NSCH-LC 2023 OMB Non-Sub Change Request

OMB Non-Substantive Change Request

Department: Commerce

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau

Title: National Survey of Children’s Health – Longitudinal Cohort (NSCH-LC)

OMB Control Number: 0607-1028

The U.S. Census Bureau requests a non-substantive change to the currently approved NSCH-LC Information Collection Request. The Census Bureau last received a three-year clearance by OMB, which expires on September 30, 2026.

Background and Justification

The National Survey of Children's Health - Longitudinal Cohort is seeking approval to re-contact a small number (~5%) of our 2023 NSCH-LC sample. Recently the NSCH-LC team became aware of an error that occurred within the web instrument causing a small number of cases to appear without the reference child’s name within the topical question screens of the web instrument. Therefore, respondents were unable to provide valuable information about their child. The survey sponsor, HRSA MCHB, has asked Census to attempt to collect the missing data.

Data Collection

A new letter (NSCH-LC-TW1, Attachment A) has been created to relay what happened within the web instrument to the respondent. This letter will be mailed out with a paper topical questionnaire booklet containing the missing questions.

We would like to include this mail package with the already scheduled Topical Mailing Group 2 which includes an initial invitation along with up to three additional non-response follow-up mailings. Returned topical questionnaire booklets will be merged with the web screener data previously collected for that case. Data capture of the topical forms will proceed as normal.

Burden

There is no change in respondent burden hours associated with this request.