[Federal Register: April 8, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 67)]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
clearance the following proposal for collection of information under 
the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: Bureau of the Census.
    Title: 1999 Long Term Care Survey (LTC).
    Form Number(s): LTC-1, LTC-2, LTC-3, LTC-4, LTC-7, LTC-9(L1), LTC-
9(L2), LTC-9P(L1), BNL-1.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0778.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of an expired 
collection.
    Burden: 10,131 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 19,785.
    Avg Hours Per Response: About 22 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The 1999 LTC is a continuation of LTC surveys the 
Census Bureau conducted in 1982, 1984, 1989 and 1994. The Census Bureau 
will conduct the 1999 LTC on behalf of the survey sponsor, the Center 
for Demographic Studies, Duke University.
    The survey will seek to gather information from elderly persons 
interviewed in previous LTC surveys and newly included elderly sample 
respondents on their health and functional status, informal care 
support, socio-demographics, housing, health service use and economic 
status. The LTC will be conducted by both personal visits and telephone 
interviews using computer-assisted (laptop) interviewing. The 1999 
survey will be preceded by a small pretest and hothouse test of survey 
questionnaires.
    Duke University will use the data and combine it with the data 
collected from prior LTC surveys to determine how people's health care 
needs change over time. Duke will also link the survey data to Medicare 
Part A files and Medicaid files (under agreement with the Health Care 
Financing Administration) for additional analyses concerning the 
interrelationships between health status and use of services. Planners 
and policy makers also use data from the survey to conduct research to 
improve Medicare services and to plan for a sound future for the 
Medicare program.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, Businesses or other 
for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Every 5 years.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 42 USC, Section 285e-1 and Title 15 USC, 
Section 1525.
    OMB Desk Officer: Nancy Kirkendall, (202) 395-7313.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5327, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Nancy Kirkendall, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: April 2, 1998.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 98-9213 Filed 4-7-98; 8:45 am]
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