[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 24 (Monday, February 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8581-8582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-02493]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; National Survey of Children's Health

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on November 10, 2020 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: National Survey of Children's Health.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0990

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    Form Number(s): NSCH-S1 (English Screener), NSCH-T1 (English 
Topical for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH-T2 (English Topical for 6- 
to 11-year-old children), NSCH-T3 (English Topical for 12- to 17-year-
old children), NSCH-S-S1 (Spanish Screener), NSCH-S-T1 (Spanish Topical 
for 0- to 5-year-old children), NSCH-S-T2 (Spanish Topical for 6- to 
11-year-old children), and NSCH-S-T3 (Spanish Topical for 12- to 17-
year-old children).
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a 
Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 64,160 for the screener only and 50,658 for 
the combined screener and topical, for a total of 114,818 respondents.
    Average Hours per Response: 5 minutes per screener response and 35-
36 minutes per topical response, which in total is approximately 40-41 
minutes for households with eligible children.
    Burden Hours: 39,400.
    Needs and Uses: The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) 
enables the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health 
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS) along with supplemental sponsoring 
agencies, states, and other data users to produce national and state-
based estimates on the health and well-being of children, their 
families, and their communities as well as estimates of the prevalence 
and impact of children with special health care needs.
    Data will be collected using one of two modes. The first mode is a 
web instrument (Centurion) survey that contains the screener and 
topical instruments. The web instrument first will take the respondent 
through the screener questions. If the household screens into the 
study, the respondent will be taken directly into one of the three age-
based topical sets of questions. The second mode is a mailout/mailback 
of a self-administered paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI) screener 
instrument followed by a separate mailout/mailback of a PAPI age-based 
topical instrument.
    The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) is a large-scale 
(sample size is up to 300,000 addresses) national survey with up to 
186,000 addresses included in the base production survey and 
approximately 114,000 addresses included as part of eight separate age-
based, state-based, or region-based oversamples. The 2021 NSCH will 
include a topical incentive test. Prior cycles of the survey have 
included a $5 unconditional cash incentive with the initial mailing of 
the paper topical questionnaire. The incentive has proven to be a cost-
effective intervention for increasing survey response and reducing 
nonresponse bias. The 2021 NSCH will test a $10 cash incentive, with a 
focus on lower responding households.
    As in prior cycles of the NSCH, there remain two key, non-
experimental design elements. The first additional non-experimental 
design element is a $5 screener cash incentive mailed to 90% of sampled 
addresses; the remaining 10% (the control) will receive no incentive to 
monitor the effectiveness of the cash incentive. This incentive is 
designed to increase response and reduce nonresponse bias. The 
incentive amount was chosen based on the results of the 2020 NSCH as 
well as funding availability. The second additional non-experimental 
design element is a data collection procedure based on the block group-
level paper-only response probability used to identify households (30% 
of the sample) that would be more likely to respond by paper and send 
them a paper questionnaire in either the initial mailing or first 
nonresponse follow-up.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: The 2021 collection is the sixth administration of the 
NSCH. It is an annual survey, with a new sample drawn for each 
administration.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Census Authority: 13 U.S.C. Section 8(b).
    HRSA MCHB Authority: Title 42 U.S.C. Section 701(a)(2).
    United States Department of Agriculture Authority: The Healthy, 
Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, Public Law 111-296. In particular, 42 
U.S.C. 1769d(a) authorizes USDA to conduct research on the causes and 
consequences of childhood hunger included in 1769d(a)(4)(B), the 
geographic dispersion of childhood hunger and food insecurity.
    United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and 
Developmental Disabilities Authority: Public Health Service Act, 
Section 301, 42 U.S.C. 241.
    United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion Authority: Sections 301(a), 307, and 
399G of the Public Health Service [42 U.S.C. 241(a), 242l, and 280e-
11], as amended.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0607-0990.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-02493 Filed 2-5-21; 8:45 am]
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