[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 213 (Tuesday, November 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65398-65399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26084]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-15-0314]


Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the 
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information 
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to 
Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or 
send an email to [email protected].
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval. 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; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information on respondents, including through the use of automated 
collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) 
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden 
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by 
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information 
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review 
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and 
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying 
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and 
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to 
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and 
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise 
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60 
days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)--(0920-0314, expires 
04/30/2015)--Revision--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall collect statistics on 
``family formation, growth, and dissolution,'' as well as 
``determinants of health'' and ``utilization of health care'' in the 
United States. This three-year clearance request includes the data 
collection in 2015-2017 for the continuous NSFG.
    The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) was conducted 
periodically between 1973 and 2002, continuously in 2006-2010, and 
continuously starting in Fall 2011, by the National Center for Health 
Statistics, CDC. Each year, about 14,000 households are screened, with 
about 5,000 participants interviewed annually. Participation in the 
NSFG is completely voluntary and confidential. Interviews average 60 
minutes for males and 80 minutes for females. The response rate since 
2006 has been about 77 percent for both males and females.
    The NSFG program produces descriptive statistics which document 
factors associated with birth and pregnancy rates, including 
contraception, infertility, marriage, divorce, and sexual activity, in 
the U.S. household population 15-44 years; and behaviors that affect 
the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV, and the 
medical care associated with contraception, infertility, and pregnancy 
and childbirth. Beginning in 2015, the NSFG will expand its age range 
to represent the U.S. household population 15-49 years.
    NSFG data users include the DHHS programs that fund it, including 
CDC/NCHS and ten others (The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute 
for Child Health and Human Development (NIH/NICHD); the Office of 
Population Affairs (DHHS/OPA); the Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation (DHHS/OASPE); the Children's Bureau (DHHS/
ACF/CB); the ACF's Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; the 
CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (CDC/DHAP); the CDC's Division of 
STD Prevention (CDC/DSTD); the CDC's Division of Reproductive Health 
(CDC/DRH); the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (CDC/
DCPC); and the CDC's Division of Birth Defects and Developmental 
Disabilities (DBDDD)). The NSFG is also used by state and local 
governments; private research and action organizations focused on men's 
and women's health, child well-being, and marriage and the family; 
academic researchers in the social and public health sciences; 
journalists, and many others.
    This submission requests approval for three years. Questionnaire 
revisions are requested for fieldwork starting in September 2015. A 
small set of additional changes may be requested in the future, to be 
responsive to emerging public policy issues. There is no cost to 
respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total  burden
               Type of respondents                  respondents    responses per   response  (in       hours
                                                                    respondent        hours)
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1. Screener Respondents.........................          14,000               1            3/60             700
2. Interview Females............................           2,750               1             1.5           4,125
3. Interview Males..............................           2,250               1             1.0           2,250
4. Verification Questions.......................           1,400               1            5/60             117
5. Testing Questions............................             250               1               1             250
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    Total.......................................  ..............  ..............  ..............           7,442
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-26084 Filed 11-3-14; 8:45 am]
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