[Federal Register: July 14, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 135)]
[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: Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project: 5th Grade
Follow-Up.
OMB No.: 0970-0143.
Description: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is requesting
comments on plans to collect 5th-grade follow-up data on children
recruited into the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation study. This
study is being conducted to assess children and families when the
children in the study will be 5th graders or attending the 6th year of
their formal schooling. Because of the way children and families were
initially recruited for the study, it will take three years to collect
5th-grade data from the full sample of children. About 30 percent of
the sample will be 5th graders in spring 2007, 50 percent in spring
2008, and 20 percent in spring 2009. Data will be collected on a sample
of approximately 1,900 children and families across all 17 of the Early
Head Start research sites. Data collection will include a child
assessment and a child interview, an interview with the child's primary
caregiver (usually the child's mother), videotaping of mother-child
interactions and a set of home observations, and a questionnaire to be
completed by the child's 5th-grade teacher.
This data collection is necessitated by the mandates of the 1998
reauthorization of Head Start (Head Start Act, as amended, October 27,
1998, Section 649(d) and (e)).
Respondents: Individuals or households.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Instrument Number of responses per burden hours Total burden
respondents respondent per response hours
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Year 1 (2007):
Parent Interview............................ 570 1 1.00 570
Child Assessment............................ 570 1 1.16 661
Child Interview............................. 570 1 0.25 143
Mother-Child Interaction.................... 1,140 1 0.25 285
Teacher Questionnaire....................... 570 1 0.50 285
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Year 1 Total............................ 3,420 .............. .............. 1,944
Year 2 (2008):
Parent Interview............................ 950 1 1.00 950
Child Assessment............................ 950 1 1.16 1,102
Child Interview............................. 950 1 0.25 238
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Mother-Child Interaction.................... 1,900 1 0.25 475
Teacher Questionnaire....................... 950 1 0.50 475
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Year 2 Total............................ 5,700 .............. .............. 3,240
Year 3 (2009):
Parent Interview............................ 380 1 1.00 380
Child Assessment............................ 380 1 1.16 441
Child Interview............................. 380 1 0.25 95
Mother-Child Interaction.................... 760 1 0.25 190
Teacher Questionnaire....................... 380 1 0.50 190
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Year 3 Total............................ 2,280 .............. .............. 1,296
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Estimated Total Burden Hours: 6,480.
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: infocollection@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: July 10, 2006.
Robert Sargis,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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