Form 0920-1050-23GI USCS _GOV SECTOR

Form Approved

OMB Control No. 0920-1050

Exp. Date: 06/30/2025

ATTACHMENT 2

State or Tribal Government Respondent: Interview Guide

Personal Interview: Interview Guide

Thank you for agreeing to participate in this interview about CDC’s U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool. My name is [evaluator name] and I am assisted by [assistant name]. We work with Veritas Management Group and are conducting this interview on behalf of CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

The purpose of this project is to obtain Data Visualization tool user’s opinions and insights on the design, content, and ways to improve the function and utility of the tool. Your feedback will help guide CDC’s future development plans. We welcome your honest feedback.

Your participation is completely voluntary, and you may choose not to answer any question or end the call at any time.

The interview will take approximately one hour, and you may ask questions at any time.

With your permission, we will be recording this interview. This recording will be used internally to create project reports. Your name and image will not be used in any project report. None of the statements you make will be linked to you by name. If you do not wish to be recorded, we can end this call.

Any questions?

We’re going to start the recording now and begin our conversation.

1. How did you first find out about US Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool? This website was launched in 2017, how long have you been using it?

2. (Notetaker shares screen) In general, how do you use cancer data in your work?

   1. What types of cancer data do you typically work with? (for example, incidence, prevalence, or demographics)

   2. What types of cancer data have you used from this website?

3. What features have you used from the main menu? What other features have you used? (Notetaker will have main menu on shared screen and walk through the headings they have typically used)

• At-a-Glance

• Geography

• Trends

• Stage/survival

• Prevalence

• Screening/Risk Factors

• Special Analyses, specifically, cancers grouped by associated risk factors

4. To what extent is the information presented in an organized manner to you? What recommendations do you have for reorganization?

5. Each of the menu headings takes you to visualizations (for example, maps and graphs) for the data (Notetaker scrolls through site to show respondents the types of visualizations being referred to). How useful have you found the visualizations to be? What recommendations can you provide on improving the visualizations?

6. What are some examples of the types of searches you’ve performed (ask that a respondent provide a question that can be answered through the site—that notetaker goes through on screens as instructed)?

7. What information would be useful to have available to you but is not presented through the current tool?

   1. What other ‘special analyses’ would be helpful to have already available to you?

8. At the top of each page, there are data interpretation boxes (shown on screen)--

   1. To what extent have you used these tools?

   2. What recommendations can you provide on how to make this type of information more easily accessible to users?

9. To what extent have you used other cancer statistics websites (for example, the American Cancer Society or National Cancer Institute)? How does this website compare to others that you’ve used?

   1. What specific data are you looking for when you visit these other websites (that aren’t available on the US Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool’s site)?

10. What additional information would make this site your ‘go to’ site when looking for US cancer statistics?

11. Please share any additional feedback on the tool.

Thank you for your participation today! Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Please feel free to contact me if you have additional ideas for improvements that we have not discussed today. My email address is listed on the screen.

Focus Group: Interview Guide

Thank you for agreeing to participate in this focus group of CDC’s U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool. My name is [evaluator name] and I am assisted by [assistant name]. We work with Veritas Management Group and are conducting this focus group on behalf of CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

The purpose of this project is to obtain Data Visualization tool user’s opinions and insights on the design, content, and ways to improve the function and utility of the tool. Your feedback will help guide CDC’s future development plans. We welcome your honest feedback.

Your participation is completely voluntary, and you may choose not to answer any question or end the call at any time.

The focus group will take approximately one hour, and you may ask questions at any time.

With your permission, we will be recording this focus group. This recording will be used internally to create project reports. Your name and image will not be used in any project report. None of the statements you make will be linked to you by name. If you do not wish to be recorded, you may sign-off of the call.

Any questions?

We’re going to start the recording now and begin our conversation.

1. How did you first find out about the U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool?

   1. This website was launched in 2017, how long have you been using it?

2. In general, what type of cancer data in the U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualizations tool is most important in your work?

   1. What types of cancer data do you typically work with? (e.g., incidence, prevalence, service delivery, demographics)

   2. What types of cancer data have you used from this website?

3. What features have you used from the main menu? What other features have you used?

   1. What features have been the most challenging to use?

   2. What recommendations can you provide to improve these challenging features?

4. To what extent is the information presented in an organized manner to you?

   1. What recommendations do you have for reorganization?

5. How useful have you found the visualizations to be?

   1. What recommendations can you provide on improving the visualizations?

6. At the top of each page, there are data interpretation boxes (assistant shows on screen). To what extent have you used these tools? What recommendations can you provide on how to make this type of information more easily accessible to users?

7. To what extent have you used other cancer statistics websites (for example, the American Cancer Society or National Cancer Institute)? How does this website compare to those others?

   1. What specific data are you looking for when you visit these other websites (that aren’t available on the US cancer statistics site)?

8. What additional information (including tools or data) would make this site your ‘go to’ site when looking for US cancer statistics?

9. Please share any additional feedback and/or recommendations on the tool.

Thank you for your participation today! Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Please feel free to contact me if you have additional ideas for improvements that we have not discussed today. My email address is listed on the screen.

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