Violence Data

California Data Sources

• EpiCenter (Only Viewable in Internet Explorer) - IVPB's online injury data system, is an online data query system on injury and violence-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits in California.

• California Violence Death Reporting System (CalVDRS) - CalVDRS starts with basic demographic information collected by CDPH through death certificate data and links this to comprehensive death data from medical examiners and coroners (including investigative reports, toxicology information, and medical history) and reports from law enforcement (such as weapon information and circumstances of the incident). While data is not yet available from this project, to find out more about current CalVDRS data collection, contact IVPB at ivpb@cdph.ca.gov  or visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Violence Death Reporting System.

• Maternal and Infant Health (MIHA) - MIHA is an annual, statewide-representative survey of women with a recent live birth in California. MIHA collects self-reported information about maternal and infant experiences and about maternal attitudes and behaviors before, during and shortly after pregnancy.

• Let's Get Healthy California - Let's Get Healthy California is a shared vision for the future health of Californians. It is a commitment to become a healthier state through joint efforts in six project goals, including Creating Healthy Communities, which includes an indicator on neighborhood safety.

• California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal - The California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS) Open Data Portal increases public access to one of the State's most valuable assets – non-confidential health and human services data. The portal offers access to standardized data that can be easily retrieved, combined, downloaded, sorted, searched, analyzed, redistributed and re-used by individuals, business, researchers, journalists, developers, and government to process, trend, and innovate.

• California Healthy Places Index (HPI) - The HPI website includes an interactive map where data down to the census tract level is available on communities in California.  These data provide diverse economic, social, political, and environmental factors that influence physical and cognitive function, behavior, and disease. These factors are often called social determinants of health and form the root causes of disadvantage, which can affect violence in communities.

• Kidsdata.org – This online data tool has county-level data for many indicators on the health and well-being of children in California, such as violence and safety (including Adverse Childhood Experiences), socioeconomic factors, education, and environmental health.

• California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) - The CHKS is the largest statewide survey of resiliency, protective factors, risk behaviors, and school climate in the nation. It is given to grades 7, 9 and 11 at a selection of schools throughout the state. This has CA-specific data on contextual factors and risk factors for teen dating violence, including gang involvement, bullying/harassment, fighting at school, and perceived safety.

National Data Sources

• CDC WISQARS™- CDC's WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data from a variety of trusted sources. 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.​​