Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box provides over 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 different topics for community program planners, including data collection for program evaluation.

Demonstrating Your Program's Worth: A Primer on Evaluation for Programs to Prevent Unintentional Injury
This practical guide prepared for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control describes the basics to performing an evaluation, including specifics on data collection methods such as interviews and focus groups. Its appendix includes sample questions.

Guide to Program Evaluation
This well-organized guide points users to resources on the Bureau of Justice Assistance Evaluation Web Site. Information includes an overview of evaluation, as well as specifics on data collection techniques, sampling methods, and validity and reliability.

Introduction to Program Evaluation for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health developed this "how to" guide for planning and implementing evaluation activities. The purpose of this manual is to assist state tobacco control program managers and staff in the planning, design, implementation, and use of comprehensive evaluations of tobacco control efforts. The guide includes details on selecting appropriate data collection methods and a compilation of data sources in tobacco control.

The Program Manager's Guide to Evaluation
The Administration on Children, Youth, and Families developed this guide to explain program evaluation -what it is, how to understand it, and how to do it. Data collection methods and procedures are discussed.

California Department of Health Services: Tobacco Control Section: Evaluation
The California Department of Health Services is a pioneer in effective community tobacco control and their web site offers explanations of evaluations conducted, links to evaluation reports, evaluation resources, survey instruments, and references.

Obtaining Information for Evaluations
This chapter of the National Institute of Justice's manual, Evaluating Drug Control and System Improvement Projects: Guidelines for Projects Supported by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, provides and overview of pros and cons on the use of new or existing data for an evaluation.

Statistics: Power from Data!, Data Collection Methods
This section of Statistics Canada's toolkit, Statistics: Power from Data! offers explanations on different types of data collection methods, including personal interviews, self completed interviews, and other methods.

The Institute of Technology, Evaluation Methods and Procedures for Studying Learners' Use of Media, Data Collection Methods
Prepared by the Institute of Education Technology at the Open University, this web page discusses different data collection methods including observation, monitoring, interviews, online tests, pilot testing, and other methods of gathering evaluation information. It also discusses costs and benefits.

Prime II Project's Performance Improvement Toolkit, Data Gathering Methods
This section of Prime II Project's Performance Improvement Toolkit offers easy-to-follow descriptions and tips for different data gathering methods of program evaluation.

In-Depth Interviews
From the World Bank's Understanding Impact Evaluation web site, this site offers a detailed discussion of in-depth interviews and observation methods.

American Legacy Foundation's Tobacco Survey Database
The American Legacy Foundation maintains this comprehensive compilation of surveys dealing with tobacco-related issues such as youth tobacco use, environmental tobacco smoke, cessation, and youth access. It is designed for researchers and public health officials interested in survey design. Users can search the database for particular surveys or categories of questions.

California Adult Tobacco Survey
This 2005 tobacco control survey offers insight into the great work completed by the California Department of Health Care Services.

Monitoring and Evaluation Program
This site funded by the Wisconsin Tobacco Control Board includes Survey Instruments used in Wisconsin to evaluate media and community coalition activities, and to assess local policies.

Question Inventory on Tobacco (QIT)
The QIT is a web-based database developed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Office on Smoking and Health that categorizes more than 1000 tobacco-related questions. This database can be used to collect information on survey questions used in the past and gather ideas for instrument development.

University of Wisconsin's Extension's Evaluation Manual
This site developed to assist local tobacco control programs in Wisconsin provides samples of tobacco control instruments for youth prevention, cessation, and workplace programs. The resource also includes a Build Your Own Survey page to identify tested questions used in national tobacco control surveys.