{
 "title": "About 1 in 20 kids aged 5–11 seem very worried every day",
 "description": "About 1 in 20 US children aged 5–11 seem very anxious, nervous or worried every day, according to CDC survey data — and the share has barely moved since 2019. Chart, table and CSV.",
 "url": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/data/daily-worry-children-us",
 "question": "\"How often does [child's name] seem very anxious, nervous, or worried? Would you say: daily, weekly, monthly, a few times a year, or never?\"",
 "measure": "Share of children, % (parent report)",
 "unit": "percent",
 "source": {
  "short": "CDC · National Health Interview Survey",
  "name": "CDC, National Center for Health Statistics — NHIS Child Summary Health Statistics",
  "url": "https://data.cdc.gov/National-Center-for-Health-Statistics/NHIS-Child-Summary-Health-Statistics/wxz7-ekz9",
  "license": "Public domain (U.S. Government work)",
  "licenseUrl": "https://www.usa.gov/government-works",
  "question": "\"How often does [child's name] seem very anxious, nervous, or worried? Would you say: daily, weekly, monthly, a few times a year, or never?\""
 },
 "license": "Public domain (U.S. Government work)",
 "method": "Percentages and 95% confidence intervals as published by NCHS, not recalculated. The shaded band around each line is the confidence interval. Ages 5–17 only: the question isn't asked about younger children.",
 "takeaways": [
  "For children aged 5–11, the share who seem very worried every day has stayed between about 4 and 6 percent every year since 2019 — roughly one child in twenty. The year-to-year wiggles are within the survey's margin of error.",
  "Teenagers (12–17) rose from 5.7% in 2019 to 7.8% in 2022, then came back down to 5.6% in 2025.",
  "\"Daily worry\" is a parent's impression, not a diagnosis. Many more children worry sometimes; this is the group for whom it's an everyday thing."
 ],
 "series": [
  {
   "name": "5-11 years",
   "points": [
    {
     "period": 2019,
     "value": 4.8,
     "ci95_low": 3.9,
     "ci95_high": 5.7
    },
    {
     "period": 2020,
     "value": 5.6,
     "ci95_low": 4.3,
     "ci95_high": 7.2
    },
    {
     "period": 2021,
     "value": 4.4,
     "ci95_low": 3.5,
     "ci95_high": 5.4
    },
    {
     "period": 2022,
     "value": 5.2,
     "ci95_low": 4.2,
     "ci95_high": 6.3
    },
    {
     "period": 2023,
     "value": 4.8,
     "ci95_low": 3.9,
     "ci95_high": 5.8
    },
    {
     "period": 2024,
     "value": 4.3,
     "ci95_low": 3.5,
     "ci95_high": 5.2
    },
    {
     "period": 2025,
     "value": 5.1,
     "ci95_low": 4.1,
     "ci95_high": 6.4
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "12-17 years",
   "points": [
    {
     "period": 2019,
     "value": 5.7,
     "ci95_low": 4.9,
     "ci95_high": 6.7
    },
    {
     "period": 2020,
     "value": 6.1,
     "ci95_low": 4.9,
     "ci95_high": 7.4
    },
    {
     "period": 2021,
     "value": 6.1,
     "ci95_low": 5.1,
     "ci95_high": 7.2
    },
    {
     "period": 2022,
     "value": 7.8,
     "ci95_low": 6.6,
     "ci95_high": 9.1
    },
    {
     "period": 2023,
     "value": 7.6,
     "ci95_low": 6.6,
     "ci95_high": 8.8
    },
    {
     "period": 2024,
     "value": 6.8,
     "ci95_low": 5.8,
     "ci95_high": 7.9
    },
    {
     "period": 2025,
     "value": 5.6,
     "ci95_low": 4.5,
     "ci95_high": 6.8
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "csv": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/data/daily-worry-children-us.csv",
 "chart_embed": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/embed/daily-worry-children-us",
 "image": "https://raisingstoics.com/research/og/daily-worry-children-us.png",
 "credit": "Raising Stoics (raisingstoics.com)"
}