HCS Survey Participants
Are You A Healthy Chicago Survey Participant?
Did you receive a letter or postcard in the mail asking you to participate in the Healthy Chicago Survey or the Healthy Chicago?
We hope you will consider participating to help us develop public health interventions and policies to address the impact of these health concerns on our communities. Survey participants are selected at random; you cannot volunteer to participate, you must be invited. If you were selected to participate, you might have some questions. Find answers to some of the most common questions below in the FAQ section below. If you still have questions, please contact us at HealthyChicagoSurvey@rti.org
Confidentiality
We appreciate your participation in the Healthy Chicago Survey and want to assure you that your privacy is a priority.
In order to ensure that your responses are kept confidential, all data that is collected is stored securely.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Healthy Chicago Survey is an annual survey led by the Chicago Department of Public Health to better understand the health of Chicagoans. In 2017, CDPH partnered with the Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital to also ask questions about children’s health in Chicago. CDPH works with RTI International to conduct this survey.
This information will help the Chicago Department of Public Health and its partners measure and monitor progress of its community health improvement plan. The survey provides information to inform CDPH’s policies, programs, education initiatives and public awareness campaigns that will help improve the health of your community.
The survey will ask questions about health, health behaviors, access to health and mental health services, and aspects of your neighborhood that impact health.
This survey is based on randomly selected addresses in Chicago. Your address was no more likely to be picked that any other address in the city. Your participation assures that your neighborhood will be represented in the findings of the survey.
This survey is based on randomly selected addresses in Chicago and you must be invited to participate. Unfortunately, you cannot volunteer to participate. This is important because it ensures that each neighborhood is fairly represented in our sample.
To have an accurate picture of the health of Chicagoans, we need to hear from people both in good health and in poor health. Your address was randomly selected and your responses will help the Chicago Department of Public Health better understand how Chicagoans across the city and in your neighborhood are doing.
Your answers are all completely confidential. Your information is handled in a secure and confidential manner. Answers to survey questions are aggregated, which means that no one person’s answers will be reported.
The length of the survey depends on how you answer certain questions, but it takes about an hour for most people.
