About Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)

CDC's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS™) is an interactive, online source of injury data. Users can access information on fatal and nonfatal injury, cost of injury, and data about social determinants of health related to injury.

Data on more than 20 causes of injury among different populations and geographic locations can be explored in WISQARS™.

Users can search, sort, and view the injury data and create reports, charts, and maps based on the following:

  • Intent of Injury (unintentional injury, violence-related, homicide/assult, legal intervention, suicide/intentional self-harm)
  • Mechanism (cause) of injury (e.g., fall, fire, firearm, motor vehicle crash, poisoning, suffocation)
  • Geographic location (national, regional, state)
  • Sex, race/ethnicity, and age of the injured person

Use WISQARS™ to:

  • Show the size of the public health and economic impact of the injury problem.
  • Describe, compare, and monitor trends in unintentional and violence-related injuries.
  • Identify new or developing injury problems.
  • Identify persons at risk of injury.
  • Provide reliable surveillance data for program and policy decision.

WISQARS Modules

WISQARS offers a collection of interactive modules where you can explore injury data and create a variety of tables and visualizations.

Injury Data Reports

WISQARS Modules for generating injury reports.
WISQARS modules for generating injury reports.

View Injury Data Tables to find modules where you can generate tabular reports about fatal, nonfatal, and cost of injury data.

Injury Data Visualizations

WISQARS modules for generating injury reports.
WISQARS modules for generating visualizations.

View Injury Data Visualizations to find modules where you can explore user-friendly visuals with fatal and nonfatal injury data.


About the Data

About Fatal Injury Data

Fatal injury data come from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality data files.

About Nonfatal Injury Data

Nonfatal injury data come from National Electronic Injury Surveillance System - All Injury Program

About NVDRS Data

Violent death data are collected through the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS).

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