[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 68 (Tuesday, April 11, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17409-17410]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-07159]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: National Survey of Children's Health.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0990.
    Form Number(s):
    English survey forms include:
    NSCH-S1 (English Screener),
    NSCH-T1 (English Topical for 0- to 5-year-old children),
    NSCH-T2 (English Topical for 6- to 11-year-old children),
    NSCH-T3 (English Topical for 12- to 17-year-old children).
    Spanish survey forms include:
    NSCH-S-S1 (Spanish Screener),
    NSCH-S-T1 (Spanish Topical for 0- to 5-year-old children),
    NSCH-S-T2 (Spanish Topical for 6- to 11-year-old children), and
    NSCH-S-T3 (Spanish Topical for 12- to 17-year-old children).
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Number of Respondents: 58,345 for the Screener and 23,460 for the 
Topical.
    Average Hours per Response: 0.083 for the screener and 0.5 for the 
topical.
    Burden Hours: 16,573.
    Needs and Uses: The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) 
enables the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health 
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS) to produce national and state-based 
estimates on the health and well-being of children, their families, and 
their communities as well as estimates of the prevalence and impact of 
children with special health care needs.
    Data will be collected using one of two modes. The first mode is a 
web instrument (Centurion) survey that contains the screener and 
topical instruments. The web instrument first will take the respondent 
through the screener questions. If the household screens into the 
study, the respondent will be taken directly into one of the three age-
based topical sets of questions. The second mode is a mailout/mailback 
of a self-administered paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI) screener 
instrument followed by a separate mailout/mailback of a PAPI age-based 
topical instrument.
    The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) is a large-scale 
(sample size is 156,054 addresses) national survey. The survey will 
consist of one experiment to test the efficacy of an infographic in the 
initial package as well as two key, non-experimental design elements. 
It is anticipated that the infographic will provide respondents with a 
visually pleasant overview of the survey, including survey design, key 
estimates from past iterations, and information on how the data can 
benefit their community, will encourage response. Higher response can 
reduce follow-up costs and nonresponse bias. The first additional non-
experimental design element is a $2 screener cash incentive mailed to 
90% of sampled addresses; the remaining 10% (the control) will receive 
no incentive to monitor the effectiveness of the cash incentive. This 
incentive is designed to increase response and reduce nonresponse bias. 
The incentive amount was chosen following an incentive test in the 2016 
NSCH. From this test, we concluded that the $2 incentive significantly 
increased response over no incentive, particularly among low-response 
groups, and was more cost effective than the $5 incentive. The second 
additional non-experimental design element is a modification to data 
collection procedures based on the block group-level paper-only 
response probability to identify households (30% of the sample) that 
would be more likely to respond by paper and send them a paper 
questionnaire from the initial mailing.
    Affected Public: Parents, researchers, policymakers, and family 
advocates.
    Frequency: This 2017 collection is the second administration of the 
NSCH. It is expected that this will become an annual or biennial 
survey, with a new sample drawn for each administration.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Census Authority: 13 U.S.C. Section 8(b).
    HRSA MCHB Authority: Section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 701).
    USDA Authority: The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Public 
Law 111-296. In particular, 42 U.S.C. 1769d(a) authorizes USDA to 
conduct research on the causes and consequences of childhood hunger 
included in 1769d(a)(4)(B), the geographic dispersion of childhood 
hunger and food insecurity.
    CDC/NCBDDD Authority: Public Health Service Act, Section 301, 42 
U.S.C. 241.
    EPA Authority: FIFRA: Section 20(a); Toxic Substances Control Act: 
Section 10; 15 U.S.C. 2609.

    Confidentiality: The U.S. Census Bureau is required by law to 
protect your information. The Census Bureau is not permitted to 
publicly release your responses in a way that could identify you or 
your household. Federal law protects your privacy and keeps your 
answers confidential (Title 13, United States Code, Section 9). Per 
the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are 
protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems 
that transmit your data.


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    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce 
collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202)395-5806.

Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-07159 Filed 4-10-17; 8:45 am]
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