[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 196 (Wednesday, October 9, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54148-54150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-22082]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60-Day-20-0822; Docket No. CDC-2019-0082]


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 titled The National Intimate Partner and Sexual 
Violence Survey

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(NISVS). CDC will 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: CDC must receive written comments on or before December 9, 2019.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CDC-2019-
0082 by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Regulations.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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. CDC will post, without change, all relevant comments 
to Regulations.gov.

    Please note:  Submit all comments 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 Jeffrey M. Zirger, 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 the OMB for approval. To 
comply with this requirement, we are publishing this notice of a 
proposed data collection as described below.
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments that will help:
    1. 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;
    2. Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of 
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    3. Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to 
be collected; and
    4. 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 
submissions of responses.
    5. Assess information collection costs
Proposed Project
    The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 
(OMB control No. 0920-0822, Exp. 02/29/2020)--Revision--National Center 
for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    In 2010, the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence 
Surveillance System (NISVSS) 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 associated with this 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 for this revision. 
In this revision CDC describes the planned testing of a redesign of the 
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) and the 
approach for collecting NISVS data using multiple data collection modes 
and sampling strategies. More specifically, this revision is 
requesting: (1) Conduct feasibility testing to assess alternative 
design features including the sample frame, mode of response, and 
incentive structures that help garner participation and help reduce 
nonresponse. (2) Conduct experiments that inform the development of a 
protocol for alternative sampling and weighting methods for multi-modal 
data collection that will result in the ability to calculate accurate 
and reliable national and state-level estimates of SV, IPV, and 
stalking. (3) Conduct a pilot data collection to ensure that the 
selected optimal alternative sampling methods and multi-modal data 
collection approaches for NISVS are ready for full-scale 
implementation.
    These data will be used only to inform future NISVS data 
collections. Results from the feasibility phase experiments may be 
prepared for publication, as the findings related to optimal data 
collection modes, sampling frames, and incentive structures are likely 
to be useful to other federal agencies currently conducting national 
data collections. No national prevalence estimates will be generated 
from the data collected during the NISVS redesign project. Data are 
analyzed using appropriate statistical software to account for the 
complexity of the survey design to compute weighted counts, 
percentages, and confidence intervals using national-level data. There 
are no costs to respondents other than their time. The annual estimated 
burden hours are 1,085.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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                                                                   Total number   Average burden   Total burden
      Type of respondent            Form name        Number of     of responses    per response      hours (in
                                                    respondents   per respondent    (in hours)        hours)
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RDD Non-Participating           CATI instrument.             800               1            3/60              40
 Household (Screened) Phase 2:
 Experimentation and
 Feasibility Testing.

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RDD Eligible Household          CATI instrument.             667               1           25/60             278
 (Completes Survey. Phase 2:
 Experimentation and
 Feasibility Testing.
Non-Participating Household     Web/Paper                    800               1            3/60              40
 (Screened). Phase 2:            Screener.
 Experimentation and
 Feasibility Testing.
Web Eligible Household          Web instrument..           1,000               1           25/60             417
 (Completes Survey. Phase 2:
 Experimentation and
 Feasibility Testing.
Paper Eligible Household        Paper instrument             667               1           25/60             278
 (Completes Survey. Phase 2:
 Experimentation and
 Feasibility Testing.
RDD Non-Participating           CATI instrument.              27               1            3/60               1
 Household (Screened) Phase 3:
 Pilot Testing.
RDD Eligible Household          CATI instrument.              22               1           25/60               9
 (Completes Survey. Phase 3:
 Pilot Testing.
Non-Participating Household     Web/Paper                     53               1            3/60               3
 (Screened). Phase 3: Pilot      Screener.
 Testing.
Web Eligible Household          Web instrument..              23               1           25/60              10
 (Completes Survey. Phase 3:
 Pilot Testing.
Paper Eligible Household......  Paper instrument              22               1           25/60               9
(Completes Survey. Phase 3:
 Pilot Testing.
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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           1,085
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific 
Integrity, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2019-22082 Filed 10-8-19; 8:45 am]
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