[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62166-62167]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29873]


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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: Census 2000, Evaluation of the Facility Questionnaire.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 220 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 1,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 12 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau must provide everyone in the 
United States and Outlying Areas the opportunity to be counted in 
Census 2000 as well as making sure that persons are counted in the 
appropriate places such as places defined as special Places (SP). SPs 
include such places as colleges and universities, nursing homes, 
halfway houses, and correctional facilities. The Census 2000 Special 
Place Facility Questionnaire is an operation in which updated 
information is gathered from operators of SPs on the group quarters 
(GQs) and housing units located at the SP and GQ codes are assigned. 
The GQ code is a critical component to correctly tabulating census data 
for different types of GQs. Interviews are conducted either by 
telephone using Computer-assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) or by 
personal visit. This operation, cleared previously by the Office of 
Management and Budget under approval number 0607-0786, began in October 
1998 and will conclude in July 1999.
    To evaluate this operation, the Census Bureau is proposing to 
conduct a follow-up operation of 1,000 cases. The reinterview will be 
conducted via personal visits administered by specially trained 
interviewers using a paper questionnaire that has been modified from 
the production questionnaire. The information collected during the 
reinterviews will concern the types of services the facility provides, 
the number of persons that reside within the facility, and what types 
of GQs are associated with the facility. All information collected will 
be pertinent to verifying the accuracy of the GQ code.
    We will use these data to determine: (1) How well the facility 
questionnaire performed by assessing the frequency with which the GQ 
code was different between the production interview and reinterview, 
(2) whether or not there was a significant difference in the occurrence 
of GQ code change by special place type, and (3) whether or not CATI 
versus personal visit increased data quality by computing item 
nonresponse rates. The evaluation interviews will be conducted in six 
regions during January 2000.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One-time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 141 and 193.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
    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]).

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    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: November 10, 1999.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 99-29873 Filed 11-15-99; 8:45 am]
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