[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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