[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8878-8879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-3476]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Tracking of Participants in the Head Start Impact Study.
    OMB No.: 0970-0229.
    Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) 
within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will collect 
follow-up information from children and families in the Head Start 
Impact Study. In anticipation of conducting a future follow-up for the 
study, ACF will collect information necessary to identify respondents' 
current location and follow-up with respondents in the future.
    The Head Start Impact Study is a longitudinal study involving 4,667 
first time enrolled three- and four-year-old preschool children across 
84 nationally representative grantee/delegate agencies. Participants 
have been randomly assigned to either a Head Start group or a control 
group. Data collection for the study began in fall of 2002 and has been 
extended through late spring 2008 to include the participants' 3rd 
grade year. Tracking of the participants has continued every spring 
beginning in 2009 and ending in 2011.
    ACF will continue to examine outcomes for the sample through the 
spring of the participant's 12th grade year. To maintain adequate 
sample size, telephone interviews will be conducted in order to update 
the respondent's location and contact information. This information 
will be collected from

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parents or guardians in the spring of 2012, 2013, 2014 2015, and 2016. 
This request package covers three years of information collection, from 
2012 to 2014.
    Respondents: The original sample of 4,667 treatment and control 
group members in the Head Start Impact Study, minus 432 families that 
have refused to participate in the study.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                  Number of     Average  burden
                 Instrument                    Annual  number   responses per      hours  per      Total annual
                                              of  respondents     respondent        response       burden hours
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Parent Tracking Interview...................            4235                1            \1/3\             1412
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1412.
    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. Email 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: February 9, 2012.
Steven M. Hanmer,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-3476 Filed 2-14-12; 8:45 am]
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