SURVEY TITLE: Adult Tobacco Survey - Illinois

ACRONYMN: ATS - IL

SPONSOR: Providing technical assistance to states that request it but not funding for the actual survey which must come from the state itself: Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Department of Health and Human Services.

SURVEY PURPOSE: Population-based surveys that are conducted by state and local areas with partial funding and technical support from the Office on Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The surveys are designed to examine tobacco use, cessation, second hand smoke, and risk perception.

LOCATION SAMPLED: Illinois.

YEARS SEXUAL ORIENTATION DATA COLLECTED: 2003, 2005.

SAMPLE SIZE: unknown/unavailable.

METHOD OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION DATA COLLECTION: Telephone.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION QUESTIONS:
2003 (see 2003 Questionnaire):
VT14_1. Do you consider yourself to be:   (Please read)
01 Homosexual        
02 Bisexual        
03 Heterosexual, or
04 Other        
77 DON’T KNOW/NOT SURE
99 REFUSED
98 HANG-UP (REFUSED)

2005 (see 2005 Questionnaire):
66. Which of the following best describes how you think of yourself . . .
1. Straight or heterosexual
2. Gay or lesbian
3. Bisexual        
7. Don’t know/Not sure
8. Refused
9. Hang-up (Refused)

RESULTS: unknown/unavailable.

DATA ACCESS: unknown/unavailable.