[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 167 (Monday, August 29, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53682-53683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21863]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Pre-testing of Evaluation Surveys.
OMB No.: 0970-0355.
Description: The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
(OPRE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), intends to request approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a generic clearance that
a will allow OPRE to conduct a variety of data gathering activities
aimed at identifying questionnaire and procedural problems in survey
administration. Over the next three years, OPRE anticipates undertaking
a variety of new surveys as part of research projects in the fields of
cash welfare, employment and self-sufficiency, Head Start, child care,
healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood, and child welfare, among
others. In order to improve the development of its research and
evaluation surveys, OPRE envisions using a variety of techniques
including field tests, respondent debriefing questionnaires, cognitive
interviews and focus groups in order to identify questionnaire and
procedural problems, suggest solutions, and measure the relative
effectiveness of alternative survey solutions.
Following standard OMB requirements, OPRE will submit a change
request to OMB individually for every data collection activity
undertaken under this generic clearance. OPRE will provide OMB with a
copy of the individual instrument or questionnaire, as well as other
materials describing the project and specific survey pretest.
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Respondents: The respondents will be identified at the time that
each change request is submitted to OMB. Generally they will be
individuals who are representative of the target groups for the public
assistance research or evaluation project in question.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total annual
respondents respondent per response burden hours
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Survey development field tests, respondent 6000 1 .5 3000
debriefing questionnaires, cognitive interviews
and focus groups...............................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3000.
Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All
requests should be identified by the title of the information
collection. E-mail address: [email protected].
OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning 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.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202-395-6974,
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.
Dated: August 22, 2011.
Steven M. Hanmer,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-21863 Filed 8-26-11; 8:45 am]
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