Definition: Estimated percentage of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) ages 6-17 who missed and did not miss school in previous year due to illness or injury, by number of days missed (e.g., in 2016-2019, 54.6% of California CSHCN missed 3 or fewer school days in the previous year due to illness or injury).
Data Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Survey of Children's Health (Oct. 2020).
Footnote: Due to changes in methodology, these estimates should not be compared with data from earlier years. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The annotation [!] indicates that the margin of error for the estimate is between 5 and 10 percentage points. For more information, see https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/NSCH.
