2007 National Conference on Tobacco or Health

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Exhibit Hall

State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System: An Online Tool

Celia T. McCants, BS, Northrop Grumman, CITS II Contract/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease & Health Promotion, ctoles@cdc.gov, Allison MacNeil, MPH, amacneil@cdc.gov.

Learning Objectives: At the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to understand how the State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System, an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control, can be used for state tobacco control program planning and evaluation.

Problem/Objective: The STATE System is an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control. The System offers the following type of reports:

Detail: detailed information for a single state, single point in time, for a single measure.

Comparison: data for all states at a single point in time, for a single measure. Data displays on the webpage or exports to an Excel spreadsheet.

Trend: data for multiple states, include multiple years, and multiple measures. Data displays on the webpage or exports to an Excel spreadsheet. Users can create graphs of the data selected in the report.

Highlights: detailed information for a single state, single point in time, and includes many measures from across topics within the System.

Methods: The System presents over 330 state-level data measures categorized into seven topic areas: Demographics, Behaviors, Economics, Environment, Funding, Health Consequences and Costs, and Legislation.

Results: The System is designed to integrate many data sources to provide comprehensive summary data and facilitate research and consistent data interpretation. State and local tobacco control program managers and evaluators can use the System's broad range of data and advanced reporting features to report on detailed single state data, trends over time, compare data for multiple states, export data to a spreadsheet for further analysis, and produce attractive graphs to export for use in presentations.

Conclusions: The System provides useful data for state tobacco control programs that can be used to identify program priorities and measure progress toward program goals.



Related Web Page:
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/STATESystem

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