[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 213 (Thursday, November 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60208-60209]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28845]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control And Prevention
[60Day-00-07]
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, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention is providing opportunity for public comment on proposed data
collection projects. To request more information on the proposed
projects or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and
instruments, call the CDC Reports Clearance Officer on (404) 639-7090.
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 for other
forms of information technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24,
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days
of this notice.
Proposed Projects
1. Telephone Survey Measuring HIV/STD Risk Behavior Using Standard
Methodology--New--The Behavioral Surveillance Working Group,
coordinated by the National Center for HIV, STD and Tuberculosis
Prevention (NCHSTP). Proposes to conduct testing of a set of survey
questions intended to obtain measures of risk behaviors for Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs).
Knowledge about the level of HIV risk behaviors in populations is
essential for effective HIV prevention programs. Currently, survey-
based assessment of these behaviors depends on a range of survey
questions that differ across survey, and that are difficult to compare
and to reconcile. Therefore, CDC has developed a draft set of items to
be proposed as standard survey questions on the topics of sexual
behavior, HIV testing, drug use, and other behaviors related to risk of
contracting HIV and/or STDs. As part of this effort, CDC will sponsor a
telephone-based pretest of 150 households, selected randomly from
within an urban area, in order to test these questions.
Further, because some of the survey questions are private and
potentially sensitive, the project will entail the testing of a survey
administration mode: Telephone-based audio computer-assisted self-
interview (T-ACASI), in which a computer will be used to administer the
most sensitive questions, and in which the surveyed individual enters
responses directly onto the telephone keypad. This procedure eliminates
the need for communication of sensitive questions from the interviewer
to the respondent, as well as the need for respondents to answer the
questions verbally. In order to test the effectiveness of this
procedures, half of the interviews will be conducted using the T-ACASI
procedure for the most sensitive questions, and half using standard,
interviewer-based administration of all questions. Data analysis will
rely on an assessment of the response rate under each mode, and on the
nature of the data obtained to the sensitive questions.
Information and data obtained from this evaluation will help direct
future surveys by determining whether it is feasible to attempt to
administer these standard risk questions using a telephone survey and
whether a T-ACASI-based procedure represents a technological innovation
that will positively contribute to such an effort, through improvements
in data quality.
The total cost to respondents is $505.60.
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Number of Avg. burden
Respondents Number of responses/ per response Total burden
respondents respondent (in hours) (in hours)
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Screening............................................... 660 1 0.02 13.2
Interview............................................... 150 1 0.33 50.0
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Total............................................... ............ ............ ............ 63.2
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Dated: October 28, 1999.
Nancy Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-28845 Filed 11-3-99; 8:45 am]
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