TABLE 1—

Overview of Data Collection During the 3 Phases of Infrastructure Evaluation of 18 State-Level TCPs

Purpose, Selection Criteria, Data Collection, and Evaluation Team	Phase 1, State TCP Evaluation Case Study	Phase 2, State TCP Infrastructure Evaluation Call Study	Phase 3, State TCP Evaluation Site Visits
Original purpose of data collection	Case study to explore themes related to tobacco control and prevention activities after the passage of a smoke-free law, infrastructure, and ARRA	Call study to explore themes related to program infrastructure and progress on ARRA	Regularly scheduled technical assistance site visits to discuss infrastructure, progress, and technical assistance needs
Selection criteria for states participating	ARRA components (is state successfully making progress on ARRA tobacco control initiatives? Achieve ≥ 90% of state work plan tasks by selection date)23,24	ARRA components (is state successfully making progress on ARRA tobacco control initiatives? Achieve ≥ 90% of state work plan tasks by selection date)23,24	Geographic diversity
	ARRA component 2	ARRA component 2	(are states located in areas throughout the United States?)
	(does state have competitive funding for ARRA?)	(does state have competitive funding for ARRA?)	Technical assistance (evaluator attended technical assistance site visit)
	Smoke-free law	Geographic diversity
	(does the state have a comprehensive smoke-free law? All 4 states in this case study did)	(are states located in areas throughout the United States?)
	Geographic diversity
	(are states located in areas throughout the United States?)
	Technical assistance (evaluator attended technical assistance site visit)
States participating	CO, MA, MI, WA	KS, KY, MN, MS, NM, OK, OR, TX, UT	ID, NH, NC, ND, OH
Data collection methods	60- to 90-min in-person group discussions	60- to 90-min telephone group discussions	30-min to 8-h in-person discussions
Data	Recorded and transcribed verbatim conversations and field notes	Recorded and transcribed verbatim conversations and field notes	Field notes
No. of interviews conducted	43 (including 1 combined group discussion with all 4 sites at an ARRA technical assistance meeting in Atlanta, GA)	9 phone calls with each state plus 4 group calls with 2–3 of the same 9 states participating in each call	5 site visits (ranging from 2 to 4 d)
Dates of data collection	March 2011–May 2011	April 2011–June 2011	May 2011–September 2011
Evaluation team composition—lead PI is same for all 3 phases	Lead PI; 3 senior researchers–evaluators; 4 supervised fellows plus evaluation contractors	Lead PI; 2 senior researchers–evaluators; 2 supervised fellows plus evaluation contractors	Lead PI; 1 senior researcher–evaluator plus 1 evaluation contractor

Note. ARRA = American Reinvestment and Recovery Act; PI = principal investigator; TCP = tobacco control program.