Public Comment

NSFG 2015-2018

OMB Attachment B2

OMB No. 0920-0314

Jones, Jo (CDC/OPHSS/NCHS)
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Buie, Verita (CDC/OPHSS/NCHS)
Thursday, November 06, 2014 11:27 AM
Chandra, Anjani (CDC/OPHSS/NCHS); Jones, Jo (CDC/OPHSS/NCHS)
FW: PUBLIC comment ON FEDERAL REGISTER

Hello Ladies, 
The 60‐day FRN for NSFG was published on 11/04/14.  Noted below please find one comment that has been submitted 
to far.  As you may already know, you will need to incorporate this comment in your final package as an attachment and 
will document in supporting statement A Section 8 that you received a comment.  Meanwhile, please let me know if you 
have any questions. 
Verita 
From: Burroughs, Kennya L. (CDC/OD/OADS) On Behalf Of OMB-Comments (CDC)
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 10:54 AM
To: Buie, Verita (CDC/OPHSS/NCHS)
Subject: FW: PUBLIC comment ON FEDERAL REGISTER

One non-substantive comment received. CDC’s standard response was sent.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 4:24 PM
To: OMB-Comments (CDC); [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Fwd: PUBLIC comment ON FEDERAL REGISTER
NOBODY NEEDS THIS INTRUSIVE SURVEY. NOBODY READS THIS INTRUSIVE STUDY. YOU JUST WANT TO PUT
OUT A PRESS RELEASE. THAT IS ALL THAT HAPPENS FROM THIS FOLDEROL DONE ON TAXPAYERS
GOUGING. ITS TIME TO CUT THE OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING ON USELESS INFORMATION. YOU HAVE ALOT
OF THIS INFORMATION IN THE US DICENNIAL CENSUS WHICH WAS DONE IN 2010 AND IS NOT THAT OLD.
TAXPAYERS ARE SICK OF DIFFERENT AGENCIES WANTING TO DO THEIR OWN SURVEYS WHEN THEY CAN
USE THE VERY VERY EXPENSIVE STUDY DONE BY THE US CENSUS FOR SOME OF THIS INFORMATION -AND
THAT IS ENOUGH INFORMATION FOR YOU TO WORK WITH.
WE HAVE A CORRUPT WASHINGTON WHERE ALL THEY DO ALL DAY EVERY DAY IS TAKE SURVEYS.NOTHING
EVER RESULTS TO HELP AMERICA BUT THEY PUT OUT A PRESSS RELEASE TO THE PRESS AND THINK THAT
IS SOMETHING AMERICAN NEEDS OR WANTS WHEN IT IS JUST PLAYING AROUND. NOBODY NEEDS THIS
INFORMATION.N OBODY NEEDS THE REPORT. THUT IT DOWN. STOP OVERSPENDING LIKE YOU DO. WE HAVE
EPIDEMICS GOING ON LIKE AUTISM AND YOUW ANT TO GOUGE AMERICANS WHEN THE AUTISTIC CHILDREN
NEED HELP AND COST $3 MILLLION DOLLARS TO RAISE ON ECHILD.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE FOCUS OF OUR NATIONAL AGENCIES. THIS ONE DESERVES AN F MINUS FOR ITS
TOWK. THE BUDGET FOR HTIS PROJECT SHOULD BE ZERO. THIS COMMENT IS FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD.
PLEASE REECEIPT.

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 213 (Tuesday, November 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65398-65399]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26084]

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----------------------------------------------------------------------DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-15-0314]

Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of
its continuing effort to reduce public burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more information on the
below proposed project or to obtain a copy of the information
collection plan and instruments, call 404-639-7570 or send comments to
Leroy A. Richardson, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D74, Atlanta, GA 30333 or
send an email to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval. 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; (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; and (e)
estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Burden
means the total time, effort, or financial resources expended by
persons to generate, maintain, retain, disclose or provide information
to or for a Federal agency. This includes the time needed to review
instructions; to develop, acquire, install and utilize technology and
systems for the purpose of collecting, validating and verifying
information, processing and maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and to be able to respond to
a collection of information, to search data sources, to complete and
review the collection of information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Proposed Project
The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)--(0920-0314, expires
04/30/2015)--Revision--National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Background and Brief Description
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Section 306 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C.
242k), as amended, authorizes that the Secretary of Health and Human
Services (DHHS), acting through NCHS, shall collect statistics on
``family formation, growth, and dissolution,'' as well as
``determinants of health'' and ``utilization of health care'' in the
United States. This three-year clearance request includes the data
collection in 2015-2017 for the continuous NSFG.
The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) was conducted
periodically between 1973 and 2002, continuously in 2006-2010, and
continuously starting in Fall 2011, by the National Center for Health
Statistics, CDC. Each year, about 14,000 households are screened, with
about 5,000 participants interviewed annually. Participation in the
NSFG is completely voluntary and confidential. Interviews average 60
minutes for males and 80 minutes for females. The response rate since
2006 has been about 77 percent for both males and females.
The NSFG program produces descriptive statistics which document
factors associated with birth and pregnancy rates, including
contraception, infertility, marriage, divorce, and sexual activity, in
the U.S. household population 15-44 years; and behaviors that affect
the risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV, and the
medical care associated with contraception, infertility, and pregnancy
and childbirth. Beginning in 2015, the NSFG will expand its age range
to represent the U.S. household population 15-49 years.
NSFG data users include the DHHS programs that fund it, including
CDC/NCHS and ten others (The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute
for Child Health and Human Development (NIH/NICHD); the Office of
Population Affairs (DHHS/OPA); the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Evaluation (DHHS/OASPE); the Children's Bureau (DHHS/
ACF/CB); the ACF's Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation; the
CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (CDC/DHAP); the CDC's Division of
STD Prevention (CDC/DSTD); the CDC's Division of Reproductive Health
(CDC/DRH); the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (CDC/
DCPC); and the CDC's Division of Birth Defects and Developmental
Disabilities (DBDDD)). The NSFG is also used by state and local
governments; private research and action organizations focused on men's
and women's health, child well-being, and marriage and the family;
academic researchers in the social and public health sciences;
journalists, and many others.
This submission requests approval for three years. Questionnaire
revisions are requested for fieldwork starting in September 2015. A
small set of additional changes may be requested in the future, to be
responsive to emerging public policy issues. There is no cost to
respondents other than their time.
Estimated Annualized Burden Hours
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rage
Number of
Number
burden per
Total burden
of
Type of respondents
respondents
responses
per
response (in
hours
respondent
hou
rs)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Screener
Respondents.........................
14,000
1
3/60
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2. Interview
Females............................
4,125
3. Interview
Males..............................
2,250
4. Verification
Questions.......................
117
5. Testing
Questions............................
250

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2,750

1

1.5

2,250

1

1.0

1,400

1

250

5/60

1

1

-------------------------------------------------------------Total....................................... .............. .............. .......
.......
7,442
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Leroy A. Richardson,
Chief, Information Collection Review Office, Office of Scientific
Integrity, Office of the Associate Director for Science, Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2014-26084 Filed 11-3-14; 8:45 am]
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