PETS
Policy Evaluation Tracking System
PETS is a project of the California Tobacco Prevention Program to meet its tobacco control policy evaluation needs in the areas of Comprehensive Sales/Tobacco Retail Licensing (SALES), Comprehensive Secondhand Smoke (SHS), Multi-Unit Housing (MUH), and Flavored Tobacco (FLA).
The goals of PETS are:
- To assess the strength of local policies and track local tobacco control policy change over time.
- To assess city and county-level progress on CTPP's Communities of Excellence (CX) indicators.
- To provide lists, reports, and other data on CTPP's four tobacco control priority areas.
- To provide data and tools to support the education and policy change work of CTPP-funded grantees and projects.
- To reduce secondhand smoke exposure in multi-unit housing and outdoor areas.
- To reduce the impact of tobacco product sales, including the sale of flavored tobacco products, in communities.
Please note:The View Jurisdictions, County Details, and Policy Type Searches tabs (at left) show policy data that was last updated in March 2021 as part of the 2021 CX process. These tabs do not include data for more recently adopted policies. Please do not use these tabs to search for current data.
Where can I find current data? All current data is available under the Reports tab at Matrices and Lists, where you can find the current policy matrices, lists, and charts, as well as policy briefs. The policy data materials are updated quarterly in January, April, July, and October.
How can PETS help? The PETS team can provide data beyond what is readily available in these policy data materials, in order to help support your education, evaluation, and planning needs. Please email PETS-TA@no-smoke.org with your data needs, and the PETS team will work with you to develop the requested data.
What's next? The PETS and CTPP teams are developing new data procedures that will allow for all new policy data to be added to this website, which will populate the Jurisdictions, County Details, and Policy Type Searches tabs with current data. Until this process is complete, please use the data available in the materials at Matrices and Lists.
Background: PETS is still a work in progress. Phase 1 of analysis was completed in 2021, which provided CX data for all 400+ California jurisdictions. In Phase 1, local policies were graded against a sub-set of rubric questions that directly relate to the 2020 CX Indicators. That means that policies in all 400+ jurisdictions were analyzed against some, but not all, of the rubric questions, and the answers and point values for the non-CX questions remain blank. The Phase 1 data is what is available under the Jurisdictions, County Details, and Policy Type Searches tabs.
In Phase 2 of analysis, the PETS analysis team is currently analyzing local policies against most questions in the rubrics, and this richer level of data is currently available for more than 150 jurisdictions.
PETS will continue to be updated to provide a whole new range of policy data, updated scoring, new policy lists and matrices, and more, with changes rolled out over time.
For assistance with using PETS, please see the Using PETS page or contact ANR Foundation at PETS-TA@no-smoke.org.
If your community has adopted a new or updated policy, please email the policy to ANR Foundation at PETS-policies@no-smoke.org.
