[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 167 (Monday, August 29, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53682-53683]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21863]


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 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Pre-testing of Evaluation Surveys.
    OMB No.: 0970-0355.
    Description: The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation 
(OPRE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services (HHS), intends to request approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a generic clearance that 
a will allow OPRE to conduct a variety of data gathering activities 
aimed at identifying questionnaire and procedural problems in survey 
administration. Over the next three years, OPRE anticipates undertaking 
a variety of new surveys as part of research projects in the fields of 
cash welfare, employment and self-sufficiency, Head Start, child care, 
healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood, and child welfare, among 
others. In order to improve the development of its research and 
evaluation surveys, OPRE envisions using a variety of techniques 
including field tests, respondent debriefing questionnaires, cognitive 
interviews and focus groups in order to identify questionnaire and 
procedural problems, suggest solutions, and measure the relative 
effectiveness of alternative survey solutions.
    Following standard OMB requirements, OPRE will submit a change 
request to OMB individually for every data collection activity 
undertaken under this generic clearance. OPRE will provide OMB with a 
copy of the individual instrument or questionnaire, as well as other 
materials describing the project and specific survey pretest.

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    Respondents: The respondents will be identified at the time that 
each change request is submitted to OMB. Generally they will be 
individuals who are representative of the target groups for the public 
assistance research or evaluation project in question.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of        Average
                   Instrument                        Number of     responses per   burden hours    Total annual
                                                    respondents     respondent     per response    burden hours
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Survey development field tests, respondent                  6000               1              .5            3000
 debriefing questionnaires, cognitive interviews
 and focus groups...............................
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3000.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All 
requests should be identified by the title of the information 
collection. E-mail address: [email protected].
    OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning the 
collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of 
this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best 
assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of 
publication.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of 
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, Fax: 202-395-6974, 
Attn: Desk Officer for the Administration for Children and Families.

    Dated: August 22, 2011.
Steven M. Hanmer,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-21863 Filed 8-26-11; 8:45 am]
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