate Down Significantly From 1990 Peak. New report looks at live births, abortions, and fetal losses from 1990-2005. [PDF - 1.1 MB]

Linked Mortality Data for NNHS Surveys. NCHS has conducted mortality linkages of the 1985, 1995, 1997 and 2004 NNHS surveys to death certificate data found in the National Death Index (NDI).

Planning and Development of the Continuous National Survey of Family Growth [PDF - 1.4 MB]

Fatal Poisonings From Opioid Painkillers More Than Tripled Since 1999. Nearly 4 of 10 poisoning deaths in the United States involve opioid analgesics.

Updated Linked Mortality Data for NHEFS, NHANES II, LSOA II. NCHS has updated the mortality linkage of the NHEFS, NHANES II, and LSOA II surveys to death certificate data found in the National Death Index (NDI).