BRFSS and PRAMS Telephone Data Collection Services

The Mississippi State Department of Health is seeking a contractor to perform telephone data collection services for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). The contractor will collect random sample telephone survey data related to health risk factors and conditions on the adult population in Mississippi for the BRFSS Program and will collect data on new mothers for the PRAMS survey. The contractor must have at least 7 years of recent experience conducting BRFSS data collection activities and must have successfully collected BRFSS data for at least 10 states/sites. Some key responsibilities of the contractor include: • Obtaining a sufficient sample from the CDC to collect the targeted number of complete interviews • Training interviewers on the new survey instrument • Completing the required number of interviews in accordance with survey guidelines • Performing ongoing quality control of the survey collection • Running data edits on the collected data and correcting any errors • Submitting the data to CDC within 30 days of the end of the survey year • Working with CDC to correct any problems that may be identified with respect to the data The sample size for the MS BRFSS survey is between 4,000 and 5,000 completes annually, and the sample size for the MS PRAMS survey is between 1,500 and 2,500 completes annually.