[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 2495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1268]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Proposed Information Collection Available for Public Comment; 
Notice

    In compliance with Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction 
act of 1995, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel 
and Readiness) announces the following proposed public information 
collection and seeks public comment on the provisions thereof. 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 burden of the proposed information 
collection; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of 
the information collection on respondents, including through the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    Written comments and recommendations on the proposed information 
collection should be sent to the Office of the Under Secretary of 
Defense (Personnel and Readiness) (Requirements and Resources) (ATTN: 
Reports Clearance Officer), Room 3C980, 4000 Defense Pentagon, 
Washington, DC 20301-4000. Consideration will be given to all comments 
received within 60 days of the date of publication of this notice.

TITLE AND APPLICABLE OMB NUMBER: Youth Attitude Tracking Study (YATS) 
(previously entitled Communications and Enlistment Decisions/Youth 
Attitude Tracking Study III (CEDS/YATS III), OMB Control Number 0704-
0069.

SUMMARY: Approximately 10,000 young men and women are interviewed via 
telephone each Fall to ascertain attitudes and opinions affecting 
military recruiting. Occasionally, additional interviews of 3,000 youth 
are conducted in the Spring or Summer (but not both in the same year), 
where information requirements preclude waiting for the normally 
scheduled Fall interviews. Information includes propensity for military 
service; reasons for serving in the military, or for not serving; 
awareness of recruiting advertising and other recruiting efforts; 
perceptions of the military and the sources of those perceptions; and 
the impact of domestic and international events on enlistment 
propensity. As enlistment propensity has fallen dramatically since the 
end of the Cold War, it enables critical evaluation of alternative 
explanations of declining propensity. It provides information required 
by Congress on year-to-year changes in enlistment propensity, and 
reasons for those changes.

NEEDS AND USES: The information provided annually to DoD and the 
Recruiting Services are required to ascertain changes in youth 
attitudes that affect recruiting budgets, and to support analysis of 
recruiting incentives and diagnoses of recruiting difficulties. YATS 
provides an independent measure of youth awareness of DoD and Service 
recruiting advertising, and an efficient measure of potential 
incentives, such as increased educational benefits. The information is 
used to optimize allocation of resources and evaluate the effect of 
policy changes. It is used in preparing testimony for Congress on the 
state of recruiting.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Annual Burden Hours (Including Recordkeeping): 5,618 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 13,050.
    Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden per Response: .4305 hours.
    Frequency: One time.
    To request more information on this proposed information collection 
or to obtain a copy of the proposal and associated collection 
instruments, please write to the above address or call the Office of 
the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) Reports 
Clearance Officer at (703) 614-8989.

    Dated: January 22, 1996.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 96-1268 Filed 1-25-96; 8:45 am]
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