[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4053-4054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1944]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Head Start Family and Child Experience Survey (FACES).
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families 
(ACYF), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the 
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is requesting Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) clearance for interview instruments to be 
used in the Head Start Family and Child Experience Survey FACES. This 
study is being conducted under contracts with Abt Associates Inc. (with 
the CDM Group, Inc. as their subcontractor (#105-96-1930)) to collect 
descriptive information on Head Start families, and Westat, Inc. (with 
Ellsworth Associates as their subcontractor (#105-96-1912)) to collect 
information on Head Start performance measures.
    The design calls for these rounds of data collection. A nationally 
representative group of 2,400 families with children enrolled in 
approximately 160 centers in 40 Head Start programs will be identified 
in Spring, 1997. At that time, Head Start staff and parents will be 
interviewed, classroom observations will be completed, and children 
will be assessed. The second data collection period will occur in Fall, 
1997. Again, staff and parents will be interviewed, and children will 
be assessed and observed in their classrooms. At that time children 
from the Spring, 1997 sample that left Head Start to enter kindergarten 
following the 1996-97 Head Start year will be replaced by a 
representative sample of children just entering Head Start. All 
families, including those whose children entered kindergarten in Fall, 
1997 will be tracked through the school year. The final data collection 
effort will occur in Spring, 1998 and involve all families and children 
identified in the earlier two data collection periods. A subgroup of 
120 families will be identified from the Spring and Fall, 1997 samples 
for participation in the Validation Substudy. The Validation Substudy 
data collection will require home visits to participating families at 
each major data collection point and a series of monthly contacts 
between data collections periods. The monthly contacts will begin with 
the Spring, 1997 data collection and continue through December, 1998.

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    This schedule of data collection is necessitated by the mandates of 
the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-
62), which requires that the Head Start Bureau move expeditiously 
toward development and testing of Head Start Performance Measures, and 
by the 1994 reauthorization of Head Start (Head Start Act, as amended, 
May 18, 1994, Section 649 (d)), which requires assessment of Head 
Start's quality and effectiveness.
    Respondents: Federal Government, Individuals or Households, and 
Not-for-profit institutions.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates                                            
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                                                                            Number of     Average               
                                                               Number of    responses      burden       Total   
                         Instrument                           respondents      per       hours per      burden  
                                                                            respondent    response      hours   
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Spring, 1997................................................        7,840            1        0.652        5,110
Fall, 1997..................................................        8,400            1         .648        5,440
Spring, 1998................................................       11,460            1         .654        7,500
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 9,025.

    Note: The 9,025 annual hours is based on an average of 1997 and 
1998 estimated burden hours.

    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to The Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Information Services, Division of Information Resource 
Management Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, 
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer.
    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, 725 17th Street, 
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attn: Ms. Wendy Taylor.

    Dated: January 22, 1997.
Bob Sargis,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-1944 Filed 1-27-97; 8:45 am]
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