[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 52 (Friday, March 15, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18892-18893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05609]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; National Survey of Children's Health.

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on November 14, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
    Title: National Survey of Children's Health.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0990
    Form Number(s): NSCH-S1 (English Screener), NSCH-T1 (English 
Topical for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH-T2 (English Topical for 6- 
to 11-year-old children), NSCH-T3 (English Topical for 12- to 17-year-
old children), NSCH-S-S1 (Spanish Screener), NSCH-S-T1 (Spanish Topical 
for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH-S-T2 (Spanish Topical for 6- to 
11-year-old children), and NSCH-S-T3 (Spanish Topical for 12- to 17-
year-old children).
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a 
Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 73,641 for the screener only and 56,649 for 
the combined screener and topical, for a total of 130,290 respondents.
    Average Hours per Response: 5 minutes per screener response and 35-
36 minutes per topical response, which in total is approximately 40-41 
minutes for households with eligible children.
    Burden Hours: 44,270.
    Needs and Uses: The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) 
enables the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health 
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS) along with supplemental sponsoring 
agencies, states, and other data users to produce national and state-
based estimates on the health and well-being of children, their 
families, and their communities as well as estimates of the prevalence 
and impact of children with special health care needs.
    Data will be collected using one of two modes. The first mode is a 
web instrument (Centurion) survey that contains the screener and 
topical instruments. The web instrument first will take the respondent 
through the screener questions. If the household screens into the 
study, the respondent will be taken directly into one of the three age-
based topical sets of questions. The second mode is a mailout/mailback 
of a self-administered paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI) screener 
instrument followed by a separate mailout/mailback of a PAPI age-based 
topical instrument.
    The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) is a large-scale 
(sample size is approximately 375,000 addresses) national survey with 
approximately 292,500 addresses included in the base production survey 
and approximately 82,500 addresses included as part of fourteen 
separate state-based or region-based oversamples. As in prior cycles of 
the NSCH, there remain two key, non-experimental design elements. The 
first non-experimental design element is the use of an unconditional 
incentive ($5) in the initial screener and topical invitations. For the 
initial screener invitation, 90% of sampled addresses receive the cash 
incentive; the remaining 10% (the control) do not receive an incentive. 
This approach is used to consistently monitor the effectiveness of the 
cash incentive each cycle. The second non-experimental design element 
is a data collection procedure based on the block group-level paper-
only response probability used to identify households (30% of the 
sample) that would be more likely to respond by paper and send them a 
paper questionnaire in the initial mailing and every nonresponse 
follow-up mailing.
    The 2024 NSCH will also include a targeted secondary unconditional 
incentive test to encourage response from a subset of the sample that 
started the web questionnaire but did not finish. Prior cycles of the 
survey have included a $5 unconditional cash incentive with both the 
initial screener mailing as well as the initial paper topical mailing 
as outlined in the paragraph above. The incentive has proven to be a 
cost-effective intervention for increasing survey response and reducing 
nonresponse bias.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: The 2024 collection is the ninth administration of the 
NSCH. It is an annual survey, with a new sample drawn for each 
administration.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Census Authority: Title 13, United States Code 
(U.S.C.), section 8(b) (13 U.S.C. 8(b)).
    HRSA MCHB Authority: Section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 701).
    United States Department of Agriculture Authority: Agriculture 
Improvement Act of 2018, Public Law 115-334.
    United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and 
Developmental Disabilities Authority: Public Health Service Act, 
Section 301, 42 U.S.C. 241.
    United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention,

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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion 
Authority: Sections 301(a), 307, and 399G of the Public Health Service 
[42 U.S.C. 241(a), 242l, and 280e-11], as amended.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website 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 and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0607-0990.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-05609 Filed 3-14-24; 8:45 am]
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