The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
requests clearance to conduct the 2016 Supplemental Victimization
Survey (SVS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The
SVS is primarily an effort to measure the prevalence of stalking
victimization among persons, the characteristics of stalking
victims, and patterns of reporting to the police and other
authorities. The SVS was also designed to collect important
characteristics of stalking such as the physical and emotional
impact on victims, offender information, measures of
self-protective actions, and the criminal justice system
response.
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USC 3732 Name of Law: The Justice System Improvement Act
The change in total burden is
due to the increase in sample size related to the revised NCVS
state sample design being implemented in 22 states. In addition,
the previous SVS data collection only included persons age 18 or
older; and the 2016 SVS will sample all persons age 16 or older.
Based on the NCVS sample size increase and including respondents
age 16 or older, we estimate that 124,400 NCVS respondents age 16
or older will be eligible to be interviewed for the SVS between
July and December of 2016, compared to 86,850 persons age 18 or
older that were estimated to be eligible in 2006. This represents
an estimated increase of 3,611 from the 4,444 hours previously
requested in 2006.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.