Revised Estimate of Response Burden

Revised Estimate of Response Burden
The total estimate of respondent burden in the original submission was 3,731 hours. The burden
estimate is revised to 3,556 hours for the following reasons:
 Response rates will be the comparison measure for the different treatments in the RDD
advance materials test. Consequently, it is not necessary to conduct additional screener
interviews with RDD respondents in order to evaluate the advance materials test.
Eliminating these additional screener interviews reduces the response burden estimate by
37 hours.
 An incorrect value for the average number of adults per household was used in the
original calculation of the response burden for the address sample. The address-sample
response burden has been recalculated. The original burden estimate was based on 3,500
completed mail questionnaires and 457 completed telephone follow-up interviews,
totaling 1,434 burden hours. The revised estimate of burden for the address sample is
based on 2,983 completed mail questionnaires and 517 completed telephone follow-up
interviews, totaling 3,500 complete responses and 1,296 burden hours.
Revised estimates of hour burden and costs to respondents for HINTS 2007 are shown in
Revised Table A-1. The RDD household screener will take approximately 5 minutes (.0833
hours) to complete. The RDD extended interview will take approximately 25 minutes (.4167
hours) to complete. The mail questionnaire will take approximately 20 minutes (.3333 hours) to
complete. The total estimate of respondent burden is 3,731 hours. The cost to the respondents for
the total burden is estimated to be $56,896, that is, $16 per hour for 3,556 burden hours.
Revised Table A-1.

Estimate of respondent hour burden for HINTS 2007

Type of respondent
Pilot RDD screener only

Estimated
number of
respondents
133

Frequency
of
response
1

Estimated
number of
responses
133

Average
hours per
response
.0833

Annual
hour
burden
11

Respondent
cost**
$176

Pilot RDD screener and
interview

200

2

400

.2500*

100

$1,600

Pilot mail survey

640

1

640

.3333

213

$3,408

RDD screener only

2,333

1

2,233

.0833

186

$2,976

RDD screener and interview

3,500

2

7,000

.2500*

1,750

$28,000

Mail survey

2,983

1

2,983

.3333

994

$15,904

Telephone screener only for
mail followup

517

1

517

.0833

43

$688

Telephone screener and

517

2

1,034

.2500*

259

$4,144

interview for mail followup
Total
* (0.833 + 0.4167) / 2 = 0.2500.
**Hourly wage rate = $16.00.

10,823

14,940

3,556

$56,896