[Federal Register: September 8, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 173)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Projects:
Title: Adolescent Follow-up to the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-Being.
OMB No.: 0970-0202.
Description: The Department of Health and Human Services intends to
collect data on a subset of children and families who have participated
in the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). The
NSCAW was authorized under Section 427 of the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. The survey began in
November 1999 with a national sample of 5,501 children ages 0-14 who
had been the subject of investigation by Child Protective Services
(CPS) during the base line data collection period, which extended from
November 1999 through April 2000. Direct assessments and interviews
were conducted with the children themselves, their primary caregivers,
their caseworkers, and, for school-aged children, their teachers.
Follow-up data collections were conducted 12 months, 18 months, and
36 months post-baseline. The current data collection plan involves a
subset of 950 children from the original sample who were ages 12 and
older at baselines, and who will be ages 18 and older at follow-up.
This group will be in early adulthood, and this follow-up will allow
for assessing the functioning and service utilization for this age
group as they enter independent living situations. The youths will be
interviewed with questions covering social, emotional and behavioral
adjustment, living arrangements, employment, service needs, and service
utilization.
The NSCAW is unique in that it is the only source of nationally
representative, firsthand information about the functioning and well-
being, service needs, and service utilization of children and families
who come to the attention of the child welfare system. Information is
collected about children's cognitive, social, emotional, behavioral,
and adaptive functioning, as well as family and community factors that
are likely to influence their functioning. Family service needs and
service utilization also are addressed in the data collection.
The data collection for the follow-up will follow the same format
as that used in previous rounds of data collection, and will employ the
same instruments that were used for adolescents who had moved into
independent living status in previous rounds. Data from NSCAW are made
available to the research community through licensing arrangements from
the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and neglect, housed at Cornell
University.
Respondents: 950 youths ages 18 and older.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average burden
Instrument Number of responses per hours per Total burden
respondents respondent response hours
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Youth Interview............................. 950 1 1.5 1,425
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,425.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Administration for Children and
Families is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the
information collection described above. Copies of the proposed
collection of information can be obtained and comments may be forwarded
by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, Office of
Administration, Office of Information Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade,
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer. E-mail
address: grjohnson@acf.hhs.gov. All requests should be identified by
the title of the information collection.
The Department specifically requests comments on: (a) Whether the
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Dated: September 1, 2005.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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