Inventory of National Injury Data Systems

Below is a list of 45 different federal data systems operated by 16 different 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 (*).
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/external icon
  URL: http://www.cpsc.gov/library/neiss.htmlexternal icon
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/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.orgexternal icon
• 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/external icon
  URL: http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/external icon
• Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), AHRQ/CDC-NCHS
  URL: http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/index.jspexternal icon
• Indian Health Service-Ambulatory Care & Inpatient Care Systems, IHS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.ihs.gov/nonmedicalprograms/ihs_stats/external icon
• Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS), CMS, Home Health Care System, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/oasisexternal icon
• Minimum Data Set For Nursing Home Resident Assessment and Care Screening (MDS-Nursing Homes), CMS,
  URL: https://www.cms.gov/NursingHomeQualityInits/external icon

Injury Deaths-Death Certificates

• National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)*, CDC-NCHS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars (fatal injury data)
• National Mortality Follow-back Survey- 1993 (NMFS93), CDC-NCHS, periodic
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/nmfs.htm

Automotive/Transport Injury Data

• Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)*, NHTSA, ongoing, MV crash deaths
  URL: http://www.nhtsa.gov/FARSexternal icon
• National Automotive Sampling System-General Estimates System (NASS-GES), NHTSA, annual
  URL: http://www.nhtsa.gov/NASSexternal icon
• National Automotive Sampling System-Crashworthiness Data System (NASS-CDS), NHTSA, annual
  URL: http://www.nhtsa.gov/NASSexternal icon
• 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/airmislogonexternal icon
• 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.aspexternal icon

Automotive Behavioral Injury Data

• National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), NHTSA, periodic
  URL: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/cats/listpublications.aspx?Id=7&ShowBy=Categoryexternal icon
• Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Survey, NHTSA, biennial
  URL: http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/external icon
• 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/external icon

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.htmexternal icon
• Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII)*, BLS, annual survey
  URL: http://www.bls.gov/iif/home.htmexternal icon
• Census of Agriculture (COA)*, DOC, periodic
  URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.aspexternal icon
  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/ucr/ucr.htmexternal icon
• Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA)*, FBI, ongoing
  URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htmexternal icon
• National Violent Death Reporting System (CDC-NVDRS)*, CDC-NCIPC, 18 states
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/NVDRS/index.html
  URL: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars (violent deaths (NVDRS))
• Uniform Crime Reports-Supplemental Homicide Reports (UCR-SHR)*, FBI, ongoing
  URL: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htmexternal icon

Crime and Victimization Data

• National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), BJS, annual survey
  URL: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245external icon
• National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)*, Child Welfare Information Gateway, ACF, annual,
  URL: http://www.childwelfare.gov/external icon
• National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS), Child Welfare Information Gateway, ACF, periodic,
  URL: http://childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/nis.cfmexternal icon
• 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.pdfpdf iconexternal icon
  URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdfpdf iconexternal icon
  URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/169592.pdfpdf iconexternal icon
  URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/172837.pdfpdf iconexternal icon

Drug Abuse Data

• Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), SAMHSA, ongoing
  URL: http://www.dawninfo.samhsa.govexternal icon
• 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.htmexternal icon
• Monitoring the Future Survey (MTFS), NIDA, school-based, annual
  URL: http://www.nida.nih.gov/DrugPages/mtf.htmlexternal icon
• 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://nfirs.fema.gov/external icon
• Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) Limited Data Sets, CMS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/LimitedDataSets/external icon
• Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), CMS, ongoing
  URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/mcbs/external icon

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/external icon
• National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) – American College of Surgeons, ongoing
  URL: http://www.facs.org/trauma/ntdb.htmlexternal icon
• United States Eye Injury Registry – American Society of Ocular Trauma
  URL: http://www.useironline.orgexternal icon