[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 68 (Friday, April 8, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20646-20647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08018]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request

    Title: National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being-Third 
Cohort (NSCAW III): Agency Recruitment.
    OMB No.: 0970-0202.
    Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) 
within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends 
to collect data on a third cohort of children and families for the 
National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). NSCAW is 
the only source of nationally representative, longitudinal, firsthand 
information about the functioning and well-being, service needs, and 
service utilization of children and families who come to the attention 
of the child welfare system. The first two cohorts of NSCAW were 
collected beginning in 1999 and 2008 and studied children who had been 
the subject of investigation by Child Protective Services. Children 
were sampled from child welfare agencies nationwide. The proposed data 
collection plan for the third cohort of NSCAW includes two phases: 
Phase 1 includes child welfare agency recruitment and collection of 
files for sampling children, and Phase 2 includes baseline data 
collection and an 18-month follow-up data collection. The current data 
collection plan calls for selecting a new cohort of 4,565 children and 
families and repeating similar data collection procedures as the 
previous two cohorts. This Notice is specific to Phase 1. The overall 
goal is to recruit child welfare agencies in 83 primary sampling units 
nationwide. Child welfare agencies will be selected with probability 
proportional to size, based on the current distributions in the child 
welfare system. Child welfare agency recruitment will include: mail, 
email, phone calls, and site visits with child welfare agency 
administrators.
    Respondents: Child welfare agency administrators and other 
personnel. Data collection will take place over a 2-year period.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                   Annual  number
                                    Total number         of           Number of       Average      Annual burden
            Instrument             of respondents    respondents    responses per   burden hours       hours
                                                      (rounded)      respondent     per response
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Information package for agency                 83              42               1            .25              11
 administrators..................
Initial visit or call with agency              83              42               1           1                 42
 staff...........................
Visit or call with agency staff                83              42               1           2                 84
 explaining the sample file
 process.........................
Agency staff monthly sample file               83              42              15           1                630
 generation and transmission.....
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 767.
    In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and 
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the 
information collection described above.
    Copies of the proposed collection of information can be obtained 
and comments may be forwarded by writing to the Administration for 
Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 330 
C Street SW., Washington, DC 20201, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance 
Officer. Email address: [email protected]. All requests 
should be identified by the title of the information collection.
    The Department specifically requests comments 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

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proposed collection of information; (c) the quality, utility, and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and (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. Consideration will be given to comments and 
suggestions submitted within 60 days of this publication.

Robert Sargis,
ACF Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-08018 Filed 4-7-16; 8:45 am]
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