[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 135 (Wednesday, July 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38189-38190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18826]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities Under Emergency Review 
by the Office of Management and Budget

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) has submitted the following request (see below) for emergency 
OMB review under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). 
OMB approval has been requested by July 30, 1998. A copy of the 
information collection plans may be obtained by calling the SAMHSA 
Reports Clearance Officer on (301)443-7978.
    Title: CAPI/ACASI Pretest of 1999 National Household Survey on Drug 
Abuse (NHSDA).
    OMB Number: 0930-New.
    Frequency: Single time.
    Affected public: Individuals or households.
    SAMHSA will conduct a field pretest and cognitive laboratory 
testing of the proposed 1999 NHSDA questionnaire from August 1-31, 
1998. Household screening will be conducted electronically, using a 
hand-held computer. The interview will be conducted using a laptop 
computer. Sections of the questionnaire currently administered on paper 
by an interviewer will be Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) 
and those sections which are currently self-administered by respondents 
on paper will be Audio Computer-Assisted Self Interview (ACASI). The 
national implementation of fully automated data collection in the NHSDA 
was originally planned for the year 2000. In early June, the Department 
of Health and Human Services made the decision to include in the 1999 
NHSDA an expanded tobacco module to be conducted using ACASI. SAMHSA 
has determined that using the computer-assisted methodology for only 
one portion of the interview could be problematic. Therefore, the 
entire 1999 NHSDA interview will be conducted using this methodology, 
and will be pretested in a field sample and in a cognitive laboratory. 
Approximately 150 field interviews and 150 laboratory interviews will 
be conducted with persons age 12 and older. The estimated response 
burden for the field test is shown below:

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                                                                 No. of     Responses/   Hours per     Response 
                                                              respondents   respondent    response      burden  
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Electronic household screener...............................          836            1         0.05         41.8
Electronic household questionnaire:                                                                             
    Respondents age 12-17...................................           75            1         1.20         90.0
Respondents age 18+                                                    75            1         1.20         90.0
Screening verification                                                 25            1         .067          1.7
Interview verification......................................           23            1         .067          1.5

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Cognitive laboratory electronic questionnaire:                                                                  
    Respondents age 12-17 (tobacco module)..................           50            1         0.75         37.5
Respondents age 12+                                                   100            1         1.50        150.0
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      TOTAL.................................................  ...........  ...........  ...........        412.5
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    Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed 
information collection should be sent within two weeks of this notice 
to: Daniel Chenok, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of 
Management and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 
Washington, D.C. 20503.

    Dated: July 9, 1998.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 98-18826 Filed 7-14-98; 8:45 am]
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