Request for Approval

DI-4011 (Rev. 07/2018)
U.S. Department of the Interior

OMB Control. No. 1090-0011
Expiration Date 10/31/2021

REQUEST FOR APPROVAL UNDER THE
“DOI GENERIC CLEARANCE FOR THE COLLECTION OF
QUANTITATIVE FEEDBACK ON AGENCY SERVICE DELIVERY”

See Page 4 for Instructions on Completing This Form
Title of Information Collection

Focus Group Interviews and User Testing to Assess Hunter Attitudes toward the HIP Questions and Migratory Bird Harvest Survey
Purpose

The USFWS Migratory Bird Program currently conducts the annual National Migratory Bird Harvest Survey to
estimate migratory bird harvest and hunter activity in 49 states (all but Hawaii). The survey sample frame comes
from each states' Harvest Information Program (HIP) in which hunters are asked questions about their hunting
avidity in order to place them into strata for sampling and estimation. Hunters are then sampled from each strata and
sent invitations to the online survey asking them to report their hunting activity during the current hunting season.
Recent analyses suggest that hunter attitudes toward, and misunderstanding of, HIP questions and the harvest
survey may lower response rates, and introduce bias and imprecision in estimates of harvest and hunter activity.
The purpose of this information collection is to investigate (1) how hunter understanding of, and attitudes toward,
HIP questions and the harvest survey might influence the validity of their answers, and (2) identify and recommend
changes to the HIP questions and the online harvest survey that improve stratification, hunter participation in the
online survey, and the quality of information collected by the survey. This information will be collected by a
contractor, DJ Case & Associates, using 12 focus groups consisting of 10 participants/group (4 flyways x 3 hunting
avidity levels). Each focus group will be asked to participate virtually in group interviews, followed by a session of
user testing of the online harvest survey.
Description of Respondents
Respondents will be sampled from hunters who registered for the Harvest Information Program in the 2020-2021 hunting season, stratified by geographic location (one
of 4 US Flyways: Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, or Pacific) and hunting avidity (did not hunt last year, hunted but killed less than 10 birds, or hunted and killed greater
than 10 birds). A maximum of 120 respondents will be asked to participate. In general, the sample frame of hunters enrolled in the Harvest Information Program (HIP)
are > 16 years old, because most states do not require youth hunters to register for HIP. However, some states do register youth hunters, and they can be potentially
selected for the voluntary national harvest survey, because we require an unbiased sample of hunters in order to achieve a rigorous unbiased estimate of the harvest of
migratory birds. However, given the small proportion of youth hunters (< 3%) in the sample frame, and our small interview sample, we will exclude sampling youths for
the focus groups in favor of getting a more representative sample of hunters who make up the vast majority of the hunting population.

Type of Collection (Check One)
Customer Comment Card/Complaint Form

Customer Satisfaction Survey

Focus Group

Usability Testing (e.g., Website or Software

Small Discussion Group

Other:

Certification
I certify the following to be true:
1. The collection is voluntary.
2. The collection is low-burden for respondents and low-cost for the Federal Government.
3. The collection is non-controversial and does not raise issues of concern to other federal agencies.
4. The results are not intended to be disseminated to the public.
5. Information gathered will not be used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy decisions.
6. The collection is targeted to the solicitation of opinions from respondents who have experience with the program or may have
experience with the program in the future.
Typed Name of Requester
Signature
Date
Kathleen Fleming, Br. Chief, Monitoring and Data MgmtKATHLEEN FLEMING

Bureau ICCO
Recommend
Not Recommended
DOI PRA Program Lead
Approved
Not Approved

Digitally signed by KATHLEEN FLEMING
Date: 2020.10.30 11:21:23 -04'00'

FOR USE BY ICC PROGRAM STAFF ONLY
Signature

MADONNA BAUCUM
DOI Tracking Number
2020-FWS-FT114

Signature

Digitally signed by MADONNA BAUCUM
Date: 2020.10.30 12:34:30 -04'00'

10/30/2020

Date

10/30/2020
Date

signed by JEFFREY PARRILLO
10/30/2020
JEFFREY PARRILLO Digitally
Date: 2020.10.30 12:59:52 -04'00'

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DI-4011 (Rev. 07/2018)
U.S. Department of the Interior

OMB Control. No. 1090-0011
Expiration Date 10/31/2021

TO ASSIST REVIEW, PLEASE PROVIDE ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
Personally Identifiable Information (Please consult with your Bureau/Office Privacy Act Officer)
1. Will you collect any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)?
No
Yes If “Yes,” please consult with your Bureau/Office Privacy Act Officer.
2. If “Yes”, is the information to be collected included in records that are subject to the Privacy Act of 1974?
No
Yes
3. If applicable, has a System or Records Notice (SORN) been published?
No
Yes If “Yes,” please provide the title and FR citation below:
Title of SORN:
FR Citation for SORN

Migratory Bird Population and Harvest Surveys – Interior, FWS-26 (May 28, 1999) 64 FR 29055
Gifts or Payments (Please refer to OMB guidance “Questions and Answers When Designing Surveys for Information Collections”)
Is an incentive (e.g., money or reimbursement of expenses, token of appreciation) provided to participants?
No
Yes If
“Yes”, please describe the incentive and provide a justification for the amount:
An incentive of $40 will be provided to compensate participants for the interview. Respondents completing a 15-minute testing will receive $10. We estimate the burden time to be 1
hour 45 minutes for the interview and 15 minutes for the testing. Our experience with hunter participation in our harvest surveys indicates that response to invitations is low, approx.
30-40%, and skewed positive toward avid hunters. Therefore, we believe offering an incentive will be necessary to attract a sample of hunters with a diversity of views and attitudes.

Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Business Reference Model (Check only one “Line of Business” and one “Subfunction.”
Refer to OMB guidance “FEA Consolidated Reference Model Document Version 2.3”)
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Subfunction
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Subfunction
Community and
Social Services
Defense and
National Security
Economic
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Correctional
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Disaster
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Burden Hour Calculation
Category of Respondent

Individuals/Households

Number of Annual
Respondents

Number of
Responses Each

Total Annual
Responses

Participation
Time

Total Burden
Hours

120

1

120

2 hr

240

Federal Cost: (Consult your Bureau/Office Information Collection Clearance Officer for assistance, if necessary)
The estimated annual cost to the Federal government is $ 61,059.00

, based on: (provide details below)

The cost of this project represents contractor fees of $52,700 for conducting interviews and testing,
$1,500 for 6-mo software subscription needed to conduct remote user testing, $6,000 for cash
incentives for participants, $200 for printing and mailing of invitation postcards, and $659 in USFWS
staff time (10 hr, GS-14).

Sample Response to Federal Cost Question:
“If we receive 20 submissions and it takes 30 minutes to process and implement each one, then the total burden is $322.40
assuming a GS-7 step 5 is processing the submissions. Please note, however, that this custom form is a tool meant to accept
submissions in a standard format rather than through the freeform submissions that would otherwise come in by personal email.
Thus the existence of this form actually saves the government money by standardizing submissions and decreasing the workload of
processing each one.”
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DI-4011 (Rev. 07/2018)
U.S. Department of the Interior

OMB Control. No. 1090-0011
Expiration Date 10/31/2021

If you are conducting a focus group, survey, or plan to employ statistical methods, please provide answers to the
following questions:
Selection of Targeted Respondents
1. Do you have a customer list (or something similar) that defines the universe of potential respondents and do you have a
sampling plan for selecting from this universe?
No
Yes If “Yes,” please provide a description of both below (or attach the sampling plan). If the answer is no, please
provide a description of how you plan to identify your potential group of respondents and how you will select them.

The customer list is the Harvest Information Program sample frame, consisting of approximately 4 million hunters who
registered in 49 states in order to hunt migratory birds. Each state sends us the list of hunters and contact information
before and during the current year's hunting season. The sample frame will be stratified by their address into 1 of 4
flyways, and also stratified by hunting avidity based on how they answered the HIP questions (how many birds did you
shoot last year). Emails will be sent to a random sample of hunters in each stratum at rolling intervals to ensure a
sufficient number of participants is selected. Because participation is voluntary, hunters will self-select to participate.
Sample Response to Question 1 Above:
“Participants will self-select by choosing to follow the link to submit a resource. This is really no different than any website’s “Contact
Us” type of link; this submission form is only used by those who want to contribute to the toolkit. The “Submit a resource” link will be
located on the bottom of the toolkit homepage.”
Administration of the Instrument:
2.

How will you collect the information? (Check all that apply)
Web-based or other forms of Social Media

Telephone

Mail

Other: Zoom virtual meeting

In-person

Use of Interviewers or Facilitators:
3. Will you use interviewers or facilitators?
No

Yes
PLEASE SUBMIT SURVEY INSTRUMENT, INSTRUCTIONS, AND SCRIPTS WITH YOUR REQUEST.

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ATTACHMENTS
File with Screenshots:
• USFWS Fast Track Focus Group HIP Survey Screenshots 10072020.docx
Focus Group Documents:
• Focus Group reminder email.docx
• Focus Group Script.docx
• Invite email.docx
• last chance tech test email.docx
• post card invitation.ppt
• Recruitment questionnaire.docx
• Tech Test email 1.docx
• Tech Test email 2.docx