[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 8 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1920-1921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00395]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Survey on Where Parents Look for and 
Find Information and How They Use Information When Selecting Child Care 
(New Collection)

AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration 
for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to 
collect

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nationally representative survey data to learn more about where parents 
look for and find information about Child Care and Early Education 
(CCEE); how parents assess the people, places, or things that may offer 
CCEE information; what types of CCEE information parents look for; and 
how parents use information to make CCEE selections. The study aims to 
gather information that may be used by Child Care Lead Agencies to 
inform their consumer education efforts.

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. You can 
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by 
emailing [email protected]. Identify all requests by the 
title of the information collection.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Description: ACF has contracted with NORC to implement this study, 
which is part of the Consumer Education and Parental Choice in Early 
Care and Education (CEPC) project. The study will select a nationally 
representative sample from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel. 
The AmeriSpeak panel provides sample coverage of approximately 97 
percent of the U.S. population. It currently contains 48,900 panel 
members age 13 and over residing in over 40,000 households. U.S. 
households are randomly selected with a known, non-zero probability 
from the NORC National Frame, and then recruited by mail, telephone, 
and by field interviewers face-to-face. NORC's in-person recruitment 
enhances representativeness for young adults, lower socio-economic 
households, non-internet households, and other households that are 
typically hard to reach for statistical surveys of the population.
    We will collect information about (a) where parents look for and 
find information about CCEE; (b) how parents assess the people, places, 
or things that may offer CCEE information; (c) how easy or hard it is 
for parents to find CCEE information, (d) the types of CCEE information 
that parents look for and say are helpful in choosing CCEE; (e) 
information about the last time parents made a decision about CCEE and 
what information they tried to learn about at that time; (f) parent's 
assessments of the CCEE options at the time they made their last CCEE 
decision; (g) how well parents' CCEE decision met their family's needs; 
and (h) demographic information about families.
    Respondents: AmeriSpeak panelists who indicated that they have a 
young child in the household will be invited to complete the survey if 
they are at least 18 years of age. If a household has two or more panel 
members who reside in a household with a young child, one will be 
selected at random to complete the survey, with preference given to 
parents/legal guardians. Selected panelists will be asked questions to 
confirm eligibility for the survey, including that the household has at 
least one child under the age of 6 but not in kindergarten.
    Annual Burden Estimates:

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                                                                     Number of
                                                     Number of     responses per
                                                    respondents     respondent    Average burden   Total/annual
                   Instrument                       (total over     (total over    per response     burden (in
                                                      request         request       (in hours)        hours)
                                                      period)         period)
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Parent Survey Questionnaire (Section AE Only)...           2,100               1             .08             168
Parent Survey Questionnaire (Section A-DA)......           1,500               1             .25             375
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    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 543.
    Authority: Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 
1990, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9857 et seq.).

Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-00395 Filed 1-10-24; 8:45 am]
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