[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 182 (Thursday, September 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52908-52909]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20572]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[OMB #0970-0354]


Submission for OMB Review; Early Head Start Family and Child 
Experiences Survey 2022 (Baby FACES 2022)

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration 
for Children and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks approval to 
continue to collect descriptive

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information for the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences 
Survey 2022 (Baby FACES 2022). This information collection is to 
provide nationally representative data on Early Head Start (EHS) 
programs, centers, classrooms, staff, and families to guide program 
planning, technical assistance, and research. This data collection will 
complete the previously approved second round of data collection 
originally planned to take place in 2020 (OMB 0970-0354). The work 
began in early 2020 but had to be postponed after only 3 weeks due to 
the COVID-19 pandemic. No changes are proposed to the currently 
approved information collection materials.

DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a 
decision about the collection of information between 30 and 60 days 
after publication of this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, 
a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it 
within 30 days of publication.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular 
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: Baby FACES 2018 and 2022 build upon a prior study 
(Baby FACES 2009; OMB 0970-0354) that longitudinally followed two 
cohorts of children through their experience in the program. While the 
2009 study provided a great deal of information about program 
participation over time and about services received by children and 
families, it did not allow for national level estimates of service 
quality or inferences about children who enter the program after 15 
months of age. To fill these knowledge gaps and to answer additional 
questions about how programs function, the design for the information 
collection in 2022 will refresh the nationally representative cross-
sectional sample of programs, centers, home visitors, teachers, 
classrooms, children, and families that was used in Baby FACES 2018. 
Freshening the sample will allow new programs that came into being 
since 2018 a chance to enter the study. This design allows for 
nationally representative estimates at all levels at a point in time 
and includes the entire age span of enrolled children.
    The goal of this work is to obtain updated information on EHS 
programs and understand better how program processes support 
relationships (e.g., between home visitors and parents, between parents 
and children, and between teachers and children) that are hypothesized 
to lead to improved child and family outcomes.
    Respondents: EHS program directors, child care center directors, 
teachers and home visitors, and parents of enrolled children.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                     Number of
                                     Number of     responses per
                                    respondents     respondent      Avg. burden    Total burden    Annual burden
           Instrument               (total over     (total over    per response     (in hours)      (in hours)
                                      request         request       (in hours)
                                      period)         period)
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Classroom/home visitor sampling              407               1            0.17              69              35
 form (from EHS staff)..........
Child roster form (from EHS                  252               1            0.33              83              42
 staff).........................
Parent consent form.............           2,495               1            0.17             424             212
Parent survey...................           2,084               1            0.53            1105             553
Parent Child Report.............           2,008               1            0.33             663             332
Staff survey (Teacher survey and           1,317               1             0.5             659             330
 Home Visitor survey)...........
Staff Child Report..............           1,046            2.13            0.25             557             279
Program director survey.........             120               1             0.5              60              30
Center director survey..........             294               1             0.5             147              74
Parent-child interaction........             996               1            0.17             169              85
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,972.
    Note: In the Federal Register Notice providing a 60-day comment 
period on this information collection (86 FR 38490), while number of 
respondents, number of responses per respondent, and estimated response 
time were provided correctly for the Staff Child Report, there was a 
calculation error for total and annual estimated burden. The burden 
estimates in this current notice reflect accurate calculations.
    Authority: Sec. 645A and 649 of the Improving Head Start for School 
Readiness Act of 2007.

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-20572 Filed 9-22-21; 8:45 am]
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