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About this objective
Data
National baseline: 65.9 percent of children aged 4 months to 14 years got sufficient sleep based on parent report in 2016-17
National target: 70.6 percent
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
From the 2016 and 2017 National Survey of Children's Health:
Numerator and Denominator:
For ages 0-5:
DURING THE PAST WEEK, how many hours of sleep did this child get during an average day (count both nighttime sleep and naps)?- Less than 7 hours
- 7 hours
- 8 hours
- 9 hours
- 10 hours
- 11 hours
- 12 or more hours
For ages 6-17:
DURING THE PAST WEEK, how many hours of sleep did this child get on an average weeknight?- Less than 6 hours
- 6 hours
- 7 hours
- 8 hours
- 9 hours
- 10 hours
- 11 or more hours
Methodology notes
Questions are age specific based on the recommendations for sufficient sleep for children less than 5 years of age, which include nap and nighttime sleep. For children aged 6-17 years the question addresses nighttime sleep, based on the guidelines. Sufficient sleep is defined as 12 or more hours for ages 4 months -1 year, 11 or more hours for ages 1-2 years, 10 or more hours for ages 3-5 years, 9 or more hours for ages 6-12 years, and 8 or more hours for ages 13-14 years. For more information see the link to CDC's How Much Sleep Do I Need?
History
In April 2024, imputation and weighting by race and ethnicity were revised for the 2022 National Survey of Children's Health. To ensure comparability for trending, these changes were applied retroactively to data from the NSCH from 2016 through 2021 also. The baseline and target values did not change.
Footnotes
1. Effect size h=0.1 was chosen to correspond with 10% improvement from a baseline of 50%.