[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7461-7462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4008]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
[30DAY-29]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publishes a 
list of information collection requests under review by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these requests, call 
the CDC Reports Clearance Office on (404) 639-7090. Send written 
comments to CDC, Desk Officer; Human Resources and Housing Branch, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235; Washington, DC 20503. Written 
comments should be received within 30 days of this notice.
    The following requests have been submitted for review since the 
last publication date on February 11, 1997.

Proposed Project

    1. Feasibility Study of a State and Local Area Integrated Telephone 
Survey--New--This is a request to conduct a feasibility study in five 
States of an integrated survey to collect broad State-based health and 
health-related data using two existing and ongoing data collection 
systems, the National Immunization Survey (NIS) and the National Health 
Interview Survey (NHIS) (0920-0214). The purpose of this project is to 
demonstrate the potential for using random-digit-dialing (RDD) methods 
to sample households for Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) 
to produce quick turnaround State-level estimates on issues such as 
health status, access to care, health insurance coverage, and 
utilization of services for monitoring and tracking changes in the 
health care system. As health care markets respond to new incentives 
and States gain increasing responsibility for administering health and 
welfare programs, State level data are being recognized as increasingly 
important to the public health and health policy community. While 
considerable population-based data are available at the national level, 
there is a variable amount at the State level.
    The proposed strategy of building on two established systems 
provides several advantages. It is less costly than establishing a new 
system; the proposed questions have been thoroughly tested; and 
implementation can occur rapidly. In the NIS, interviews are conducted 
on a random sample of telephone households to produce vaccination 
coverage estimates for children 19 to 35 months of age for all 50 
states, the District of Columbia, and 27 urban areas. The NIS CATI 
system offers a mechanism for rapid data collection and for expansion 
to establish a more broad based system to monitor and track changes in 
health status, the health care system, and welfare reform at the State 
level. In addition, since the design for the NIS requires screening 20 
households to identify a single household with an age eligible child, a 
potential cost effective opportunity exists to make use of the large 
probability sample of telephone numbers for other emerging health care 
issues. The NHIS is a continuous general purpose national health survey 
in which face-to-face interviews are conducted to measure health 
characteristics of the U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population. 
Use of an abbreviated set of questions from the NHIS for the proposed 
integrated telephone survey will allow for standardization of the 
questionnaire across States and will allow comparisons with national 
data. In addition, the quality of the estimates developed from the 
telephone survey can be improved with adjustments for nontelephone 
households using information from the NHIS on telephone and 
nontelephone households.
    The long term strategy is to build an integrated and coordinated 
data collection mechanism that can be both standardized for State and 
national comparisons and customized for State-specific needs. The total 
annual burden is 17,000 reflecting an average of the two years assuming 
coverage of 5 areas in 1997 and 78 areas in 1998.

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                                                                                          Average               
                                                                 No. of       No. of      burden/       Total   
                         Respondents                          respondents   responses/    response    burden (in
                                                                            respondent   (in hrs.)      hrs.)   
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                                                      1997                                                      
                                                                                                                
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Noninstitutionalized household population in 5 States.......        5,500            1         0.33        1,833
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                                                      1998                                                      
                                                                                                                
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Noninstitutionalized household population in 50 States or                                                       
 substate areas.............................................       55,000            1         0.33       18,333
Noninstitutionalized household population in 28 substate                                                        
 areas                                                             31,000            1         0.33       10,333
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    Dated: February 10, 1997.
Wilma G. Johnson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-4008 Filed 2-18-97; 8:45 am]
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