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Adult Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure: From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System¹ (BRFSS) and 1997 Supplemental Survey¹¹, administered statewide by the Oregon Health Services.

Tobacco Use Among Youth: From the Youth Risk Behavior Survey², administered by the Oregon Health Services, and from the Oregon Public School Drug Use Survey²², administered by the Oregon Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs Office.

Benchmark Achievements: From Quarterly Progress Reports submitted by local coalitions.

Activities of Schools: From Progress Reports submitted by Comprehensive School Projects, reflecting activities through October 31, 1998.

County Coalition Funding: Includes each county's actual expenditures for FY '98, grant amount for FY '99, and any One-Time Activity funding.

School Funding: Actual grant amount for each Comprehensive School-Based Program.

Media Spending: Includes expenditures within each county of the statewide public awareness and education campaign.

Footnotes

¹ Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System BRFSS
The BRFSS is an ongoing random-digit dialed telephone survey of adults concerning health-related behaviors. The BRFSS was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is conducted in all states in the U.S. Each year, between 3,000 and 6,000 adult Oregonians are interviewed. The BRFSS includes questions on health behavior risk factors such as seat belt use; diet; weight control; tobacco and alcohol use; physical exercise; preventive health screenings; and use of preventive and other health care services. The data are weighted to represent all adults aged 18 years and older. A core set of questions, which includes the question on smoking prevalence, is asked annually and other topics are surveyed on a rotating basis of two years. Each state may add questions to the CDC survey, and Oregon asks an additional forty questions on attitudes and behaviors regarding tobacco.

¹¹ The 1997 Supplemental Survey was designed to collect some additional baseline data that was not available from the ongoing BRFSS. The sample and weighting methodology are the same as the BRFSS, except for an additional step of stratifying by county. Based on the county's population, the Supplemental Survey included 60, 100, 200, or 300 respondents from each county. A total of 6,199 surveys were conducted in August through October, 1997. Additional interviews were conducted to ensure that there were at least 100 surveys (each) with Hispanic, Asian, African-American and American Indian respondents. The supplemental Survey included many more tobacco questions than was on the 1997 BRFSS. In 1998 and beyond, the BRFSS includes many of the additional questions first asked on the Supplemental Survey.

² Youth Risk Behavior Survey YRBS
The YRBS was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and conducted in 40 states in 1997. The anonymous survey has been administered in a sample of Oregon schools every other year since 1991. The sample size has varied between 1,600 and 32,000 and the final data are weighed to more accurately represent the Oregon high school population. The questionnaire assesses behavioral risks in Oregon high school students (grades nine through 12) in the areas of vehicle safety, weapon carrying and violence, tobacco use, alcohol use, other drug use, sexual activity and pregnancy, HIV knowledge and attitudes, eating behaviors, nutrition and exercise, access to health care including use of school-based health centers. In addition, a sample of middle school students was surveyed in 1997.

²² Oregon Public School Drug Use Survey This anonymous survey has been administered bi-annually since 1986 by the Oregon Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs (OADAP) through the Oregon public school system. It is patterned after the ongoing national surveys of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and has included eighth and eleventh graders since 1986; a sixth grade sample was added in 1994. Schools are randomly sampled using a cluster sample design and in 1996 included a total of 128 schools and 12,263 students. The questionnaire assesses community characteristics, tobacco use, drug use, alcohol use, drug/alcohol use in student's peer and family network, refusal skills, susceptibility to future use, and attitudes toward school and family.