Annual Performance Plan 508

Strategic
Goal
Metric
Use Housing as a Platform to Improve Quality of Life
Percent of public housing agencies with smoke-free housing policies
• Description: This metric tracks the percentage of public housing agencies that have public housing
developments and that have implemented smoke-free housing policies in all or some of their public
housing units
• Data source: Published public housing agency notices, state public health agency data sources, news
articles, and tracking summaries by smoking cessation groups
• Unit of measurement: Percentage of public housing agencies with smoke-free policies
• Dimension: Percent
• Calculation method: Number of public housing agencies that have implemented smoke-free policies in
all or some of their public housing units divided by number of public housing agencies with public housing
developments
• Frequency: Quarterly
• Direction: Increased
• Data quality (limitations/advantages of the data): Using published public housing agency notices,
news articles, and tracking summaries by smoking cessation groups avoids burdening public housing
agencies, but is an indirect source of data
• Measurement Validation, verification, and improvement of measure: Reports are cross-checked for
consistency re validation and verification; shifting to direct reporting by public housing agencies (into
PIH’s New Grants Management System, as proposed) will increase the reliability and timeliness of the
data, while having a lower burden than would collecting the data separately
Sequence: 40
186 Section Three: Additional Information