Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: Comment Request

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 39 (Monday, March 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 10007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4951]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources And Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995. To request more information on the proposed project or to 
obtain a copy of the data collection plans and draft instruments, call 
the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-1891.

Comments are Invited 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) ways to enhance 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.

Proposed Project: Health Status, Behaviors, and Health Service 
Perceptions of Non-College Educated and College Educated African 
American Women--New

    The Office of Minority and Women's Health (OMWH) in the Bureau of 
Primary Health Care (BPHC), Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) awarded funding for a pilot study which will 
develop information about the design of a sample appropriate to 
determine the health status, behaviors, and health service perceptions 
of African American women who are: (1) college educated, and (2) low 
income, non-college educated. The pilot study will be used to evaluate 
the interview instrument and to discover the practical issues and 
feasibility of sampling low income African American women from the 
databases of community health centers in three test locations. The goal 
is to assess the instrument, the sample sources, the procedures, and 
the response rates and to determine the extent to which data can be 
collected in a systematic and comprehensive manner. The pilot study is 
the first step in a much larger nationwide effort to build a 
significant data set containing detailed information on health status, 
health indicators, and health behaviors of African American women.
    The burden estimate for the pilot study is as follows:

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                                                                                     Hours per
           Respondent                Number of     Responses per       Total         response       Total hour
                                    respondents     respondent       responses       (minutes)        burden
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College Educated................              60               1              60              40              40
Non-College Educated............             180               1             180              40             120
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    Total.......................             240  ..............             240  ..............             160
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    Send comments to Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 14-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: February 23, 1999.
Jane Harrison,
Director, Division of Policy Review and Coordination.
[FR Doc. 99-4951 Filed 2-26-99; 8:45 am]
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