America's Children Wellbeing Indicators Scraper

Extracts all indicator tables from childstats.gov — the official annual report of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Returns every year-row-value data record from ~86 tables covering family structure, behavior, health, economic circumstances, education, and child population.

What you get

Each output record is one data point: a single (row_label, year, value) triple from a specific indicator table.

Field	Description
table_id	Table identifier, e.g. fam1a, beh1, pop2
indicator_category	Category: Population, Family & Social Environment, Economic Circumstances, Behavior, Education, Health
indicator_name	Full indicator name from the table heading
row_label	Demographic or subgroup row label (e.g. "Two married parents", "Male", "Hispanic")
year	Year of the data point (e.g. "2023")
value	Numeric value — null when data is not available for that year/subgroup
value_unit	Unit: Percent, Number, Rate, or Value
footnotes	Pipe-separated footnote reference letters applicable to this row
source	Data source attribution (e.g. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey)
url	URL of the table page

Use cases

• Family and child welfare research — family structure tables (fam1a–fam7) cover single-parent households, living arrangements, child care, and foster/relative care by race and Hispanic origin
• Academic and policy analysis — the full indicator set spans 80+ tables from 1980–2023 with consistent federal methodology
• Data journalism — track long-run trends in child poverty, school enrollment, health insurance coverage, and behavioral outcomes
• Government data pipelines — official federal interagency statistics suitable for regulatory and compliance use

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	—	Maximum number of records to return. Omit to scrape all tables.

Example: Scrape family structure tables only

The actor scrapes all 86 tables by default (50,000+ records for a full run). Use maxItems to limit output for quick sampling or targeted queries.

How it works

1. Fetches the tables index page to discover all ~86 table URLs grouped by category
2. Fetches each table page (tables/<id>.asp?popup=true) — clean static HTML
3. Unpivots the wide matrix (row × year columns) into individual records
4. Extracts footnotes from the <tfoot> section and source attribution from the SOURCE: row

The site is a U.S. federal .gov domain, publicly accessible with no authentication or anti-bot measures. No proxy is used.

Source

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being — Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Data covers 1980–2023 depending on the indicator.