[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 194 (Friday, October 5, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51048-51049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25073]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30DAY-52-01]


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 Officer at (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.
    Proposed Project: 2002 National Health Interview Survey Basic 
Module--Revision--OMB. No. 0920-0214, National Center for Health 
Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 
The annual National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is a basic source of 
general statistics on the health of the U.S. population. In accordance 
with the 1995 initiative to increase the integration of surveys within 
the Department of Health and Human Services, respondents to the NHIS 
serve as the sampling frame for the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. 
This survey is conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and 
Quality. The NHIS has long been used by government, university, and 
private researchers to evaluate both general health and specific 
issues, such as cancer, AIDS, and childhood immunizations. Journalists 
use its data to inform the general public. It will continue to be a 
leading source of data for the Congressionally-mandated ``Health US'' 
and related publications, as well as the single most important source 
of statistics to track progress toward the National Health Promotion 
and Disease Prevention Objectives, ``Healthy People 2010.''
    Because of survey integration and changes in the health and health 
care of the U.S. population, demands on the NHIS have changed and 
increased, leading to a major redesign of the annual core 
questionnaire, or Basic Module, and a redesign of the data collection 
system from paper questionnaires to computer assisted personal 
interviews (CAPI). Those redesigned elements were partially implemented 
in 1996 and fully implemented in 1997. This clearance is for the sixth 
full year of data collection using the Basic Module on CAPI and for the 
implementation of Topical Modules (or supplements) on asthma, hearing, 
vision, disability, environmental health, arthritis, and alternative 
medicine. The supplements will help track many of the Health People 
2010 objectives. This data collection, planned for January-December 
2002, will result in publication of new national estimates of health 
statistics, release of public use micro data files, and a sampling 
frame for other integrated surveys. The annualized burden for this data 
collection is 48,600 hours.

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                                                                                     Number of      Avg. burden
                           Respondents                               Number of      responses/     per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Family..........................................................          42,000               1           21/60
Sample adult....................................................          42,000               1           42/60
Sample child....................................................          18,000               1           15/60
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    Dated: September 28, 2001.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 01-25073 Filed 10-4-01; 8:45 am]
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