[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 97 (Friday, May 17, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43401-43403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10877]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[30Day-24-1408]


Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received approval from the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct the National Center 
for Health Statistics (NCHS) Rapid Surveys System (RSS) (OMB Control 
No. 0920-1408), which includes fielding four surveys per year. Round 1 
Survey was approved in June 2023. A second, third, and fourth round of 
the RSS were additionally approved. In accordance with the Terms of 
Clearance, NCHS will publish a 30-day Federal Register Notice 
announcing each new survey so that public comments can be received 
about the specific content of each survey. This notice includes 
specific details about the questions that would be asked in the fifth 
round (Round 5) of the RSS and serves to allow 30 days for public and 
affected agency comments, consistent with OMB's terms of clearance.
    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. 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. 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

    Rapid Surveys System (RSS) Round 5 (OMB Control No. 0920-1408)--
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC),

Background and Brief Description

    Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.), as 
amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(HHS), acting through NCHS, collect data about the health of the 
population of the United States. The Rapid Surveys

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System (RSS) (OMB Control No. 0920-1408) collects data on emerging 
public health topics, attitudes, and behaviors using cross-sectional 
samples from two commercially available, national probability-based 
online panels. The RSS then combines these data to form estimates that 
approximate national representation in ways that many data collection 
approaches cannot. The RSS collects data in contexts in which decision 
makers' need for time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging 
and priority health concerns is a higher priority than their need for 
statistically unbiased estimates.
    The RSS complements NCHS's current household survey systems. As 
quicker turnaround surveys that require less accuracy and precision 
than CDC's more rigorous population representative surveys, the RSS 
incorporates multiple mechanisms to carefully evaluate the resulting 
survey data for their appropriateness for use in public health 
surveillance and research (e.g., hypothesis generating) and facilitates 
continuous quality improvement by supplementing these panels with 
intensive efforts to understand how well the estimates reflect 
populations at most risk. The RSS data dissemination strategy 
communicates the strengths and limitations of data collected through 
online probability panels as compared to more robust data collection 
methods. The RSS has three major goals: (1) to provide CDC and other 
partners with time-sensitive data of known quality about emerging and 
priority health concerns; (2) to use these data collections to continue 
NCHS's evaluation of the quality of public health estimates generated 
from commercial online panels; and (3) to improve methods to 
communicate the appropriateness of public health estimates generated 
from commercial online panels.
    The RSS is designed to have four rounds of data collection each 
year with data being collected by two contractors with probability 
panels. A cross-sectional nationally representative sample will be 
drawn from the online probability panel maintained by each of the 
contractors. As part of the base (minimum sample size), each round of 
data collection will collect 2,000 responses per quarter. The RSS can 
be expanded by increasing the number of completed responses per round 
or the number of rounds per year as needed up to a maximum of 28,000 
responses per year per contractor or 56,000 total responses per year. 
Additionally, each data collection may include up to 2,000 additional 
responses per quarter (8,000 for the year) to improve 
representativeness. This increases the maximum burden by up to 16,000 
responses per year. The RSS may also target individual surveys to 
collect data only from specific subgroups within existing survey panels 
and may supplement data collection for such groups with additional 
respondents from other probability or nonprobability samples. An 
additional 12,000 responses per year may be used for these 
developmental activities.
    Each round's questionnaire will consist of four main components: 
(1) basic demographic information on respondents to be used as 
covariates in analyses; (2) new, emerging, or supplemental content 
proposed by NCHS, other CDC Centers, Institute, and Offices, and other 
HHS agencies; (3) questions used for calibrating the survey weights; 
and (4) additional content selected by NCHS to evaluate against 
relevant benchmarks. NCHS will use questions from Components 1 and 2 
provide relevant, timely data on new, emerging, and priority health 
topics to be used for decision making. NCHS will use questions from 
Components 3 and 4 to weight and evaluate the quality of the estimates 
coming from questions in Components 1 and 2. NCHS submits a 30-day 
Federal Register Notice with information on the contents of each round 
of data collection.
    NCHS calibrates survey weights from the RSS to gold standard 
surveys. Questions used for calibration in this round of RSS will 
include chronic conditions, social and work limitation, civic 
engagement, language used at home and in other settings and marital 
status. All of these questions have been on the National Health 
Interview Survey (NHIS) in prior years allowing calibration to these 
data.
    Finally, all RSS rounds will include several questions that were 
previously on NHIS or other NCHS surveys, or other suitable federal 
surveys for benchmarking to evaluate data quality. Panelists in the RSS 
will be asked about health status, chronic conditions, developmental 
delay and disability, anxiety and depression, injury, COVID, healthcare 
access and utilization, health insurance, stressful life events for the 
selected child and social determinates including ability to pay medical 
bill, SNAP participation, and food insecurity at a family or household 
level.
    Round 5 will include content on positive childhood experiences and 
childhood vaccinations. Both topics are in support of the CDC's 2023-
2024 Collaborative Initiative of Supporting Young Families. The 
questions in Round 5 will be answered by panelists who are a parent/
guardian of one randomly sampled child in the household. Interested 
persons are invited to send comments regarding this information 
collection, including ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 
of the Round 5 content on positive childhood experience and childhood 
vaccinations.
    The NCHS RSS Round 5 data collection is based on 8,000 complete 
surveys and is estimated to be 2,687 hours. There are no costs to 
respondents other than their time.

                                        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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Adults 18+............................  Survey: NCHS RSS Round 5           8,000               1           20/60
Adult 18+.............................  Cognitive Interviews....              20               1               1
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Jeffrey M. Zirger,
Lead, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Public Health 
Ethics and Regulations, Office of Science, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2024-10877 Filed 5-16-24; 8:45 am]
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