Social Climate Survey

{Survey}

Although comprehensive tobacco control programs have moved toward logic models that incorporate political and social intermediate objectives such as smoke-free worksites, tobacco control planning and evaluation has been hampered by the lack of timely, comprehensive data about the attitudes and practices of U.S. adults. The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) was created to fill this void.

{Purpose}

The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) was developed as a methodology to objectively measure the fundamental position of tobacco control in society and thereby provide a data collection system to monitor program impacts. The survey includes items to measure progress toward intermediate objectives such as policy changes, changes in social norms, reductions in exposure of individuals to environmental tobacco smoke, and rejection of pro-tobacco influences.

{Methods}

The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (SCS-TC) was administered to representative samples of Mississippi adults and U.S. adults who were interviewed by telephone in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 (the SCS-TC was not administered to a Mississippi sample in 2006). Samples from 2000-2009 represent the civilian, non-institutionalized adult population over age 18. Households were selected using random digit dialing procedures to include households with unlisted numbers. Once a household was contacted, the adult to be interviewed was selected by asking to speak with the person in the household who is 18 years of age or older and who will have the next birthday. Five attempts were made to contact those selected adults who were not home. The sample was weighted by race and gender, based on the most current U.S. Census estimates.

Random Digit Dialing (RDD) methods have been the most efficient and cost-effective means for administering surveys to a representative sample of adults for several decades. However, data from the National Health Interview Survey highlight the growing problem of wireless substitution of landline telephones for survey researchers. In order to provide a probability-based sample representative of all households in theU.S., a dual-frame RDD (Random-Digit-Dialing) sampling methodology was employed, whereby both landline and cellular telephone numbers were used to contact eligible adults. Telephone numbers were dialed a maximum of eight (8) times before being retired.

{Reports + Fact Sheets}

• Support for Smoke-Free Air – 2023 MS Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (PDF)
• Secondhand Smoke Exposure, 2023 (PDF)
• Current Prevalence of Tobacco Products, 2023 (PDF)

{Technical Reports}

• 2019 Mississippi Social Climate of Smoking | Final Report (PDF)
• 2018 Mississippi Social Climate of Smoking | Final Report (PDF)
• 2017 Mississippi Social Climate of Smoking | Final Report (PDF)
• 2015 Mississippi Social Climate of Smoking | Final Report (PDF)

{Codebooks}

• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2013 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2012 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control ABF & RDD Merged Codebook 2011 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2008 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2007 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2005 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2004 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2003 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2002 (PDF)
• Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control Codebook 2001 (PDF)