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Welcome to the home page for SLAITS!
SLAITS is funded through sponsorship of specific questionnaire modules. Sponsors include both government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Just as public and private organizations collaborate in the planning and delivery of health care services, SLAITS facilitates additional collaboration leading to more complete data for informed public health policy decisions. Decision makers require high quality health data to develop and implement programs and policies. Much data exists at national and regional levels but are not available at State and local levels. National data are useful for establishing public health priorities for the country; however, much demographic and geographic diversity exists throughout the Nation. Data specific to certain groups or populations are useful in answering certain questions, as well as measuring strengths and weaknesses within programmatic areas at subnational levels. SLAITS provides a mechanism to collect data quickly on a broad range of topics at the national, State, and local levels. A partial list of examples of research areas include health insurance coverage, access to care, perceived health status, utilization of services, and measurement of child well-being. SLAITS uses the same Random-Digit-Dial (RDD) telephone design approach and sampling frame as the ongoing National Immunization Survey (NIS) conducted by CDC. Data are collected at telephone centers in different parts of the United States by our current contracting agency, NORC. Whereas the initial 3 years of pilot testing of this survey mechanism were funded by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaulation, Department of Health and Human Services, SLAITS is now available to other government and nonprofit agencies that require high quality data at State and local levels. Staff from the SLAITS program are available to meet with organizations to help identify how SLAITS can provide specific data.
Frequently Asked
Questions Key Features of the SLAITS Mechanism
Existing Survey Modules
Imputed Data in SLAITS Microdata Sets Publications and Presentations Using SLAITS Data New items have been added.
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This page last reviewed
March 25, 2009
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