Mar 10 -- The Census Bureau invites comments to OMB by April 10, 2023 on the proposed revision of the National Survey of Children's Health for 2023.
The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) enables the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) along with supplemental sponsoring agencies, states, and other data users to produce national and state-based estimates on the health and well-being of children, their families, and their communities as well as estimates of the prevalence and impact of children with special health care needs.
Data will be collected using one of two modes. The first mode is a web instrument (Centurion) survey that contains the screener and topical instruments. The web instrument first will take the respondent through the screener questions. If the household screens into the study, the respondent will be taken directly into one of the three age-based topical sets of questions. The second mode is a mailout/mailback of a self-administered paper-and-pencil interviewing (PAPI) screener instrument followed by a separate mailout/mailback of a PAPI age-based topical instrument.
The National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) is a large-scale (sample size is up to 385,000 addresses) national survey with approximately 200,000 addresses included in the base production survey and approximately 185,000 addresses included as part of fifteen separate age-based, state-based, or region-based oversamples. The 2023 NSCH will include a topical incentive test. Prior cycles of the survey have included a $5 unconditional cash incentive with the initial mailing of the paper topical questionnaire. The incentive has proven to be a cost-effective intervention for increasing survey response and reducing nonresponse bias. The 2023 NSCH will continue to test a $10 cash incentive, with a focus on lower responding households.
As in prior cycles of the NSCH, there remain two key, non-experimental design elements. The first additional non-experimental design element is a $5 screener cash incentive mailed to 90% of sampled addresses; the remaining 10% (the control) will receive no incentive to monitor the effectiveness of the cash incentive. This incentive is designed to increase response and reduce nonresponse bias. The incentive amount was chosen based on the results of the 2022 NSCH as well as funding availability. The second additional non-experimental design element is a data collection procedure based on the block group-level paper-only response probability used to identify households (30% of the sample) that would be more likely to respond by paper and send them a paper questionnaire in the initial mailing.
The 2023 collection is the eighth administration of the NSCH. It is an annual survey, with a new sample drawn for each administration.
NSCH-Census:
https://www.census.gov/nsch
NSCH-HRSA:
https://mchb.hrsa.gov/data-research/national-survey-childrens-health
Census submission to OMB:
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202303-0607-001 Click IC List for information collection instrument, View Supporting Statement for technical documentation. Submit comments through this webpage.
FRN:
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2023-04932
For AEA members wishing to submit comments, "A Primer on How to Respond to Calls for Comment on Federal Data Collections" is available at
https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=5806