[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 181 (Wednesday, September 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43988-43989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-19958]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60Day-17-0822; Docket No. CDC 2017-0067]


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 The National 
Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) to collect 
information about individual's experiences of sexual violence, stalking 
and intimate partner violence and information about the health 
consequences of these forms of violence. CDC produces national and 
state level prevalence estimates of these types of violence.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before November 20, 
2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2017-
0067 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, 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 Leroy Richardson, 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

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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

    The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 
(OMB Control Number 0920-0822, Expiration 07/30/2018)--Revision--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Surveillance 
System (NISVSS) data from 2010-2012 show that approximately 44.9 
million women and 35.2 million men experienced contact sexual violence, 
physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their 
lifetime. The health care costs of IPV exceed $5.8 billion each year, 
nearly $3.9 billion of which is for direct medical and mental health 
care services. In order to address this important public health 
problem, CDC implemented, beginning in 2010, the National Intimate 
Partner and Sexual Violence Surveillance System that produces national 
and state level estimates of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Sexual 
Violence (SV) and stalking on an annual basis.
    CDC seeks OMB approval for a three-year period. In this revision, 
CDC is requesting the continuation of data collection among non-
institutionalized adult men and women aged 18 years or older in the 
United States assessing lifetime experiences of intimate partner 
violence (IPV), sexual violence (SV) and stalking with the version of 
the survey approved for the 2016-2017 data collection period, revised 
to remove questions for the Department of Defense (DoD) regarding the 
experiences of IPV, SV and stalking among active duty women and men in 
the military and wives of active duty men. These questions will not be 
a part of the next wave of data collection because this subsample data 
collection will be completed in 2017. The survey includes enhancements, 
already approved, that reduced instrument complexity in order to reduce 
respondent burden and make the data available to the public sooner in 
order to take action to prevent IPV, SV, and stalking. The periodicity 
of the administration of the NISVS instrument remains biennial. 
Biennial data collection was incorporated for previously approved data 
collections to increase the number of interviews.
    To comply with OMB's terms of clearance for 2014 and 2016, CDC 
continues its collaboration with Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in 
convening a work group to obtain expert feedback and input on how to 
enhance the NISVS survey. Workgroup participants will provide guidance 
on how to improve the system's survey design (e.g., methods, sampling 
frame, recruitment, mode of administration, etc.) with the goals of 
increasing response rates, reducing non-response bias, and maximizing 
the opportunities across Federal surveys for covering populations of 
interest. Meetings with the work group, which included a representative 
from OMB, began in February of 2017 and are still on-going. 
Recommendations from the work group are in development and will be used 
to inform both the 2018-2019 efforts as well as the survey design and 
administration after 2019.
    NISVS is a dual-frame (landline and cell phone) random digit dial 
(RDD) telephone survey. Data are be analyzed using appropriate 
statistical software to account for the complexity of the survey design 
to compute weighted counts, percentages, confidence intervals using 
both national and state level data. The average burden per screened 
respondent remains at 3 minutes, while the average burden per surveyed 
respondent is 25 minutes. The survey will be conducted among English or 
Spanish speaking male and female adults (18 years and older) living in 
the United States.
    The estimated annual burden hours are 22,700 with a decreased of 
4,316, from 27,106 hours previously approved. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
      Type of respondents           Form name        Number of     responses per   per response    Total burden
                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)      (in hours)
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Non-Participating Household     NISVS Survey             204,000               1            3/60          10,200
 (Screened).                     Instrument.
                                 Section non-
                                 participating.
Eligible Household (Completes   NISVS Survey              30,000               1           25/60          12,500
 Survey).                        Instrument.
                                 Section for
                                 participating.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............          22,700
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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. 2017-19958 Filed 9-19-17; 8:45 am]
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