[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 14 (Monday, January 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 1559]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-748]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Supplemental Questions on Child Support Expenditures for the 
April 1996 Current Population Survey

ACTION: Proposed agency information collection activity; comment 
request.

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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, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before March 22, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Margaret Woody, Department of 
Commerce, Room 5310, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 
20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or 
copies of the information collection instrument(s) and instructions 
should be directed to Francia McDaniel, Bureau of the Census, FOB 3, 
Room 3340, Washington, DC 20233-8400, (301) 457-3806.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

    The U.S. Census Bureau is requesting an additional separate set of 
questions about child support expenditures at the end of the April 1996 
supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). This supplement 
currently focuses on child support received. Once collected, these data 
on child support payments will be used in conjunction with income data 
collected in the March supplement to the CPS. The purpose is to help 
refine the concept of income resources available to families, and is 
one aspect of the Government's large-scale investigation into new 
methods of determining poverty.
    We will ask the new set of questions on child support expenditures 
in addition to the supplemental questions on child support receipts 
(submitted separately) to avoid undue processing and respondent burden 
that would arise by placing them at the end of the March CPS. We will 
consider these items to be administrative data for the March CPS for 
internal use by the Census Bureau research staff. These data will not 
be disseminated on the April public use file. In terms of respondent 
burden of the April 1996 CPS, only a small number of families will be 
eligible to answer both existing and new sections of the supplement.

II. Method of Collection

    This supplemental information will be collected by both personal 
visit and telephone interviews in conjunction with the regular monthly 
CPS interviewing. All interviews are conducted using computers.

III. Data

    OMB Number: New collection; none assigned yet.
    Form Number: There are no forms associated with this supplement. We 
conduct all interviewing on computers.
    Type of Review: Regular.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 47,000.
    Estimated Time Per Response: .25 minute.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 196.
    Estimated Total Annual Cost: $30,000.

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.

    Dated: January 16, 1996.
Margaret Woody,
Office of Management and Organization.
[FR Doc. 96-748 Filed 1-19-96; 8:45 a.m.]
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