Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Federal Register: July 30, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 147)
Notices
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DOCID:fr30jy08-84
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Proposed Projects
Title: Generic Clearance to conduct pre-testing of surveys.
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
(OPRE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), intends to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a generic clearance that will allow OPRE to conduct a variety of data gathering activities aimed at identifying questionnaire and procedural problems in survey administration. Over the next three years, OPRE anticipates undertaking a variety of new surveys as part of research projects in the fields of cash welfare, employment and self-sufficiency, Head Start, child care, healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood, and child welfare, among others. In order to improve the development of its research and evaluation surveys, OPRE envisions using a variety of techniques including field tests, respondent debriefing questionnaires, cognitive interviews and focus groups in order to identify questionnaire and procedural problems, suggest solutions, and measure the relative effectiveness of alternative survey solutions.
Following standard OMB requirements, OPRE will submit a change request to OMB individually for every data collection activity undertaken under this generic clearance. OPRE will provide OMB with a copy of the individual instrument or questionnaire, as well as other materials describing the project and specific survey pre test.
Respondents: The respondents will be identified at the time that each change request is submitted to OMB. Generally, they will be individuals who are representative of the target groups for the public assistance research or evaluation project in question.
Annual Burden Estimates
Number of
Average
Instrument
Number of
responses per burden hours
Total annual respondents
respondent
per response burden hours
Survey development field tests, respondent
1,000
1
1
1,000 debriefing questionnaires, cognitive interviews and focus groups...............................
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1000.
Additional Information:
Copies of the proposed collection may be obtained by writing to the
Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447,
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail address:
OPREInfoCollection@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by the title of the information collection.
OMB Comment:
OMB is required to make a decision concerning 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.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office of
Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, FAX: 202-395-6974,
Attn: Desk Officer for ACF.
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Dated: July 16, 2008.
Brendan C. Kelly,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
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