Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 with special health care needs (CSHCN) who need health care at home, by number of hours their family spends providing care for them in an average week (e.g., in 2024, among California CSHCN who needed health care at home, 22.5% had families who spent 11 or more hours per week providing them care).
Data Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Survey of Children's Health (Nov. 2025).
Footnote: 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 greater than 5 percentage points but less than 10 percentage points. For more information, see https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/NSCH.
