INVENTORY OF NATIONAL
INJURY DATA SYSTEMS
Below is a list of 44 different federal
data systems operated by 16 difference agencies and 3 private injury
registry systems that provide nationwide injury-related data. Each data
system is listed along with the agency or organization and associated
web sites. You can get additional information about survey/surveillance
methods and findings by clicking on the URL. Data systems are organized
according by topic. Some data systems are listed more than once relevant
to different violence- and injury-related topics. Data systems that have
state-based data are noted with an asterisk (*).
If you have any further questions, please contact me at:
J. Lee Annest, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Statistics and Programming, NCIPC, CDC
Email: lannest@cdc.gov
Phone: 770-488-4804
Behavioral Risk Factors/Injury Incidence
- Behavioral Risk Factor Survey
System (BRFSS)*, CDC-NCCDPHP, annual survey
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/ - Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)*,
CDC-NCCDPHP, biennual school-based survey for state/local,
occasional national survey
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm - Injury Control and Risk of Injury
Survey (ICARIS I, II, II½ ), CDC-NCIPC, periodic survey
Conducted by NCIPC. No web site available. - National Health Interview Survey (NHIS),
CDC-NCHS, annual household survey
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm
Injury Morbidity Data
- National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), CPSC,
NEISS All Injury Program, CPSC/CDC-NCIPC, and NEISS-work-related
injury, CPSC/CDC-NIOSH, ongoing
URL: http://www.cpsc.gov/epidemiology/
URL: http://www.cpsc.gov/library/neiss.html
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars (nonfatal injury data)
URL:http://www2a.cdc.gov/risqs/default.asp (work-related injury) - National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS),
CDC-NCHS, annual survey
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/ahcd/ahcd1.htm - National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS), CDC-NCHS, annual
survey
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/ahcd/ahcd1.htm - National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) NHTSA, pre-hospital care data base
URL: http://www.nemsis.org - National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), CDC-NCHS, annual survey
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/hdasd/nhds.htm - Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP), AHRQ
URL: http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/ - Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), AHRQ/CDC-NCHS
URL: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/WhatIsMEPS/Overview.HTM - Indian Health Service-Ambulatory Care & Inpatient Care Systems, IHS, ongoing
URL: http://www.ihs.gov/nonmedicalprograms/ihs%5Fstats/ - Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), CMS, Home Health
Care System, ongoing
URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasis - Minimum Data Set For Nursing Home Resident Assessment and Care
Screening (MDS-Nursing Homes), CMS,
URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/states/mdsreports
Injury Deaths-Death Certificates
- National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)*, CDC-NCHS, ongoing
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm - National Mortality Follow-back Survey- 1993 (NMFS93), CDC-NCHS,
periodic
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nmfs/nmfs.htm
Automotive/Transport Injury Data
- Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)*, NHTSA, ongoing, MV
crash deaths
URL: http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/ - National Automotive Sampling System-General Estimates System (NASS-GES),
NHTSA, annual
URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/ges.html - National Automotive Sampling System-Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS),
NHTSA, annual
URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/cds.html - NHTSA Special Crash Investigation (SCI), NHTSA, (includes air-bag
related injuries), on-going. URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-30/ncsa/sci.html
Air Bag Fatality Summary Report & Tables. Cases shown as having a
case status of "Available" can be found at:
http://www-nass.nhtsa.dot.gov/BIN/logon.exe/airmislogon - DOT Federal Railroad Administration, Railway Safety Statistics*,
annual (includes statistics on fatal and nonfatal injuries
associated with train collisions)
URL: http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Default.asp
Automotive Behavioral Injury Data
- National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), NHTSA, periodic
URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-01/summaries/4313ga.html
- Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey, NHTSA, biennial
URL: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/
- National Survey of (Drinking and Driving)/(Distracted and Drowsy
Driving)/(Speeding and Unsafe Driving) Attitudes and Behaviors, NHTSA, periodic
URL: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/
Occupational Injury Data
- National Traumatic Occupational Fatality Surveillance System (NTOF)*,
CDC-NIOSH,
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/injury
- National Electronic Injury Surveillance System – Work RISQ –
Nonfatal work-related injuries, CDC-NIOSH,
URL: http://www2a.cdc.gov/risqs/default.asp
- Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)*, BLS, ongoing
URL: http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshfat1.htm
- Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII)*, BLS, annual
survey
URL: http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htm
- Census of Agriculture (COA)*, DOC, periodic
URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.asp
Note: Although available reports do not provide injury statistics, the 1992 Census of Agriculture
did ask questions about the number of work-related injuries. More recent COAs do not ask about
injury.
Violent Death Data
- National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)*, FBI, ongoing
URL: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ucr.htm
- Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA)*, FBI,
ongoing
URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
- National Violent Death Reporting System (CDC-NVDRS)*, CDC-NCIPC,
17 states
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/profiles/nvdrs/facts.htm
- Uniform Crime Reports-Supplemental Homicide Reports (UCR-SHR)*,
FBI, ongoing
URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Crime and Victimization Data
- National Crime Victimization Survey (NCFS), BJS, annual survey
URL: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm
- National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)*, Child
Welfare Information Gateway, ACF, annual,
URL: http://www.childwelfare.gov/
- National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS), Child
Welfare Information Gateway, ACF, periodic,
URL: http://childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/nis.cfm
- National Violence Against Women Survey, conducted only once, in
1995-1996, by NIJ/CDC-NCIPC. Although there is no web site,
publications from the survey are all available on the web at:
URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/181867.pdf
URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf
URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/169592.pdf
URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/172837.pdf
Drug Abuse Data
- Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), SAMHSA, ongoing
URL: http://www.dawninfo.samhsa.gov
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health, formerly called the
National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), SAMHSA, annual
URL: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm
- Monitoring the Future Survey (MTFS), NIDA, school-based, annual
URL: http://www.nida.nih.gov/DrugPages/mtf.html
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)*, CDC-NCCDPHP, school-based,
biennial
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dash/yrbs/index.htm
Other Injury Data
- National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS), USFA, ongoing
URL: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/inside-usfa/nfirs.cfm
- Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) Limited Data Sets,
CMS, ongoing
URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/LimitedDataSets/
- Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), CMS, ongoing
URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/mcbs/
PRIVATE INJURY DATA SYSTEM
Trauma care/poisoning data
- National Poison Data System (NPDS), American Association of Poison Control Centers, annual
URL: http://www.aapcc.org/
- National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) – American College of Surgeons,
ongoing
URL: http://www.facs.org/trauma/ntdb.html
- United States Eye Injury Registry – American Society of Ocular
Trauma
URL: http://www.useironline.org
Page last modified: January 12, 2009