Why aren’t there any data on this website for Asian, American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander children?
At the national level, children in these race categories are combined into a single group called OTHER. This is done because only a handful of States meet the National Center for Health Statistics’ confidentiality standards for releasing data on these minority groups to the public. National Center for Health Statistics only includes individual level data for one of these minority groups in the publicly available data files when a group comprises 5% or more of the total child population in a State. This standard is in place to protect against the remote chance of an individual child inadvertently being identified in States with relatively few children from these minority groups in their populations. Both the NSCH and the NS-CSHCN ask a series of questions about the sample child’s race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. Respondents are allowed to answer affirmatively to one or more categories of race. There are a number of ways that the responses to these questions can be used to create d
