Notice2023-10745
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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May 19, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 97 (Friday, May 19, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32219-32220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10745]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-23-23CO]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information
collection request titled ``National Center for Health Statistics
(NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS)'' to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval. CDC previously published a
``Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations'' notice on February 17, 2023 to obtain comments from
the public and affected agencies. CDC received two comments related to
the previous notice. This notice serves to allow an additional 30 days
for public and affected agency comments.
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 <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. 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)--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 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 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 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
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Components 1 and 2. Components 1 and 2 will contain different topics in
each round of the survey. NCHS will submit a 30-day Federal Register
Notice with information on the contents of each round of data
collection.
In the first round of RSS, contributed content is included on
knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding Long COVID; mammograms and
notifications about breast density; medical procedures on fallopian
tubes and ovaries; concerns about genetic testing; knowledge about the
relationship between alcohol use and cancer; sunscreen use and beliefs
about sunscreen; use of chemical hair straighteners, relaxers, or
pressing products; use of air cleaners or purifiers in the home;
intimate partner violence; and new questions about race and ethnicity
to assist in the development of recommendations on how to improve the
quality and usefulness of OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 15.
NCHS will calibrate data from the RSS to other surveys. Questions
used for calibration in the first 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, several questions that were previously on NHIS will be
used for benchmarking. Panelists in the RSS will be asked if they have
been told they have chronic conditions including hypertension, high
cholesterol, coronary heart disease, asthma, diabetes, and Long COVID.
Questions about self-reported health; pregnancy status; height and
weight, difficulty paying medical bills; access to and use of medical,
dental, eye care and physical therapy; preventive care; mental health;
and cigarette use will be used to benchmark the RSS to NCHS surveys.
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 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 28,079 burden hours
annually over the course of the three-year approval period. There are
no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Average burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response
respondents respondent (in hours)
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Adults 18+......................... Base Surveys............... 16,000 1 20/60
Adults 18+......................... Potential Sample Expansion. 40,000 1 20/60
Adults 18+......................... Additional Surveys to 16,000 1 20/60
Increase
Representativeness.
Adults 18+......................... Developmental: Additional 12,000 1 20/60
Surveys for Specific
Subgroups.
Adults 18+......................... Cognitive interviews....... 80 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. 2023-10745 Filed 5-18-23; 8:45 am]
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