Notice2023-04932
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; National Survey of Children's Health
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March 10, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14975-14976]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04932]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; National Survey of Children's Health
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on December 8, 2022 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: National Survey of Children's Health.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0990.
Form Number(s): NSCH-S1 (English Screener), NSCH-T1 (English
Topical for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH-T2 (English Topical for 6-
to 11-year-old children), NSCH-T3 (English Topical for 12- to 17-year-
old children), NSCH-S-S1 (Spanish Screener), NSCH-S-T1 (Spanish Topical
for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH-S-T2 (Spanish Topical for 6- to
11-year-old children), and NSCH-S-T3 (Spanish Topical for 12- to 17-
year-old children).
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 67,299 for the screener only and 65,103 for
the combined screener and topical, for a total of 132,402 respondents.
Average Hours per Response: 5 minutes per screener response and 35-
36 minutes per topical response, which in total is approximately 40-41
minutes for households with eligible children.
Burden Hours: 49,431.
Needs and Uses: The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH)
enables the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) along with supplemental sponsoring
agencies, states, and other data users to produce national and state-
based estimates on the health and well-being of children, their
families, and their communities as well as estimates of the prevalence
and impact of children with special health care needs.
Data will be collected using one of two modes. The first mode is a
web instrument (Centurion) survey that contains the screener and
topical instruments. The web instrument first will take the respondent
through the screener questions. If the household screens into the
study, the respondent will be taken directly into one of the
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three age-based topical sets of questions. The second mode is a
mailout/mailback of a self-administered paper-and-pencil interviewing
(PAPI) screener instrument followed by a separate mailout/mailback of a
PAPI age-based topical instrument.
The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) is a large-scale
(sample size is up to 385,000 addresses) national survey with
approximately 200,000 addresses included in the base production survey
and approximately 185,000 addresses included as part of fifteen
separate age-based, state-based, or region-based oversamples. The 2023
NSCH will include a topical incentive test. Prior cycles of the survey
have included a $5 unconditional cash incentive with the initial
mailing of the paper topical questionnaire. The incentive has proven to
be a cost-effective intervention for increasing survey response and
reducing nonresponse bias. The 2023 NSCH will continue to test a $10
cash incentive, with a focus on lower responding households.
As in prior cycles of the NSCH, there remain two key, non-
experimental design elements. The first additional non-experimental
design element is a $5 screener cash incentive mailed to 90% of sampled
addresses; the remaining 10% (the control) will receive no incentive to
monitor the effectiveness of the cash incentive. This incentive is
designed to increase response and reduce nonresponse bias. The
incentive amount was chosen based on the results of the 2022 NSCH as
well as funding availability. The second additional non-experimental
design element is a data collection procedure based on the block group-
level paper-only response probability used to identify households (30%
of the sample) that would be more likely to respond by paper and send
them a paper questionnaire in the initial mailing.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: The 2023 collection is the eighth administration of the
NSCH. It is an annual survey, with a new sample drawn for each
administration.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Census Authority: Title 13, United States Code
(U.S.C.), Section 8(b) (13 U.S.C. 8(b)).
HRSA MCHB Authority: Section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 701).
United States Department of Agriculture Authority: Agriculture
Improvement Act of 2018, Public Law 115-334.
United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities Authority: Public Health Service Act,
Section 301, 42 U.S.C. 241.
United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion Authority: Sections 301(a), 307, and
399G of the Public Health Service [42 U.S.C. 241(a), 242l, and 280e-
11], as amended.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <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 and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0607-0990.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-04932 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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