Notice2023-03319
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and Recommendations
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Published
February 17, 2023
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
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 the opportunity to comment on a proposed information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project titled the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS). The RSS is a new survey system being designed to complement the current household survey systems at NCHS. The RSS will use survey data from probability-based online panels to produce time- sensitive estimates of new and emerging public health topics, attitudes, and behaviors.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 33 (Friday, February 17, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10337-10338]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-03319]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-23-23CO; Docket No. CDC-2023-0011]
Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice with comment period.
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SUMMARY: 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 the opportunity to comment on a proposed information
collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
notice invites comment on a proposed information collection project
titled the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys
System (RSS). The RSS is a new survey system being designed to
complement the current household survey systems at NCHS. The RSS will
use survey data from probability-based online panels to produce time-
sensitive estimates of new and emerging public health topics,
attitudes, and behaviors.
DATES: CDC must receive written comments on or before April 18, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2023-
0011 by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow
the instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments
to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>.
Please note: Submit all comments through the Federal eRulemaking
portal (<a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>) 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: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#630c0e01230007004d040c15"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2f40424d6f4c4b4c01484059">[email protected]</span></a>.
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 the 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
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submissions of responses; and
5. Assess information collection costs.
Proposed Project
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System
(RSS)--New--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
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the health of the population of the United States. The NCHS Rapid
Surveys System (RSS) will collect data on emerging public health
topics, attitudes, and behaviors using cross-sectional samples from two
commercially available, national probability-based online panels. The
RSS will then combine these data to form estimates that approximate
national representation in ways that many data collection approaches
cannot. The RSS is intended to collect 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 will complement 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
will incorporate multiple mechanisms to carefully evaluate the
resulting survey data for its 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 will
communicate 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.
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 component (1) and (2). Components
(1) and (2) will contain different topics in each round of the survey.
The RSS is designed to have four rounds of data collection each
year with two contractors. A cross-sectional nationally representative
sample will be drawn from the online probability panel maintained by
each of the contractors. A separate 30-day OMB package and Federal
Register notice with the draft data collection instrument will be
submitted for each round of data collection. 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 and/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. 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.
CDC requests OMB approval for an estimated 28,080 burden hours
annually over the course of the three-year approval. There are no costs
to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of survey Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) hours
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Base Surveys.................................... 16,000 1 20/60 5,333
Potential Sample Expansion...................... 40,000 1 20/60 13,334
Additional Surveys to Increase 16,000 1 20/60 5,333
Representativeness.............................
Developmental: Additional Surveys for Specific 12,000 1 20/60 4,000
Subgroups......................................
Cognitive Interviews............................ 80 1 1 80
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Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 28,080
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2023-03319 Filed 2-16-23; 8:45 am]
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