Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System (OIICS) and CFOI User Survey

Attachment 1- CFOI Data User Survey

INTRODUCTION

This survey is being conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Program (CFOI).

The purpose of this brief survey is to find out more about how you use CFOI data so that we can continue to provide you with the highest quality data possible.

We hope you will be able to help us identify areas where we can improve our products and customer service. We will combine your answers with others responses to produce summaries where individuals cannot be identified.

We appreciate your feedback. Thank you for contributing to this important effort.

This voluntary study is being conducted under OMB Number 1225-0088. Without this currently approved number, we could not conduct this survey. We estimate it will take 15 minutes to complete this survey. This survey is being administered by surveymonkey.com and resides on a server outside of the BLS Domain. The BLS cannot guarantee the protection of survey responses and advises against the inclusion of sensitive personal information in any response.

BACKGROUND

1. How do you use Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) data? (Check all that apply):

• Personal interest

• News reporting

• Policy or public health research

• Designing interventions or safety procedures for my business/establishment

• Insurance/actuarial research

• Educational uses

• Contract procurement

• Workers compensation

• Do not use CFOI data (Skip to Q15A)

• Other (please specify)

DATA ACCESS

2. In the past 12 months, how often did you search for or obtain CFOI data from each of the following sources? (Note: This question will display as a table, with frequencies in the columns and different data-search options in the rows)

More than 12 times 6-12 times 1-5 times 0 times

• Onescreen search (database tool on the BLS website using popup data browser)

• Multiscreen search (database tool on the BLS website using multiple search screens)

• Text/flat data files

• Published tables

• Charts

• National CFOI news releases

• State CFOI news releases

• State websites

• *Restricted access micro data research files (if checked, please also ask Q7-Q8)

• Technical notes, FAQs, Handbook of Methods, other explanatory documentation

• Special query from BLS staff

• Fact sheets, Beyond the Numbers, or Monthly Labor Review articles and other BLS publications

• Cited in other places like the OSHA website, news articles, etc.

• Other (please specify)

3. In the past 12 months, how often have you accessed each of the following types of CFOI data? (Note: This question will display as a table, with frequencies in the columns and different types of data in the rows)

More than 12 times 6-12times 1-5 times 0 times

• Industry fatal injury totals

• Occupation fatal injury totals

• Fatal injury case detail (event, source, part of body, nature)

• Fatal injury demographic detail (age, race, ethnicity, gender, employee status, birthplace)

• Fatal injury rates

• Fatal injury data by state

• Fatal injury data by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

• Other (please specify)

4. A. The CFOI program provides special queries of tabulated data upon request. Have you requested a special query of CFOI data in the past 12 months?

• Yes (skip to 4B)

• No (skip to 5A)

B. Did the experience meet your needs for timeliness, level of detail, etc.? How satisfied were you with the response?

• Very satisfied (skip to 5A)

• Satisfied (skip to 5)

• Neutral (skip to 4C)

• Dissatisfied (skip to 4C)

• Very dissatisfied (skip to 4C)

C. Please explain why you were not satisfied with the response.

5. A. Are CFOI data and publications available in the file formats that you need?

• Yes (skip to 6)

• No (skip to 5B)

• Not applicable/ Do not use (skip to 6)

• Not sure/ Don’t know (skip to 6)

B. In which formats would you like CFOI data to be available?

6. Please rate how easy or difficult it is to complete the following tasks using CFOI data and publications: (Note: This question will display as a table, with levels of difficulty in the columns and different activities in the rows)

Very easy Easy Neither easy nor difficult Difficult Very difficult Not applicable

• Finding the data I need

• Downloading the data I need

• Interpreting the data I need

• Finding the data release schedules

• Reaching a BLS staff member to assist me

[Respondents will not see this instructive text: ****MICRO DATA USE (only for Q3/microdata users) Only respondents who accessed restricted access micro data research files 1 or more times in the past 12 months will complete Q7 and Q8:]

7. How did you learn about the CFOI research file?

• BLS website

• Referred through a special query response

• Learned from other researcher

• Other (Please explain)

8. Would you be interested in traveling to a Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) to access additional variables in the CFOI micro data?

• No

• Yes

• Don’t know

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USE OF CFOI DATA (this section is for all respondents)

9. How useful are CFOI data to you and/or the function of your organization?

• Extremely useful

• Very useful

• Moderately useful

• Slightly useful

• Not at all useful

• Please explain (optional)

10. A. Starting with reference year 2015 data, the CFOI program eliminated the preliminary release and update files and produced a single, final data release in December 2016. Has this change to a single data release impacted you positively or negatively?

• Yes, positively (skip to B)

• Yes, negatively (skip to C)

• Yes, both positively and negatively (skip to D)

• No

B. Please explain the positive effects.

C. Please explain the negative effects.

D. Please explain the positive and negative effects.

11. Have you ever used CFOI data to develop, promote, or influence public policy?

• No

• Yes. Please briefly describe how you used CFOI data and the policy for which it was used.

12. Have you ever used CFOI data to develop or promote safety programs or initiatives in your organization?

• No

• Yes. Please briefly describe how you used CFOI data and the initiative for which it was used.

13. How useful is the CFOI technical documentation (Handbook of methods, FAQs, definitional webpages)?

• Extremely useful

• Very useful

• Moderately useful

• Slightly useful

• Not at all useful

• N/A. I am unfamiliar with the CFOI technical documentation

• Please explain (optional)

14. What improvements or additions to CFOI data or products would you like to see? (open)

• Nothing, skip to next question

15. What improvements or additions to CFOI access or customer service would you like to see? (open)

• Nothing, skip to next question

16. A. Do you use other sources of occupational safety and health data?

• Yes (skip to 15B)

• No (Skip to Thank you)

B. Please list the other sources and why/how you use them in a different way or instead of CFOI data. (Note: Respondents who entered “Do not use CFOI data” in Q1 will see this screen, and not the Thankyou screen)

NonUsers

This survey has been designed for people who use data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Program (CFOI).

If you have used CFOI data, please click the Previous button below to return to the preceding screen and enter a response describing how you have used the data.

If you have not used CFOI data, click Next below to exit this survey.

Thank you.

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Thank you

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