[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 11, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8188-8189]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-02917]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-14-0607]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or
send comments to LeRoy Richardson, at 1600 Clifton Road, MS D74,
Atlanta, GA 30333 or send an email to [email protected].
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology. Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Proposed Project
The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) (0920-0607,
Expiration 12/31/2015)--Revision--National Center for Injury Prevention
and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
Violence is an important public health problem. In the United
States, suicide and homicide are the second and third leading causes of
death, respectively, in the 1-34 year old age group. Unfortunately,
public health agencies do not know much more about the problem than the
numbers and the sex, race, and age of the victims, or information
obtainable from the standard death certificate. Death certificates,
however, carry no information about key facts necessary for prevention
such as the relationship of the victim and suspect and the
circumstances of the deaths. Furthermore, death certificates are
typically available 20 months after the completion of a single calendar
year. Official publications of national violent death rates, e.g. those
in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, rarely use data that is less
than two years old.
Local and Federal criminal justice agencies such as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provide slightly more information about
homicides, but they do not routinely collect standardized data about
suicides, which are in fact much more common than homicides. The FBI's
Supplemental Homicide Report (SHRs) does collect basic information
about the victim-suspect relationship and circumstances related to the
homicide. SHRs do not link violent deaths that are part of one incident
such as homicide-suicides. It also is a voluntary system in which some
10-20 percent of police departments nationwide do not participate.
The FBI's National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) provides
slightly more information than SHRs, but it covers less of the country
than SHRs. NIBRS also only provides data regarding homicides. Also, the
Bureau of Justice Statistics Reports does provide data that is less
than two years old.
CDC requests Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval in
order to revise its state-based surveillance system for violent deaths
that will provide more detailed and timely information.
The surveillance system captures case record information held by
medical examiners/coroners, vital statistics (i.e., death
certificates), and law enforcement, including crime labs. Data is
collected by each state in the system and entered into a web system
administered by CDC. Information is collected from these records about
the characteristics of the victims and suspects, the circumstances of
the deaths, and the weapons involved. States use standardized data
elements and software designed by CDC. Ultimately, this information
will guide states in designing, targeting, and evaluating programs that
reduce multiple forms of violence.
Neither victim's families nor suspects are contacted to collect
this information; it all comes from existing records and is collected
by state health department staff or their subcontractors.
The number of hours per death required for the public agencies
working with NVDRS states to retrieve and then refile their records is
estimated to be 0.5 hours per death. Moving forward, we will no longer
include state abstractors' time spent abstracting data in our estimates
of public burden for NVDRS because state abstractors are funded by CDC
to do this work. This significantly reduces the estimated public burden
associated with NVDRS.
The president has submitted plans to fund the expansion of the
state-based surveillance system to collect information in all 50 U.S.
states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. This revision
will allow 32 new state health departments, the health department of
the District of Columbia, and 8 territorial governments to be added to
the currently funded 18 state health departments, resulting in a total
of 59 states and territories to be included in the state-based
surveillance system.
Violent deaths include all homicides, suicides, legal
interventions, deaths from undetermined causes, and unintentional
firearm deaths. The average state will experience approximately 1,000
such deaths each year.
Moving forward, we will no longer include state abstractors' time
spent abstracting data in our estimates of public burden for NVDRS
because state abstractors are funded by CDC to do this work. This
significantly reduces the
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estimated public burden associated with NVDRS.
There are no costs to respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Number of Avenue burden
Type of respondents Form name Number of responses per per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hrs.) (in hrs.)
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Public Agencies................................. Retrieving and refile records..... 59 1,000 0.5 29,500
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Total....................................... .................................. ............... ............... ............... 29,500
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LeRoy Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-02917 Filed 2-10-14; 8:45 am]
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