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BRFSS POLICY MEMO 95.2
DISPOSITION CODES AND RULES OF REPLACEMENT

Attached is a revised list (DISPOS.DOC) of BRFSS call disposition codes. The definition of code 05 has been changed from "business" to "not a private residence" to clarify the use of the 05 code for the following call results:

  1. The person answering identifies the telephone number as a business, an institution (government office, educational facility, dormitory, nursing home, hospital, prison, etc.), or a group home (fraternity, sorority, half-way house, shelter, etc.).

  2. The person answering says "no" when asked "Is this a private residence?"

  3. Phone sounds indicate a pager, a fax machine, or a computer modem.

This list of disposition codes supersedes all previous lists.

Also attached is a revised list (REPRUL.DOC) of the "BRFSS Rules of Replacement" which incorporates the change to code O5. This revised list supersedes the existing one transmitted November 28, 1994, as BRFSS Policy Memo 94.4.

 




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