877-220-4805

These are crooked people.  CID says 312-578-7017 from National Opinio.  They proceed to say they are from the Center for Disease Control.  They want to know how many children I have in my house.  Conducting a survey, immunization, so on so forth...

The number is a mobile number-there's been an uptick in such things. Plus, the CDC doesn't DO surveys

They gave me a website looks like a health survey?
Www.CDC.gov/vaccines/nis

I looked into them after receiving about 4 or 5 calls, turns out it's a thing through the University of Chicago contracted by the CDC. I called them and asked what they were about, older gent explained everything nicely. Turns out they've been doing this for 20 years. I wasn't eligible for their survey, but it seems legitimate.

http://www.norc.org/Research/Projects/Pages/national-immunization-survey.aspx

This is a legitimate survey.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/nis/participant/faqs.html

Yes the CDC does surveys

Call back # for CDC survey. Legit or not, they called at 8:30 pm which is rude and ignorant. None of their businees how many kids I have. Blocked and ignored. Not calling them back.

Called me from (312) 578-7022

Left a voicemail saying they are calling on behalf of the CDC doing a survey regarding childhood immunizations and asked to be called back at (877) 220-4805 to let them know if there are any children between 12 months and 4 years old in this household.  This seems to be legit, although I can see potential for this to be used as a scam to get personal data.  I find it hard to believe that the CDC cannot get enough information on the use of vaccines from doctor's clinics, even though such data should not be connected to identified individuals.  Here is an article from NBC News regarding these survey calls:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41176424/ns/health/ ... rs-incite-fury/

The point of the survey is to determine whether or not children are being immunized; doctors' offices wouldn't be able to give information about children who aren't immunized. (There are also probably privacy issues there.)

i feel uncomfortable with this call. how did they get my number

The non-partisan objective research center at the University of Chicago (N-O-R-C, not "nork") is real, and they have had the contract to do this research for the Centers for Disease Control for a number of years.
"How did your number get chosen?
"Because most of our surveys need to be representative of a broad segment of the public to be valid, NORC uses a scientific selection process to identify participants. NORC typically selects participants from phone numbers or address lists of the full population to ensure a random and appropriate representation of geographies and demographics for use in obtaining study results.
"NORC does not use telemarketing lists or phone books in selecting survey samples. Instead, a computer scientifically selects telephone numbers or addresses for surveys from banks of telephone numbers or USPS address lists for each geographic area."
As a survey organization, they are exempt from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (Do Not Call Registry).

If you a;ready know to whom the number belongs, why did you look it up?

I feel your pain. But your explanation has been debunked many times. You might want to have facts to work with, and not draw conclusions from some conspiracy theory.

So you think the CDC complies its calling list from the numbers on the DNC registry?  They only want to call people on the list? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?  A study that only samples from people on the DNC?  It don't make sense. Two school children and a pet mouse could design a better sampling than that.

Besides, since they can legally call anyone and any number, why refer to the registry at all?

They are after data that is probably linked most closely to locations and age. The DNC list would be not be much of a pool for those criteria.

Sorry Nonya, you are way off track on this one.

Your post is confusing. How do they get your # that you say is legitimate? What aren't you happy about and what isn't as bad as you previously thought?

CDC is HQ in Atlanta. Could have an office in Chicago (312) but don't count on it. Added to my contact list as DNA.