Notice2025-05460
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 31, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 60 (Monday, March 31, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14233-14234]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05460]
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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 October 23, 2024, 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: 71,879 for the screener only and 54,824 for
the
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combined screener and topical, for a total of 126,703 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: 42,863.
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 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 approximately 375,000 addresses) national survey with
approximately 73,000 of those addresses included as part of twelve
separate state-based or region-based oversamples. As in prior cycles of
the NSCH, there remain two key, non-experimental design elements. The
first non-experimental design element is the use of an unconditional
incentive ($5) in the initial screener and topical invitations. For the
initial screener invitation, 90% of sampled addresses receive the cash
incentive; the remaining 10% (the control) do not receive an incentive.
This approach is used to consistently monitor the effectiveness of the
cash incentive each cycle. The second 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 and every nonresponse
follow-up mailing.
The 2025 NSCH will also include a web targeted secondary
unconditional screener incentive envelope test that will be sent to a
subset of the sample that started the web questionnaire but did not
finish. Prior cycles of the survey have included a $5 unconditional
cash incentive with both the initial screener mailing as well as the
initial paper topical mailing as outlined in the paragraph above. The
incentive has proven to be a cost-effective intervention for increasing
survey response and reducing nonresponse bias. The test will be used to
evaluate envelope and delivery method effectiveness (FedEx vs. Visible
Incentive). Preliminary results of other Demographic household surveys
indicate the use of visual incentive envelopes (USPS) also helps to
boost response and is less costly than FedEx.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: The 2025 collection is the tenth 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 Health and Human Services' Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities; Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity,
and Obesity; and Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice
Authority: Public Health Service Act, Section 301, 42 U.S.C. 241 and
301(a), 307, and 399G of the PHS 42 U.S.C. 241A, 242l, 280e-11, as
amended.
United States Department of Agriculture Authority: Richard B.
Russell National School Lunch Act, 42 U.S.C. 1755 (a)(3).
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,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-05460 Filed 3-28-25; 8:45 am]
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