WISQARS User Survey

OMB Control No. 0920-1050
Exp. Date 05/31/2022
The public reporting burden of this collection of information is estimated to average 10 minutes per response, 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 (0920-1050).

You've been invited to participate in a brief customer satisfaction survey . This survey will NOT
capture any personally-identifiable information. All submissions are voluntary and
anonymous. Your participation is extremely important, and will be used to improve WISQARS
products and services. All information will be treated in a secure manner . Thank you for
helping WISQARS.
This survey has been approved by the Executive Office of the President Office of Management
and Budget (OMB)
We welcome your feedback. Help us improve your experience by taking our short survey.
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1. What occupation or role brought you to CDC WISQARS today?
Student
Educator or Professor
Parent
Public Health Professional ( including Epidemiologist)
Scientist/Researcher
Counselor or Psychologist
Media/Journalist
Librarian
Law Enforcement
Individual Interested in Public Health
Other (please specify)

2. How did you find the CDC WISQARS website? (Check all that apply)
Search engine results
Media/news story
Work related referral
School related referral
CDC website
A link sent to me by someone else
Don't know/Not Sure
Other (please specify)

3. How often do you visit CDC WISQARS?
First Time
Sometimes, a few times a year
Frequently (monthly to daily)
Don't recall

4. What is your preferred method for learning how to use an online application like CDC
WISQARS? (Check all that apply)
Help pages
Training videos
Print friendly document
Do it yourself
Other (please specify)

5. Which of the following describes how you use WISQARS data? (Check all that apply)
To be generally informed about injury and violence data.
To track trends over time in injuries and violent deaths
To understand the geographic distribution (location) of injuries and violent deaths
To understand more about the cause of injury (e.g., the mechanism, such as fall, motor vehicle crash, firearmrelated injury, suffocation)
To understand more about the intent (e.g., violence-related, intentional, unintentional)
To estimate the cost of injury
As part of a grant application
Share data with policy makers
In a media or news story
To gather content for training or education materials
To share information about injury related death with other people interested in this from other organizations.
Other (please specify)

6. Please rate your agreement with the following statements about the data and visuals
(graphs, treemaps, maps) on CDC WISQARS.
Strongly Agree
I got the information
I was looking for
The data were
presented in a
manner I could
understand
It is easy to
search/filter for what
I need
The visuals are wellformatted

Agree

Neither Agree
nor Disagree

Disagree

Strongly
Disagree

7. Please rate your agreement with the following statements about CDC WISQARS website
overall.
Strongly Agree

Aagree

Neither Agree
nor Disagree

Disagree

Sufficient help is
available on the
website
It is easy to
download my data
Navigating the site
is easy
"Look and feel" is
pleasing

8. Would you like to see any of the following improvements on WISQARS?
Clearer instructions/direction on how to navigate through website
Definitions of injury terms provided
Better presentation of data/results
More data fields to query (i.e. socio-economic variables, like education or veteran status)
Other types of injury or violence data
Other (please specify)

Strongly
Disagree