[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 18 (Tuesday, January 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4053-4054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1944]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Title: Head Start Family and Child Experience Survey (FACES).
OMB No.: New Collection.
Description: The Administration on Children, Youth and Families
(ACYF), Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is requesting Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) clearance for interview instruments to be
used in the Head Start Family and Child Experience Survey FACES. This
study is being conducted under contracts with Abt Associates Inc. (with
the CDM Group, Inc. as their subcontractor (#105-96-1930)) to collect
descriptive information on Head Start families, and Westat, Inc. (with
Ellsworth Associates as their subcontractor (#105-96-1912)) to collect
information on Head Start performance measures.
The design calls for these rounds of data collection. A nationally
representative group of 2,400 families with children enrolled in
approximately 160 centers in 40 Head Start programs will be identified
in Spring, 1997. At that time, Head Start staff and parents will be
interviewed, classroom observations will be completed, and children
will be assessed. The second data collection period will occur in Fall,
1997. Again, staff and parents will be interviewed, and children will
be assessed and observed in their classrooms. At that time children
from the Spring, 1997 sample that left Head Start to enter kindergarten
following the 1996-97 Head Start year will be replaced by a
representative sample of children just entering Head Start. All
families, including those whose children entered kindergarten in Fall,
1997 will be tracked through the school year. The final data collection
effort will occur in Spring, 1998 and involve all families and children
identified in the earlier two data collection periods. A subgroup of
120 families will be identified from the Spring and Fall, 1997 samples
for participation in the Validation Substudy. The Validation Substudy
data collection will require home visits to participating families at
each major data collection point and a series of monthly contacts
between data collections periods. The monthly contacts will begin with
the Spring, 1997 data collection and continue through December, 1998.
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This schedule of data collection is necessitated by the mandates of
the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (Pub. L. 103-
62), which requires that the Head Start Bureau move expeditiously
toward development and testing of Head Start Performance Measures, and
by the 1994 reauthorization of Head Start (Head Start Act, as amended,
May 18, 1994, Section 649 (d)), which requires assessment of Head
Start's quality and effectiveness.
Respondents: Federal Government, Individuals or Households, and
Not-for-profit institutions.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of Average
Number of responses burden Total
Instrument respondents per hours per burden
respondent response hours
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Spring, 1997................................................ 7,840 1 0.652 5,110
Fall, 1997.................................................. 8,400 1 .648 5,440
Spring, 1998................................................ 11,460 1 .654 7,500
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 9,025.
Note: The 9,025 annual hours is based on an average of 1997 and
1998 estimated burden hours.
Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be
obtained by writing to The Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Information Services, Division of Information Resource
Management Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447,
Attn: ACF Reports Clearance Officer.
OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning the
collection of information between 30 and 60 days after publication of
this document in the Federal Register. Therefore, a comment is best
assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication. Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent directly to the following: Office
of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project, 725 17th Street,
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attn: Ms. Wendy Taylor.
Dated: January 22, 1997.
Bob Sargis,
Acting Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-1944 Filed 1-27-97; 8:45 am]
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