Services for the National Survey of Family Growth

THIS REQUIREMENT IS NOT A SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE AS ORGINALLY POSTED. THIS IS A FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION REQUIREMENT. 

DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE WASHINGTON, DC AREA AND THE CLOSING OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK. THIS NOTICE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 18, 2010. 

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics requires the planning and conduct of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), with interviewing to be conducted continuously from approximately June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2019. (Depending on the date of contract award, these dates may be adjusted.) Working closely and collaboratively with the NCHS/NSFG work team to develop materials and specifications, the contractor shall conduct all the necessary activities, including sample design, pretest, CAPI programming, hiring, supervising and training interviewers, data processing, data file preparation, and data file documentation, for a complete national survey. This requirement will be a full and open competition open to all who meets the requirements. Full details will be listed in the Requests for Proposal (RFP).

Additional details and requirements will be described in the solicitation. Only written requests, directly from the requestor, for this solicitation will be accepted. Email requests will be accepted. No telephone requests will be accepted during the presolicitation process. Requests should reference the solicitation number, state the name of the firm, name of the requestor, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address. The solicitation will also be posted within Fedbizopps. Requests should be mailed to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ATTN: Desiree Harris

The applicable NAICS is 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), and the size standard is 500 employees.

Responses by Facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted. All Contractors/prospective Contractors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registration (www.ccr.gov) prior to award date. If not registered or active by that date, Contractor proposals will be considered non-responsive. It is anticipated that a solicitation for this requirement will be posted to FedBizopps on or after 2/16/2010.

Inquiries may be sent to the attention of the Contract Specialist, Desiree Harris, email DHarris9@cdc.gov, 301.458.4629, and the Contracting Officer: Natasha Rowland, Phone 770-488-2601, email NRowland@cdc.gov. If the Contracting Officer isn't available, please contact the Team Leader, Vivian S. Hubbs at Vhubbs@cdc.gov.

The contractor shall conduct interviewing, data processing, and data file documentation for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Interviewing shall be conducted from mid-2011 to mid-2019, based upon approximately 5,000 completed interviews per year with men and women 15-44 years of age in the household population of the United States. In summary, the contractor shall perform the following tasks, working in close, continuing collaboration with the NCHS/NSFG staff:

(1) design a national sample that will yield about 5,000 interviews per year with men
and women 15-44 years of age for up to 8 years (mid-2011 through mid-2019), a total of about 40,000 interviews), with oversamples of Hispanic men and women, Black men and women, and males and females 15-19 years of age;
(2) program and test questionnaires for males and females;
(3) prepare advance letters, consent forms, and other survey field materials;
(4) recruit, hire, and train interviewers;
(5) conduct all interviews in person, typically in respondents' homes, collecting signed consent for the interview for all respondents, and signed parental consent for interviews with 15-17 year olds;
(6) achieve a 75% weighted response rate for both men and women;
(7) Use laptop computers to conduct the interviews, and send the (encrypted) data electronically to the contractor's central office as promptly as possible;
(8) Prepare 3 public use data files based on every 2-3 years of interviewing
(a public use file must be based on at least 12,000 interviews);
(9) Prepare Series 1 ("Plan and Operation") and Series 2 ("Sample Design, weighting, imputation, & variance estimation") reports to describe the work that was done.
(10) Keep the data safe, secure, and confidential.

Thus, this contract will require the collection of a wide range of complex and sensitive data, in person, in English and Spanish, from national samples. The data must measure trends & differences among the total population & important sub-groups, with a response rate that gives its users confidence in the results, and at a cost that NCHS can afford. The contractor must also meet requirements for Certification and Accreditation for IT security under FISMA and other applicable laws.

Further information on the survey is available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.
Offerors are expected to be familiar with the contents of the web site and with Series 1, No. 48 ("Planning and Development of the continuous National Survey of Family Growth" and Series 2, No. 142 ("National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation.") A Series 2 report for continuous interviewing will be released with the RFC.

REFERENCES

The 1973-2002 data and documentation are available on CD-ROM at no charge. They may be obtained by sending an e-mail to: nsfg@cdc.gov, or by downloading them from the NSFG ftp site, at:
ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NSFG/

The PDF and web-based documentation for the 2002 and 2006-8 surveys are at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

References in the following list that are marked with an * are posted as PDF files on the NSFG web site, at: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.

Reports on the Methodology of the NSFG

1. *Groves RM et al. 2005. Plan and operation of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 42. August, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 86 pages.

2. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2006. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 142. NCHS, Hyattsville, MD, July, 2006.

3. *Groves RM et al. 2009. Planning and Development of the Continuous National Survey of Family Growth, 2006-2008. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 48, Sept 2009.

4. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2010. The 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth: Sample Design and Analysis of a Continuous Survey. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 150, forthcoming in 2010. (Released with the RFP)

5. Groves RM, Heeringa SG. 2006. Responsive Design for Household Surveys: tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A:

169, Part 3: 439-457, April.

6. Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Translating from English to Spanish: The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 28 (4): 531-545.

7. Mosher WD et al. 1994. CAPI, Event Histories, and Incentives in the NSFG Cycle 5 Pretest. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 1, pages 59-63. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

8. Duffer A et al. 1994. Effects of Incentive Payments on Response Rates and Field Costs in a Pretest of a National CAPI Survey. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 2, pages 1386-1391. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

NCHS Reports of Findings from the 2002 (Cycle 6) NSFG

9. *Mosher WD, et al. 2004. Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States, 1982-2002. Advance Data No. 350, Dec 10, 2004. National Center for Health Statistics. 36 pages.

10. *Abma JC et al, 2004. Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 24. December 2004. 48 pages.

11. *Mosher WD, Chandra A, Jones J. 2005. Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and women 15-44 Years of age in the US, 2002. Advance Data No. 362. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Sept 15, 2005. 56 pages.

12. *Chandra A, Martinez GM, Mosher WD, Abma JC, Jones J. 2005. Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US Women: Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 25. December, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 174 pages.

13. *Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: Data on Men and Women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 26. May, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.

14. *Anderson JE, Chandra A, Mosher WD. 2005. HIV Testing in the United States, 2002. Advance Data Number 363. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. November 8, 2005. 32 pages.

15. *Anderson JE, Mosher WD, Chandra A. 2006. Measuring HIV Risk in the US Population aged 15-44: Results of the 2002 NSFG. Advance Data No. 377. October 23, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics

16. *Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw SK. 2008. Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990-2004. National Vital Statistics Reports 56(15):1-28. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. April 14, 2008. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf.

17. *Jones J. 2008. Adoption Experiences of Women and Men and Demand for children to Adopt by Women 18-44 years of age in the United States, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 27. 36 pages.

Other References

18. Finer LB and Henshaw SK. 2006. Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 38(2): 90-96, June 2006.

19. Kost K, Singh S, Vaughan B, Trussell J, Bankole A. 2008. Estimates of Contraceptive Failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Contraception 77 (1): 10-21. January, 2008.

20. American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). 2008. Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys. 46 pages. Available at: http://www.aapor.org See especially "Two Phase Designs" on pages 40-

 

 

 

 

THIS REQUIREMENT IS NOT A SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE AS ORGINALLY POSTED. THIS IS A FULL AND OPEN COMPETITION REQUIREMENT. 


The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics requires the planning and conduct of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), with interviewing to be conducted continuously from approximately June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2019. (Depending on the date of contract award, these dates may be adjusted.) Working closely and collaboratively with the NCHS/NSFG work team to develop materials and specifications, the contractor shall conduct all the necessary activities, including sample design, pretest, CAPI programming, hiring, supervising and training interviewers, data processing, data file preparation, and data file documentation, for a complete national survey. This requirement will be a full and open competition open to all who meets the requirements. Full details will be listed in the Requests for Proposal (RFP).

Additional details and requirements will be described in the solicitation. Only written requests, directly from the requestor, for this solicitation will be accepted. Email requests will be accepted. No telephone requests will be accepted during the presolicitation process. Requests should reference the solicitation number, state the name of the firm, name of the requestor, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address. The solicitation will also be posted within Fedbizopps. Requests should be mailed to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ATTN: Desiree Harris

The applicable NAICS is 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), and the size standard is 500 employees.

Responses by Facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted. All Contractors/prospective Contractors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registration (www.ccr.gov) prior to award date. If not registered or active by that date, Contractor proposals will be considered non-responsive. It is anticipated that a solicitation for this requirement will be posted to FedBizopps on or after 2/16/2010.

Inquiries may be sent to the attention of the Contract Specialist, Desiree Harris, email DHarris9@cdc.gov, 301.458.4629, and the Contracting Officer: Natasha Rowland, Phone 770-488-2601, email NRowland@cdc.gov. If the Contracting Officer isn't available, please contact the Team Leader, Vivian S. Hubbs at Vhubbs@cdc.gov.

The contractor shall conduct interviewing, data processing, and data file documentation for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Interviewing shall be conducted from mid-2011 to mid-2019, based upon approximately 5,000 completed interviews per year with men and women 15-44 years of age in the household population of the United States. In summary, the contractor shall perform the following tasks, working in close, continuing collaboration with the NCHS/NSFG staff:

(1) design a national sample that will yield about 5,000 interviews per year with men
and women 15-44 years of age for up to 8 years (mid-2011 through mid-2019), a total of about 40,000 interviews), with oversamples of Hispanic men and women, Black men and women, and males and females 15-19 years of age;
(2) program and test questionnaires for males and females;
(3) prepare advance letters, consent forms, and other survey field materials;
(4) recruit, hire, and train interviewers;
(5) conduct all interviews in person, typically in respondents' homes, collecting signed consent for the interview for all respondents, and signed parental consent for interviews with 15-17 year olds;
(6) achieve a 75% weighted response rate for both men and women;
(7) Use laptop computers to conduct the interviews, and send the (encrypted) data electronically to the contractor's central office as promptly as possible;
(8) Prepare 3 public use data files based on every 2-3 years of interviewing
(a public use file must be based on at least 12,000 interviews);
(9) Prepare Series 1 ("Plan and Operation") and Series 2 ("Sample Design, weighting, imputation, & variance estimation") reports to describe the work that was done.
(10) Keep the data safe, secure, and confidential.

Thus, this contract will require the collection of a wide range of complex and sensitive data, in person, in English and Spanish, from national samples. The data must measure trends & differences among the total population & important sub-groups, with a response rate that gives its users confidence in the results, and at a cost that NCHS can afford. The contractor must also meet requirements for Certification and Accreditation for IT security under FISMA and other applicable laws.

Further information on the survey is available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.
Offerors are expected to be familiar with the contents of the web site and with Series 1, No. 48 ("Planning and Development of the continuous National Survey of Family Growth" and Series 2, No. 142 ("National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation.") A Series 2 report for continuous interviewing will be released with the RFC.

REFERENCES

The 1973-2002 data and documentation are available on CD-ROM at no charge. They may be obtained by sending an e-mail to: nsfg@cdc.gov, or by downloading them from the NSFG ftp site, at:
ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NSFG/

The PDF and web-based documentation for the 2002 and 2006-8 surveys are at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

References in the following list that are marked with an * are posted as PDF files on the NSFG web site, at: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.

Reports on the Methodology of the NSFG

1. *Groves RM et al. 2005. Plan and operation of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 42. August, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 86 pages.

2. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2006. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 142. NCHS, Hyattsville, MD, July, 2006.

3. *Groves RM et al. 2009. Planning and Development of the Continuous National Survey of Family Growth, 2006-2008. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 48, Sept 2009.

4. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2010. The 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth: Sample Design and Analysis of a Continuous Survey. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 150, forthcoming in 2010. (Released with the RFP)

5. Groves RM, Heeringa SG. 2006. Responsive Design for Household Surveys: tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A:

169, Part 3: 439-457, April.

6. Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Translating from English to Spanish: The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 28 (4): 531-545.

7. Mosher WD et al. 1994. CAPI, Event Histories, and Incentives in the NSFG Cycle 5 Pretest. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 1, pages 59-63. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

8. Duffer A et al. 1994. Effects of Incentive Payments on Response Rates and Field Costs in a Pretest of a National CAPI Survey. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 2, pages 1386-1391. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

NCHS Reports of Findings from the 2002 (Cycle 6) NSFG

9. *Mosher WD, et al. 2004. Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States, 1982-2002. Advance Data No. 350, Dec 10, 2004. National Center for Health Statistics. 36 pages.

10. *Abma JC et al, 2004. Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 24. December 2004. 48 pages.

11. *Mosher WD, Chandra A, Jones J. 2005. Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and women 15-44 Years of age in the US, 2002. Advance Data No. 362. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Sept 15, 2005. 56 pages.

12. *Chandra A, Martinez GM, Mosher WD, Abma JC, Jones J. 2005. Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US Women: Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 25. December, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 174 pages.

13. *Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: Data on Men and Women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 26. May, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.

14. *Anderson JE, Chandra A, Mosher WD. 2005. HIV Testing in the United States, 2002. Advance Data Number 363. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. November 8, 2005. 32 pages.

15. *Anderson JE, Mosher WD, Chandra A. 2006. Measuring HIV Risk in the US Population aged 15-44: Results of the 2002 NSFG. Advance Data No. 377. October 23, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics

16. *Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw SK. 2008. Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990-2004. National Vital Statistics Reports 56(15):1-28. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. April 14, 2008. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf.

17. *Jones J. 2008. Adoption Experiences of Women and Men and Demand for children to Adopt by Women 18-44 years of age in the United States, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 27. 36 pages.

Other References

18. Finer LB and Henshaw SK. 2006. Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 38(2): 90-96, June 2006.

19. Kost K, Singh S, Vaughan B, Trussell J, Bankole A. 2008. Estimates of Contraceptive Failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Contraception 77 (1): 10-21. January, 2008.

20. American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). 2008. Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys. 46 pages. Available at: http://www.aapor.org See especially "Two Phase Designs" on pages 40-

 

 

 

 

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics requires the planning and conduct of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), with interviewing to be conducted continuously from approximately June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2019. (Depending on the date of contract award, these dates may be adjusted.) Working closely and collaboratively with the NCHS/NSFG work team to develop materials and specifications, the contractor shall conduct all the necessary activities, including sample design, pretest, CAPI programming, hiring, supervising and training interviewers, data processing, data file preparation, and data file documentation, for a complete national survey. This requirement will be a full and open competition open to all who meets the requirements. Full details will be listed in the Requests for Proposal (RFP).

Additional details and requirements will be described in the solicitation. Only written requests, directly from the requestor, for this solicitation will be accepted. Email requests will be accepted. No telephone requests will be accepted during the presolicitation process. Requests should reference the solicitation number, state the name of the firm, name of the requestor, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address. The solicitation will also be posted within Fedbizopps. Requests should be mailed to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ATTN: Desiree Harris

The applicable NAICS is 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), and the size standard is 500 employees.

Responses by Facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted. All Contractors/prospective Contractors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registration (www.ccr.gov) prior to award date. If not registered or active by that date, Contractor proposals will be considered non-responsive. It is anticipated that a solicitation for this requirement will be posted to FedBizopps on or after 2/16/2010.

Inquiries may be sent to the attention of the Contract Specialist, Desiree Harris, email DHarris9@cdc.gov, 301.458.4629, and the Contracting Officer: Natasha Rowland, Phone 770-488-2601, email NRowland@cdc.gov. If the Contracting Officer isn't available, please contact the Team Leader, Vivian S. Hubbs at Vhubbs@cdc.gov.

The contractor shall conduct interviewing, data processing, and data file documentation for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Interviewing shall be conducted from mid-2011 to mid-2019, based upon approximately 5,000 completed interviews per year with men and women 15-44 years of age in the household population of the United States. In summary, the contractor shall perform the following tasks, working in close, continuing collaboration with the NCHS/NSFG staff:

(1) design a national sample that will yield about 5,000 interviews per year with men
and women 15-44 years of age for up to 8 years (mid-2011 through mid-2019), a total of about 40,000 interviews), with oversamples of Hispanic men and women, Black men and women, and males and females 15-19 years of age;
(2) program and test questionnaires for males and females;
(3) prepare advance letters, consent forms, and other survey field materials;
(4) recruit, hire, and train interviewers;
(5) conduct all interviews in person, typically in respondents' homes, collecting signed consent for the interview for all respondents, and signed parental consent for interviews with 15-17 year olds;
(6) achieve a 75% weighted response rate for both men and women;
(7) Use laptop computers to conduct the interviews, and send the (encrypted) data electronically to the contractor's central office as promptly as possible;
(8) Prepare 3 public use data files based on every 2-3 years of interviewing
(a public use file must be based on at least 12,000 interviews);
(9) Prepare Series 1 ("Plan and Operation") and Series 2 ("Sample Design, weighting, imputation, & variance estimation") reports to describe the work that was done.
(10) Keep the data safe, secure, and confidential.

Thus, this contract will require the collection of a wide range of complex and sensitive data, in person, in English and Spanish, from national samples. The data must measure trends & differences among the total population & important sub-groups, with a response rate that gives its users confidence in the results, and at a cost that NCHS can afford. The contractor must also meet requirements for Certification and Accreditation for IT security under FISMA and other applicable laws.

Further information on the survey is available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.
Offerors are expected to be familiar with the contents of the web site and with Series 1, No. 48 ("Planning and Development of the continuous National Survey of Family Growth" and Series 2, No. 142 ("National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation.") A Series 2 report for continuous interviewing will be released with the RFC.

REFERENCES

The 1973-2002 data and documentation are available on CD-ROM at no charge. They may be obtained by sending an e-mail to: nsfg@cdc.gov, or by downloading them from the NSFG ftp site, at:
ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NSFG/

The PDF and web-based documentation for the 2002 and 2006-8 surveys are at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

References in the following list that are marked with an * are posted as PDF files on the NSFG web site, at: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.

Reports on the Methodology of the NSFG

1. *Groves RM et al. 2005. Plan and operation of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 42. August, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 86 pages.

2. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2006. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 142. NCHS, Hyattsville, MD, July, 2006.

3. *Groves RM et al. 2009. Planning and Development of the Continuous National Survey of Family Growth, 2006-2008. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 48, Sept 2009.

4. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2010. The 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth: Sample Design and Analysis of a Continuous Survey. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 150, forthcoming in 2010. (Released with the RFP)

5. Groves RM, Heeringa SG. 2006. Responsive Design for Household Surveys: tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A:

169, Part 3: 439-457, April.

6. Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Translating from English to Spanish: The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 28 (4): 531-545.

7. Mosher WD et al. 1994. CAPI, Event Histories, and Incentives in the NSFG Cycle 5 Pretest. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 1, pages 59-63. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

8. Duffer A et al. 1994. Effects of Incentive Payments on Response Rates and Field Costs in a Pretest of a National CAPI Survey. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 2, pages 1386-1391. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

NCHS Reports of Findings from the 2002 (Cycle 6) NSFG

9. *Mosher WD, et al. 2004. Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States, 1982-2002. Advance Data No. 350, Dec 10, 2004. National Center for Health Statistics. 36 pages.

10. *Abma JC et al, 2004. Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 24. December 2004. 48 pages.

11. *Mosher WD, Chandra A, Jones J. 2005. Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and women 15-44 Years of age in the US, 2002. Advance Data No. 362. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Sept 15, 2005. 56 pages.

12. *Chandra A, Martinez GM, Mosher WD, Abma JC, Jones J. 2005. Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US Women: Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 25. December, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 174 pages.

13. *Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: Data on Men and Women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 26. May, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.

14. *Anderson JE, Chandra A, Mosher WD. 2005. HIV Testing in the United States, 2002. Advance Data Number 363. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. November 8, 2005. 32 pages.

15. *Anderson JE, Mosher WD, Chandra A. 2006. Measuring HIV Risk in the US Population aged 15-44: Results of the 2002 NSFG. Advance Data No. 377. October 23, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics

16. *Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw SK. 2008. Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990-2004. National Vital Statistics Reports 56(15):1-28. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. April 14, 2008. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf.

17. *Jones J. 2008. Adoption Experiences of Women and Men and Demand for children to Adopt by Women 18-44 years of age in the United States, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 27. 36 pages.

Other References

18. Finer LB and Henshaw SK. 2006. Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 38(2): 90-96, June 2006.

19. Kost K, Singh S, Vaughan B, Trussell J, Bankole A. 2008. Estimates of Contraceptive Failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Contraception 77 (1): 10-21. January, 2008.

20. American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). 2008. Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys. 46 pages. Available at: http://www.aapor.org See especially "Two Phase Designs" on pages 40-

 

 

 

 

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics requires the planning and conduct of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), with interviewing to be conducted continuously from approximately June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2019. (Depending on the date of contract award, these dates may be adjusted.) Working closely and collaboratively with the NCHS/NSFG work team to develop materials and specifications, the contractor shall conduct all the necessary activities, including sample design, pretest, CAPI programming, hiring, supervising and training interviewers, data processing, data file preparation, and data file documentation, for a complete national survey.

Additional details and requirements will be described in the solicitation. Only written requests, directly from the requestor, for this solicitation will be accepted. Email requests will be accepted. No telephone requests will be accepted during the presolicitation process. Requests should reference the solicitation number, state the name of the firm, name of the requestor, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address. The solicitation will also be posted within Fedbizopps. Requests should be mailed to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ATTN: Desiree Harris

The applicable NAICS is 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology), and the size standard is 500 employees.

Responses by Facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted. All Contractors/prospective Contractors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registration (www.ccr.gov) prior to award date. If not registered or active by that date, Contractor proposals will be considered non-responsive. It is anticipated that a solicitation for this requirement will be posted to FedBizopps on or after 2/16/2010.

Inquiries may be sent to the attention of the Contract Specialist, Desiree Harris, email DHarris9@cdc.gov, 301.458.4629, and the Contracting Officer: Natasha Rowland, Phone 770-488-2601, email NRowland@cdc.gov. If the Contracting Officer isn't available, please contact the Team Leader, Vivian S. Hubbs at Vhubbs@cdc.gov.

The contractor shall conduct interviewing, data processing, and data file documentation for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Interviewing shall be conducted from mid-2011 to mid-2019, based upon approximately 5,000 completed interviews per year with men and women 15-44 years of age in the household population of the United States. In summary, the contractor shall perform the following tasks, working in close, continuing collaboration with the NCHS/NSFG staff:

(1) design a national sample that will yield about 5,000 interviews per year with men
and women 15-44 years of age for up to 8 years (mid-2011 through mid-2019), a total of about 40,000 interviews), with oversamples of Hispanic men and women, Black men and women, and males and females 15-19 years of age;
(2) program and test questionnaires for males and females;
(3) prepare advance letters, consent forms, and other survey field materials;
(4) recruit, hire, and train interviewers;
(5) conduct all interviews in person, typically in respondents' homes, collecting signed consent for the interview for all respondents, and signed parental consent for interviews with 15-17 year olds;
(6) achieve a 75% weighted response rate for both men and women;
(7) Use laptop computers to conduct the interviews, and send the (encrypted) data electronically to the contractor's central office as promptly as possible;
(8) Prepare 3 public use data files based on every 2-3 years of interviewing
(a public use file must be based on at least 12,000 interviews);
(9) Prepare Series 1 ("Plan and Operation") and Series 2 ("Sample Design, weighting, imputation, & variance estimation") reports to describe the work that was done.
(10) Keep the data safe, secure, and confidential.

Thus, this contract will require the collection of a wide range of complex and sensitive data, in person, in English and Spanish, from national samples. The data must measure trends & differences among the total population & important sub-groups, with a response rate that gives its users confidence in the results, and at a cost that NCHS can afford. The contractor must also meet requirements for Certification and Accreditation for IT security under FISMA and other applicable laws.

Further information on the survey is available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.
Offerors are expected to be familiar with the contents of the web site and with Series 1, No. 48 ("Planning and Development of the continuous National Survey of Family Growth" and Series 2, No. 142 ("National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation.") A Series 2 report for continuous interviewing will be released with the RFC.

REFERENCES

The 1973-2002 data and documentation are available on CD-ROM at no charge. They may be obtained by sending an e-mail to: nsfg@cdc.gov, or by downloading them from the NSFG ftp site, at:
ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NSFG/

The PDF and web-based documentation for the 2002 and 2006-8 surveys are at:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

References in the following list that are marked with an * are posted as PDF files on the NSFG web site, at: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm.

Reports on the Methodology of the NSFG

1. *Groves RM et al. 2005. Plan and operation of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 42. August, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 86 pages.

2. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2006. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 142. NCHS, Hyattsville, MD, July, 2006.

3. *Groves RM et al. 2009. Planning and Development of the Continuous National Survey of Family Growth, 2006-2008. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 48, Sept 2009.

4. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2010. The 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth: Sample Design and Analysis of a Continuous Survey. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 150, forthcoming in 2010. (Released with the RFP)

5. Groves RM, Heeringa SG. 2006. Responsive Design for Household Surveys: tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A:

169, Part 3: 439-457, April.

6. Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Translating from English to Spanish: The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 28 (4): 531-545.

7. Mosher WD et al. 1994. CAPI, Event Histories, and Incentives in the NSFG Cycle 5 Pretest. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 1, pages 59-63. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

8. Duffer A et al. 1994. Effects of Incentive Payments on Response Rates and Field Costs in a Pretest of a National CAPI Survey. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 2, pages 1386-1391. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

NCHS Reports of Findings from the 2002 (Cycle 6) NSFG

9. *Mosher WD, et al. 2004. Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States, 1982-2002. Advance Data No. 350, Dec 10, 2004. National Center for Health Statistics. 36 pages.

10. *Abma JC et al, 2004. Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 24. December 2004. 48 pages.

11. *Mosher WD, Chandra A, Jones J. 2005. Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and women 15-44 Years of age in the US, 2002. Advance Data No. 362. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Sept 15, 2005. 56 pages.

12. *Chandra A, Martinez GM, Mosher WD, Abma JC, Jones J. 2005. Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US Women: Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 25. December, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 174 pages.

13. *Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: Data on Men and Women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 26. May, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.

14. *Anderson JE, Chandra A, Mosher WD. 2005. HIV Testing in the United States, 2002. Advance Data Number 363. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. November 8, 2005. 32 pages.

15. *Anderson JE, Mosher WD, Chandra A. 2006. Measuring HIV Risk in the US Population aged 15-44: Results of the 2002 NSFG. Advance Data No. 377. October 23, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics

16. *Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw SK. 2008. Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990-2004. National Vital Statistics Reports 56(15):1-28. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. April 14, 2008. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf.

17. *Jones J. 2008. Adoption Experiences of Women and Men and Demand for children to Adopt by Women 18-44 years of age in the United States, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 27. 36 pages.

Other References

18. Finer LB and Henshaw SK. 2006. Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 38(2): 90-96, June 2006.

19. Kost K, Singh S, Vaughan B, Trussell J, Bankole A. 2008. Estimates of Contraceptive Failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Contraception 77 (1): 10-21. January, 2008.

20. American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). 2008. Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys. 46 pages. Available at: http://www.aapor.org See especially "Two Phase Designs" on pages 40-

 

 

 

 

The contractor shall conduct interviewing, data processing, and data file documentation for the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). Interviewing shall be conducted from mid-2011 to mid-2019, based upon approximately 5,000 completed interviews per year with men and women 15-44 years of age in the household population of the United States. In summary, the contractor shall perform the following tasks, working in close, continuing collaboration with the NCHS/NSFG staff:

 (1) design a national sample that will yield about 5,000 interviews per year with men and women 15-44 years of age for up to 8 years (mid-2011 through mid-2019), a total of about 40,000 interviews), with oversamples of Hispanic men and women, Black men and women, and males and females 15-19 years of age;

(2) program and test questionnaires for males and females;

(3) prepare advance letters, consent forms, and other survey field materials;

(4) recruit, hire, and train interviewers;

(5) conduct all interviews in person, typically in respondents' homes, collecting signed consent for the interview for all respondents, and signed parental consent for interviews with 15-17 year olds;

(6) achieve a 75% weighted response rate for both men and women;

(7) Use laptop computers to conduct the interviews, and send the (encrypted) data electronically to the contractor's central office as promptly as possible;

(8) Prepare 3 public use data files based on every 2-3 years of interviewing

(a public use file must be based on at least 12,000 interviews);

(9) Prepare Series 1 ("Plan and Operation") and Series 2 ("Sample Design, weighting, imputation, & variance estimation") reports to describe the work that was done.

(10) Keep the data safe, secure, and confidential.

 Thus, this contract will require the collection of a wide range of complex and sensitive data, in person, in English and Spanish, from national samples. The data must measure trends & differences among the total population & important sub-groups, with a response rate that gives its users confidence in the results, and at a cost that NCHS can afford. The contractor must also meet requirements for Certification and Accreditation for IT security under FISMA and other applicable laws.

 Further information on the survey is available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

Offerors are expected to be familiar with the contents of the web site and with Series 1, No. 48 ("Planning and Development of the continuous National Survey of Family Growth" and Series 2, No. 142 ("National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation.") A Series 2 report for continuous interviewing will be released with the RFC.

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics requires the planning and conduct of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), with interviewing to be conducted continuously from approximately June 1, 2011 through May 31, 2019. (Depending on the date of contract award, these dates may be adjusted.) Working closely and collaboratively with the NCHS/NSFG work team to develop materials and specifications, the contractor shall conduct all the necessary activities, including sample design, pretest, CAPI programming, hiring, supervising and training interviewers, data processing, data file preparation, and data file documentation, for a complete national survey.

REFERENCES

The 1973-2002 data and documentation are available on CD-ROM at no charge. They may be obtained by sending an e-mail to: nsfg@cdc,or by downloading them from the NSFG ftp site, at:

 ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/Health_Statistica/NCHS/Datasets/NSFG/

 The PDF and web-based documentation for the 2002 and 2006-8 surveys are at:

 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

 References in the following list that are marked with an * are posted as PDF files on the NSFG web site, at:

 www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg.htm

Reports on the Methodology of the NSFG

 1. *Groves RM et al. 2005. Plan and operation of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 42. August, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 86 pages.

 2. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2006. National Survey of Family Growth, Cycle 6: Sample Design, Weighting, Imputation, and Variance Estimation. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. 142. NCHS, Hyattsville, MD, July, 2006.

 3. *Groves RM et al. 2009. Planning and Development of the Continuous National Survey of Family Growth, 2006-2008. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 1, No. 48, Sept 2009.

 4. *Lepkowski JM et al. 2010. The 2006-10 National Survey of Family Growth: Sample Design and Analysis of a Continuous Survey. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, No. xxx, forthcoming in 2010.

 

169, Part 3: 439-457, April.

 6. Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Translating from English to Spanish: The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 28 (4): 531-545.

 7. Mosher WD et al. 1994. CAPI, Event Histories, and Incentives in the NSFG Cycle 5 Pretest. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 1, pages 59-63. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

 8. Duffer A et al. 1994. Effects of Incentive Payments on Response Rates and Field Costs in a Pretest of a National CAPI Survey. 1994 Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods, Volume 2, pages 1386-1391. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.

 NCHS Reports of Findings from the 2002 (Cycle 6) NSFG9. *Mosher WD, et al. 2004. Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States, 1982-2002. Advance Data No. 350, Dec 10, 2004. National Center for Health Statistics. 36 pages.

 

10. *Abma JC et al, 2004. Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 24. December 2004. 48 pages.

11. *Mosher WD, Chandra A, Jones J. 2005. Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures: Men and women 15-44 Years of age in the US, 2002. Advance Data No. 362. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Sept 15, 2005. 56 pages.

12. *Chandra A, Martinez GM, Mosher WD, Abma JC, Jones J. 2005. Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of US Women: Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 25. December, 2005. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 174 pages.

13. *Martinez GM, et al. 2006. Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: Data on Men and Women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, Number 26. May, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.

 

 15. *Anderson JE, Mosher WD, Chandra A. 2006. Measuring HIV Risk in the US Population aged 15-44: Results of the 2002 NSFG. Advance Data No. 377. October 23, 2006. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics

 16. *Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw SK. 2008. Estimated Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990-2004. National Vital Statistics Reports 56(15):1-28. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. April 14, 2008. Available at:

 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr56/nvsr56_15.pdf.

17. *Jones J. 2008. Adoption Experiences of Women and Men and Demand for children to Adopt by Women 18-44 years of age in the United States, 2002. Vital and Health Statistics, Series 23, No. 27. 36 pages.

 Other References

 18. Finer LB and Henshaw SK. 2006. Disparities in Rates of Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 38(2): 90-96, June 2006.

 19. Kost K, Singh S, Vaughan B, Trussell J, Bankole A. 2008. Estimates of Contraceptive Failure from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Contraception 77 (1): 10-21. January, 2008.

 20. American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). 2008. Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for Surveys. 46 pages. Available at:

 http://www.aapor.org

　Additional details and requirements will be described in the solicitation. Only written requests, directly from the requestor, for this solicitation will be accepted.　Email requests will be accepted.　No telephone requests will be accepted.　Requests should reference the solicitation number, state the name of the firm, name of the requestor, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address. The solicitation will also be posted Fedbizopps.　Requests should be mailed to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ATTN: Desiree Harris

The applicable NAICS is 541712 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, and the size standard is 500 employees.

 Responses by Facsimile (Fax) will not be accepted. All Contractors/prospective Contractors must be registered with the Central Contractors Registration (www.ccr.gov) prior to award date.If not registered or active by that date, Contractor proposals will be posted to FedBizopps on or after 2/15/2010.

　Inquiries may be sent to the attention of the Contract Specialist, Desiree Harris, email
DHarris9@cdc.gov. 301-458-4629, and the Contracting Officer isn't available, please contact the Team Leader, VIvian S. Hubbs at Vhubbs@cdc.gov.

5. Groves RM, Heeringa SG. 2006. Responsive Design for Household Surveys: tools for actively controlling survey errors and costs. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A14. *Anderson JE, Chandra A, Mosher WD.