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Health Promotion (NCCDPHP); and
implement a revised method of
estimating burden. For awardees funded
at the Basic level, the estimated burden
for the initial data entry needed to
populate the system is 6 hours.
Thereafter, the estimated burden for
system maintenance and annual
reporting is 3 hours. For awardees
funded at the Enhanced level, the
estimated burden for the initial data
entry needed to populate the system is
13 hours. Thereafter, the estimated
burden for system maintenance and
annual reporting is 9 hours. The revised
as well as state oral health performance
activities including programmatic and
financial information. CDC will use the
information collected to monitor
awardee activities and to provide any
technical assistance or follow-up
support that may be needed.
Participation in the progress reporting
system is a condition of award for
funded state oral health programs. All
information will be collected
electronically and there are no costs to
respondents other than their time. OMB
approval is requested for three years.
method provides a more accurate
depiction of burden per respondent in
comparison to the method presented in
previous requests for OMB approval,
which was based on a long-term average
burden per response. There is no change
in the frequency of reporting. Reports
will be submitted to CDC annually, but
states may enter updates into the MIS at
any time.
The MIS will provide a central
repository of information, such as the
work plans of the state oral health
programs (their goals, objectives,
performance milestones and indicators),
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Form name
Program Awardees Basic Level .......
Initial MIS Population .......................
Annual Progress Report ...................
Initial MIS Population .......................
Annual Progress Report ...................
1
3
6
18
1
1
1
1
6
3
13
9
6
9
78
162
...........................................................
........................
........................
........................
255
Program Awardees Enhanced Level
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.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice.
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) announces
plans to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR), described
below, to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the
ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments
from the public regarding the burden
estimate, below, or any other aspect of
the ICR.
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Number of
respondents
Number of
responses per
respondent
Type of
respondents
Comments on this Information
Collection Request must be received
within 60 days of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 10–29, Parklawn
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call the HRSA Information Collection
Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Questionnaire and Data Collection
Testing, Evaluation, and Research for
the Health Resources and Services
Administration.
OMB No.: 0915-xxxx—New.
Abstract: HRSA 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.
HRSA staff use various techniques to
evaluate interviewer administered, selfadministered, telephone, Computer
DATES:
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Total burden
(in hours)
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 to 30 interviews;
ideally, the questionnaire is re-worked
between rounds, and revisions are
tested iteratively until interviews yield
relatively few new insights.
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
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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. 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.
Burden Statement: Burden in this
context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain,
disclose or provide the information
requested. This includes the time
needed to review instructions; to
develop, acquire, install and utilize
technology and systems for the purpose
of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing
and providing information; to train
personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search
data sources; to complete and review
the collection of information; and to
transmit or otherwise disclose the
information. The total annual burden
hours estimated for this Information
Collection Request are summarized in
the table below.
TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of information collection
Number of
responses per
respondent
Total
responses
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Total burden
hours
Mail/email 1 ...........................................................................
Telephone ............................................................................
Web-based ...........................................................................
Focus Groups ......................................................................
In-person ..............................................................................
Automated 2 ..........................................................................
Cognitive Testing .................................................................
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
60,000
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
20,000
60,000
0.5
0.5
0.5
2.0
1.0
1.0
2.0
10,000
10,000
10,000
40,000
20,000
20,000
120,000
Total ..............................................................................
180,000
........................
180,000
........................
230,000
1 May
include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
2 May include testing of database software, CAPI software, or other automated technologies.
HRSA specifically requests comments
on (1) the necessity and utility of the
proposed information collection for the
proper performance of the agency’s
functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and (4) the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology to minimize the information
collection burden.
Dated: December 5, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information
Coordination.
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Health Resources and Services
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Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection: Public
Comment Request
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection
projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
SUMMARY:
VerDate Mar<15>2010
17:00 Dec 10, 2013
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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the
Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) announces
plans to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR), described
below, to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the
ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks comments
from the public regarding the burden
estimate, below, or any other aspect of
the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this Information
Collection Request must be received
within 60 days of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to
paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Room 10–29, Parklawn
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the data collection plans and draft
instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov
or call the HRSA Information Collection
Clearance Officer at (301) 443–1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When
submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the
information request collection title for
reference.
Information Collection Request Title:
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program:
Program Allocation and Expenditure
Forms.
OMB No. 0915–0318—Extension.
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Abstract: HRSA’s HIV/AIDS Bureau
(HAB) administers the Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Program authorized under Title
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act
as amended by the Ryan White HIV/
AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009.
The purpose of this legislation is to
provide emergency assistance to
localities that are disproportionately
affected by the human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic
and to make financial assistance
available for the development,
organization, coordination, and
operation of more effective and costefficient systems for the delivery of
essential services to persons with HIV
disease. It also provides grants to states
for the delivery of services to HIV
positive individuals and their families.
Under the law, grantees receiving funds
under Parts A, B, and C must spend at
least 75 percent of funds on ‘‘core
medical services.’’ The proposed forms
will collect information from grantees
documenting the use of funds to ensure
compliance with the Act.
Need and Proposed Use of the
Information: The Ryan White HIV/AIDS
Program Allocation and Expenditure
Reports enable the Health Resources
and Services Administration’s HIV/
AIDS Bureau to track spending
requirements for each program. Grantees
funded under Parts A, B, C, and D of the
Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
(codified under Title XXVI of the Public
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection:
Public Comment Request
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public
comment on proposed data collection projects (Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995), the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) announces plans to submit an Information
Collection Request (ICR), described below, to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB). Prior to submitting the ICR to OMB, HRSA seeks
comments from the public regarding the burden estimate, below, or any
other aspect of the ICR.
DATES: Comments on this Information Collection Request must be received
within 60 days of this notice.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments to paperwork@hrsa.gov or mail the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer, Room 10-29, Parklawn
Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
draft instruments, email paperwork@hrsa.gov or call the HRSA
Information Collection Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When submitting comments or requesting
information, please include the information request collection title
for reference.
Information Collection Request Title: Questionnaire and Data
Collection Testing, Evaluation, and Research for the Health Resources
and Services Administration.
OMB No.: 0915-xxxx--New.
Abstract: HRSA 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.
HRSA 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 to
30 interviews; ideally, the questionnaire is re-worked between rounds,
and revisions are tested iteratively until interviews yield relatively
few new insights.
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
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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. 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.
Burden Statement: Burden in this context means the time expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide the
information requested. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information; to search data sources; to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. The total annual burden hours estimated for
this Information Collection Request are summarized in the table below.
Total Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of information collection Number of responses per Total per response Total burden
respondents respondent responses (in hours) hours
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Mail/email \1\.................. 20,000 1 20,000 0.5 10,000
Telephone....................... 20,000 1 20,000 0.5 10,000
Web-based....................... 20,000 1 20,000 0.5 10,000
Focus Groups.................... 20,000 1 20,000 2.0 40,000
In-person....................... 20,000 1 20,000 1.0 20,000
Automated \2\................... 20,000 1 20,000 1.0 20,000
Cognitive Testing............... 60,000 1 60,000 2.0 120,000
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Total....................... 180,000 .............. 180,000 .............. 230,000
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\1\ May include telephone non-response follow-up in which case the burden will not change.
\2\ May include testing of database software, CAPI software, or other automated technologies.
HRSA specifically requests comments on (1) the necessity and
utility of the proposed information collection for the proper
performance of the agency's functions, (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden, (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected, and (4) the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection burden.
Dated: December 5, 2013.
Bahar Niakan,
Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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