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Download as PDF 27064 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 89 / Tuesday, May 8, 2012 / Notices ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of respondents Respondents State Health Departments ............................................................................... Public Agencies ............................................................................................... Number of responses/ respondent 27 27 1,000 1,000 Total .......................................................................................................... Kimberly S. Lane, Deputy Director, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. 2012–11083 Filed 5–7–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–18–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [30 Day–12–0222] Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of information collection requests under review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call (404) 639–7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice. Proposed Project NCHS Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory (QDRL) 2012–2014, OMB No. 0920–0222 expiration 3/31/2013)— Revision—National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). srobinson on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Background and Brief Description Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall undertake and support (by grant or contract) research, demonstrations, and evaluations respecting new or improved methods for obtaining current data to support statistical and epidemiological activities for the purpose of improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health services in the United States. VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:43 May 07, 2012 Jkt 226001 Frm 00052 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 2.5 30/60 Total burden (in hours) 67,500 13,500 81,000 The Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory (QDRL) conducts questionnaire development, pre-testing, and evaluation activities for CDC surveys (such as the NCHS National Health Interview Survey, OMB No. 0920–0214) and other federally sponsored surveys. NCHS is requesting 3 years of OMB Clearance for this generic submission. The QDRL conducts cognitive interviews, focus groups, usability tests, field tests/pilot interviews, and experimental research in laboratory and field settings, both for applied questionnaire development and evaluation as well as more basic research on response errors in surveys. QDRL Staff use various techniques to evaluate interviewer administered, selfadministered, telephone, Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing (CASI), Audio Computer-Assisted SelfInterviewing (ACASI), and web-based questionnaires. The most common questionnaire evaluation method is the cognitive interview. The interview structure consists of respondents first answering a draft survey question and then providing textual information to reveal the processes involved in answering the test question. Specifically, cognitive interview respondents are asked to describe how and why they answered the question as they did. Through the interviewing process, various types of question-response problems that would not normally be identified in a traditional survey interview, such as interpretive errors and recall accuracy, are uncovered. By conducting a comparative analysis of cognitive interviews, it is also possible to determine whether particular interpretive patterns occur within particular sub-groups of the population. Interviews are generally conducted in small rounds of 20–30 interviews; ideally, the questionnaire is re-worked between rounds, and revisions are tested iteratively until interviews yield relatively few new insights. In addition to its traditional QDRL activities, NCHS is requesting approval PO 00000 Average burden/ response (in hours) for a large field test that will be conducted in 2012. This is a 5,000-case test which involves testing the use of ACASI in the full National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The ACASI content included in the 5,000-case test is consistent with the content studied in two smaller approved tests. The module includes questions on sexual identity, alcohol consumption, HIV testing, mental health, height and weight, sleep, and financial worries. The objective of asking a question on sexual identity in the NHIS is to fill the gaps that exist in the state of knowledge about the general health behaviors, health status, and health care utilization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) persons. The 5,000-case test will include one or more built-in experiments to assess the impact of ACASI, and components of ACASI, on prevalence estimates and data quality. First and foremost, test cases will be randomly assigned to receive the above described questions in either CAPI or ACASI. In particular, prevalence estimates for the sexual identity questions will be compared by mode of administration. Since a documented advantage of ACASI is the enhanced level of privacy it affords, we anticipate higher prevalence estimates of sexual minorities (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender persons) from this mode of administration. Estimates for sensitive items on mental health, alcohol consumption, HIV testing, height and weight, financial worries, and others will also be compared. Cognitive interviewing is inexpensive and provides useful data on questionnaire performance while minimizing respondent burden. Cognitive interviewing offers a detailed depiction of meanings and processes used by respondents to answer questions—processes that ultimately produce the survey data. As such, the method offers an insight that can transform understanding of question validity and response error. Documented findings from these studies represent tangible evidence of how the question performs. Such documentation also serves CDC data users, allowing E:\FR\FM\08MYN1.SGM 08MYN1 27065 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 89 / Tuesday, May 8, 2012 / Notices them to be critical users in their approach and application of the data. Similar methodology has been adopted by other federal agencies, as well as by academic and commercial survey organizations. There are no costs to respondents other than their time. The total estimated annual burden hours are 9450. ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS Number of respondents Projects QDRL Interviews .............................................................................................................. Focus groups ................................................................................................................... Kimberly S. Lane, Deputy Director, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [FR Doc. 2012–11086 Filed 5–7–12; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4163–18–P DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [30Day–12–0828] Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a list of information collection requests under review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 639–7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC or by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written comments should be received within 30 days of this notice. Proposed Project National Adult Tobacco Survey (NATS)—Reinstatement with Changes— National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Food and Drug Administration (FDA). srobinson on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Background and Brief Description Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States, resulting in approximately 440,000 deaths annually. VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:33 May 07, 2012 Jkt 226001 Smokers die an average of 14 years earlier than nonsmokers. Moreover, cigarette smoking costs more than $193 billion; $97 billion in lost productivity plus $96 billion in health care expenditures. With passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) in 2009, the FDA is legally mandated to regulate tobacco products for the protection of public health. Such authority involves considering whether the marketing of tobacco products might encourage people who don’t use tobacco products to begin using them, to encourage people who might otherwise quit to continue using tobacco, or to encourage former users to relapse. In order to ensure that FDA is in compliance with the Tobacco Control Act’s mandate to protect the public health, annual data collection is needed at least initially to monitor the benefits and potential adverse consequences of FDA’s regulatory actions, as the regulatory framework is being established. As novel tobacco products are introduced onto the market, the FDA must regularly monitor patterns of all tobacco product usage—not just cigarettes—to identify changes in susceptibility and rates of tobacco use initiation, perceptions regarding tobacco use, and rates of tobacco use cessation. Rather than develop a completely new system to monitor measures critical to FDA, and thereby increasing burden to the population, FDA has partnered with CDC to leverage the existing NATS system. While NATS has been redesigned to meet the critical data needs of the FDA, many of the measures are relevant to CDC’s National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP), and CDC also will use the NATS data to evaluate the NTCP. Many of the NATS questions reflect CDC’s key outcome indicators for evaluating tobacco control programs. PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Responses per respondent 9000 300 1 1 Average burden per response (in hours) 1 1.5 CDC proposes to conduct three annual cycles of the NATS to collect data necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of FDA’s initial regulatory actions. The NATS will be a stratified, random-digit dialed telephone survey of noninstitutionalized adults 18 years of age and older. To yield results that are representative nationally, information will be collected from 56,250 landline respondents and 18,750 cell phone respondents who do not have a landline to include the growing population of households that exclusively use cell phones and would be missed in a survey relying only on land-lines. To obtain the target number of completed telephone interviews, approximately 166,000 respondents will be contacted for initial eligibility screening and consent. The burden per response for the proposed NATS remains the same by design as the 2009/2010 NATS. However, the number of respondents is smaller because the current NATS seeks to develop national estimates, whereas the 2009/2010 NATS sought to develop state-level estimates. Therefore, the total respondent burden for the new NATS cycle is substantially lower than the prior NATS. The 2009/2010 NATS involved a total respondent burden of 38,303 hours. The revised 2012/2013 NATS involves a total respondent burden of 29,850 hours, which amounts to 8,453 fewer hours, or 22.1% fewer hours, than the 2009/2010 NATS. Results will have significant implications for the development and periodic adjustment of policies and programs aimed at preventing and reducing tobacco use in the United States. Participation in the NATS is voluntary. There are no costs to respondents except their time. The total estimated annualized burden hours are 29,850. E:\FR\FM\08MYN1.SGM 08MYN1

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30 Day-12-0222]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to omb@cdc.gov. Send written comments 
to CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC or 
by fax to (202) 395-5806. Written comments should be received within 30 
days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    NCHS Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory (QDRL) 2012-2014, OMB 
No. 0920-0222 expiration 3/31/2013)--Revision--National Center for 
Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall undertake and support (by 
grant or contract) research, demonstrations, and evaluations respecting 
new or improved methods for obtaining current data to support 
statistical and epidemiological activities for the purpose of improving 
the effectiveness, efficiency, and quality of health services in the 
United States.
    The Questionnaire Design Research Laboratory (QDRL) conducts 
questionnaire development, pre-testing, and evaluation activities for 
CDC surveys (such as the NCHS National Health Interview Survey, OMB No. 
0920-0214) and other federally sponsored surveys. NCHS is requesting 3 
years of OMB Clearance for this generic submission.
    The QDRL conducts cognitive interviews, focus groups, usability 
tests, field tests/pilot interviews, and experimental research in 
laboratory and field settings, both for applied questionnaire 
development and evaluation as well as more basic research on response 
errors in surveys.
    QDRL Staff use various techniques to evaluate interviewer 
administered, self-administered, telephone, Computer Assisted Personal 
Interviewing (CAPI), Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing (CASI), Audio 
Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI), and web-based 
questionnaires.
    The most common questionnaire evaluation method is the cognitive 
interview. The interview structure consists of respondents first 
answering a draft survey question and then providing textual 
information to reveal the processes involved in answering the test 
question. Specifically, cognitive interview respondents are asked to 
describe how and why they answered the question as they did. Through 
the interviewing process, various types of question-response problems 
that would not normally be identified in a traditional survey 
interview, such as interpretive errors and recall accuracy, are 
uncovered. By conducting a comparative analysis of cognitive 
interviews, it is also possible to determine whether particular 
interpretive patterns occur within particular sub-groups of the 
population. Interviews are generally conducted in small rounds of 20-30 
interviews; ideally, the questionnaire is re-worked between rounds, and 
revisions are tested iteratively until interviews yield relatively few 
new insights.
    In addition to its traditional QDRL activities, NCHS is requesting 
approval for a large field test that will be conducted in 2012. This is 
a 5,000-case test which involves testing the use of ACASI in the full 
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The ACASI content included in 
the 5,000-case test is consistent with the content studied in two 
smaller approved tests. The module includes questions on sexual 
identity, alcohol consumption, HIV testing, mental health, height and 
weight, sleep, and financial worries. The objective of asking a 
question on sexual identity in the NHIS is to fill the gaps that exist 
in the state of knowledge about the general health behaviors, health 
status, and health care utilization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and 
Transgender (LGBT) persons.
    The 5,000-case test will include one or more built-in experiments 
to assess the impact of ACASI, and components of ACASI, on prevalence 
estimates and data quality. First and foremost, test cases will be 
randomly assigned to receive the above described questions in either 
CAPI or ACASI. In particular, prevalence estimates for the sexual 
identity questions will be compared by mode of administration. Since a 
documented advantage of ACASI is the enhanced level of privacy it 
affords, we anticipate higher prevalence estimates of sexual minorities 
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender persons) from this mode of 
administration. Estimates for sensitive items on mental health, alcohol 
consumption, HIV testing, height and weight, financial worries, and 
others will also be compared.
    Cognitive interviewing is inexpensive and provides useful data on 
questionnaire performance while minimizing respondent burden. Cognitive 
interviewing offers a detailed depiction of meanings and processes used 
by respondents to answer questions--processes that ultimately produce 
the survey data. As such, the method offers an insight that can 
transform understanding of question validity and response error. 
Documented findings from these studies represent tangible evidence of 
how the question performs. Such documentation also serves CDC data 
users, allowing

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them to be critical users in their approach and application of the 
data.
    Similar methodology has been adopted by other federal agencies, as 
well as by academic and commercial survey organizations. There are no 
costs to respondents other than their time. The total estimated annual 
burden hours are 9450.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                                 Average burden
                         Projects                               Number of       Responses per   per response (in
                                                               respondents       respondent          hours)
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QDRL Interviews...........................................              9000                 1                 1
Focus groups..............................................               300                 1               1.5
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Kimberly S. Lane,
Deputy Director, Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the 
Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
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