Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB

review; Comment Request

Periodically, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration (SAMHSA) will publish a list of information collection

requests under OMB review, in compliance with the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). To request a copy of these documents, call

the SAMHSA Reports Clearance Officer on (301) 443-0525.

National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: ACASI Field Test 2--New--

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

will conduct a field test in October-December, 1997, to examine

alternative designs for an Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interview

(ACASI) version of the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)

questionnaire. The experimental design will compare variations in skip

patterns, automatic internal consistency checks, number of chances to

report use of substance. The basic questionnaire content will be

identical to the 1997 NHSDA questionnaire. Approximately 2,300

interviews will be conducted with persons age 12 and older. A

standardized set of respondent debriefing questions will be

administered to the field test sample and to 750 respondents to the

ongoing 1997 NHSDA. The estimated response burden for the field test is

shown below:

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No.of Responses per Hours per Total burden

respondents respondent response hours

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Electronic Household Screener................... 16,179 1 0.05 809

Electronic Questionaire, Debriefing and

Verification Form.............................. 2,256 1 0.92 2,076

Screening Verification.......................... 485 1 0.067 33

Interview Verification.......................... 338 1 0.067 23

Debriefing Questions for 1997 NHSDA Respondents. 750 1 0.12 90

Total....................................... .............. .............. .............. 3,031

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Written comments and recommendations concerning the proposed

information collection should be sent within 30 days of this notice to:

Virginia Huth, Human Resources and Housing Branch, Office of Management

and Budget, New Executive Office Building, Room 10236, Washington, D.C.

20503.

Dated: June 16, 1997.

Richard Kopanda,

Executive Officer, SAMHSA.

[FR Doc. 97-19604 Filed 7-24-97; 8:45 am]

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