BRFSS and PRAMS Telephone Data Collection Services

The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is seeking a contractor to provide Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) telephone data collection services. The contractor will be responsible for collecting random sample telephone survey data related to health risk factors and conditions on the adult population in Mississippi for the BRFSS program, and for PRAMS, the contractor will collect data on new mothers about their pregnancy and infant. 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 points about the job include: • The contractor will collect data through telephone interviews performed by a contractor. • The sample size for the MS BRFSS survey is between 4,000 and 5,000 completes annually. • The sample size for the MS PRAMS survey is between 1,500 and 2,500 completes annually. • The contractor will be responsible for 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, and submitting the data to CDC within 30 days of the end of the survey year.