[Federal Register: October 5, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 193)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Comment Request
Proposed Project
Title: Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) Demonstration and
Evaluation Project: 12-month Follow-up and Implementation Research Data
Collection.
OMB No.: New Collection.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, is conducting a demonstration and
evaluation called the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) project. SHM is
a test of marriage education demonstration programs in eight separate
locations that will aim to enroll up to 1,000 couples per location, up
to 500 couples participating in SHM programs and 500 control group
couples.
SHM is designed to inform program operators and policymakers of the
most effective ways to help low-income married couples strengthen and
maintain healthy marriages. In particular, the project will measure the
effectiveness of marriage education programs by randomly assigning
eligible volunteer couples to SHM program groups and control groups.
This data collection request includes three components. First, a
survey will be administered to couples 12 months after they are
enrolled in the program. The survey is designed to assess the effects
of the SHM program on marital status and stability, quality of
relationship with spouse, marital expectations and ideals, marital
satisfaction, participation in services, parenting outcomes, child
outcomes, parental well-being, employment, income, material hardship,
and social support characteristics of study participants assigned to
both the program and control groups. Second, survey data will be
complemented by videotaped observations of couple, co-parenting, and
parent-child interactions with a subset of intact and separated couples
at the 12-month follow-up. Third, qualitative data will be collected
through a process and implementation study in each of the eight SHM
demonstration programs across the country.
These data will complement the information gathered by the SHM
baseline data collection (OMB Control No. 0970-0299). The information
collected at the 12-month follow-up will allow the research team to
examine the effects of SHM services on outcomes of interest and to
identify mechanisms that might account for these effects. The process
and implementation research will consist of a qualitative component
that will help ACF to better understand the results from the impact
analysis as well as how to replicate programs that prove to be
successful.
Respondents: Low-income married couples with children.
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Annual Burden Estimates
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Annual number Number of Average burden Estimated
Instrument of responses per hours per annual burden
respondents respondent response hours
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12-month survey................................. 10,240 1 0.83 8,499.2
12-month observational study (intact couples)... 3,200 1 0.68 2,176
12-month observational study (separated couples) 160 1 0.17 27.2
12-month observational study (children of intact 1,600 1 0.33 528
couples).......................................
12-month observational study (children of 160 1 0.17 27.2
separated couples).............................
The process and implementation field research 504 1 1 504
guide..........................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 11,761.6.
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: October 1, 2007
Brendan C. Kelly,
OPRE Reports, Clearance Officer.
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