Notice2021-20572
Submission for OMB Review; Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2022 (Baby FACES 2022)
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Published
September 23, 2021
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks approval to continue to collect descriptive information for the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey 2022 (Baby FACES 2022). This information collection is to provide nationally representative data on Early Head Start (EHS) programs, centers, classrooms, staff, and families to guide program planning, technical assistance, and research. This data collection will complete the previously approved second round of data collection originally planned to take place in 2020 (OMB 0970-0354). The work began in early 2020 but had to be postponed after only 3 weeks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No changes are proposed to the currently approved information collection materials.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 182 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52908-52909]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20572]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #0970-0354]
Submission for OMB Review; Early Head Start Family and Child
Experiences Survey 2022 (Baby FACES 2022)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks approval to
continue to collect descriptive
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information for the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences
Survey 2022 (Baby FACES 2022). This information collection is to
provide nationally representative data on Early Head Start (EHS)
programs, centers, classrooms, staff, and families to guide program
planning, technical assistance, and research. This data collection will
complete the previously approved second round of data collection
originally planned to take place in 2020 (OMB 0970-0354). The work
began in early 2020 but had to be postponed after only 3 weeks due to
the COVID-19 pandemic. No changes are proposed to the currently
approved information collection materials.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a
decision about the collection of information between 30 and 60 days
after publication of this document in the Federal Register. Therefore,
a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it
within 30 days of publication.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Baby FACES 2018 and 2022 build upon a prior study
(Baby FACES 2009; OMB 0970-0354) that longitudinally followed two
cohorts of children through their experience in the program. While the
2009 study provided a great deal of information about program
participation over time and about services received by children and
families, it did not allow for national level estimates of service
quality or inferences about children who enter the program after 15
months of age. To fill these knowledge gaps and to answer additional
questions about how programs function, the design for the information
collection in 2022 will refresh the nationally representative cross-
sectional sample of programs, centers, home visitors, teachers,
classrooms, children, and families that was used in Baby FACES 2018.
Freshening the sample will allow new programs that came into being
since 2018 a chance to enter the study. This design allows for
nationally representative estimates at all levels at a point in time
and includes the entire age span of enrolled children.
The goal of this work is to obtain updated information on EHS
programs and understand better how program processes support
relationships (e.g., between home visitors and parents, between parents
and children, and between teachers and children) that are hypothesized
to lead to improved child and family outcomes.
Respondents: EHS program directors, child care center directors,
teachers and home visitors, and parents of enrolled children.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per
respondents respondent Avg. burden Total burden Annual burden
Instrument (total over (total over per response (in hours) (in hours)
request request (in hours)
period) period)
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Classroom/home visitor sampling 407 1 0.17 69 35
form (from EHS staff)..........
Child roster form (from EHS 252 1 0.33 83 42
staff).........................
Parent consent form............. 2,495 1 0.17 424 212
Parent survey................... 2,084 1 0.53 1105 553
Parent Child Report............. 2,008 1 0.33 663 332
Staff survey (Teacher survey and 1,317 1 0.5 659 330
Home Visitor survey)...........
Staff Child Report.............. 1,046 2.13 0.25 557 279
Program director survey......... 120 1 0.5 60 30
Center director survey.......... 294 1 0.5 147 74
Parent-child interaction........ 996 1 0.17 169 85
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,972.
Note: In the Federal Register Notice providing a 60-day comment
period on this information collection (86 FR 38490), while number of
respondents, number of responses per respondent, and estimated response
time were provided correctly for the Staff Child Report, there was a
calculation error for total and annual estimated burden. The burden
estimates in this current notice reflect accurate calculations.
Authority: Sec. 645A and 649 of the Improving Head Start for School
Readiness Act of 2007.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-20572 Filed 9-22-21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-22-P
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