[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 181 (Wednesday, September 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 76477-76478]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-21210]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; 2024
National Survey of Early Care and Education Longitudinal Follow-ups
(OMB #: 0970-0391)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing a data
collection activity to be conducted January 2025 through December 2025
as a follow-up of the 2024 National Survey of Early Care and Education
(NSECE). The objectives of the 2024 NSECE Longitudinal Follow-ups are
to build on the design and implementation of the 2024 NSECE to collect
urgently needed information on the following two topics relevant to
early care and education (ECE) policy: (1) how households learn about
and make use of financial assistance in seeking and selecting ECE, with
additional focus on paid individual care arrangements; and (2) patterns
of retention and attrition among individuals in the center-based ECE
workforce.
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: The 2024 NSECE Longitudinal Follow-ups will consist of
two nationally representative surveys drawing from 2024 NSECE
respondents:
1. a survey of households (1) with incomes under 300 percent of the
federal poverty level (FPL) and/or (2) who had used paid care by an
individual in 2024 (2024 NSECE Household Follow-up)
2. a survey of individuals who were employed in 2024 in center-
based ECE programs working directly with children in classrooms serving
children age 5 years and under, not yet in kindergarten (2024 NSECE
Workforce Follow-up).
Participants will be drawn from respondents to the 2024 NSECE
Household and Workforce surveys.
The 2024 NSECE Longitudinal Follow-up data collection efforts will
provide urgently needed information that will expand the potential of
the 2024 NSECE data to describe: (1) households' search for and use of
financial assistance for ECE (including assistance for paid individual
care arrangements); and (2) employment experiences of individuals who
have recently worked in center-based ECE classrooms.
The household follow-up in early 2025 will re-interview households
participating in the 2024 NSECE who (1) report using paid individual
ECE or (2) report incomes below 300 percent of the FPL. The workforce
follow-up in late 2025 will re-interview individuals who participated
in the 2024 NSECE workforce survey (i.e., served as center-based
classroom-assigned instructional staff between January and November
2024). Both follow-up surveys are designed to collect in-depth
information that was not feasible to collect in the 2024 NSECE and
which can be uniquely collected through re-interviews of selected 2024
NSECE participants. The household follow-up will include information
about households' awareness of and experience with publicly funded ECE
programs, how households selected ECE arrangements for Fall 2024, and
who provided paid individual care to the households' children in 2024.
The workforce follow-up will include information about the experiences
of ECE instructional staff over time, where workers who leave ECE
employers or the ECE sector go and why they leave, and workers'
experiences in various ECE settings throughout their ECE careers.
Accurate data on families with young children and the experiences of
ECE workers are essential to assess the current landscape of ECE, and
to provide insights to advance ECE policy and initiatives. The
household follow-up will be fielded using multi-mode survey
methodologies in early 2025, and the workforce follow-up will be
fielded using multi-mode survey methodologies in the last half of 2025.
Both follow-ups will enhance the value of the 2024 NSECE by expanding
the potential utility of those data to describe household and worker
experiences over time and to address additional information needs.
Respondents: 1. Households participating in the 2024 NSECE and
reported either a. a paid individual ECE arrangement in 2024, or b.
income under the 300 percent Federal poverty level in 2024. 2.
Individuals who participated in the 2024 NSECE survey of center-based
classroom-assigned instructional staff (workforce).
Annual Burden Estimates
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2024 NSECE Longitudinal Follow-ups (New Request Under This OMB Number)
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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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2024 NSECE Household Follow-up Questionnaire.... 3,750 1 .36 1,350
2024 NSECE Workforce Follow-up Questionnaire 5,550 1 .33 1,832
(Classroom Staff)..............................
2024 NSECE Household Longitudinal Follow-up 38 1 .05 1.9
Quality Assurance Questionnaire................
2024 NSECE Workforce Longitudinal Follow-up 56 1 .05 2.8
Quality Assurance Questionnaire................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,187.
Currently Approved and Ongoing Under This OMB Number
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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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2024 NSECE Household Screener................... 17,187 1 .1 1,719
2024 NSECE Household Questionnaire.............. 4,231 1 1 4,231
2024 NSECE Home-based Provider Screener (listed 264 1 .03 8
home-based providers)..........................
2024 NSECE Home-based Provider Screener and 946 1 .67 634
Questionnaire (listed home-based providers)....
2024 NSECE Home-based Provider Screener and 175 1 .33 58
Questionnaire (unlisted home-based providers)..
2024 NSECE Center-based Provider Screener....... 4,401 1 .1 440
2024 NSECE Center-based Provider Screener and 3,602 1 .75 2,702
Questionnaire..................................
2024 NSECE Workforce (Classroom Staff) 3,794 1 .33 1,252
Questionnaire..................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,044.
Authority: Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990, as
amended by the CCDBG Act of 2014 (Pub. L. 113-186). Social Security
Act, section 418 as extended by the Continuing Appropriations Act of
2017 and the TANF Extension Act of 2019. Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-21210 Filed 9-17-24; 8:45 am]
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