Definition: Estimated percentage of children ages 0-17 with two or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), by race/ethnicity (e.g., in 2017-2021, 17.7% of Hispanic/Latino children in California had experienced two or more ACEs).
Data Source: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Survey of Children's Health (Apr. 2023).
Footnote: Due to changes in methodology, these estimates should not be compared with data from earlier years. This indicator reports on ten adverse childhood experiences: For children ages 0-17, (1) experienced economic hardship, (2) parent or guardian got divorced or separated, (3) parent or guardian died, (4) parent or guardian served time in jail, (5) witnessed domestic violence, (6) witnessed or experienced neighborhood violence, (7) household member was mentally ill, (8) household member abused alcohol or drugs, (9) treated unfairly because of race/ethnicity, and, for children ages 6-17, (10) treated unfairly because of sexual orientation or gender identity. ACE type (10) is captured in survey years 2020 and later only. Race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive. 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 not greater than 10 percentage points. For more information, see https://www.childhealthdata.org/learn-about-the-nsch/NSCH.
