Data, Statistics, and Reporting

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The Injury Center uses data to understand when and why violence and injuries occur and how to prevent them. Data and data systems help us understand the burden of unintentional and violence-related injury and death in the United States.

Data Systems and Sources
Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
Map of the US from a WISQARS survey

CDC’s WISQARS™ is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data. Researchers, the media, public health professionals, and the public can use WISQARS™ data to learn more about the public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States.

Explore injury data, maps, and visualizations.

National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
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NVDRS is a state-based surveillance system that pools more than 600 unique data elements from multiple sources into a usable, anonymous database. NVDRS covers all types of violent deaths – including homicides and suicides – in all settings for all age groups.

Explore state profiles, data and publications, and other NVDRS resources.

National Intimate Partner Violence Survey (NISVS)
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NISVS collects comprehensive national- and state-level data on intimate partner violence, sexual violence and stalking victimization in the United States.

Explore summary reports from NISVS data.

State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS) Dashboard
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CDC’s SUDORS Dashboard is an interactive data visualization tool that displays comprehensive data on unintentional and undetermined intent drug overdose deaths that occurred in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Participating jurisdictions provided data from death certificates, coroner/medical examiner reports (including scene evidence, witness reports, and autopsy reports), and postmortem toxicology reports. Combined, these sources offer valuable data about drugs involved in overdose deaths, demographic characteristics, circumstances surrounding overdose deaths, and potential opportunities for intervention.

Explore fatal overdose trends.

Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DOSE) Dashboard
DOSE map chart of the U.S.

CDC’s DOSE Dashboard is an interactive data visualization tool that displays current nonfatal drug overdose-related emergency department (ED) data from syndromic surveillance systems. DOSE data can be used to compare monthly and annual trends in nonfatal drug overdose-related ED visits by drug types (i.e., all drugs, all opioids, heroin, and all stimulants), state, and sex and age group.

Explore fatal overdose trends.

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Data in Action

Data science can help address problems faster by using innovative data sources and approaches.

Learn more about our data science strategy.