[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 59 (Monday, March 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 14887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7605]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and 
Readiness).

ACTION: Notice.

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    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 reinstatement of a 
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.

DATES: Consideration will be given to all comments received by April 
28, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations on the proposed 
information collection should be sent to the Office of the Under 
Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness), ODUSD (Program 
Integration), Defense Manpower Data Center, ATTN: Dr. Jerome Lehnus, 
1555 Wilson Blvd., Suite 701, Arlington, VA 22209.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 at (703) 696-7401.
    Title and OMB Control Number: Youth Attitude Tracking Study (YATS), 
OMB Number 0704-0069.
    Needs and Uses: This information collection requirement is 
necessary to enable DoD and the Recruiting Services to annually 
ascertain changes in youth attitudes that affect recruiting budgets, 
and to support analysis of recruiting incentives and diagnosis 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 and households.
    Annual Burden Hours: 5,618.
    Number of Respondents: 13,050.
    Responses Per Respondent: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 25.83 minutes.
    Frequency: Annual/On Occasion.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Summary of Information Collection

    Each Fall, computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI) are 
conducted with a representative sample of 10,000, 16 to 24 year-old men 
and women who have never served in the military. Additionally, up to 
3,000 interviews are conducted in the Spring or Summer to support 
special needs. The interviews provide information needed to track 
propensity for military service, to evaluate recruiting efforts, and to 
determine youth attitudes and opinions relevant to recruiting policy 
decisions (e.g., the impact of educational benefits on propensity for 
military service). CATI technology is used to assure conversational, 
``user-friendly'' interviews, and to focus questions on relevant 
subpopulations. YATS does not include intrusive questions of a personal 
nature. Results are disseminated only through reports of aggregate 
statistics and public-use data files which include no personally 
identifying information. Thus, the confidential nature of all responses 
is protected.

    Dated: March 22, 1999.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 99-7605 Filed 3-26-99; 8:45 am]
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