2024-16633. Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Request for Comment; National Traffic Safety Survey

Table 1—Overview of the Survey Administrations

Information collection	Number of respondents	Burden per response (minutes)	Total burden hours
Pilot Survey	250	30	125
Survey Administration 1	6,001	30	3,001
Survey Administration 2	6,001	30	3,001
Total	12,252		6,127

Since the survey administrations would occur over three years, NHTSA averaged the number of respondents responding to each of the six surveys over the three-year period to estimate that each of the surveys would have approximately 681 respondents per year. The burden estimates are based on this estimate.

NHTSA estimates that each of the six versions of the survey will have approximately 681 respondents each year and estimates that it takes approximately 30 minutes to complete each survey. Accordingly, NHTSA estimates that each of the surveys will have a burden of 341 hours per year, for a total of 2,046 hours of annual burden for all six of the surveys.

NHTSA estimates the opportunity cost to respondents using an average hourly wage. The May 2022 mean hourly wage for all occupations in the United States was $29.76 per hour.^[2] Therefore, NHTSA estimates the total annual opportunity cost to be approximately $60,889 ($29.76 × 2,046 = $60,888.96). Table 2 provides a summary of the estimated annual burden hours and labor costs associated with those submissions.

Table 2—Annual Burden Estimates

Information collection	Number of respondents	Burden per response (minutes)	Hourly opportunity cost	Opportunity cost response	Total opportunity cost	Total burden hours
Survey Version 1	681	30	$29.76	$14.88	$10,148.16	341
Survey Version 2	681	30	29.76	14.88	10,148.16	341
Survey Version 3	681	30	29.76	14.88	10,148.16	341
Survey Version 4	681	30	29.76	14.88	10,148.16	341
Survey Version 5	681	30	29.76	14.88	10,148.16	341
Survey Version 6	681	30	29.76	14.88	10,148.16	341
Total					60,888.96	2,046