Local Data Collection Strategies for Safety Net Assessment: Table 2

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Survey Name

Sponsor

Years*

Description

Areas Represented

Community Tracking Study-Household Survey (CTS)

Center for Studying Health Systems Change

Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
http://www.hschange.com/
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1996-7; 1998-9; 2000-1

Conducted in approximately 2-year intervals
About 60,000 individuals in 33,000 families across 60 communities, including 12 randomly selected case study sites (300 interviews in each): Boston; Cleveland; Greenville, SC; Indianapolis; Lansing, MI; Little Rock; Miami; Northern NJ; Orange County, CA; Phoenix; Seattle; and Syracuse, NY.
Represents U.S. non-institutionalized civilian population, and includes supplemental samples of families with high health needs

U.S. and 12 metro areas

National Survey of America's Families (NSAF)

Urban Institute (Assessing the New Federalism Initiative)

1997, 1999, 2001

Household telephone surveys
109,000 individuals in more than 42,000 households
Includes a national sample and samples in 13 States (AL, CA, CO, FL, MA, MI, MN, MS, NJ, NY, TX, WA, WI)
Represents U.S. non-institutionalized civilian population, and includes supplemental samples of households below twice the Federal poverty level

U.S.; 13 individual States; and by special arrangement, some multi-county areas

* Since 1990.