Notice2024-00395
Submission for OMB Review; Survey on Where Parents Look for and Find Information and How They Use Information When Selecting Child Care (New Collection)
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Published
January 11, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to collect nationally representative survey data to learn more about where parents look for and find information about Child Care and Early Education (CCEE); how parents assess the people, places, or things that may offer CCEE information; what types of CCEE information parents look for; and how parents use information to make CCEE selections. The study aims to gather information that may be used by Child Care Lead Agencies to inform their consumer education efforts.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 8 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1920-1921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00395]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Survey on Where Parents Look for and
Find Information and How They Use Information When Selecting Child Care
(New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to
collect
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nationally representative survey data to learn more about where parents
look for and find information about Child Care and Early Education
(CCEE); how parents assess the people, places, or things that may offer
CCEE information; what types of CCEE information parents look for; and
how parents use information to make CCEE selections. The study aims to
gather information that may be used by Child Care Lead Agencies to
inform their consumer education efforts.
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. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#054a5557406c6b636a666a69696066716c6a6b456466632b6d6d762b626a73"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a4ebf4f6e1cdcac2cbc7cbc8c8c1c7d0cdcbcae4c5c7c28accccd78ac3cbd2">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the
title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: ACF has contracted with NORC to implement this study,
which is part of the Consumer Education and Parental Choice in Early
Care and Education (CEPC) project. The study will select a nationally
representative sample from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel.
The AmeriSpeak panel provides sample coverage of approximately 97
percent of the U.S. population. It currently contains 48,900 panel
members age 13 and over residing in over 40,000 households. U.S.
households are randomly selected with a known, non-zero probability
from the NORC National Frame, and then recruited by mail, telephone,
and by field interviewers face-to-face. NORC's in-person recruitment
enhances representativeness for young adults, lower socio-economic
households, non-internet households, and other households that are
typically hard to reach for statistical surveys of the population.
We will collect information about (a) where parents look for and
find information about CCEE; (b) how parents assess the people, places,
or things that may offer CCEE information; (c) how easy or hard it is
for parents to find CCEE information, (d) the types of CCEE information
that parents look for and say are helpful in choosing CCEE; (e)
information about the last time parents made a decision about CCEE and
what information they tried to learn about at that time; (f) parent's
assessments of the CCEE options at the time they made their last CCEE
decision; (g) how well parents' CCEE decision met their family's needs;
and (h) demographic information about families.
Respondents: AmeriSpeak panelists who indicated that they have a
young child in the household will be invited to complete the survey if
they are at least 18 years of age. If a household has two or more panel
members who reside in a household with a young child, one will be
selected at random to complete the survey, with preference given to
parents/legal guardians. Selected panelists will be asked questions to
confirm eligibility for the survey, including that the household has at
least one child under the age of 6 but not in kindergarten.
Annual Burden Estimates:
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Number of
Number of responses per
respondents respondent Average burden Total/annual
Instrument (total over (total over per response burden (in
request request (in hours) hours)
period) period)
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Parent Survey Questionnaire (Section AE Only)... 2,100 1 .08 168
Parent Survey Questionnaire (Section A-DA)...... 1,500 1 .25 375
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 543.
Authority: Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of
1990, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-00395 Filed 1-10-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-23-P
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