[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 58 (Monday, March 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 15747]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7489]



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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 - Coverage Study.
    Form Number(s): DG-1300.
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 160 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 960.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 10 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau is testing many new methods 
during the 1995 Census Test to enhance coverage and contain costs for 
the Year 2000 Decennial Census. Four of those new methods are the ``Be 
counted'' forms, refined rostering questions, the use of administrative 
records to improve coverage (simulated use only; administrative records 
will not be used to add persons to the census test count), and the use 
of automated matching and unduplication software. In order to evaluate 
these methods, the Census Bureau plans to conduct a Coverage Study in 
two of the three 1995 Census Test sites -- Oakland, CA and Paterson, 
NJ. The Coverage Study is designed to measure the degree to which each 
method introduced or, in the case of administrative records, may 
introduce erroneous enumerations (EEs) into census test counts and to 
determine the demographic characteristics of the EEs. Enumerators will 
visit a sample of households to verify residency status and to collect 
demographic characteristics about persons that were either added or 
deleted from census test counts by means of one of the above methods.
    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: March 21, 1995.
Gerald Tache,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 95-7489 Filed 3-24-95; 8:45 am]
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