[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 232 (Friday, December 2, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87037-87039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-28899]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-17FB; Docket No. CDC-2016-0113]


Proposed Data Collection Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice with comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part 
of its continuing efforts to reduce public burden and maximize the 
utility of government information, 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. This notice invites comment on a proposed 
information collection entitled ``Understanding Relationship Dynamics 
and Conflict Survey.'' CDC will use the information collected to 
ascertain which factors or groups of factors may influence violence 
perpetration that occurs within adult intimate partner relationships.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 31, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2016-
0113 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Leroy A. Richardson, Information Collection Review 
Office,

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted 
without change to Regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided. For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to Regulations.gov.

    Please note: All public comment should be submitted through the 
Federal eRulemaking portal (Regulations.gov) or by U.S. mail to the 
address listed above.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information on the 
proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information collection plan 
and instruments, contact the Information Collection Review Office, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE., MS-
D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 404-639-7570; Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for each collection of 
information they conduct or sponsor. In addition, the PRA also requires 
Federal agencies to provide a 60-day notice in the Federal Register 
concerning each proposed collection of information, including each new 
proposed collection, each proposed extension of existing collection of 
information, and each reinstatement of previously approved information 
collection before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    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.

Proposed Project

    Understanding Relationship Dynamics and Conflict Survey--New--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a substantial public health 
problem in the United States. Over a third of women and over a quarter 
of men have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an 
intimate partner. Recognition of the importance and prevalence of this 
issue has fueled research to examine the causes, correlates, and 
outcomes of IPV over the past several decades. However, studies across 
various IPV research domains (e.g., etiology, prevention efficacy and 
intervention effectiveness) tend to view IPV as an isolated occurrence 
and rarely consider the contextual situation in which IPV occurs. For 
example, existing models may not distinguish between an act of physical 
violence perpetrated during an argument from an act of physical 
violence perpetrated as a constellation of physical, sexual, and 
psychological violence by one partner toward another for the purpose of 
dominating and controlling that partner.
    To that end, we need more information about the factors or groups 
of factors that influence violence perpetration within adult intimate 
partner relationships. This project will take a critical first step by 
collecting information from adults in the United States about their 
attitudes, perceptions, beliefs and experiences with violence in 
intimate relationships. In the future, this information can help 
develop a standardized measurement scheme that will distinguish among 
different contextual forms of IPV perpetration so that effective 
violence prevention strategies can be targeted and implemented.
    The respondent universe consists of 2,210 adults (18 years or 
older) from two populations: The general population who live in the 
United States and incarcerated individuals who live in Indiana. Half of 
the incarcerated group will have an IPV-related offense record and half 
will not. Data will be collected through an online survey of Mechanical 
Turk (MT) workers and an in-person survey of incarcerated individuals. 
Data analysis will include a combination of Factor Analysis and Latent 
Profile Analysis.
    CDC will seek a two-year approval from the Office of for this new 
collection. There are no cost to respondents other than their time 
spent responding to the survey/screener.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of       Response
     Type of  respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per      burden       Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent        (hours)          hours
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Mechanical Turk Survey          Screener........           4,300               1            5/60             358
 Respondents.
Mechanical Turk Survey          Understanding              1,000               1               1           1,000
 Respondents.                    Relationship
                                 Dynamics and.
                                Conflict........
Incarcerated Survey             Understanding                105               1           75/60             131
 Respondents.                    Relationship
                                 Dynamics and
                                 Conflict.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,489
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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. 2016-28899 Filed 12-1-16; 8:45 am]
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