[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 186 (Monday, September 27, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 51953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25025]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    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: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: 2000 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program 
Participation, Core and Wave 1 Topical Modules.
    Form Number(s): SIPP-20105(L) Director's Letter, SIPP/CAPI 
Automated Survey Instrument.
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 25,467 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 26,250.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau conducts the Survey of Income and 
Program Participation (SIPP) to collect information from a sample of 
households concerning the distribution of income received directly as 
money or indirectly as in-kind benefits. SIPP data are use by economic 
policymakers, the Congress, state and local governments, and Federal 
agencies that administer social welfare and transfer payment programs 
such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Agriculture.
    The SIPP is a longitudinal survey, in that households in the panel 
are interviewed at 4-month intervals or waves over the life of the 
panel. The duration of a panel is typically 3 to 4 years. The length of 
the 2000 SIPP Panel is subject to the approval of budget initiatives 
but is currently scheduled for one year and will include three waves of 
interviews.
    The survey is molded around a central core of labor force and 
income questions, health insurance questions, and questions concerning 
government program participation that remain fixed throughout the life 
of the panel. The core questions are asked at Wave 1 and are updated 
during subsequent interviews. The core is supplemented with additional 
questions or topical modules designed to answer specific needs.
    This request is for clearance of the core survey questions and 
topical modules to be asked during Wave 1 of the 2000 SIPP Panel. The 
topical modules for Wave 1 are: Recipiency History and Employment 
History. Wave 1 interviews will be conducted from February through May 
2000. Additionally, a reinterview for quality control purposes will be 
conducted with a small sub-sample of respondents throughout the life of 
the panel. We also seek approval to use the Wave 1 survey instrument as 
part of an experimental panel designed to deliver an improved and less 
burdensome instrument for use in the 2004 SIPP Panel. Testing of 
monetary incentives to encourage non-respondents is planned for all 
waves of the 2000 SIPP Panel.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Every 4 months.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Section 182.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-7313.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5027, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
LE[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Linda Hutton, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: September 21, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-25025 Filed 9-24-99; 8:45 am]
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