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Attachment G – CDC assessment instrument for grantee SAS users

CDC Assessment of STLT Grantee SAS^® Users

Form Approved
OMB No. 0920-0879
Expiration Date: 03/31/2014

Introduction Script

Hello, CDC is gathering information about analytic practices and software usage among data analysts in health departments who are using CDC-provided SAS licenses. You have been identified as a SAS user, and we need and appreciate your input. This assessment should take about 30 minutes for you to complete.

The purpose of this assessment is to develop a comprehensive strategy to facilitate analytic capacity building in state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments and CDC. To develop the strategy, the questions will be used to assess practices related to data analysis among grantees using CDC-provided SAS licenses. Specific information collected will include

1. Access to SAS and whether Direct Assistance was used to obtain the license

2. Current and potential for sharing SAS license (on server and cloud)

3. Types of software being used for different types of data analytic work

4. Frequency that different types of analyses are performed

5. User proficiency and whether employer requires use of specific types of software and user proficiency in different types of software

6. Interest in participating in work groups to share tips about specific types of software used in analyzing data

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Public reporting burden of this collection of information is estimated to take up to 30 minutes to complete this assessment, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to CDC/ATSDR Reports Clearance Officer; 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS D-74, Atlanta, Georgia 30333; ATTN: PRA (0920-0879)

Section 0: Screening Questions

0.1 With which of the following are you affiliated: (Select the best response)

1 A state health department

1a If state, which state? (Create pull down list)

2 A local health department (e.g., county)

2a If county, which county? (e.g., Hudson County Health Department) _______________________

3 A tribal health department

3a If tribal, which tribal health department? _______________________

4 A territorial health department

4a If territory, which territorial health department? _____________________

5 None of the above

If “None of the above,” thank you for your participation, but this assessment is only for those who are affiliated with a state, tribal, local, or territorial health department.

STOP Questions

0.2 Are you an “authorized software user” of this SAS license?

“Authorized Software Users” shall mean A) All employees of HHS, including all operating divisions of HHS B) HHS contractors C) HHS subcontractors, and D) CDC Grantees performing CDC program activities or who provide public portals for the processing or analysis of data in connection with the Grantee’s CDC Program Activities, as specified in the applicable grant or cooperative agreement between CDC and the CDC Grantee.

1 Yes

2 No

If “No,” thank you for your participation, but this assessment is only for those who are affiliated with a state, tribal, local or territorial health department and authorized software users.

STOP Questions

Section 1: Basic Respondent Information

1.1 Which of the following best describes your role in your organization? (Select the best response) (Create pull down list)

1. Administrative/Clerical Staff

2. Behavioral Health Professional

3. Data Analyst

4. Data Manager

5. Director/Manager (e.g., Health Official, Public Health Director, Division or Program Director, etc.)

6. Emergency Preparedness Coordinator or Staff

7. Environmental Health Coordinator/Sanitarian/Specialist/Scientist

8. Epidemiologist

9. Evaluation Specialist

10. Fiscal Officer/Accountant

11. Health Communicator

12. Health Educator

13. Health Scientist

14. Information Technology Specialist

15. Laboratorian

16. Lawyer or Policy Advisor

17. Nurse

18. Nutritionist

19. Physician

20. Public Information Officer

21. Researcher

22. Statistician

23. Other role (please specify): _______________________

1.2 Which of the following cooperative agreements or grants do you work on? (Select all that apply) (Create pull down list)

1. Addressing Asthma from a Public Health Perspective

2. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

3. Birth Defects Research and Prevention

4. Cancer Prevention and Control

5. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention

6. Emerging Infections Program

7. Epidemiology Laboratory Capacity (ELC) (except NEDSS; see below)

8. Family Planning Training Grant

9. Health Assessment Initiatives

10. Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Programs

11. HIV Behavioral

12. HIV Prevention

13. HIV Surveillance

14. Immunization & Vaccines for Children

15. Emerging Infections Program (EIP)

16. National Acute Hazardous Substances Incidents Surveillance and Prevention

17. National Breast & Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program

18. National Electronic Disease Surveillance Systems (NEDSS)

19. National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program

20. National Program of Cancer Registries

21. National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII)

22. National Toxic Substance Incidents Program

23. National Violent Death Reporting System

24. Occupational Health Surveillance

25. Oral Disease Prevention Program

26. Pregnancy and Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)

27. Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant

28. Program Collaboration and Services Integration (PCS)

29. Programs for the Prevention of Fire-Related Injuries

30. Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP)

31. Tobacco Use Prevention and Control

32. Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program

33. STD Prevention and Control

34. Vital Statistics Cooperative Program

35. Other cooperative agreement (please specify): _______________

36. No cooperative agreement or grant

37. Don’t know/Not sure

1.3 Which of the following best describes your role in SAS licensure at your organization? Please select all that apply (Create pull down list)

1. Information Technology support

2. Principal contact for a CDC-supplied SAS license

3. Procurer of SAS license (non-CDC-funded)

4. SAS user only

5. Other role in SAS licensure (please specify): _________________

Section 2: SAS Access and Procurement

1. Do you receive SAS via Direct Assistance? (i.e. the amount of your financial assistance award is reduced by the cost of the SAS license)?

1 Yes

2 No

7 Don’t know/Not sure

2.2 Is SAS installed locally on your desktop?

1 Yes

2 No

7 Don’t know/Not sure

2.3 Do you access SAS on a server?

1 Yes

2 No

7 Don’t know/Not sure

If “No” or “Don’t know Not sure,” skip to Question 2.4

2.3a If you use SAS on a server, please indicate the reasons why. (Select all that apply) (Create pull down list)

1. Analyses run faster on the server

2. Server can process larger data sets

3. Server is shared by multiple users and cost less per user

4. This is the only option available to me

5. Don’t know/Not sure

6. Other reason (please specify): _________________

2.4 Are there restrictions on sharing a SAS license with other users in your health department?

1 Yes

2 No

7 Don’t know/Not sure

2.5 If CDC provided analytical software through cloud technology, would your IT security policies prevent you from using cloud technology for SAS?

1 Yes

2 No

7 Don’t know/Not sure

Section 3: SAS Software Usage and Technical Assistance

The following questions are about SAS usage and technical assistance.

1. What are your programmatic reasons for using SAS? (Select all that apply) (Create pull down list)

1. Analytical epidemiology study (not outbreak/emergency response)

2. Annual and/or periodic reports

3. Data analysis

4. Epidemiological profiles

5. Management of surveillance data

6. Outbreak or emergency response investigation

7. Preparedness and response

8. Public data presentations

9. Routine reports for trend analysis, vaccine uptake, etc.

10. Vital statistics

11. Web data presentations

12. Other programmatic reason (please specify): _________________________

3.2 What is your main programmatic reason for using SAS? (Select the best response) (Create pull down list)

1. Analytical epidemiology study (not outbreak/emergency response)

2. Annual and/or periodic reports

3. Data analysis

4. Epidemiological profiles

5. Management of surveillance data

6. Outbreak or emergency response investigation

7. Preparedness and response

8. Public data presentations

9. Routine reports for trend analysis, vaccine uptake, etc.

10. Vital statistics

11. Web data presentations

12. Other programmatic reason (please specify ): _________________

3.3 Which of these BASE SAS products do you use? (Select all that apply) (Create pull down list)

1 Base SAS

2 SAS AppDev Studio

3 SAS Enterprise Guide

4 SAS Integration Technologies

5 SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2

6 SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL

7 SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC

8 SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB

9 SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle

10 SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files

11 SAS/ACCESS Interface to R/3

12 SAS/ACCESS Interface to Sybase

13 SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata

14 SAS/AF

15 SAS/ASSIST

16 SAS/CONNECT

17 SAS/EIS

18 SAS/ETS

19 SAS/FSP

20 SAS/GIS

21 SAS/GRAPH

22 SAS/IML

23 SAS/INSIGHT

24 SAS/IntrNet

25 SAS/LAB

25 SAS/OR

27 SAS/QC

28 SAS/SHARE

29 SAS/STAT

30. SAS/TOOLKIT

31 Other Base SAS product (please specify): __________________________

3.4 Which analytic functions do you use SAS to perform? (Select all that apply) (Create pull down list)

1. Data management

2. Correlation analysis

3. Frequency analysis/cross tabs

4. Linear regression

5. Logistic regression

6. Generalized linear models

7. Time series analysis

8. Complex sample survey analysis

9. Multivariate analysis (e.g., cluster analysis, factor analysis)

10. Power and sample size determinations

11. Survival analysis

12. Nonparametric statistics

13. Bayesian analysis

14. Geospatial analysis

15. Graphics

16. Other analytic functions (please specify): __________________________

5. Which SAS version do you use?

1. 9.1

2. 9.13

3. 9.2

4. 9.3

5. Other SAS version (please specify): __________________________

7 Don’t know / Not sure

3.6 What type of SAS technical assistance do you receive from CDC? (Select all that apply) (Create pull down list)

1. Assistance with SAS debugging and error resolution

2. Assistance with SAS programming statements

3. Epidemiology

4. IT

5. Pre-written SAS programs

6. SAS Setup and configuration

7. Statistical analysis

8. Other type of technical assistance with SAS (please specify): _________________________

9. No technical assistance from CDC

If “No technical assistance from CDC,” skip to Question 3.7

3.6a How often do you use SAS technical assistance from CDC? (Select the best response)

1. Daily

2. Weekly

3. Monthly

4. Quarterly or less

3.6b How satisfied are you with the technical assistance provided by CDC? (Select the best response)

1. Very satisfied

2. Satisfied

3. Somewhat satisfied

4. Dissatisfied

5. Very dissatisfied

3.7 Do you obtain SAS technical assistance from other users? (Select the best response)

1. Yes

2. No

7 Don’t know/Not sure

Section 4: Use of SAS and Other Statistical Software Packages

The next 2 questions concern software packages you may use in addition to SAS to help us understand your analytic practices. CDC will not be providing these additional software packages, with the exception of EpiInfo.

4.1 Please indicate how often, on an average weekly basis, you use each of the following software packages for CDC Program Activities:

	Hours/week
	0	1 - 10	11-20	21 - 30	31-40	40+
Access
Angoss
DAP
EpiInfo
Excel
GenStat
Mathematica
R
SAS
SPLUS
SPSS
STATA
STATISTICA
SUDAAN
WPS
Other (please specify)

4.2 Please select the purposes for which you use the following software packages:

	Data Manage-ment	Program-ming	Graphics/Mapping	Statistical analysis and/or reports	Data Cleaning	Data Mining	Don’t Use	Other
Access
Angoss
DAP
Epi Info
Excel
GenStat
Mathematica
R
SAS
SPLUS
SPSS
STATA
STATISTICA
SUDAAN
WPS
Other (please specify)

Section 5: Statistical Software Experience

5.1 Please indicate how many years of experience you have using the following software packages:

	Never used	<1 year	1 to 5 years	6 to 10 years	>10 years
Access
Angoss
DAP
Epi Info
Excel
GenStat
Mathematica
R
SAS
SPLUS
SPSS
STATA
STATISTICA
SUDAAN
WPS
Other (please specify)

5.2 Please indicate your level of proficiency using each of the following software:

	Never use	Can perform basic functions	Can perform moderate level functions	Can perform advanced functions
Access
Angoss
DAP
Epi Info
Excel
GenStat
Mathematica
R
SAS
SPLUS
SPSS
STATA
STATISTICA
SUDAAN
WPS
Other (please specify)

5.3 Which software packages does your employer require you to use for your current job? Please select all that apply. (Create pull down list)

1. Access

2. Angoss

3. DAP

4. Epi Info

5. Excel

6. GenStat

7. Mathematica

8. R

9. SAS

10. SPLUS

11. SPSS

12. STATA

13. STATISTICA

14. SUDAAN

15. WPS

16. Other software packages (please specify): _________________

5.4 How important are each of the following capabilities to the work you perform in your position?

	Very important	Somewhat important	Neutral	Somewhat unimportant	Not important
Descriptive analyses
import any data file format
Interactivity/dynamic linking
Macro processing
Mapping
Statistical modeling
Visualization
Other capability (please specify)

Section 6: Interest in Networking

6.1 Does your program have an interest in using/learning other software as an alternative or in addition to SAS? Please select all that apply (Create pull down list)

1. Access

2. Angoss

3. DAP

4. Epi Info

5. Excel

6. GenStat

7. Mathematica

8. R

9. SPLUS

10. SPSS

11. STATA

12. STATISTICA

13. SUDAAN

14. WPS

15. Other software (please specify): ____________________

16. Don’t know / Not sure

6.2 Would you be interested in participating in a statistical software users workgroup to learn and/or share your expertise?

1. Yes

2 No

7 Don’t know / Not sure