[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 246 (Tuesday, December 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60998-61000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-27687]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-18-0822]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has submitted the information 
collection request titled The National Intimate Partner and Sexual 
Violence Survey (NISVS) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
for review and approval. CDC previously published a ``Proposed Data 
Collection Submitted for Public Comment and

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Recommendations'' notice on September 20, 2017 to obtain comments from 
the public and affected agencies. CDC received one comment related to 
the previous notice. This notice serves to allow an additional 30 days 
for public and affected agency comments.
    CDC will accept all comments for this proposed information 
collection project. The Office of Management and Budget is particularly 
interested in comments that:
    (a) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (b) Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (c) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected;
    (d) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those 
who are to respond, including, through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting 
electronic submission of responses; and
    (e) Assess information collection costs.
    To request additional information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the information collection plan and instruments, call 
(404) 639-7570 or send an email to [email protected]. Direct written comments 
and/or suggestions regarding the items contained in this notice to the 
Attention: CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th 
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503 or by fax to (202) 395-5806. Provide 
written comments within 30 days of notice publication.

Proposed Project

    The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 
(OMB Control Number 0920-0822, expiration date 7/30/2018)--Revision--
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    This is a revision request for the currently approved National 
Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey data collection project. 
Approval is requested for three years.
    In 2010, NISVS reported that approximately 6.9 million women and 
5.6 million men experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by 
an intimate partner within the last year. The health care costs of 
intimate partner violence (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 IPV, Sexual Violence (SV) and stalking on an annual 
basis.
    Data collection in the 2018-2019 cycle is slated to begin in mid-
March 2018. Data will be collected in two periods. The first collection 
will be March 2018 through mid-September 2018 and the second collection 
will be mid-September 2018 through mid-March 2019.
    The current request for revision is to conduct the 2018-2019 data 
collection. This data collection will use the version of the survey 
used for the 2016-2017 data collection period revised to reduce 
redundancy, and remove questions for active duty women and men in the 
military and wives of active duty men, as they will not be a part of 
the next wave of data collection. The request will allow the 
continuation of data collection among non-institutionalized adult men 
and women aged 18 years or older in the United States assessing 
lifetime and past 12 month experiences of IPV, SV and stalking. The 
current request also includes modifying data collection protocols to 
improve response rate and reduce non-response bias in response to 
recommendations provided by a methodology workgroup convened at the 
request of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
    To comply with OMB's terms of clearance for 2014 and 2016, CDC 
collaborated with Bureau of Justice Statistics in convening a workgroup 
to obtain expert feedback and input on how to enhance the NISVS survey 
methodology. Workgroup participants provided 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 collaborative 
opportunities across Federal surveys for covering populations of 
interest. Four meetings of the workgroup, which included a 
representative from OMB and a representative from CDC's Board of 
Scientific Counselors, began in February of 2017 and were completed in 
July of 2017. Recommendations from the workgroup, provided to CDC in a 
written report, have been used to inform both the 2018-2019 efforts as 
well as plans for a substantial re-design of the survey design and 
administration after 2019. Additionally, the primary recommendations 
provided by the workgroup along with CDC's proposed activities to 
address the recommendations were presented to the National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control's Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) in 
September 2017. The BSC provided additional ideas for opportunities to 
learn about other Federal agencies' advances and experiments related to 
survey methods, as well as ideas for collaboration across Federal 
agencies, which CDC staff are currently pursuing.
    NCIPC has also worked to improve the performance of the NISVS data 
collection tool (without altering its core content on IPV, SV, and 
stalking prevalence), decrease the level of burden on respondents, and 
reduce the time required to complete data processing, validation, and 
packaging for public release. In addition, the inclusion of questions 
in the NISVS data collection tool, about child exposure to physical or 
psychological IPV; normative beliefs about IPV, SV, and bystander 
intervention; and barriers to bystander intervention, further aligns 
NISVS surveillance approaches with stakeholder needs and demonstrates 
responsiveness to their expressed recommendations for surveillance 
improvement. 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 requested are 22,700. 
There is a reduction of 4,406 hours from the previously approved hours 
of 27,106. There are no extra costs to respondents.

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                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                                     Number of    Average burden
          Type of respondents                   Form name            Number of     responses per   per response
                                                                    respondents     respondent      (in hours)
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Non-Participating Household (Screened)  NISVS Survey Instrument.         204,000               1            3/60
                                         First section non-
                                         participating.
Eligible Household (Completes Survey).  NISVS Survey Instrument.          30,000               1           25/60
                                         Section for
                                         participating.
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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. 2017-27687 Filed 12-22-17; 8:45 am]
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