Administration for Children & Families
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities. Data covers topics including adoption, foster care, abuse, child care, and welfare. While there are different subject areas to look through like the National Child Care Information Center, be sure to look for Statistics/Data under the Policy/Planning section.

American Family Data Archive (AFDA)
A collection of 36 machine-readable data sets developed from 18 major investigations of American family life, child care, employment, marital disruption, and child custody.All data and documentation files for a particular dataset are compressed for both PC and UNIX environments.

Carolina Population Center
The Carolina Population Center is a community of scholars and professionals collaborating on interdisciplinary research and methods that advance understanding of population issues. Based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the center extends its resources to path-breaking work across the US and in more than 85 other countries and makes its findings available to a global audience.

ChildStats.gov
This website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.

Child Well-Being and Poverty Data Archive
This is a large, comprehensive, and readily searchable collection of statistical data on child well-being and poverty. It provides easy access to critical information needed for basic policy research, education, program planning and implementation, and evaluation.

Data Archive on Adolescent Pregnancy and Pregnancy Prevention (DAAPPP)
Offers social science data on the incidence, prevalence, antecedents and consequences of teenage pregnancy and family planning. In 1994, the scope of DAAPPP was expanded to include studies that focus more broadly on adolescent sexual health issues, thereby including studies examining behavioral factors related to sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in addition to pregnancy.All data and documentation files for a particular dataset are compressed for both PC and UNIX environments.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is following a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three-quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents). We refer to unmarried parents and their children as "fragile families" to underscore that they are families and that they are at greater risk of breaking up and living in poverty than more traditional
families.

The Guttmacher Institute
The Institute produces a wide range of resources on topics pertaining to sexual and reproductive health, including International Family Planning Perspectives, The Guttmacher Policy Review and Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health. There is state and international data and includes information on abortion, adolescents, contraception, pregnancy, and state policies, services, and financing.

Henry A. Murray Research Archive
The Henry A. Murray Research Archive is the endowed, permanent repository for quantitative and qualitative research data at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, and provides physical storage for the entire IQSS Dataverse Network. The collection comprises over 125 terabytes of data, audio, and video. It preserves in perpetuity all types of data of interest to the research community, including numerical, video, audio, interview notes, and other data. Applications may have to be submitted to access data.

Kaiser Family Foundation
The Kaiser Family Foundation focuses on major health care issues. It includes the following topics: Medicaid, Medicare, costs, insurance, uninsured, state policies, prescription drugs, HIV/AIDS, minority health, and women's health. Under women's health is the Women's Health Data Book, which includes a lot of information health of herself and her babies.

Kids Count Data
KIDS COUNT now offers several interactive online databases that allow visitors to create free, customized data reports on-the-fly. The report choices vary by system, but include the ability to generate custom profiles, line graphs, maps, and rankings, and download raw data. Profiles give you detailed information about a single geographic area. Graphs allow you to view indicators graphed over time. Maps provide color-coded maps of the geographic area. Rankings allow you to view all of the comparable geographic regions, ranked by an indicator. Raw Data allows you to download the raw data for off-line use.

Maternal Drug Abuse Archive (MDA)
A collection of seven major investigations of maternal health habits, maternal drug abuse, and fetal exposure to illicit drugs.All data and documentation files for a particular dataset are compressed for both PC and UNIX environments.

Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH)
The Department of Community Health is responsible for the collection of information on a range of health related issues. The information is collected to monitor the general health and well-being of Michigan's citizens. These data are useful for health program development, targeting and evaluation of program progress. The information is used to identify emerging health issues and trends and can be made available for epidemiological research. Statistics are developed from the data collected to provide basic information on these health events in Michigan. The data are provided at the state, county and community level. The MDCH has information on health, vital statistics, pregnancy, birth defects, mental health, substance abuse, diseases, cancer, and other health care statistics. Look under Statistics and Reports.

Michigan Department of Human Services
This web site provides Michigan information on adoptions, child support, children's protective services, and much more.

Michigan Public Health Institute
The Michigan Public Health Institute has information on various topics in health. They have a lot of useful annual reports that provide tables and other data and links to other resources. They have information on child and adolescent health, cancer, disease prevention, tobacco use, and many more. For example, they have the Michigan Abstinence Program Annual Reports and child deaths in Michigan.

Michigan State Police Crime Reporting
This web site provides accident statistics for Michigan including crime statistics for state totals, county totals, and information on arrests. Their main publication is the Uniform Crime Report. It includes information on runaways.

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
This web site provides national and state information. For example, there are state totals of births by age and race and also demographic information. There are also links to additional resources.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
A division of the CDC, the NCHS is the Nation's principal health statistics agency, and it compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve health. It collects data from birth and death records, medical records, interview surveys, and through direct physical exams and laboratory testing. It includes surveys such at the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) and National Survey of Children's Health.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
While this web site doesn't provide a lot of data, it does give some good statistics and links to reports with further information.

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
NDACAN promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field. NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis. Applications must be submitted to access data.

National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children Series
Missing and exploited children statistics are available from this Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) publication.

National Survey of America's Families
The National Survey of America's Families provides a comprehensive look at the well-being of children and non-elderly adults, and reveals sometimes striking differences among the 13 states studied in depth. The survey provides quantitative measures of child, adult and family well-being in America, with an emphasis on persons in low-income families.

National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)
The NSFH was designed to provide a broad range of information on family life to serve as a resource for research across disciplinary perspectives. A considerable amount of life-history information was collected, including: the respondent's family living arrangements in childhood, departures and returns to the parental home, and histories of marriage, cohabitation, education, fertility, and employment. The design permits the detailed description of past and current living arrangements and other characteristics and experiences, as well as the analysis of the consequences of earlier patterns on current states, marital and parenting relationships, kin contact, and economic and psychological well-being. Interviews were conducted in 1987-88, 1992-94, and 2001-2003.

National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) gathers information on family life, marriage and divorce, pregnancy, infertility, use of contraception, and men's and women's health.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Statistical Briefing Book (SBB)
The Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) has been designed to easily find basic statistical information on juvenile offending, victimization of juveniles, and involvement of youth in the juvenile justice system.

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
PRAMS, the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, is a surveillance project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health departments. PRAMS collects state-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. Applications must be submitted to have access to the raw data, but there are some available data and statistics available. See the Selected Resources at the bottom of the page and links to additional resources in the right column. Michigan has its own PRAMS reports.

Research Connections--Child Care & Early Education
This site offers an easily searchable collection of more than 10,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education. Also available is research data suitable for further analysis and statistical results generated from public sources.

Social Science Electronic Data Library
SSEDL is a premium health and social science resource that consists of over 300 data sets from 200 different studies. Topics include: AIDS/STD, Aging, Adolescent Pregnancy, Disabilities, Families and Maternal Drug Abuse.

Teen Pregnancy Information from the CDC
This web site provides statistics on teen pregnancy and links to additional resources.