[Federal Register: October 1, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 190)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and 
Recommendations

    In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for

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opportunity for public comment on proposed data collection projects, 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will publish 
periodic summaries of proposed projects. To request more information on 
the proposed projects or to obtain a copy of the data collection plans 
and instruments, call the CDC Reports Clearance Officer at (404) 498-
1210.
    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. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC 
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-D24, 
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days 
of this notice.
    Proposed Project: ``Reactions to Race'' Module for the General 
Social Survey (GSS)--New--National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).
    The purpose of this data collection is to understand some of the 
contextual, perceptual, and experiential factors associated with 
reactions to ``race'' that may contribute to racial disparities in 
health outcomes. CDC will fund ``Reactions to Race'' data collection on 
the 2004 General Social Survey (GSS). The Measures of Racism Working 
Group at CDC developed a 10-question module in the GSS.
    The GSS is a biennial national population-based in-person survey 
conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the 
University of Chicago. GSS first data collection was in 1972. The basic 
purpose of the GSS is too continue ``to gather data on contemporary 
American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants 
in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes; to examine the structure and 
functioning of society in general as well as the role played by 
relevant subgroups; to compare the United States to other societies in 
order to place American society in comparative perspective and develop 
cross-national models of human society; and to make high-quality data 
easily accessible to scholars, students, policy makers, and others, 
with minimal cost and waiting'' (see http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/projects/gensoc1.asp
).
    CDC is contracting with NORC through an existing agreement to 
administer the ``Reactions to Race'' module to the full GSS sample, 
consisting of 3,000 non-institutionalized U.S. adults, starting in June 
2004. The questionnaire will be administered in-person by trained 
interviewers who have been ``race''-matched with the predominant 
``race'' of residents in each sampled area.
    The distributions of responses to the questions on the ``Reactions 
to Race'' module will be examined across all respondents as well as 
compared by ``race''. In addition, we will look at the relationship 
between the responses from the ``Reactions to Race'' module and 
responses to other health, attitude, and behavior questions (including 
a detailed assessment of experiences at work) on the 2004 GSS. These 
other data will provide a rich resource to help us contextualize 
responses to the module.
    Ultimately, the results from this data collection will be useful as 
we examine the causes of and design interventions to eliminate racial 
and ethnic health disparities. There are no costs to respondents.

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                                                                  Number of       Avg. burden/
                 Respondent                      Number of        responses/     response  (in     Total burden
                                                respondents       respondent         hours)         (in hours)
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U.S. Adults.................................           3,000                1             5/60              250
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      Total.................................  ...............  ...............  ...............             250
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    Dated: September 25, 2003.
Nancy E. Cheal,
Acting Associate Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-24836 Filed 9-30-03; 8:45 am]

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