[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 3, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 95790-95792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28320]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[30Day-25-1408]
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. RSS
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. Interested persons are
invited to send comments regarding this information collection,
including ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
Round 6 content. This notice includes specific details about the
questions that would be asked in the sixth round (Round 6) 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
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``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 6 (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 Survey 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 facilitate
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 several 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 to
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 healthcare access and utilization, social and work limitation,
employment, marital status, civic engagement, language used at home and
in other settings, and health information technology use. 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
suitable federal surveys for benchmarking to evaluate data quality.
Panelists in the RSS will be asked about health status, chronic
conditions, cigarette and tobacco use, healthcare access and
utilization, immunizations, health insurance, and social determinants
of health including the ability to pay medical bills and food
insecurity.
The estimated total annual burden hours for the three-year approval
period remains at 28,079 burden hours. The NCHS RSS Round 6 (2024) data
collection is based on 8,000 complete surveys (2,664 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 6 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. 2024-28320 Filed 12-2-24; 8:45 am]
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