Definition: Estimated percentage of youth ages 12-17 who in the previous 12 months needed help for emotional or mental health problems, such as feeling sad, anxious, or nervous (e.g., in 2017-2018, 22.6% of California youth needed help for emotional or mental problems in the previous year).
Data Source: UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, California Health Interview Survey (Aug. 2020).
Footnote: These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to data that have been suppressed because the sample size was lower than 50 (for ages 12-17), the percentage was less than 0.1, or the estimate was suppressed by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Data may have wide margins of error and should be treated with caution. For more information and margins of error around specific estimates, visit the California Health Interview Survey. N/A means that data are not available.
