1. Illinois Efforts to Increase PRAMS Response Rate IDPH/ICHS 6/2000 Rocio Fuller

2. Efforts to Increase PRAMS Response Rate Draw Monthly Sample Process for Cleaning Every Batch Illinois Cornerstone PramTrac Undelivered Mail & Phone Sheets Internet Search Phone Phase Thank You Adding Golf Pencils to Questionnaires

3. Draw Monthly Sample Previous Procedure New Procedure Advantages: Minimum waiting period between batches Better addresses for mothers More time to work with each batch

4. Process for Cleaning Every Batch http://www.usps.com Add last four digits to the zip-code to every mother in the batch Exceptions: Apartment number is missing Township is wrong Address is wrong Address is incomplete Unmatched address

5. Illinois Cornerstone State listing of mothers who have received public services WIC IMMUNIZATION FAMILY CASE MANAGEMENT DIABETES BREAST & CERVICAL CANCER

6. PramTrac Enter alternative addresses for mothers from Cornerstone Time between addresses is a year or less Phone numbers Apartment numbers

7. Process for Undelivered Mail & Trouble Phone Sheets PramTrac Process: Identify mother’s age Identify mother’s marital status Identify mother’s maiden name Identify father’s information Identify mother’s race Identify low birthweight and normal birthweight

9. Fax Form

10. Internet Search http://www.anywho.com http://www.infospace.com http://www.switchboard.com http://www.bigfoot.com http://www.people.yahoo.com http://webcrawler.com/reference/people_finder

11. http://www.anywho.com Search by: Name, Street, City, State, or Zipcode Advantages: Name, complete address and phone number Disadvantage: It does not provide total number of results for a given person

12. http://www.infospace.com Search by: Name, City or State Reverse Lookup Type an address to get phone number for that address Advantages: provides total number of matches for a given last name Disadvantages: Need to click on the name to get the address and phone number

13. http://www.switchboard.com Search: Name, City, and State Advantage: Complete address and phone number and total number of results for a given person

14. http://www.bigfoot.com Search: Name, City, or State Advantage: Provides complete address and phone number and total number of results for a given person

15. http://www.people.yahoo.com Search: Name, City, or State Advantage: provides total number of results for a given person Disadvantage: Addresses with phone numbers but no zip codes

16. http://webcrawler.com/reference/people_ finder Search: Name, Street, City, State, Zip Advantages:Provides complete address and phone number. Provides good results Disadvantage: Provides too much information

17. Search

19. Phone Phase Print phone sheets - a week before batch goes to phone phase Identify: mother’s DOB mother’s ethnicity mother’s marital status mother’s maiden name low birthweight normal birthweight

20. Phone Phase/Cornerstone Phone numbers Additional addresses Other contacts

21. Thank You Incentive: -Certificate of appreciation -Tote Bag -Picture Frame

23. Adding Pencils to the Questionnaires

24. Pencil Experiment Control Group: Books sent with pencils Experimental Group: Books sent without pencils Results: Similar results for both groups

26. ILLINOIS PRAMS STAFF