83 FR 52190 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 200 (October 16, 2018)

Page Range		52190-52191
FR Document		2018-22493

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 200 (Tuesday, October 16, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 200 (Tuesday, October 16, 2018)]
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[FR Doc No: 2018-22493]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Generic 
Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort 
to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public 
and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on 
proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on 
or before December 17, 2018.

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ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 
Paperwork Clearance Officer, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th 
and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the internet 
at docpra@doc.gov). You may also submit comments, identified by Docket 
Number USBC-2018-0013, to the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: 
http://www.regulations.gov. All comments received are part of the 
public record. No comments will be posted to http://www.regulations.gov 
for public viewing until after the comment period has closed. Comments 
will generally be posted without change. All Personally Identifiable 
Information (for example, name and address) voluntarily submitted by 
the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit Confidential 
Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information. 
You may submit attachments to electronic comments in Microsoft Word, 
Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF file formats only.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions 
should be directed to Jennifer Childs, Census Bureau, Washington, DC 
20233; (301) 763-4932 (or via the internet at 
jennifer.hunter.childs@census.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract

    The U.S. Census Bureau plans to request an extension of the current 
OMB approval to conduct a series of studies to research and evaluate 
how to improve data collection activities for data collection programs 
at the Census Bureau. These studies will explore how the Census Bureau 
can improve efficiency, data quality, and response rates and reduce 
respondent burden in future census and survey operations, evaluations 
and experiments.
    This information collection will operate as a generic clearance. 
The estimated number of respondents and annual reporting hours 
requested cover both the known and yet to be determined tests. A 
generic clearance is needed for these tests because though each share 
similar methodology, the exact number of tests and the explicit details 
of each test to be performed has yet to be determined. Once information 
collection plans are defined, they will be submitted on an individual 
basis in order to keep OMB informed as these tests progress.
    The Census Bureau plans to test the use of new and improved data 
collection techniques for self-enumeration and interviewer data-
collection tasks surrounding and following the ongoing census and 
survey operations. The research and evaluation may include: Developing 
alternative enumeration or follow-up questionnaires; usability issues; 
conducting interviews or debriefings; and non-English language training 
and interviews. To study enumeration, the Census Bureau may conduct the 
enumeration directly with a household member or knowledgeable 
respondent. The questions asked in these studies will be typical census 
or survey questions and questions related to that content, along with 
potential attitudinal and satisfaction debriefing questions.

II. Method of Collection

    The information will be collected through observations, self-
response, face-face interviews, and/or telephone interviews.

III. Data

    OMB Control Number: 0607-0971.
    Form Number: Not yet determined.
    Type of Review: Regular submission.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 100,000 per year.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 10 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 16,667 hours annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: There is no cost to the respondent 
other than time to answer the information request.
    Respondents Obligation: Mandatory or Voluntary, depending on cited 
authority.
    Legal Authority: Data collection for this project is authorized 
under the authorizing legislation for the questionnaire being tested. 
This may be Title 13, Sections 131, 141, 161, 181, 182, 193, and 301 
for Census Bureau sponsored surveys, and Title 13 and 15 for surveys 
sponsored by other Federal agencies. We do not now know what other 
titles will be referenced, since we do not know what survey 
questionnaires will be pretested during the course of the clearance.

IV. Request for Comments

    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 
(including hours and cost) 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.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and/or included in the request for OMB approval of this information 
collection; they also will become a matter of public record.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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II. Method of Collection Some addresses are deemed (HU), ACS RI (HU), AGQ QI, and AGQ
unmailable because the address is RI.
To encourage self-response in the incomplete or directs mail only to a post Type of Review: Regular submission.
ACS, the Census Bureau sends up to office box. The Census Bureau currently Affected Public: Federal and
five mailings to an address selected to collects data for these housing units legislative agencies, individuals,
be in the sample. The first mailing, sent using Computer-Assisted Personal households, and businesses.
to all mailable addresses in the sample, Interviewing. In July 2019, the ACS Estimated Time per Response: 40
includes an invitation to participate in plans to make the online survey minutes for the average household
the ACS online and states that a paper available to all housing units in the 50 questionnaire; 15 minutes for a GQ
questionnaire will be sent in a few states and the District of Columbia, facility questionnaire; 25 minutes for a
weeks to those unable to respond including those with unmailable GQ person questionnaire; 10 minutes for
online. Subsequent mailings serve as a addresses. Residents in housing units a household reinterview; 10 minutes for
reminder to respond to the survey, with with unmailable addresses will still be a GQ-level reinterview.
a paper questionnaire included in the contacted by Census Bureau Field Estimated Total Annual Burden
third mailing for those households that Representatives, but they will now be Hours: The Census Bureau plans to
prefer to respond by mailing back the given the option to complete the survey contact the following number of
questionnaire. The Census Bureau may online or by personal interview. respondents each year: 3,540,000
ask those who begin filling out the households; 200,000 persons in group
survey online to provide an email III. Data quarters; 20,000 contacts in group
address, which would be used to send quarters; 43,000 households for
an email reminder to households that OMB Control Number: 0607–0810. reinterview; and 1,500 group quarters
did not complete the online form. The Form Number(s): ACS–1, ACS–1(SP), contacts for reinterview. The estimate is
reminder asks them to log back in to ACS–1(PR), ACS–1(PR)SP, ACS–1(GQ), an annual average of 2,455,868 burden
finish responding to the survey. ACS–1(PR)(GQ), GQFQ, ACS CAPI hours.
TABLE 1—ANNUAL ACS RESPONDENT AND BURDEN HOUR ESTIMATES
Estimated
minutes per
Forms or instrument used in Annual estimated number Annual estimated
Data collection operation respondent by
data collection of respondents burden hours
data collection
operation

I. ACS Household Questionnaire—Paper Mailout/ ACS–1, ACS 1(SP), ACS–1PR, 3,540,000 ........................ 40 2,360,000.
Mailback. ACS–1PR(SP).
ACS Household CAPI—Personal Visit Non-response CAPI HU .......................................... [698,000 included in I.] ... [40] [466,000 included in I.].
Follow-up.
ACS Household internet ............................................... Internet HU ...................................... [712,000 included in I.] ... [40] [475,000 included in I.].
II. ACS GQ Facility Questionnaire CAPI—Telephone CAPI GQFQ .................................... 20,000 ............................. 15 5,000.
and Personal Visit.
III. ACS GQ CAPI Personal Interview or Telephone, CAPI, ACS–1(GQ), .......................... 200,000 ........................... 25 83,333.
and—Paper Self-response. ACS–1(GQ)(PR) ..............................
IV. ACS Household Reinterview—CATI/CAPI .............. ACS HU–RI ..................................... 43,200 ............................. 10 7,200.
V. ACS GQ GQ-level Reinterview—CATI/CAPI ........... ACS GQ–RI ..................................... 2,000 ............................... 10 335.

Totals ..................................................................... .......................................................... 3,805,200 ........................ N/A 2,455,868.

Estimated Total Annual Cost to collected; and (d) ways to minimize the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Public: $0 (This is not the cost of burden of the collection of information
respondents’ time, but the indirect costs on respondents, including through the Census Bureau
respondents may incur for such things use of automated collection techniques
as purchases of specialized software or Proposed Information Collection;
or other forms of information
hardware needed to report, or Comment Request; Generic Clearance
technology.
expenditures for accounting or records for Census Bureau Field Tests and
Comments submitted in response to Evaluations
maintenance services required
specifically by the collection.) this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau,
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. Commerce.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. approval of this information collection;
Sections 141 and 193. they also will become a matter of public ACTION: Notice.
record.
IV. Request for Comments SUMMARY: The Department of
Sheleen Dumas, Commerce, as part of its continuing
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the effort to reduce paperwork and
is necessary for the proper performance Chief Information Officer. respondent burden, invites the general
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whether the information shall have BILLING CODE 3510–07–P take this opportunity to comment on
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the proposed and/or continuing information
agency’s estimate of the burden collections, as required by the
(including hours and cost) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
proposed collection of information; (c) DATES: To ensure consideration, written
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and comments must be submitted on or
clarity of the information to be before December 17, 2018.

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Action		Notice.
Dates		To ensure consideration, written comments must be submitted on or before December 17, 2018.
Contact		Requests for additional information or copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions should be directed to Jennifer Childs, Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233; (301) 763-4932 (or via the internet at [email protected]).
FR Citation		83 FR 52190

83 FR 52190 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCECensus Bureau

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 200 (October 16, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau