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July 09, 2010

2010 Ohio Family Health Survey interviews set to begin

The 2010 Ohio Family Health Survey, managed by the Ohio Colleges of Medicine’s Government Resource Center and the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, is expected to begin collecting interviews in the middle of July, with interviews to be concluded in August.

The stratified random digital dial survey of approximately 5,200 Ohio households (using both land-line and cellular phones) is a follow-up to the 2008 Ohio Family Health Survey, which was one of the largest and most comprehensive state-level health and insurance surveys conducted in the nation.

The emphasis for the 2010 survey is gauging the level of economic stress on Ohio families and how that is impacting Ohio's health system and indicators of health, according to Tim Sahr, HPIO Director of Research and co-principal investigator on the OFHS. The OFHS team also is planning another major survey of 50,000-plus households in 2012 that will track results from the 2008 survey and will include county-level information.

Initial data results from the 2010 OFHS are expected later this year.