QuickStats: Percentage of Children and Adolescents Aged ≤17 Years Who Have Experienced a Specified Stressful Life Event, by Type of Event and Family Income — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021

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Abbreviation: FPL = federal poverty level.

• With 95% CIs indicated by error bars.

† Percentages for the specified stressful life events are based on the following questions: 1) “Has child ever been the victim of violence or witnessed violence in their neighborhood?”; 2) “Has child ever been separated from a parent or guardian because the parent or guardian went to jail, prison, or a detention center?”; 3) “Did child ever live with anyone who was mentally ill or severely depressed?”; 4) Did child ever live with anyone who had a problem with alcohol or drugs?” Having any stressful event was based on having answered “yes” to any of these four questions. The four stressful life event questions come from a larger battery of questions on adverse childhood experiences.

§ As a percentage of FPL, which is based on family income and family size, using the U.S. Census Bureau’s poverty thresholds. Family income was imputed when missing.

¶ Estimates are based on household interviews of a sample of the civilian, noninstitutionalized U.S. population.

In 2021, 20.2% of children and adolescents in families with incomes Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/index.htm

Reported by: Amanda E. Ng, MPH, qkd2@cdc.gov; Basilica Arockiaraj; Benjamin Zablotsky, PhD.

For more information on this topic, CDC recommends the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html

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