Notice2023-25086
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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November 14, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78039-78040]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-25086]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-24-1408]
Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review
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 Rapid Surveys System
(RSS)(OMB Control No. 0920-1408), which includes fielding four surveys
per year. The 06/30/2022 date clearance approved the Round 1 survey. A
second round of the RSS was 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. This notice
includes specific details about the questions that would be asked in
the third round 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 <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) Round 3 (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 the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),
acting through the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), to
collect data about the health of the population of the United States.
Rapid Surveys 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 facilitates
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
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online panels. 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.
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. Components 1 and 2 will
contain different topics in each round of the survey. 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 marital status, 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, all RSS rounds will include several questions that were
previously on NHIS for benchmarking to evaluate data quality. Panelists
in the RSS will be asked about health status; chronic conditions;
disability; healthcare access and utilization; health behaviors; 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 3 (2024) data
collection is based on 13,100 complete surveys (4,367 hours) and 20
cognitive interviews (20 hours) using the same survey instrument for a
total of 4,387 hours. There are no costs to respondents other than
their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per
Type of respondents Form name respondents responses per response (in
respondent hours)
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Adults 18+............................ Survey: NCHS RSS Round 3 13,100 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.
[FR Doc. 2023-25086 Filed 11-13-23; 8:45 am]
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