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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Public Health Ethics and
Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
received approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
conduct Rapid Surveys System (RSS)
(OMB Control No. 0920–1408), which
includes fielding four surveys per year.
The 06/30/2023 approval gave clearance
for Round 1 of the survey. In accordance
with the Terms of Clearance NCHS will
publish a 30-day Federal Register
Notice announcing each new survey so
that public comments can be received
about the specific content of each
survey. This Notice includes specific
details about the questions that would
be asked in Round 2 of the RSS and
serves to allow 30 days for public and
affected agency comments, consistent
with OMB’s Terms of Clearance.
CDC will accept all comments for this
proposed information collection project.
The Office of Management and Budget
is particularly interested in comments
that:
(a) 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;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the
agencies estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
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(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
(d) 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; and
(e) Assess information collection
costs.
To request additional information on
the proposed project or to obtain a copy
of the information collection plan and
instruments, call (404) 639–7570.
Comments and recommendations for the
proposed information collection should
be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. Direct written
comments and/or suggestions regarding
the items contained in this notice to the
Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by
fax to (202) 395–5806. Provide written
comments within 30 days of notice
publication.
Proposed Project
National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS)
Round 2 (OMB Control No. 0920–
1408)—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.), as
amended, authorizes that the Secretary
of Health and Human Services (HHS),
acting through NCHS, collect data about
the health of the population of the
United States. The NCHS Rapid Surveys
System (RSS) collects data on emerging
public health topics, attitudes, and
behaviors using cross-sectional samples
from two commercially available,
national probability-based online
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panels. The RSS then combines these
data to form estimates that approximate
national representation in ways that
many data collection approaches
cannot. The RSS collects data in
contexts in which decision makers’
need for time-sensitive data of known
quality about emerging and priority
health concerns is a higher priority than
their need for statistically unbiased
estimates.
The RSS complements NCHS’s
current household survey systems. As
quicker turnaround surveys that require
less accuracy and precision than CDC’s
more rigorous population representative
surveys, the RSS incorporates multiple
mechanisms to carefully evaluate the
resulting survey data for their
appropriateness for use in public health
surveillance and research (e.g.,
hypothesis generating) and facilitates
continuous quality improvement by
supplementing these panels with
intensive efforts to understand how well
the estimates reflect populations at most
risk. The RSS data dissemination
strategy communicates the strengths and
limitations of data collected through
online probability panels as compared
to more robust data collection methods.
The RSS has three major goals: (1) to
provide CDC and other partners with
time-sensitive data of known quality
about emerging and priority health
concerns; (2) to use these data
collections to continue NCHS’s
evaluation of the quality of public
health estimates generated from
commercial online panels; and (3) to
improve methods to communicate the
appropriateness of public health
estimates generated from commercial
online panels. The RSS is designed to
have four rounds of data collection each
year with data being collected by two
contractors with probability panels. A
cross-sectional nationally representative
sample will be drawn from the online
probability panel maintained by each of
the contractors. As part of the base
(minimum sample size), each round of
data collection will collect 2,000
responses per quarter. The RSS can be
expanded by increasing the number of
completed responses per round or the
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number of rounds per year as needed up
to a maximum of 28,000 responses per
year per contractor or 56,000 total
responses per year. Additionally, each
data collection may include up to 2,000
additional responses per quarter (8,000
for the year) to improve
representativeness. This increases the
maximum burden by up to 16,000
responses per year. The RSS may also
target individual surveys to collect data
only from specific subgroups within
existing survey panels and may
supplement data collection for such
groups with additional respondents
from other probability or nonprobability
samples. An additional 12,000
responses per year may be used for
these developmental activities. Survey
questions being asked of the panelists
will be cognitively tested. This cognitive
testing will help survey users interpret
the findings by understanding how
respondents answer each question.
Each round’s questionnaire will
consist of four main components: (1)
basic demographic information on
respondents to be used as covariates in
analyses; (2) new, emerging, or
supplemental content proposed by
NCHS, other CDC Centers, Institute, and
Offices, and other HHS agencies; (3)
questions used for calibrating the survey
weights; and (4) additional content
selected by NCHS to evaluate against
relevant benchmarks. NCHS will use
questions from Components 1 and 2 to
provide relevant, timely data on new,
emerging, and priority health topics to
be used for decision making. NCHS will
use questions from Components 3 and 4
to weight and evaluate the quality of the
estimates coming from questions in
Components 1 and 2. Components 1 and
2 will contain different topics in each
round of the survey. NCHS submits a
30-day Federal Register Notice with
information on the contents of each
round of data collection.
NCHS calibrates survey weights from
the RSS to gold standard surveys.
Questions used for calibration in this
round of RSS will include marital status
and employment, social and work
limitations, use of the internet in
general and for medical reasons,
telephone use, civic engagement, and
language used at home and in other
settings. All these questions have been
on the National Health Interview Survey
(NHIS) in prior years allowing
calibration to these data. Finally, all
RSS rounds will include several
questions that were previously on NHIS
that will be used for benchmarking to
evaluate data quality. Panelists in the
RSS will be asked about health status;
chronic conditions; social determinants
of health; healthcare access and
utilization; and health behaviors will be
used to benchmark the RSS to NCHS
survey.
The estimated total annual burden
hours for the three-year approval period
remains at 28,079 burden hours. There
are no costs to respondents other than
their time. For RSS Round 2, the
following hours will be used. The NCHS
RSS Round 2 (2023) data collection is
based on 13,100 complete surveys
(4,367 hours) and 20 cognitive
interviews (20 hours) using the same
survey instrument. The total number of
responses is 13,120 and the total burden
is 4,387 hours.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Form name
Adults 18+ ..............................
Adult 18+ ................................
Survey: NCHS RSS Round 2 (2023) Cognitive Interviews ....
Cognitive Interviews ................................................................
Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office,
Office of Public Health Ethics and
Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Proposed Information Collection
Activity; Child Abuse and Neglect
Background Checks for Child Care and
Early Education Project (New
Collection)
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Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
The Office of Planning,
Research, and Evaluation (OPRE),
Administration for Children and
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Families (ACF) is proposing an
information collection activity for the
Child Abuse and Neglect Background
Checks for Child Care and Early
Education (CAN Checks for CCEE)
Project. The goal of the project is to
better understand how states and
territories use findings from CAN
registry checks, as required by the Child
Care and Development Block Grant Act
of 2014 (CCDBG), to make child care
employment eligibility determinations.
The study will also be used to
understand state and territory variation,
facilitators, and challenges in
implementing CAN registries; and any
resulting within- or across-state/territory
equity implications.
DATES: Comments due within 60 days of
publication. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects
of the information collection described
above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the
proposed collection of information and
submit comments by emailing
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20
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1
1
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burden per
response
(in hours)
20/60
1
OPREinfocollection@acf.hhs.gov. All
requests should be identified by the title
of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The proposed
information collections for the CAN
Checks for CCEE Project is designed to
explore how states and territories
implement CAN background checks for
child care employment eligibility
decisions. While the CCDBG Act of 2014
clearly describes procedures and
exclusionary criteria pertaining to the
use of criminal and sexual offender
background checks to inform child care
employment eligibility decisions,
requirements for the use of CAN
background checks are less clear. The
findings will be of interest to ACF, and
in particular to OPRE and the Office of
Child Care, who are interested in the
effective and equitable implementation
of CAN registry background checks of
prospective and current child care staff.
Findings will also be of interest to Child
Care and Development Fund (CCDF)
state/territory lead agencies that oversee
the CCDF program in their states/
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-23-1408]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received approval from the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct Rapid Surveys System
(RSS) (OMB Control No. 0920-1408), which includes fielding four surveys
per year. The 06/30/2023 approval gave clearance for Round 1 of the
survey. In accordance with the Terms of Clearance NCHS will publish a
30-day Federal Register Notice announcing each new survey so that
public comments can be received about the specific content of each
survey. This Notice includes specific details about the questions that
would be asked in Round 2 of the RSS and serves to allow 30 days for
public and affected agency comments, consistent with OMB's Terms of
Clearance.
CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly
interested in comments that:
(a) 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;
(b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected;
(d) 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; and
(e) Assess information collection costs.
To request additional information on the proposed project or to
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call
(404) 639-7570. Comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. Direct
written comments and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in
this notice to the Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202)
395-5806. Provide written comments within 30 days of notice
publication.
Proposed Project
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System
(RSS) Round 2 (OMB Control No. 0920-1408)--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.), as
amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human Services
(HHS), acting through NCHS, collect data about the health of the
population of the United States. The NCHS Rapid Surveys System (RSS)
collects data on emerging public health topics, attitudes, and
behaviors using cross-sectional samples from two commercially
available, national probability-based online panels. The RSS then
combines these data to form estimates that approximate national
representation in ways that many data collection approaches cannot. The
RSS collects data in contexts in which decision makers' need for time-
sensitive data of known quality about emerging and priority health
concerns is a higher priority than their need for statistically
unbiased estimates.
The RSS complements NCHS's current household survey systems. As
quicker turnaround surveys that require less accuracy and precision
than CDC's more rigorous population representative surveys, the RSS
incorporates multiple mechanisms to carefully evaluate the resulting
survey data for their appropriateness for use in public health
surveillance and research (e.g., hypothesis generating) and facilitates
continuous quality improvement by supplementing these panels with
intensive efforts to understand how well the estimates reflect
populations at most risk. The RSS data dissemination strategy
communicates the strengths and limitations of data collected through
online probability panels as compared to more robust data collection
methods.
The RSS has three major goals: (1) to provide CDC and other
partners with time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and
priority health concerns; (2) to use these data collections to continue
NCHS's evaluation of the quality of public health estimates generated
from commercial online panels; and (3) to improve methods to
communicate the appropriateness of public health estimates generated
from commercial online panels. The RSS is designed to have four rounds
of data collection each year with data being collected by two
contractors with probability panels. A cross-sectional nationally
representative sample will be drawn from the online probability panel
maintained by each of the contractors. As part of the base (minimum
sample size), each round of data collection will collect 2,000
responses per quarter. The RSS can be expanded by increasing the number
of completed responses per round or the
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number of rounds per year as needed up to a maximum of 28,000 responses
per year per contractor or 56,000 total responses per year.
Additionally, each data collection may include up to 2,000 additional
responses per quarter (8,000 for the year) to improve
representativeness. This increases the maximum burden by up to 16,000
responses per year. The RSS may also target individual surveys to
collect data only from specific subgroups within existing survey panels
and may supplement data collection for such groups with additional
respondents from other probability or nonprobability samples. An
additional 12,000 responses per year may be used for these
developmental activities. Survey questions being asked of the panelists
will be cognitively tested. This cognitive testing will help survey
users interpret the findings by understanding how respondents answer
each question.
Each round's questionnaire will consist of four main components:
(1) basic demographic information on respondents to be used as
covariates in analyses; (2) new, emerging, or supplemental content
proposed by NCHS, other CDC Centers, Institute, and Offices, and other
HHS agencies; (3) questions used for calibrating the survey weights;
and (4) additional content selected by NCHS to evaluate against
relevant benchmarks. NCHS will use questions from Components 1 and 2 to
provide relevant, timely data on new, emerging, and priority health
topics to be used for decision making. NCHS will use questions from
Components 3 and 4 to weight and evaluate the quality of the estimates
coming from questions in Components 1 and 2. Components 1 and 2 will
contain different topics in each round of the survey. NCHS submits a
30-day Federal Register Notice with information on the contents of each
round of data collection.
NCHS calibrates survey weights from the RSS to gold standard
surveys. Questions used for calibration in this round of RSS will
include marital status and employment, social and work limitations, use
of the internet in general and for medical reasons, telephone use,
civic engagement, and language used at home and in other settings. All
these questions have been on the National Health Interview Survey
(NHIS) in prior years allowing calibration to these data. Finally, all
RSS rounds will include several questions that were previously on NHIS
that will be used for benchmarking to evaluate data quality. Panelists
in the RSS will be asked about health status; chronic conditions;
social determinants of health; healthcare access and utilization; and
health behaviors will be used to benchmark the RSS to NCHS survey.
The estimated total annual burden hours for the three-year approval
period remains at 28,079 burden hours. There are no costs to
respondents other than their time. For RSS Round 2, the following hours
will be used. The NCHS RSS Round 2 (2023) data collection is based on
13,100 complete surveys (4,367 hours) and 20 cognitive interviews (20
hours) using the same survey instrument. The total number of responses
is 13,120 and the total burden is 4,387 hours.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Average
Number of Number of burden per
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in
respondent hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adults 18+............................ Survey: NCHS RSS Round 2 13,100 1 20/60
(2023) Cognitive
Interviews.
Adult 18+............................. Cognitive Interviews.... 20 1 1
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2023-17480 Filed 8-14-23; 8:45 am]
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