California Tobacco Surveys (CTS)

The California Department of Health Services conducts surveys of attitudes, behaviors, and media exposure regarding smoking and tobacco use as components of the smoking cessation evaluation effort required by California Assembly Bills AB75, AB99 and AB816. The objective of these surveys is to collect representative statewide data on cigarette smoking behavior, attitudes towards smoking, media exposure to smoking, and use of tobacco products other than cigarettes, from adults and teenagers living in California.

These surveys are conducted approximately every three years through contracts with the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and Westat, Inc. to measure changes in attitudes and behaviors in the California population. The California Tobacco Survey (CTS) was conducted in 1990-1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002 and 2005. The 1990-1991 survey includes an adult pregnancy supplement.

In addition to basic surveys, a Teen Longitudinal Survey was conducted from 1993 through 1999. The 1993 CTS Teen survey provided the baseline data, with follow-up surveys conducted in 1996 and 1999 (when participants were 18 years old and over). Both the teen-only (1993-1996) and full surveys (1993-1996-1999) have been released as public-use data. Each survey data file contains data for only those individuals interviewed in the relevant waves.

Data & Reports

• 2005 CTS
• 2002 CTS
• 1999 CTS
• 1996 CTS
• 1993 CTS
• 1993-1996 TLS
• 1992 CTS
• 1990-1991 CTS
• Tobacco Sales

Resources

• Contacts
• CTS Highlights
• CTS Bibliography
• Related Sites

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California Tobacco Survey: 2005

Final Reports:
• Volume 1: The California Tobacco Control Program: Can we Maintain the Progress? Results from the California Tobacco Survey, 1990-2005 (PDF).
• Volume 2: The California Tobacco Control Program: Can we Maintain the Progress? Results from the California Tobacco Survey, 1990-2005 (PDF).

Technical Documentation:
• Technical Report on Analytic Methods and Approaches Used in the 2005 California Tobacco Survey Analysis
• Volume 1: Data Collection Methodology (PDF)
• Volume 2: Statistical Methodology, Public Use Data File Documentation, Individual Item Responses (PDF)
• Volume 3: Methods Used for Final Report The California Tobacco COntrol Program: Can we Maintain the Progress? (PDF)
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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California Tobacco Survey: 2002

Final Report:
• Tobacco Control Successes in California: A Focus on Young People, Results from the California Tobacco Surveys, 1990-2002 (PDF)

Technical Documentation:
• Technical Report on Analytic Methods and Approaches Used in the 2002 California Tobacco Survey Analysis
• Volume 1: Data Collection Methodology (PDF)
• Volume 2: Statistical Methodology, Public Use Data File Documentation, Individual Item Responses (PDF)
• Volume 3: Methods Used for Final Report Tobacco Control Success in California: A Focus on Young People (PDF)
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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California Tobacco Survey: 1999

Final Report:
• The California Tobacco Control Program: A Decade of Progress, Results from the California Tobacco Survey, 1990-1999 (PDF)

Technical Documentation:
• Technical Report on Analytic Methods and Approaches Used in the 1999 California Tobacco Survey Analysis
• Volume 1: Data Collection Methodology (PDF)
• Volume 2: Statistical Methodology, Public Use Data File Documentation, Individual Item Responses (PDF)
• Volume 3: Methods Used for Final Report, The California Tobacco Control Program: A Decade of Progress, 1990-1999 (PDF)
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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California Tobacco Survey: 1996

Final Report:
• Tobacco Control in California: Who's Winning the War? An Evaluation of the Tobacco Control Program, 1989-1996 (PDF)

Technical Documentation:
• Technical Report on Analytic Methods and Approaches Used in the 1996 California Tobacco Survey Analysis
• Volume 1: Data Collection Methodology (PDF)
• Volume 2: Statistical Methodology (PDF)
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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California Tobacco Survey: 1993

Final Report:
• Tobacco Use in California: An evaluation of the Tobacco Control Program, 1989-1993 (PDF)

Technical Documentation:
• Technical Report on Analytic Methods and Approaches Used in the 1993 California Tobacco Survey Analysis: A Report to the California Department of Health Services
  • PDF
  • Print
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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California Tobacco Survey: 1993-1996-1999 Teen Longitudinal Surveys

June 2006 - The 1993-1996-1999 data includes the 1999 Adult Follow-Up. Users of these final data should note that some participants were lost between 1996 and 1999. The 1993-1996 data file remains available.

Final Report - No final report issued

Technical Documentation, 1993-1996 surveys:
• 1993-1996 Teen Longitudinal Survey Public Use Data File Documentation Codebook: 1993-1996 Teen Follow-Up Survey Methodology Report (Print)

Technical Documentation, 1999 adult follow-up:
• 1999 Adult Follow-Up Questionnaire (PDF)
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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California Tobacco Survey: 1992

Final Report:
• Tobacco Use in California 1992. A Focus on Preventing Uptake in Adolescents (PDF)

Technical Documentation:

• Technical Report on Analytic Methods and Approaches Used in the 1992 California Tobacco Survey Analysis: A Report to the California Department of Health Services (Print)
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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California Tobacco Survey: 1990-1991

Reports:
• Tobacco Use in California 1990. A preliminary Report Documenting the Decline of Tobacco Use (PDF)
• Tobacco Use in California, 1990-1991 (PDF)

Technical Documentation:
• Technical Report on Analytic Methods and Approaches Used in the Tobacco Use in California, 1990-1991 Report
  • PDF
  • Print
• Data collection description and files (additional documentation, questionnaires, variables, responses, and data files)

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Contacts

California Department of Health Services, Tobacco Control Section
Questions about survey data documentation, files and variables:
Martha White, UC San Diego (Phone: 858-822-2387)

Questions about file downloads:
Berenica Vejvoda, UC San Diego (Phone: 858-534-1262)

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CTS Highlights

Gilpin, Elizabeth - Presentation to the TEROC Meeting, May 22, 2002:
Highlights From the California Tobacco Surveys (PDF)
Highlights From the California Tobacco Surveys (PowerPoint)

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Related Sites Online

• A Public Health Analysis of the Proposed Resolution of the United States Tobacco Litigation - Includes a series of reports that analyze tobacco industry campaign contributions, lobbying, and other political activity in California and other states.
• American Lung Association Tobacco Control - Fact sheets and statistics.
• CDC Search
• CDC Tobacco Resources - Research, data and reports.
• California Law - Search the codes for tobacco or related keywords.
• Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education - Policy and historical research, economics and science.
• Federal Law - Search the codes for tobacco or related keywords.
• Historical Documents - 500 years of history.
• UCSF Tobacco Control Archives - Tobacco archival project and resources.

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