Family Health Data
Latest reports
Released 2024, Wisconsin Data Resource: Severe Maternal Morbidity, 2016-2023
This data resource is an overview of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in Wisconsin, noting an increase between 2016 and 2023. Understanding SMM is a key approach to improving maternal health in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Data Resource: Severe Maternal Morbidity, 2016-2023 (PDF) – December 2024
Released 2024, Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Team Recommendations: 2020 Pregnancy-Associated Deaths
This report contains a high-level overview of 2020 pregnancy-related deaths and recommendations to prevent future deaths from the Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Team (MMRT).
Released 2024, Birth Outcomes Resource 2022
Birth outcomes—including stillbirth, infant mortality, preterm birth, and low birthweight—are key indicators of perinatal and infant health. This resource will include data on select birth outcomes over time and by characteristics of the birthing parent. It is important to monitor birth outcomes data to better understand the health of our communities.
Wisconsin Birth Outcomes 2022, P-03389 (PDF)– April 2024
Released 2023, Maternal Mortality Review Program Issue Brief
This issue brief from the Maternal Mortality Review Team addresses the critical issue of maternal health social support and isolation, highlighting its impact on the well-being of expecting and new mothers. Social support plays a crucial role in promoting positive maternal health outcomes, while isolation can lead to detrimental effects on mental and physical health.
Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Program Issue Brief (2023), P-03496 (PDF) – August 2023
Released 2023, COVID-19 and Pregnancy in Wisconsin
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people’s experiences during pregnancy. Data collected early in the COVID-19 pandemic allows us to better understand how COVID-19 has impacted pregnancy in Wisconsin.
COVID-19 and Pregnancy in Wisconsin, P-03414 (PDF) – published April 2023
Released 2023, PPOR Analysis, 2015–2019
The PPOR reports highlight factors contributing to infant deaths and where efforts and expanded action can promote healthy birth outcomes. The data continue to show gaps in outcomes between groups. Read the full press release.
- Wisconsin Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) Analysis, 2015–2019, non-Hispanic Black communities, P-00609 (PDF) – published April 2023
- Summary of Wisconsin Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) Analysis, 2015–2019, non-Hispanic Black communities, P-00609b (PDF) – published May 2023
- Wisconsin Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) Analysis, 2015–2019, Native American/Alaska Native communities, P-00609a (PDF) – published April 2023
- Summary of Wisconsin Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) Analysis, 2015–2019, Native American/Alaska Native communities, P-00609c (PDF) – published May 2023
Released 2023, Birth Outcomes Resource 2021
Birth outcomes—including stillbirth, infant mortality, preterm birth, and low birthweight—are key indicators of perinatal and infant health. This resource will include data on select birth outcomes over time and by characteristics of the birthing parent. It is important to monitor birth outcomes data to better understand the health of our communities.
Wisconsin Birth Outcomes 2021, P-03389 (PDF) – March 2023
Released 2022, PRAMS 2018-2019 Surveillance Report
PRAMS, the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, is an ongoing survey of new mothers conducted jointly by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and state health departments. In each participating state, PRAMS collects population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy.
- Wisconsin PRAMS 2018-2019 Surveillance Report, P-02500 (PDF) – March 2022
- Wisconsin PRAMS 2018-2019 Data Tables (Excel) – March 2022
Released 2022, 2016-2017 Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Report
The Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Program has recently released a report that includes a high-level overview of Wisconsin’s pregnancy-associated deaths that occurred in 2016-2017.
This project was supported by the Enhancing Reviews and Surveillance to Eliminate Maternal Mortality (ERASE-MM) grant, funded by the CDC.
Please see the report for an overview of the data, and recommendations from the Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Team, P-03226 (PDF) to prevent future pregnancy-associated deaths.
Data for action
To help make data easily available, we assembled a list of resources and a guide to using WISH, P-03214 (PDF) – (Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health) for your own data queries on a wide-range of health indicators. The WISH guide illustrates how to create a query, an explanation of searchable measures, and step-by-step examples.
We also put together this resource that organizes and lists a number of freely available, online data sources. Data sources are grouped into broad categories and are accompanied by a description of the data and links.
America’s Health Rankings: National and state data topics include socioeconomic factors, physical environment, clinical care, health behaviors, and health outcomes. Trend data is available. Data can be stratified by gender, race and ethnicity, education, and is available in graphs, tables, and within text.
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), CDC: National, state, county, and city (Madison, Milwaukee) data topics include risk behaviors, overall health status, healthcare utilizations, and chronic health conditions. Data is provided on adults only. BRFSS offers an interactive query system, reports, publications, fact sheets, and datasets.
- National and Wisconsin
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County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: National, state, and county data topics include health outcomes, health behaviors, clinical care, socioeconomic factors, and physical environment. This includes maps, reports, and tables.
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Healthy People, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: National and state data topics include chronic disease, health behaviors, health outcomes, maternal and child health, and socioeconomic factors. Trend data is available for some measures. Data can be stratified by sex, race and ethnicity, and is available in graphs, maps, and tables.
Healthy People
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), CDC: National data topics include demographics, dietary behaviors, physical examination results, and biomarkers. Includes data on both children and adults. They have an interactive query system (for select measures) with reports and publications, tables, and datasets.
NHANES
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC: National data topics include overall health status, medical conditions, healthcare utilization and access, and insurance. It includes data on both children and adults. Data can be stratified by sex, race and ethnicity, age, income, and more. They have an interactive query system with reports, publications, and datasets.
National Health Interview Survey
State Health Facts, Kaiser Family Foundation: National and state data topics include demographics, insurance, COVID-19, women’s health, mental health, and health status. Data is in maps and tables.
State Health Facts
Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), UW-Madison: Wisconsin data topics include demographics, physical health, mental health, healthcare, health behaviors, environment, socioeconomic factors, COVID-19, and biomarkers. It includes publications on both children and adults, with tables and datasets upon request.
SHOW
Wisconsin Data and Statistics, Wisconsin DHS: State and county data topics include behavioral health, substance use, chronic conditions, environmental health, cancer, vital statistics, and more. They are available as graphs, maps, reports, and tables.
Wisconsin Data and Statistics data
Wisconsin Public Health Profiles, Wisconsin DHS: State, regional, and county data topics include births, deaths, hospitalizations, cancer, other diseases, and motor vehicle crashes. Reports are available across years to assess trends. Reports and tables are available.
Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA): National and state data topics include Title V funding and objectives. Graphs and maps are available.
KIDS COUNT Data Center, Annie E. Casey Foundation: Data topics include children’s demographics, education, housing, family, health, safety, and more. Levels of data include national, state, county, school district, Wisconsin region, and city with trends available for some measures. Data can be stratified by gender, race and ethnicity, age, and more. They have an interactive query system with graphs, maps, and tables.
KIDS COUNT
National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative: National, regional, and state data topics include children’s physical health, mental health, healthcare access, family, neighborhood factors, school, and social context. Data can be stratified by subgroups including children and youth with special health care needs and is available across years to assess trends. They have an interactive query system with graphs, tables, and datasets.
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Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) Reports and Data: State and county data topics include child support, child welfare and abuse, Wisconsin Shares program, and employment. Trend data is available. Some data available at county level as well. Data is available in graphs, maps, reports, and tables.
DCF
Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBSS), CDC, and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction: Data topics include youth violence, substance use, sexual health, diet, physical activity, and more. Levels of data include National, State, and City (Milwaukee). They have an interactive query system with reports, publications, tables, fact sheets, datasets, and trend data through the CDC.
Listening to Mothers, National Partnership for Women & Families: National data topics include pregnancy planning, pregnancy experiences, birthing, postpartum period, breastfeeding, views on healthcare system. Data is available as reports and datasets.
Listening to Mothers
Office on Women’s Health (OWH), Health Information Gateway, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: National, census region, and state data topics include demographics, births, pregnancy, mortality, infant mortality, disease, overall health status, and risk factors. Data available includes graphs, maps, and tables through an interactive query system.
OWH
Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System (PMSS), CDC: National data topics include pregnancy-related deaths over time, maternal mortality by race, and leading causes of maternal mortality. Data available includes graphs and tables.
PMSS
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), CDC, and Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include preconception maternal health and behaviors, prenatal care, insurance, pregnancy health and behaviors, postpartum health, contraception, social factors, and early parenting behaviors. Data available includes reports, publications, tables, and trend data for some measures. Datasets are available upon request.
GetFacts, Wisconsin’s Demographic Data and Visualization Portal, Applied Population Lab: Data topics include demographics, population trends, environmental factors, community factors, civil rights review, housing, and economics. Data levels include state, county, and county subdivision and are available in graphs and maps.
GetFacts
Neighborhood Atlas, Applied Population Lab: Data topics include the area deprivation index measure of socioeconomic disadvantage. Data is mapped at a sub-city, neighborhood level and available as maps and tables.
Neighborhood Atlas
Wisconsin Food Security Project, Applied Population Lab: Data topics include demographics, economic security, food security, health, food, environment, and federal food programs. Trend data is available for some measures, Data levels include Wisconsin, Wisconsin regions, counties, and school districts. Data is available in graphs, maps, and tables.
Wisconsin Food Security
U.S. Census Bureau: Data topics include demographics, population characteristics, housing, family arrangements, internet access, education, economy, income, business, geography, and more. Data levels include national, state, county, and city and is available as graphs, maps, and tables.
- National Census
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WisConomy, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development: Data topics include jobs, employment, income, and taxes. Data levels include national, Wisconsin, county, and city. Trend data is available. Graphs and tables are available through and interactive query system.
WisConomy
Wisconsin Family Health Survey, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include demographics, insurance coverage, poverty, mental health, and internet access. Data levels include state, region, and county and is available as reports or tables.
Wisconsin Family Health Survey
Wisconsin Health Atlas, UW School of Medicine and Public Health: Data topics include farm to school programs, outdoor opportunity measure, obesity, and neighborhood walkability. Data levels include state, region, school district, and zip code. Data is available in graphs and maps.
Wisconsin Health
Wisconsin Local Data on Poverty Status and Health Insurance Coverage, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include poverty status, insurance coverage, and primary insurance type. Data levels include state, region, and county. Tables and trend data are available
Local Data on Poverty Status and Health Insurance Coverage in Wisconsin
National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network, CDC: Data topics include environmental health and exposures, chronic disease, community factors, and some birth outcomes. Data levels include county and census tract. Graphs, maps, tables, and datasets are available through an interactive query system.
National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network
Wisconsin Environmental Public Health Tracking, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include air quality, births, chronic disease, carbon monoxide, community factors, climate, lead, oral health, and more. Data levels include state, county, and census tract. Graphs and maps are available through an interactive query system. Trend data is also available.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): State level data topics include healthcare funding, healthcare sites and resources, and organ donation. Maps, fact sheets, tables, and datasets are available through an interactive query system.
HRSA
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Household component (HC) data topics include healthcare costs, utilization, coverage, and accessibility. Insurance component (IC) data topics include insurance coverage. Data levels include national, census region, and state. Trend data is available. Graphs, tables, and datasets are available through an interactive query system.
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: National and state data includes performance on over 250 healthcare quality measures. Trend data is available. Graphs and tables are available through an interactive query system.
Wisconsin Oral Health Program, Wisconsin Healthy Smiles Survey, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include adult oral health tracking, burden of oral disease, and children’s oral health. Data levels include national, state, and county. Reports are available through an interactive query system.
Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS), CDC: Data topics include violent deaths, fatal and nonfatal injuries, burden of injuries, transportation crashes, and leading causes of death. Data can be stratified by sex, age, and race and ethnicity. Data levels include national, regional, state, and county. Graphs, maps, and tables are available through an interactive query system.
WISQARS
Wisconsin Injury Prevention Program, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include violent deaths, burden of injuries, and transportation crashes. Data levels include the state, region, and county and is available as graphs, maps, and reports.
Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke, CDC: Data topics include heart disease, strokes, heart disease risk factors, and socioeconomic factors. Data levels include state and county and is available in maps and tables.
Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke
Places: Local data for better health, CDC: County level data topics include asthma, cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney disease, diabetes, mental health, and more. Maps are available with datasets available upon request.
PLACES
Wisconsin Asthma Surveillance Program, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include asthma rates, prevalence, and related emergency department visits. Data can be stratified by race, income, and more. Data levels include state and county with data available in maps, reports, factsheets, and table.
Wisconsin Asthma Surveillance Program
Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System (WCRS), Wisconsin DHS: Data includes incidence rates of any cancer or specific cancer locations. Trend data is available. Data can be stratified by sex and race and ethnicity. Data levels include state, Wisconsin region, and county. Data is available as maps, reports, publications, tables through and interactive query system. Datasets are available upon request.
Wisconsin Chronic Disease Prevention, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include diabetes, prediabetes, heart disease, stroke, nutrition, physical activity, obesity, and chronic disease burden inequities. Data is available as graphs, maps, reports, and factsheets.
Wisconsin Chronic Disease Prevention data and reports
Wisconsin HIV Surveillance Program, Wisconsin DHS: Data includes incident and prevalent HIV cases. Data can be stratified by sex, age, and race and ethnicity for the state and by county as reports and tables. Trend data is available.
National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), CDC: Data topics include births, deaths, fetal deaths, life expectancy, marriages, and divorces. Data is available as reports, publications, tables, and datasets.
NVSS
Wisconsin Births and Infant Deaths, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include births, infant deaths, maternal age, demographics, birth outcomes. Data can be stratified by race and ethnicity and other demographics. Data levels include state and county with data available as reports and tables.
Wisconsin Births and Infant Deaths
Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health (WISH) Query System, Wisconsin DHS: Data topics include risk behaviors, births, cancer, injuries, mortality, opioids, population measures, and violent death. Data levels include state, Wisconsin region, county, city, zip code, and local health department. Tables are available through an interactive query system.
WONDER, CDC: Data topics include births, infant deaths, fetal deaths, deaths, health, and environmental health. Data levels include nation, census region, state, and county. Tables are available through an interactive query system.
WISH guide and data requests
WISH Query System Guide
The WISH query system is a powerful tool to access Wisconsin birth related data and includes birth counts, fertility, mortality, low birthweight, prenatal care, and teen births. In addition to birth related information, data topics include risk behaviors, births, cancer, injuries, mortality, opioids, population measures, and violent death. Data levels include the state, Wisconsin region, county, city, and zip code.
- Guide: Using the Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health (WISH) Query System for Birth-Related Data, P-03214 (PDF)
- Definitions of Measures Used in Birth-Related Modules
WISH video tutorial
Data request
We are developing a form to simplify data requests. In the meantime, email Maternal Mortality Review Epidemiologist, Emily Morian-Lozano at