C - Public Comment

Attachment C

Public Comment

From: jean public [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:29 AM
To: OMB-Comments (CDC); president; speakerboehner; [email protected]; [email protected]; media
Cc: letters; today; [email protected]
Subject: PUBLIC COMMENT ON FEDERAL REGISTER - TAXING THE HELL OUT OF TAXPAYERS FOR THIS CRAP DATA COLLECTION - ARE TAXPAYERS BEING SOAKED FOR VOYEURISM?

TAXPAYERS SAY NO TO THIS COLLECTION OIF DATA. ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR IT AT ALL. SENDING TAXPAYERS INTO BANKRUPTCY SO SOME CREEP CAN COLLECT THIS DATA OVER AND OVERF AND  OVER. YOU HAVE EONS OF DATA. USE THAT FOR ANY PURPOSEBUT STOP DOING THESE MAKE WORK SURVEYS. SHUT DOWN THIS PROJECT. CUT THE BUDGET TO ZERO. THE PEOIPLE IN THIS COUNTRY DO NOT NEED THIS INFORMATION. THIS AGENCY DOES NOT NEED THIS INFORMATION. THEY ARE CRAFTY AT TRYING TO KEEP JOBS GOING INSTEAD OF THE DOWNSIZING THE TAXPAYERS ARE CRYING FOR. I ALSO BELIEVE THE STATISTICS YOU LISTED ARE TOTALLY FAKE. SHUT DOWN THIS CRAP PROJECT. YOU HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH INFORMATION. THIS IS NOTHING BUT AMAKE WORK DO NOTHING PROJECT. THE TAXPAYERS SAY NO. THIS COMMETN IS FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD. JEAN PUBILC

 

 

 

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 244 (Wednesday, December 19, 2012)]

[Notices]

[Pages 75165-75166]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

[FR Doc No: 2012-30560]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[60-Day-12-0822]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and

Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on

proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.

To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a

copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call 404-639-7570

and send comments to Ron Otten, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA

30333 or send an email to [email protected].

    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the agency, including whether the information shall have practical

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways

to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,

including through the use of automated collection techniques or other

forms of information technology. Written comments should be received

within 60 days of this notice.

Proposed Project

    National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Surveillance System

(0920-0822, Expiration 11/30/2013)--Revision--National Center for

Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC).

Background and Brief Description

    The health burden of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Sexual

Violence (SV) and stalking are substantial. In 2010, the National

Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Surveillance System (NISVSS)

reported that approximately 6.9 million women and 5.6 million men

experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate

partner within the last year. The health care costs of IPV exceed $5.8

billion each year, nearly $3.9 billion of which is for direct medical

and mental health care services.

    Sexual violence also has a profound and long-term impact on the

physical and mental health of the victim. Existing estimates of

lifetime experiences of rape range from 15% to 36% for females. Sexual

violence against men, although less prevalent, is also a public health

problem; approximately, 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men have experienced

attempted, completed or alcohol or drug facilitated rape at some point

in their lifetime. Nearly 1.3 million women reported being raped in the

past 12 months. Nearly 1 in 3 women and 1 in 10 men in the United

States have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an

intimate partner and reported at least one impact related to

experiencing these or other forms of violent behavior within the

relationship (e.g., being fearful, concerned for safety, post-traumatic

stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, need for health care, injury,

contacting a crisis hotline, need for housing services, need for

victim's advocate services, need for legal services, missed at least

one day of work or school).

    NISVSS 2010 data indicates that approximately 5 million women and

1.4 million men in the United States are stalked in the 12 months prior

to the survey. There are overlaps between stalking and other forms of

violence in intimate relationships; approximately 14% of females who

were stalked by an intimate partner in their lifetime also experienced

physical violence by an intimate partner; while 12% of female victims

experienced rape, physical violence and stalking by a current or former

intimate partner in their lifetime. Furthermore, 76% of female victims

of intimate partner homicides were stalked by their partners before

they were killed.

    In order to address this important public health problem, CDC

implemented, beginning in 2010, the National Intimate Partner and

Sexual Violence Surveillance System that produces national and state

level estimates of IPV, SV and Stalking on an annual basis. In 2010, a

total of 16,507 completed interviews were conducted among English and/

or Spanish speaking male and female adults (18 years and older) living

in the United States.

    CDC proposes a revision to the currently approved data collection

instrument, by conducting a one-year pilot study using a newly revised

instrument during the calendar year of 2013. The changes to the

instrument are twofold: First, the current NISVSS survey instrument has

been shortened in efforts to develop a core instrument that will be

administered on an annual

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basis. Second, topic specific modules contain questions to produce data

that are needed on a regular basis but are not needed annually. Each

individual topic specific modules will be administered in addition to

the core survey on a revolving annual schedule. The goals of the

revised data collection instrument are to: (1) Improve NISVSS data

quality, (2) increase our response rates, (3) decrease the breakoff

rates, (4) and to reduce the burden on the respondents.

    In this period of field testing, a total of 36,000 households will

be screened. After determining eligibility and consent, 10,000 will

complete the survey. The average burden per screened respondent remains

at 3 minutes (total burden in hours equals 1,800) while the average

burden per surveyed respondent is 25 minutes (total burden in hours

equals 4,166). The survey will be conducted among English or Spanish

speaking male and female adults (18 years and older) living in the

United States. There are no costs to respondents to participate other

than their time.

                                        Estimated Annualized Burden Hours

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                                                                                      Average

                                                     Number of       Number of      burden per     Total burden

      Type of  respondent           Form name        responses     responses per   response (in     (in hours)

                                                                    respondent        hours)

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Households....................  NISVSS 2013 Test          36,000               1            3/60           1,800

                                 Instrument

                                 (screened).

                                NISVSS 2013 Test          10,000               1           25/60           4,166

                                 Instrument

                                 (surveyed).

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    Total.....................  ................  ..............  ..............  ..............           5,966

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    Dated: December 13, 2012.

Ron A. Otten,

Director, Office of Scientific Integrity (OSI), Office of the Associate

Director for Science (OADS), Office of the Director, Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention.

[FR Doc. 2012-30560 Filed 12-18-12; 8:45 am]

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