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The data submitted annually on the
ETA 204 report enables the Employment
and Training Administration to project
revenues for the Unemployment
Insurance (UI) program on a state-bystate basis and to measure the variations
in assigned contribution rates which
result from different experience rating
systems. Used in conjunction with other
data, the ETA 204 assists in determining
the effects of certain factors (e.g.,
stabilization, expansion, or contraction
in employment, etc.) on the
unemployment experience of various
groups of employers. The data also
provide an early signal for potential
solvency problems and are useful in
analyzing factors which give rise to
these potential problems and permit an
evaluation of the effectiveness of the
various approaches available to correct
the detected problems. The report
collects annual information about the
taxation efforts in states relative to both
taxable and total wages and allows
comparison between states. Further, the
data are key components to the
Significant Tax Measures Report. The
Significant Tax Measures Report
provides the information necessary to
evaluate and compare state UI tax
systems. 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)
authorizes this information collection.
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless it is
approved by the OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid Control Number. See 5
CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
Interested parties are encouraged to
provide comments to the contact shown
in the ADDRESSES section. Comments
must be written to receive
consideration, and they will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval of the final ICR. In
order to help ensure appropriate
consideration, comments should
mention OMB control number 1205–
0164.
Submitted comments will also be a
matter of public record for this ICR and
posted on the internet, without
redaction. The DOL encourages
commenters not to include personally
identifiable information, confidential
business data, or other sensitive
statements/information in any
comments.
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The DOL is particularly interested in
comments that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Agency: DOL–ETA.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Title of Collection: Experience Rating
Report.
Form: ETA–204.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0164.
Affected Public: State Workforce
Agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
53.
Frequency: Annual.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
53.
Estimated Average Time per
Response: 30 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 27 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Cost
Burden: $0.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Rosemary Lahasky,
Deputy Assistant Secretary.
January 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m. to
2:30 p.m.; U.S. Department of Labor,
Secretary’s Conference Room, 200
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anne M. Zollner, Chief, Trade Policy
and Negotiations Division; Phone: (202)
693–4890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
meeting will include a review and
discussion of current issues which
influence U.S. trade policy. Potential
U.S. negotiating objectives and
bargaining positions in current and
anticipated trade negotiations will be
discussed. Pursuant to 19 U.S.C.
2155(f)(2)(A), it has been determined
that the meeting will be concerned with
matters the disclosure of which would
seriously compromise the Government’s
negotiating objectives or bargaining
positions. Therefore, the meeting is
exempt from the requirements of
subsections (a) and (b) of sections 10
and 11 of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (relating to open
meetings, public notice, public
participation, and public availability of
documents). 5 U.S.C. app. Accordingly,
the meeting will be closed to the public.
DATES:
Signed at Washington, DC, the 19th day of
December 2017.
Martha E. Newton,
Deputy Undersecretary, Bureau of
International Labor Affairs.
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Information Collection Activities;
Comment Request
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:
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The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor
SUMMARY:
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Meeting of the Labor Advisory
Committee for Trade Negotiation and
Trade Policy
Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, Office of the United States
Trade Representative, U.S. Department
of Labor.
ACTION: Meeting notice.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given of a
meeting of the Labor Advisory
Committee for Trade Negotiation and
Trade Policy.
SUMMARY:
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Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed revision of a
currently approved collection ‘‘National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.’’ A
copy of the proposed information
collection request can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed in the
Addresses section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section below on or before
February 26, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora
Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll
free number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The National Longitudinal Survey of
Youth 1979 (NLSY79) is a
representative national sample of
persons who were born in the years
1957 to 1964 and lived in the U.S. in
1978. These respondents were ages 14 to
22 when the first round of interviews
began in 1979; they will be ages 53 to
60 as of December 31, 2017. The
NLSY79 was conducted annually from
1979 to 1994 and has been conducted
biennially since 1994. The longitudinal
focus of this survey requires information
to be collected from the same
individuals over many years in order to
trace their education, training, work
experience, fertility, income, and
program participation.
In addition to the main NLSY79, the
biological children of female NLSY79
respondents have been surveyed since
1986. A battery of child cognitive, socioemotional, and physiological
assessments has been administered
biennially since 1986 to NLSY79
mothers and their children. Starting in
1994, children who had reached age 15
by December 31 of the survey year (the
Young Adults) were interviewed about
their work experiences, training,
schooling, health, fertility, self-esteem,
and other topics. Funding for the
NLSY79 Child and Young Adult surveys
is provided by the Eunice Kennedy
Shriver National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development
through an interagency agreement with
the BLS and through a grant awarded to
researchers at the Ohio State University
Center for Human Resource Research
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(CHRR). The interagency agreement
funds data collection for children and
young adults up to age 24. The grant
funds data collection for young adults
age 25 and older.
One of the goals of the Department of
Labor (DOL) is to produce and
disseminate timely, accurate, and
relevant information about the U.S.
labor force. The BLS contributes to this
goal by gathering information about the
labor force and labor market and
disseminating it to policymakers and
the public so that participants in those
markets can make more informed, and
thus more efficient, choices. Research
based on the NLSY79 contributes to the
formation of national policy in the areas
of education, training, employment
programs, and school-to-work
transitions. In addition to the reports
that the BLS produces based on data
from the NLSY79, members of the
academic community publish articles
and reports based on NLSY79 data for
the DOL and other funding agencies. To
date, more than 2,793 articles examining
NLSY79 data have been published in
scholarly journals. The survey design
provides data gathered from the same
respondents over time to form the only
data set that contains this type of
information for this important
population group. Without the
collection of these data, an accurate
longitudinal data set could not be
provided to researchers and
policymakers, thus adversely affecting
the DOL’s ability to perform its policyand report-making activities.
II. Current Action
The BLS seeks approval to conduct
round 28 of the NLSY79 and the
associated surveys of biological children
of female NLSY79 respondents.
The Young Adult Survey will be
administered to young adults age 12 and
older who are the biological children of
female NLSY79 respondents. These
young adults will be contacted
regardless of whether they reside with
their mothers.
Members of the Young Adult grant
sample are contacted for interviews
every other round once they reach age
31. The NLSY79 Young Adult Survey
involves interviews with approximately
6,326 young adults ages 12 and older.
During the field period, about 10 main
NLSY79 interviews will be validated to
ascertain whether the interview took
place as the interviewer reported and
whether the interview was done in a
polite and professional manner.
BLS has undertaken a continuing
redesign effort to examine the current
content of the NLSY79 and provide
direction for changes that may be
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appropriate as the respondents age. The
2018 instrument reflects a number of
changes recommended by experts in
various fields of social science and by
our own internal review of the survey’s
content. Additions to the questionnaire
are accompanied by deletions of
previous questions so that the overall
time required to complete the survey
should remain about the same as
compared to 2016.
The round 28 questionnaire includes
new questions on job characteristics,
spouse’s health, cognition, pain and use
of pain killers, and retirement financing.
In addition, a new module that assesses
the respondents’ health as they turn age
60 will be included for the first time.
Questions on job characteristics will
be added to the employment section for
Round 28. All respondents (male and
female) who have held a job since their
last interview will be asked these
questions about each job held since the
date of their last interview. The
questions ask about job stress, job
flexibility, and workplace
accommodations. Two new questions
that ask about spouse’s health will be
added to the section on spouse labor
supply. They ask the respondent to rank
spouse’s physical health and emotional
health as excellent, very good, good,
fair, or poor.
In the health section, two types of
questions that assess cognition will be
added to Round 28. All respondents
will be asked questions that assess
cognition. The first type ask the
respondent to self-rate memory and
change in memory. Respondents have
been asked these questions previously.
The second type is the ‘‘Animal Naming
Test.’’ The respondent is asked to name
as many animals as s/he can in one
minute. In addition, in the health
section round 28, two questions on pain
and three questions on use of painkillers
will be asked of all respondents. The
reference period for both pain and use
of pain medication is the last 30 days.
The questions ask whether the
respondents suffer from chronic pain
and how frequently, whether they have
taken pain medication, whether the
medicine taken can be purchased overthe-counter, and whether the medicine
was taken in a way not directed by a
doctor.
Round 28 introduces a module of
health questions asked of respondents
who have reached age 60. Most of the
questions that make up the Age-60
Health module have been asked in
previous rounds at ages 40 and 50;
topics include depression, health of the
respondent’s biological parents,
physical functioning, pain, health limits
on daily activities, chronic conditions,
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functional limitations, sleep, and an
open-ended question asking whether the
respondent wants to report anything
additional about his or her health.
Round 28 bolsters the retirement
expectations section to collect new
information on how the respondents
plan to fund their retirement and on
their knowledge about Social Security.
We will add questions on whether, at
what age, and how much per month the
respondent expects to collect Social
Security retirement benefits. We will
ask similar questions for employerbased pensions and Individual
Retirement Accounts. In all three
instances, parallel questions will be
asked about the spouse/partner’s
expected sources of income. We will
also ask the estimated value of other
assets the respondent might live off of
during retirement and whether she
expects support from family members.
The questions on knowledge of Social
Security benefits will ask about the
timing of starting retirement benefits
and several true/false questions that ask
about what entitles one to Social
Security retirement benefits and how
the timing of claiming affects the
benefits.
Most of the changes made to the
Young Adult questionnaire for 2018
have been made to streamline questions
and sections in order to cut down on the
amount of time it takes for a respondent
to complete an interview. The Young
Adult sample will includes 663
respondents ages 12–22 and 5,663
respondents age 23 and older in Round
28.
The questions added to the Young
Adult questionnaire expand our
understanding of both physical and
mental/emotional health and well-being
such as gender identity and sexual
orientation, resiliency, loneliness and
social isolation, self-worth, and social
cognition.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The BLS is particularly interested in
comments that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility.
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Title of Collection: National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.
OMB Number: 1220–0109.
Type of Review: Revision, with
change, of a previously approved
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
ESTIMATED TOTAL BURDEN HOURS
Total
respondents
Form
Frequency
Total
responses
Average time
per response
(minutes)
Estimated
total burden
(hours)
NLSY79 Round 27 Main Survey .........................................
Round 27 Validation Interviews ...........................................
Young Adult Survey (Ages 12 to 13) ..................................
Young Adult Survey (Ages 14 to 18) ..................................
Young Adult Survey (Ages 19 to 24) ..................................
Young Adult Survey, Grant component (Age 25 to 28),
interview.
Young Adult Survey, Grant component (Age 29 and
older), interview.
6,900
10
20
294
962
1,210
Biennially
Biennially
Biennially
Biennially
Biennially
Biennially
.......
.......
.......
.......
.......
.......
6,900
10
20
294
962
1,210
75
6
50
66
63
60
8,625
1
17
323
1,010
1,210
2,574
Biennially .......
2,574
70
3,003
Totals 1 ..........................................................................
11,960
........................
11,970
........................
14,189
1 The
total number of 11,960 respondents across all the survey instruments is a mutually exclusive count that does not include the 10 reinterview respondents, who were previously counted among the main and young adult survey respondents.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 19th day of
December 2017.
Kimberley D. Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems.
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Application of Existing Mandatory
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Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice is a summary of
petitions for modification submitted to
the Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) by the parties
listed below.
DATES: All comments on the petitions
must be received by MSHA’s Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances
on or before January 25, 2018.
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comments, identified by ‘‘docket
number’’ on the subject line, by any of
the following methods:
1. Electronic Mail: zzMSHAcomments@dol.gov. Include the docket
number of the petition in the subject
line of the message.
2. Facsimile: 202–693–9441.
3. Regular Mail or Hand Delivery:
MSHA, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, 201 12th
Street South, Suite 4E401, Arlington,
Virginia 22202–5452, Attention: Sheila
McConnell, Director, Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances.
Persons delivering documents are
required to check in at the receptionist’s
desk in Suite 4E401. Individuals may
inspect copies of the petition and
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Information Collection Activities; Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be
provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial
resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood,
and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor
[[Page 61031]]
Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the proposed
revision of a currently approved collection ``National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth 1979.'' A copy of the proposed information collection
request can be obtained by contacting the individual listed in the
Addresses section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section below on or before February 26, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20212. Written comments also
may be transmitted by fax to 202-691-5111 (this is not a toll free
number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer,
202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) is a
representative national sample of persons who were born in the years
1957 to 1964 and lived in the U.S. in 1978. These respondents were ages
14 to 22 when the first round of interviews began in 1979; they will be
ages 53 to 60 as of December 31, 2017. The NLSY79 was conducted
annually from 1979 to 1994 and has been conducted biennially since
1994. The longitudinal focus of this survey requires information to be
collected from the same individuals over many years in order to trace
their education, training, work experience, fertility, income, and
program participation.
In addition to the main NLSY79, the biological children of female
NLSY79 respondents have been surveyed since 1986. A battery of child
cognitive, socio-emotional, and physiological assessments has been
administered biennially since 1986 to NLSY79 mothers and their
children. Starting in 1994, children who had reached age 15 by December
31 of the survey year (the Young Adults) were interviewed about their
work experiences, training, schooling, health, fertility, self-esteem,
and other topics. Funding for the NLSY79 Child and Young Adult surveys
is provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development through an interagency agreement with the
BLS and through a grant awarded to researchers at the Ohio State
University Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR). The interagency
agreement funds data collection for children and young adults up to age
24. The grant funds data collection for young adults age 25 and older.
One of the goals of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to produce and
disseminate timely, accurate, and relevant information about the U.S.
labor force. The BLS contributes to this goal by gathering information
about the labor force and labor market and disseminating it to
policymakers and the public so that participants in those markets can
make more informed, and thus more efficient, choices. Research based on
the NLSY79 contributes to the formation of national policy in the areas
of education, training, employment programs, and school-to-work
transitions. In addition to the reports that the BLS produces based on
data from the NLSY79, members of the academic community publish
articles and reports based on NLSY79 data for the DOL and other funding
agencies. To date, more than 2,793 articles examining NLSY79 data have
been published in scholarly journals. The survey design provides data
gathered from the same respondents over time to form the only data set
that contains this type of information for this important population
group. Without the collection of these data, an accurate longitudinal
data set could not be provided to researchers and policymakers, thus
adversely affecting the DOL's ability to perform its policy- and
report-making activities.
II. Current Action
The BLS seeks approval to conduct round 28 of the NLSY79 and the
associated surveys of biological children of female NLSY79 respondents.
The Young Adult Survey will be administered to young adults age 12
and older who are the biological children of female NLSY79 respondents.
These young adults will be contacted regardless of whether they reside
with their mothers.
Members of the Young Adult grant sample are contacted for
interviews every other round once they reach age 31. The NLSY79 Young
Adult Survey involves interviews with approximately 6,326 young adults
ages 12 and older.
During the field period, about 10 main NLSY79 interviews will be
validated to ascertain whether the interview took place as the
interviewer reported and whether the interview was done in a polite and
professional manner.
BLS has undertaken a continuing redesign effort to examine the
current content of the NLSY79 and provide direction for changes that
may be appropriate as the respondents age. The 2018 instrument reflects
a number of changes recommended by experts in various fields of social
science and by our own internal review of the survey's content.
Additions to the questionnaire are accompanied by deletions of previous
questions so that the overall time required to complete the survey
should remain about the same as compared to 2016.
The round 28 questionnaire includes new questions on job
characteristics, spouse's health, cognition, pain and use of pain
killers, and retirement financing. In addition, a new module that
assesses the respondents' health as they turn age 60 will be included
for the first time.
Questions on job characteristics will be added to the employment
section for Round 28. All respondents (male and female) who have held a
job since their last interview will be asked these questions about each
job held since the date of their last interview. The questions ask
about job stress, job flexibility, and workplace accommodations. Two
new questions that ask about spouse's health will be added to the
section on spouse labor supply. They ask the respondent to rank
spouse's physical health and emotional health as excellent, very good,
good, fair, or poor.
In the health section, two types of questions that assess cognition
will be added to Round 28. All respondents will be asked questions that
assess cognition. The first type ask the respondent to self-rate memory
and change in memory. Respondents have been asked these questions
previously. The second type is the ``Animal Naming Test.'' The
respondent is asked to name as many animals as s/he can in one minute.
In addition, in the health section round 28, two questions on pain and
three questions on use of painkillers will be asked of all respondents.
The reference period for both pain and use of pain medication is the
last 30 days. The questions ask whether the respondents suffer from
chronic pain and how frequently, whether they have taken pain
medication, whether the medicine taken can be purchased over-the-
counter, and whether the medicine was taken in a way not directed by a
doctor.
Round 28 introduces a module of health questions asked of
respondents who have reached age 60. Most of the questions that make up
the Age-60 Health module have been asked in previous rounds at ages 40
and 50; topics include depression, health of the respondent's
biological parents, physical functioning, pain, health limits on daily
activities, chronic conditions,
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functional limitations, sleep, and an open-ended question asking
whether the respondent wants to report anything additional about his or
her health.
Round 28 bolsters the retirement expectations section to collect
new information on how the respondents plan to fund their retirement
and on their knowledge about Social Security. We will add questions on
whether, at what age, and how much per month the respondent expects to
collect Social Security retirement benefits. We will ask similar
questions for employer-based pensions and Individual Retirement
Accounts. In all three instances, parallel questions will be asked
about the spouse/partner's expected sources of income. We will also ask
the estimated value of other assets the respondent might live off of
during retirement and whether she expects support from family members.
The questions on knowledge of Social Security benefits will ask about
the timing of starting retirement benefits and several true/false
questions that ask about what entitles one to Social Security
retirement benefits and how the timing of claiming affects the
benefits.
Most of the changes made to the Young Adult questionnaire for 2018
have been made to streamline questions and sections in order to cut
down on the amount of time it takes for a respondent to complete an
interview. The Young Adult sample will includes 663 respondents ages
12-22 and 5,663 respondents age 23 and older in Round 28.
The questions added to the Young Adult questionnaire expand our
understanding of both physical and mental/emotional health and well-
being such as gender identity and sexual orientation, resiliency,
loneliness and social isolation, self-worth, and social cognition.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The BLS is particularly interested in comments that:
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility.
Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used.
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
Title of Collection: National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.
OMB Number: 1220-0109.
Type of Review: Revision, with change, of a previously approved
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Estimated Total Burden Hours
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Average time Estimated
Form Total Frequency Total per response total burden
respondents responses (minutes) (hours)
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NLSY79 Round 27 Main Survey. 6,900 Biennially........ 6,900 75 8,625
Round 27 Validation 10 Biennially........ 10 6 1
Interviews.
Young Adult Survey (Ages 12 20 Biennially........ 20 50 17
to 13).
Young Adult Survey (Ages 14 294 Biennially........ 294 66 323
to 18).
Young Adult Survey (Ages 19 962 Biennially........ 962 63 1,010
to 24).
Young Adult Survey, Grant 1,210 Biennially........ 1,210 60 1,210
component (Age 25 to 28),
interview.
Young Adult Survey, Grant 2,574 Biennially........ 2,574 70 3,003
component (Age 29 and
older), interview.
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Totals \1\.............. 11,960 .................. 11,970 .............. 14,189
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\1\ The total number of 11,960 respondents across all the survey instruments is a mutually exclusive count that
does not include the 10 reinterview respondents, who were previously counted among the main and young adult
survey respondents.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 19th day of December 2017.
Kimberley D. Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems.
[FR Doc. 2017-27662 Filed 12-22-17; 8:45 am]
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