[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52343-52344]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-20918]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60 Day-14-0214]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to
Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (OMB No. 0920-0214, expires
03/31/2016)--Revision--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.
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall collect data on the extent
and nature of illness and disability of the population of the United
States. The annual National Health Interview Survey is a major source
of general statistics on the health of the U.S. population and has been
in the field continuously since 1957. Clearance is sought for three
years, to collect data for 2015, 2016, and 2017.
This voluntary and confidential household-based survey collects
demographic and health-related information on a nationally
representative sample of persons and households throughout the country.
Personal identification information is requested from survey
respondents to facilitate linkage of survey data with health-related
administrative and other records.
Each year we collect information from approximately 55,000
households, which contain about 137,500 individuals.
Information is collected using computer assisted personal
interviews (CAPI). A core set of data is collected each year that
remains largely unchanged while sponsored supplements vary from year to
year. The core set includes sociodemographic characteristics, health
status, health care services, and health behaviors. For 2015,
supplemental questions will be cycled in pertaining to cancer control,
epilepsy, and inflammatory bowel disease and occupational health.
Supplemental topics that continue or are enhanced from 2014 will be
related to food security, heart disease and stroke, children's mental
health, disability and functioning, sexual orientation, smokeless
tobacco and e-cigarettes, immunizations, and computer use. Questions on
the Affordable Care Act from 2014 have been reduced in number in 2015.
In addition, a follow-back survey will be conducted on previous NHIS
respondents. The follow-back survey will focus on topics related to the
Affordable Care Act including health care access and use, and health
insurance coverage and will include multiple modes of contacting
respondents.
To improve the analytic utility of NHIS data, minority populations
are oversampled annually. In 2015, sample augmentation procedures used
in previous years will continue to increase the number of African
American, Hispanic, and Asian American persons.
In accordance with the 1995 initiative to increase the integration
of surveys within the DHHS, respondents to the NHIS serve as the
sampling frame for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted by
the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The NHIS has long been
used by government, academic, and private researchers to evaluate both
general health and specific issues, such as cancer, diabetes, and
access to health care. It is a leading source of data for the
Congressionally mandated ``Health US'' and related publications, as
well as the single most important source of statistics to track
progress toward the National Health
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Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, ``Healthy People 2020.''
There is no cost to the respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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Average
Number of Number of burden per Total burden
Type of respondent Form name respondents responses per response (in hours
respondent hours)
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Adult Family Member........... Screener 10,000 1 5/60 833
Questionnaire.
Adult Family Member........... Family Core..... 45,000 1 23/60 17,250
Sample Adult.................. Adult Core...... 36,000 1 15/60 9,000
Adult Family Member........... Child Core...... 14,000 1 10/60 2,333
Adult Family Member........... Supplements..... 45,000 1 20/60 15,000
Adult Family Member........... Followback...... 12,000 1 20/60 4,000
Adult Family Member........... Reinterview 5,000 1 5/60 417
Survey.
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Total..................... ................ .............. .............. .............. 48,833
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review, Office of Scientific Integrity,
Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-20918 Filed 9-2-14; 8:45 am]
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