Request for Change - privacy act determination

Understanding Relationship Dynamics and Conflict Survey--Formative Study

(OMB no. 0920-1206 exp. date 11/30/2019)

Proposed Changes: Justification and Overview

3/28/2018

Justification

In this change request, NCIPC is submitting the necessary documentation to respond to OMB’s terms of clearance from the approval NOA received on 11/17/17 (Attachment 1). In the terms of clearance NICPC was instructed to consult with the Privacy Program/Office to document the reasons they determined Privacy Act does not apply. NCIPC was instructed to submit this documentation as a change request.

Project Description

This is an exploratory study to gather data from a diverse and targeted convenience sample to better understand factors or groups of factors that may influence violence perpetration that occurs within adult intimate partner relationships. The study is the first component of a larger research agenda that will and is intended to inform the next phase identifying latent classes of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators. For this exploratory study, the focus is gathering extensive data from the diverse convenience sample across multiple domains (e.g., attitudes, perceptions, personal experiences, victimization, etc.) identified by IPV experts and the peer reviewed literature as correlating to IPV perpetration. The information collected in this study is not intended to be generalizable to the population. Rather, these data are intended to inform future research with additional populations and more rigorous sampling strategies. Data collected will be used to generate preliminary ideas to guide future research around which social, psychological and contextual conditions best correlate to the different types of violent intimate relationships. It is hoped that this research will inform the identification of subgroups of perpetrators that future programmatic research will seek to replicate, expand, and refine using alternative sample populations and more rigorous sampling procedures. After this several additional phases of research will be necessary; however, this exploratory study is the first step in the long developmental research agenda.

This submission has been reviewed by the NCIPC’s Information Systems Security Officer, Danny Wade, who has determined that the Privacy Act does not apply because CDC will not have access to or receive any personally identifiable information (PII) about participants. A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was completed and submitted as Attachment G to Supporting Statement A on November 8, 2017. Neither the CDC nor the contractor will receive and store PII from online respondents or from incarcerated respondents. The Privacy Act system of records notice (SORN) and Privacy Act Statement are used to document why an agency is collecting PII and what they will do with it. Again, since no PII will be collected in the current data collection, the SORN and Privacy Act statement do not apply in this instance. Attached is a statement from Danny Wade affirming that the Privacy Act does not apply (Attachment 2).

Proposed Changes

No changes have been made. This is a response to OMB request to affirm the Privacy Act does not apply.

Change to Burden and/or Cost

This Non-Substantive change requests does not include changes to the currently approved burden and/or costs.