[Federal Register: August 22, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 162)]
[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: National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being--Second
Cohort (NSCAW II).
OMB No.: 0970-0202.
Description: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
intends to collect data on a new sample of children and families for
the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). The
NSCAW was authorized under Section 427 of the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 1996. The original 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 during the baseline 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; agency directors also were interviewed at baseline. Follow-up
data collections were conducted 12 months, 18 months, and 36 months
post-baseline, and a fifth data collection is currently under way.
The NSCAW 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 current data collection plan calls for selecting a new cohort
of 5,700 children and families and repeating the data collection
procedures used in the original study. Selection of a new cohort will
allow the comparison of characteristics of children who are entering
the child welfare system today with those who entered prior to the
implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and prior to the
advent of the Child and Family Services Review process. The data
collection will follow the same format as that used in previous rounds
of data collection, and will employ, with only modest revisions, the
same instruments that have been used in previous rounds.
Currently, HHS intends to collect baseline data and one follow-up
18 months later, with future follow-up rounds contingent on funding
availability. Data from NSCAW are made available to the research
community through licensing arrangements from the National Data Archive
on Child Abuse and Neglect at Cornell University.
Respondents: 5,700 Children and their associated permanent or
foster caregivers, caseworkers, and teachers; in addition, an
administrator will be interviewed in each location from which children
are sampled.
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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Child Interview................................. 5,700 1 1.2 6,840
Permanent Caregiver Interview................... 3,800 1 2.0 7,600
Foster Caregiver Interview...................... 1,990 1 1.5 2,985
Caseworker Interview............................ 5,700 1 1.0 5,700
Teacher Questionnaire........................... 3,000 1 .75 2,250
Agency Questionnaire............................ 97 1 1.0 97
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 25,472.
In compliance with the requirements of Section 506(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: August 15, 2007.
Brendan C. Kelly,
Reports Clearance Officer.
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