[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 106 (Thursday, June 3, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31419-31420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13354]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2010 Census Coverage Measurement--Person Followup & Person
Followup Reinterview Operations and Respondent Debriefings.
OMB Control Number: None
Form Number(s): D-1301, D-1301(PR)..
Type of Request: New collection.
Burden Hours: 16,629.
Number of Respondents: 57,776.
Average Hours per Response: Person Followup Intervirews--15 min.;
Respondent Debriefings--10 min..
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct the Census
Coverage Measurement (CCM) Person Followup
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(PFU) and Person Followup Reinterview (PFU RI) operations as part of
the 2010 Census. Changes were made to this request since the notice was
published in the Federal Register (Vol. 74, No. 249, 69061, December
30, 2009). Respondent debriefings of the CCM Person Interview (PI) and
CCM PFU have been added. These are to be conducted as part of a CCM
evaluation. Details of this evaluation were not yet available at the
time of this notice or in time to include in the CCM PI OMB package.
The CCM program will provide estimates of net coverage error and
components of census coverage (including omissions and erroneous
enumerations) for housing units and persons in housing units (see
Definition of Terms in Part B, Collections of Information Employing
Statistical Methods). The data collection and matching methodologies
for previous coverage measurement programs were designed only to
measure net coverage error.
The 2010 CCM will be comprised of two samples selected to measure
census coverage of housing units and the household population: The
population sample (P sample) and the enumeration sample (E sample). The
primary sampling unit is a block cluster, which consists of one or more
contiguous census blocks. The P sample is a sample of housing units and
persons obtained independently from the census for a sample of block
clusters. The E sample is a sample of census housing units and
enumerations in the same block cluster as the P sample. The PFU
operation will contain approximately 57,776 sample addresses. The PFU
RI Operation will be a sample of those cases with an estimate 8,667
sample addresses.
The paper PFU questionnaire will be used to collect address and
dates of stay information for persons selected for followup to verify
their residence on Census Day (April 1, 2010) and on the day of the CCM
Person Interview for that household. PFU will also contain questions to
resolve match and duplication status discrepancies between the CCM
Person Interview and the Census.
We also will conduct a quality control operation called PFU
Reinterview (PFU RI) on 15 percent of the PFU cases. The purpose of the
operation is to confirm that the PFU enumerator conducted a PFU
interview with an actual household member or a valid proxy respondent
and to conduct a full PFU interview when falsification is suspected.
In addition to the CCM PFU and PFU RI operations, respondent
debriefings of the CCM Person Interview (PI) and CCM PFU will be
conducted. The purpose of the respondent debriefings is to obtain a
qualitative gauge of how well the PI and PFU instruments performed the
tasks they were designed to accomplish, those being to capture members
of the household and assign usual residence. Census Residence Rules
experts will observe approximately 220 PI and PFU personal visit
interviews and ask respondent debriefing questions at approximately 110
households (80 PI households and 30 PFU households). They will clarify
or verify the usual residence of the persons listed and other persons
who should have been counted. The experts will audiotape all observed
interviews and debriefings of respondents if permission is given by the
respondent. These audiotapes are for use in evaluations.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory (participation in debriefings is
voluntary).
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 141 and 193.
OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
[email protected]).
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245)
or email ([email protected]).
Dated: May 28, 2010.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-13354 Filed 6-2-10; 8:45 am]
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