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Surveillance and Evaluation Data Resources for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
About this Book
Surveillance and Evaluation Data Resources is an
at-a-glance compilation of sources of data useful for tobacco
control programs that are conducting surveillance or evaluation.
Our objective is to provide basic information on each data source
to assist state tobacco control programs identify data that are
relevant to planning, monitoring, and evaluation. The data
sources listed here provide a wide variety of tobacco-related
information. For example, the NTCP Chronicle and local
program monitoring have useful data on programmatic
activities; restaurant and work-site surveys, key informant
surveys, and third-party payer surveys have data on
environmental policies and indicators; the Youth Tobacco
Survey, Adult Tobacco Survey, and media evaluation surveys
have data on individual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors;
and the cancer registries and hospital discharge records
have data on health outcomes.
Data sources checked as "used frequently and comparable across
states" are often used to help states develop tobacco program
objectives. Data from these sources can be used to compare
program impact and outcomes with those of other states and
the nation as a whole.
The data sources are organized under major categories: national
and state surveys and tools, registries and vital statistics, and
topic-specific tools. The columns in each table provide the
following information:
Column 1: Data Source
- Name of the data source.
- General description of the data source.
Column 2: Tobacco-Related Indicators
- Topics on which information is available. For example,
environmental tobacco smoke, tobacco-related policies,
brand preferences, type of tobacco product (cigarette, cigar,
pipe, smokeless tobacco, kretek, or bidi).
- The range in the number of tobacco-related questions
included in the survey instrument, or—if applicable—
within the core instrument, modules, or supplements.
Column 3: Sampling Frame
- The level of information available: national, state, community, or local.
- Details on target or study population (e.g., adults, pregnant
women) or factors that were studied (e.g., media campaigns,
number of telephone calls, hospital records).
Column 4: Methodology (a); Frequency (b); Years Completed (c)
- (a) Study design and data collection mode (e.g., random
sample, telephone survey; convenience sample, unannounced
interviews).
- (b) How often surveys are conducted (e.g., annually,
periodically).
- (c) The years when data were collected.
Column 5: Comments
- Additional useful information.
Column 6: Contact
- Phone number or Internet address of the organization
where you can obtain more information.
Not all of the data sources are available in every state.
Consequently, some states may consider investing funds to
develop systems to address gaps in data. New data collection
systems should be directly relevant to state programmatic
goals, objectives, and activities. However, prior to choosing
data sources or investing resources to develop new data systems,
programs should consider some of the following issues:
timeliness, frequency, comparability, credibility, and available
resources. For more information on these considerations,
please see CDC's 2001 publication An Introduction to
Evaluation: Planning, Implementation and Use, or contact
the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health's State Surveillance
and Evaluation Team (telephone: 770-488-5703).
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Acknowledgments
We thank the following people from the Office on Smoking
and Health for their assistance in coordinating, reviewing, and
producing this document: Jeffrey Fellows, Lawrence Green,
Corinne Husten, Goldie MacDonald, Lisa Petersen, Terry
Pechacek, Eric Pevzner, Sheila Porter, Heather Ryan, Donald
Sharp, Gabrielle Starr, Eric Wiesen, and Pascale Wortley.
We give special thanks to Claudia Bohner, Utah Department
of Health and Julie Doetsch, Illinois Department of Public Health for their
reviews of an earlier draft of this document.
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