[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 175 (Monday, September 11, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53456-53457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14928]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Proposed Data Collection; Comment Request; California Health 
Interview Survey 2007

    Summary: In compliance with the requirement of section 3506 (c) (2) 
(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects, National Cancer Institute 
(NCI), the National Institute of Health (NIH) will publish periodic 
summaries of proposed projects to be submitted to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval.
    The first California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) Cancer Control 
Module (CCM) took place in 2001 (2000 CHIS CCM, OMB No. 0925-0478, 
Federal Register, May 8, 2000, Vol. 65, No. 89, p. 26620). The second 
survey took place in 2003 (2003 CHIS CCM, OMB No. 0925-0518, Federal 
Register, October 3, 2002, Volume 67, No. 192, pp. 62067-62068) and the 
third in 2005 (2005 CHIS CCM, OMB No. 0925-0000, Federal Register, Vol. 
69, No. 150, Aug. 5, 2004, pp. 47450-47451, and Federal Register, Vol. 
70, No. 1, Jan. 3, 2005, pp. 93-94).
    Proposed Collection: Title: California Health Interview Survey 
(CHIS) 2007 Cancer Control Module (CCM). Type of Information Collection 
Request: New. Need and Use of Information Collection: The NCI has 
sponsored three Cancer Control Modules in the California Health 
Interview Survey (CHIS), and will be sponsoring a fourth to be 
administered in 2007. Other Federal government agencies have co-
sponsored previous cycles of the survey.
    The CHIS is a telephone survey designed to provide population-
based, standardized health-related data to assess California's progress 
in meeting Healthy People 2010 objectives for the nation and the state. 
The CHIS sample is designed to provide statistically reliable estimates 
statewide, for California counties, and for California's ethnically and 
racially diverse population. Initiated by the UCLA Center for Health 
Policy Research, the California Department of Health Services, and the 
California Public Health Institute, the survey is funded by a number of 
public and private sources. It was first administered in 2001 to 55,428 
adults, 5,801 adolescents, and 12,802 children; subsequently in 2003 to 
42,043 adults, 4,010 adolescents, and 8,502 children; and in 2005 to 
43,020 adults, 4,029 adolescents, and 11,358 children. These 
individuals are a representative sample of California's non-
institutionalized population living in households.
    CHIS 2007, the fourth bi-annual survey, is planned for 
administration to 48,000 adult Californians. The cancer control module, 
which is similar to that administered in CHIS 2001, CHIS 2003, and CHIS 
2005, will allow NCI and other Federal agencies to examine various 
health- and disease-related topics. Examples include patterns and (when 
fielded in multiple years) trends in breast cancer screening, diet, 
physical activity, obesity, tobacco control and other disease risk 
factors, disease outcomes, discrimination, and neighborhood cohesion.
    Because California is the most populous and the most racially and 
ethnically diverse state in the nation, the CHIS 2007 sample will yield 
adequate numbers of respondents in key ethnic and racial groups, 
including African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and American Indian/
Alaska Natives. The Latino group will include large numbers of 
respondents in the Mexican, Central American, South American, and other 
Latino subgroups; the Asian group will include large numbers of 
respondents in the Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean 
subgroups. NCI and other Federal agencies will use the California and 
National Health Interview Survey (CHIS, NHIS) data to conduct 
comparative analyses and better estimate cancer risk factors and 
screening among racial/ethnic minority populations. The CHIS sample 
size also permits NCI and other federal agencies to obtain estimates 
for ethnic subdomains of the population, for which NHIS has 
insufficient numbers for analysis.
    Frequency of Response: One-time. Affected public: Individuals or 
households. Types of Respondents: U.S. adults (persons 18 years of age 
and older) and adolescents (persons of age 12-17 for whom the adult 
respondent is the parent or legal guardian of the adolescent residing 
in the household).
    The annual reporting burden is as follows.

                       Table A.--Annualized Burden Estimates for CHIS 2007 Data Collection
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                                                     Estimated
                 Data collection                     number of     Frequency of    Average time     Annual hour
                                                    respondents      response      per response       burden
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(1) Pilot Test:
    Demographics................................             150               1             .07              11
    CCM.........................................             150               1             .03               4
2) Full Survey:
    Demographics................................          48,000               1             .07           3,360
    CCM.........................................          48,000               1             .03           1,140
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        Totals..................................          48,150  ..............  ..............           4,515
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    There are no Capital Costs to report. There are no Operating or 
Maintenance Costs to report.
    Request for Comments: Written comments and/or suggestions from the 
public and affected agencies are invited on one or more of the 
following points: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proposed performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information shall have practical utility; (2) The 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information including the validity of the methodology and 
assumptions used; (3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
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information to be collected; and (4) Ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on those who are to respond, including the 
use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other 
technological collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.
    For Further Information Contact: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans and 
instruments, contact Nancy Breen, Ph.D., Project Officer, National 
Cancer Institute, EPN 4005, 6130 Executive Boulevard MSC 7344, Bethesda 
Maryland 20852-7344, or call non-toll free number 301-496-8500 or e-
mail your request, including your address to [email protected].
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding this information collection 
are best assured of having their full effect if received within 60 days 
of this publication.

    Dated: August 29, 2006.
Rachelle Ragland-Greene,
NCI Project Clearance Liaison, National Institutes of Health.
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