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State and Local Area
Integrated Telephone Survey Frequently
Asked Questions
Potential SLAITS
Respondents
How is
confidentiality maintained?
How can respondents
be assured that this is a legitimate survey?
Where
are interviewers calling from?
How are telephone
numbers, including unlisted numbers, selected?
Will names of
participants be used?
Why are questions
about race, ethnicity, and income asked?
Can
questionnaires be mailed instead of
administered on the telephone?
Who
do I contact regarding the content of the survey?
Who
do I contact if I have questions about my rights as a research
participant?
How is
confidentiality maintained?
CDC and its contractors are required by law, under authority of
the Public Health
Service Act, to protect confidentiality. In addition, all interviewers and
project staff members sign an agreement
of nondisclosure prior to the onset of a study. Names will be removed
from all data prior to the analysis and reporting of results. Data are reported in
summary statistical format only. Special precautions are taken to
ensure data records cannot be linked to an individual or household.
How can respondents
be assured that this is a legitimate survey?
Respondents may call our toll-free number at 1-866-999-3340 to verify
the legitimacy of
our survey or to find out more information. They may also call the Office
of the Institutional Review Board at the National Center for Health
Statistics, at 1-800-223-8118, and leave a brief message with their name
and telephone number. Your call will be returned as soon as
possible. Alternatively, respondents can call Marcie Cynamon, the SLAITS Project Director, at 301-458-4174.
Where
are interviewers calling from?
Interviewers are calling from one of the contractor’s telephone
survey centers. The
contractor is NORC - a reputable and established survey research agency that works for the
Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Telephone centers are located in Chicago,
Illinois; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
How are telephone
numbers, including unlisted numbers, selected?
A computer randomly generates and selects telephone numbers that are
called for this
survey. No person or organization (including the phone company) provides the study with any telephone numbers. Because they are
randomly generated, telephone numbers selected may be
unlisted in telephone directories. All unlisted telephone numbers remain unlisted.
Will names of
participants be used?
Absolutely not. Confidentiality is assured for all surveys conducted
by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. All data will be collapsed into
categories, for example,
the number of children of a certain race that have a certain type of health insurance. No
identifying information will be included in any publicly released data
file, data report, publication or presentation.
Why are questions
about race, ethnicity, and income asked?
Race, ethnicity, and income variables are important in analyzing the
information we collect.
For example, this information helps us learn whether children in one group use health services
more or less often than those in another group, and how we
can improve the health care system. Race, ethnicity, and income data are kept private and
are not linked with
any identifying information.
Can
questionnaires be mailed instead of administered on the telephone?
The design of the questionnaire and the nature of the questions
require a professional
interviewer to administer and record the information. Interviewers enter
respondents’ answers directly into a secure computer.
Who do I contact
regarding the content of the survey?
You may contact:
Marcie Cynamon
National Center for Health Statistics
Division of Health Interview Statistics
3311 Toledo Road, Room 2113
Hyattsville, MD 20782
301-458-4174 (phone), 301-458-4035 (fax)
email: mcynamon@cdc.gov
Who
do I contact if I have questions about my rights as a research
participant?
You may contact the Office of the Institutional Review Board at the
National Center for Health Statistics, 1-800-223-8118, and leave a brief
message with your name and telephone number. Your call will be
returned as soon as possible.
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