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local health information and to track
national health objectives such as
Healthy People.
CDC bases the BRFSS questionnaire
on modular design principles to
accommodate a variety of state-specific
needs within a common framework. All
participating states are required to
administer a standardized core
questionnaire, which provides a set of
shared health indicators for all BRFSS
partners. The BRFSS core questionnaire
consists of fixed core, rotating core, and
emerging core questions. Fixed core
questions are asked every year. Rotating
core questions cycle on and off the core
questionnaire in two- or three-year
cycles, depending on the question.
Emerging core questions are included in
the core questionnaire as needed to
collect data on urgent or emerging
health topics such as infectious disease.
In addition, the BRFSS includes a series
of optional modules on a variety of
topics. In off years, when the rotating
questions are not included in the core
questionnaire, they are offered to states
as optional modules. This framework
allows each state to produce a
customized BRFSS survey by appending
selected optional modules to the core
survey. States may select which, if any,
optional modules to administer. As
needed, CDC provides technical and
methodological assistance to state
BRFSS coordinators in the construction
of their state-specific surveys. Each state
administers its BRFSS questionnaire
throughout the calendar year.
CDC periodically updates the BRFSS
core survey and optional modules. The
purpose of this Revision request is to
continue with the following topics in
the questionnaires: Traumatic brain
injury, medical adherence,
cardiovascular health, veterans’ health,
positive childhood experiences, and the
use of newly available tobacco products.
In addition, this request seeks approval
for reinstating topics which have been
included in BRFSS in the past,
dependent upon state interest and
funding.
Participation is voluntary and there is
no cost to participate. The average time
burden per response will be no more
than 22 minutes by phone and 60
minutes by mail. The total time burden
across all respondents will be
approximately 274,632 hours. OMB
approval is requested for three years.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
responses per
respondent
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
Form name
U.S. General Population .................................
Landline Screener ..........................................
Cell Phone Screener ......................................
Field Test Screener ........................................
BRFSS Core Survey by Phone Interview ......
173,000
694,000
900
480,000
1
1
1
1
1/60
1/60
1/60
15/60
BRFSS Optional Modules by Phone Interview.
BRFSS Core Survey by Online Survey .........
BRFSS Optional Modules by Online Survey
Field Test Survey by Phone Interview ...........
440,000
1
15/60
100,000
80,000
500
1
1
1
10/60
10/60
20/60
Annual Survey Respondents (Adults >18
Years).
Field Test Respondents (Adults >18 Years) ..
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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Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
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 the National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System
(RSS) (OMB Control No. 0920–1408),
which includes fielding four surveys per
year. RSS Round 1 Survey was
approved in June 2023. A second, third,
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and fourth round of the RSS were
additionally approved. 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. Interested persons are invited to
send comments regarding this
information collection, including ways
to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the Round 6 content. This
notice includes specific details about
the questions that would be asked in the
sixth round (Round 6) 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;
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(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
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‘‘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
Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 6
(OMB Control No. 0920–1408)—
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 Rapid Survey System
(RSS) (OMB Control No. 0920–1408)
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 facilitate
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 several
rounds of data collection each year with
data being collected by two contractors
with probability panels. A crosssectional 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
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.
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. 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 healthcare
access and utilization, social and work
limitation, employment, marital status,
civic engagement, language used at
home and in other settings, and health
information technology use. All of 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 or other suitable federal
surveys for benchmarking to evaluate
data quality. Panelists in the RSS will be
asked about health status, chronic
conditions, cigarette and tobacco use,
healthcare access and utilization,
immunizations, health insurance, and
social determinants of health including
the ability to pay medical bills and food
insecurity.
The estimated total annual burden
hours for the three-year approval period
remains at 28,079 burden hours. The
NCHS RSS Round 6 (2024) data
collection is based on 8,000 complete
surveys (2,664 hours). There are no
costs to respondents other than their
time.
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ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Type of respondents
Form name
Adults 18+ .......................................................
Adult 18+ .........................................................
Survey: NCHS RSS Round 6 ........................
Cognitive Interviews .......................................
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20
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1
1
Average
burden per
response
(in hours)
20/60
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.
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0097]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted
for Public Comment and
Recommendations
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public
burden and maximize the utility of
government information, invites the
general public and other federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on a continuing information
collection, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This notice
invites comment on the Research Data
Center (RDC) Proposal for Access to
Confidential Data for the National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
This data collection is used to assess
researcher’s request for access to
confidential NCHS data for their
research projects.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before February 3, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CDC–2024–
0097 by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information
Collection Review Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE, MS–H21–8, Atlanta,
Georgia 30329.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
Docket Number. All relevant comments
received will be posted without change
to www.regulations.gov, including any
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personal information provided. For
access to the docket to read background
documents or comments received, go to
www.regulations.gov.
Please note: All public comment
should be submitted through the
Federal eRulemaking portal
(www.regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to
the address listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request more information on the
proposed project or to obtain a copy of
the information collection plan and
instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Information Collection Review Office,
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS–
H21–8, Atlanta, Georgia 30329;
Telephone: 404–639–7570; Email: omb@
cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also
requires federal agencies to provide a
60-day notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each new
proposed collection, each proposed
extension of existing collection of
information, and each reinstatement of
previously approved information
collection before submitting the
collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, we are
publishing this notice of a proposed
data collection as described below.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments that will help:
1. 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;
2. 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;
3. Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected;
4. 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
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other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses; and
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
Research Data Center (RDC) Proposal
for Access to Confidential Data for the
National Center for Health Statistics
(OMB Control No. 0920–1363, Exp. 4/
30/2025)—Extension—National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Section 306(b)(4) of the Public Health
Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 242k(b)(4)),
as amended, authorizes the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (DHHS),
acting through NCHS, to receive
requests for providing data and statistics
to the public. NCHS receives requests
for confidential data from the public
through the Research Data Center (RDC)
Proposal for Access to Confidential
Data. This is a request for an Extension
without change from OMB to collect
information via the RDC proposal over
the next three years at an overall burden
rate of 990 hours.
As part of a comprehensive data
dissemination program, the Research
Data Center (RDC), National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
requires prospective researchers who
need access to confidential data to
complete a research proposal.
Researchers self-select whether they
need access to confidential data to
answer their research questions. The
RDC requires the researcher to complete
a research proposal so NCHS
understands the research proposed,
whether confidential data are available
to address the research questions, how
the confidential data will be used and
what data outputs the researcher needs
to satisfy their project. The completed
proposal is sent to NCHS for
adjudication on whether the proposed
research is possible.
To capture the information needed to
adjudicate researchers’ need for access
to confidential NCHS data, this request
allows for both respondents and time
per response for a total estimated annual
burden total of 330 hours (990 hours for
a three-year clearance period). There is
no cost to respondents other than their
time to complete the proposal.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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 the National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS) (OMB Control
No. 0920-1408), which includes fielding four surveys per year. RSS
Round 1 Survey was approved in June 2023. A second, third, and fourth
round of the RSS were additionally approved. 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. Interested persons are
invited to send comments regarding this information collection,
including ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
Round 6 content. This notice includes specific details about the
questions that would be asked in the sixth round (Round 6) 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
[[Page 95791]]
``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
Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 6 (OMB Control No. 0920-1408)--
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 Rapid Survey System (RSS) (OMB
Control No. 0920-1408) 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 facilitate
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 several 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 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.
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. 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 healthcare access and utilization, social and work limitation,
employment, marital status, civic engagement, language used at home and
in other settings, and health information technology use. All of 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 or other
suitable federal surveys for benchmarking to evaluate data quality.
Panelists in the RSS will be asked about health status, chronic
conditions, cigarette and tobacco use, healthcare access and
utilization, immunizations, health insurance, and social determinants
of health including the ability to pay medical bills and food
insecurity.
The estimated total annual burden hours for the three-year approval
period remains at 28,079 burden hours. The NCHS RSS Round 6 (2024) data
collection is based on 8,000 complete surveys (2,664 hours). There are
no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adults 18+............................ Survey: NCHS RSS Round 6 8,000 1 20/60
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.
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