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1024-0224 200709-1024-001
Historical Active 200409-1024-001
DOI/NPS
Programmatic Approval for National Park Service-Sponsored Public Surveys
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 06/05/2008
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 12/14/2007
This programmatic collection of information is approved to facilitate the NPS Social Science Program. As such, the agency is reminded that this approval is restricted to seven topical areas specified in the Supporting Statement. This approval is not suitable for programmatic evaluation, significant policy evaluation, non-market good valuations using both contingent value or hypothetical behavior questions. In addition, this information collection is approved for 3 years to facilitate NPS’s development, for its Visitor Survey Program, of a “continuous improvement plan” that includes small scale tests embedded in future collections to address items recommended during consultations with a survey design expert, which includes • check-all response format and double-response requests, • item nonresponse analysis to help determine specific problematic questions, and • cognitive testing on question ordering. NPS should report prior to its next submission the results of operational and other testing that will accompany plans move to a scanned questionnaire, as well as results from the specific testing items listed above. When NPS submits a survey under this collection, the agency must submit the survey instrument, and identify the questions in the survey instruments that are from the “Pool of Known Questions.” In addition, the agency must submit sufficient literature review, description of the methods, and description of any methodological research of which the survey will be a part (e.g., whether the methods are well-established or not). For any questions not substantially similar to those in the “Pool” or drawn from the literature, NPS should propose sufficient qualitative testing to demonstrate the questions prior to their use. The agency is reminded that it may not proceed with the survey unless it receives affirmative notice from OMB. OMB will strive to meet the expedited review schedule requested by the agency in this submission.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
06/30/2011 36 Months From Approved 06/30/2008
90,000 0 90,000
15,000 0 15,000
0 0 0