Responding to the National Survey of
the Use of Booster Seats (NSUBS) is on a voluntary basis. All
potential survey respondents are asked, in accordance with Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements, for their voluntary
participation in the survey. No individual is required to respond
to the survey questions, and any participant can refuse to respond
to any singular question without consequence. None of their
responses will be publically disclosed and no personally
identifying information will be collected. That is, their
participation is not required to obtain or retain any benefits. The
collection is observing, reporting, and is a survey. The collection
will be done every other year. The information that would be
recorded, maintained in records, and disclosed is intended to
provide the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
with estimates of child restraint use. It is used by the Agency to
design outreach programs to help ensure that more of the nation’s
children are using restraints that will protect them in motor
vehicle crashes. The survey data will allow programs to better
reach the caretakers whose children are unrestrained or not using
the best restraint choice for their children’s sizes. The findings
may also be of interest to state legislatures wanting to strengthen
their child restraint laws by enacting mandatory or enhanced
booster seat use provisions. Information collected would be
received by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration with
eventual public reporting of survey results. These files will
provide NHTSA with survey data, auxiliary information on state
laws, derived analytic variables, and full sample and replicate
weights that can be used to create National estimated of child
safety restraint use. The survey was previously approved as OMB
Control No. 2127-0644 (current expiration Date: 5/31/19). NSUBS was
designed to estimate booster seat use among 4- to 7-year-old
children. In addition, the survey provides restraint use estimates
for all children under 13, race and ethnicity breakouts of
restraint use among all occupants in a vehicle, and estimates of
the extent to which children are “prematurely transitioned” from
one restraint type to others that are inappropriate for their age
as well as height and weight. The survey produces bi-annual
estimates of: • Restraint use by Age Group • Restraint use by
Weight Group • Restraint use by Height Group • Restraint use by OMB
Race/Ethnicity The current estimates are based upon observations of
restraint use for all passenger vehicle occupants included in the
survey, and brief interviews with the vehicle drivers or other
knowledgeable adults to determine the age, height, weight, race,
and ethnicity of the child occupants. For the 2019 NSUBS and future
iterations of the survey NHTSA would like to ask the adult drivers
their age in order to analyze the impact of driver age on driver
seat belt use and child restraint use. The addition of this
question will not impact the cost to the respondent or the
annualized cost to the Federal Government.
There is an revision of an
increase of 20 burden hours because for the 2019 NSUBS and future
iterations of the survey, NHTSA will ask the adult drivers their
age in order to analyze the impact of driver age on driver seat
belt use and child restraint use. In previous years driver age was
estimated based on observation.
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.
Form NHTSA Form 1010 National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats
NSUBS 2019_Supporting_Statement Part B 12212018.docx
National Survey of the Use of Booster Seats