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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 

Agency Form Under Review by the Office of Management and Budget

    DOC has submitted 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: Bureau of the Census.
    Title: 1995 Census Test - Integrated Coverage Measurement (ICM) 
Person Interview.
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 8,237 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 22,411 hours.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 18 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: Prompted by the need to improve estimation 
techniques during the decennial census, the Census Bureau has developed 
the Integrated Coverage Measurement (ICM) approach. This approach will 
be tested during the 1995 Census Test. The ICM approach will utilize a 
separately sampled group of blocks within the 1995 Census Test sites 
which will be independently listed before the census test is conducted. 
After the census test is conducted, reinterviews (the ICM person 
interview) will be conducted at the same housing units that were 
previously independently listed to reconcile differences between the 
independent listing and the address list resulting from the census 
test. This reconciliation will allow us to measure our coverage of 
persons in missed housing units and coverage of persons missed within 
housing units enumerated in the census test. The independent listing 
phase of the ICM test is scheduled to begin January 3, 1995 and was 
approved under OMB number 0607-0794. This new request is for clearance 
of the next phase of the ICM approach--the person interview. The ICM 
approach supports one of the 1995 Census Test objectives--to use 
sampling and statistical estimation to reduce the differential 
undercount and census costs. Results of this test of the ICM approach 
will be applied to the Year 2000 Decennial Census.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One-time only.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory
    OMB Desk Officer: Maria Gonzalez, (202) 395-7313.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Gerald Tache, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202) 
482-3271, Department of Commerce, room 5312, 14th and Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent to Maria Gonzalez, OMB Desk Officer, room 
10201, New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: November 15, 1994.
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 94-28578 Filed 11-17-94; 8:45 am]
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