[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 6, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 76213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30962]


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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: 2001 Survey of Program Dynamics.
    Form Number(s): SPD-21005, SPD-21006, SPD-21007, SPD-21008, SPD-
21009, SPD-21103(L), SPD-21105(L), SPD-21107(L), SPD-21109(L), SPD-
21113(L), SPD-21999.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0838.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 37,023 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 75,225.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 29.5 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau seeks OMB approval to conduct the 
2001 Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD). The SPD provides the basis for 
an overall evaluation of how well welfare reforms are achieving the 
aims of the Administration and the Congress and meeting the needs of 
the American people. This survey simultaneously measures the important 
features of the full range of welfare programs, including programs that 
are being reformed and those that are unchanged, and the full range of 
other important social, economic, demographic, and family changes that 
will facilitate or limit the effectiveness of the reforms.
    The SPD is a longitudinal study that follows a subset of the 
respondents from the 1992 and 1993 panels of the Survey of Income and 
Program Participation (SIPP). The SPD was first implemented in the 
spring of 1997 with a bridge survey that provided a link to baseline 
data for the period prior to the implementation of welfare reforms. The 
first full-scale SPD was conducted in 1998. Annual surveys are 
currently planned through 2002. The data gathered for the 10-year 
period (1992-2002) will aid in assessing short- to medium-term 
consequences of outcomes of the welfare legislation.
    The 2001 SPD instrument will remain largely unchanged from 2000. A 
new response category will be added to an existing question regarding 
types of health insurance coverage. Also, a paper Adolescent Self-
Administered Questionnaire (SAQ) for 12- to 17-year-olds will be added. 
The Adolescent SAQ was last asked in the 1998 SPD. The 2001 SPD is 
conducted by our interviewing staff using a computer-assisted 
interviewing instrument on laptops during personal and telephone 
interviews.
    In order to improve the validity of the SPD data we supplemented 
the 2000 SPD sample with 3,500 former SIPP households who were non-
interviews in the 1997 SPD. Contingent on Congressional funding, we 
plan to continue interviewing these 3,500 households and add an 
additional 6,000 former SIPP households to the 2001 SPD sample. As in 
previous years, we will offer monetary incentives to select groups of 
respondents in order to maintain and improve response rates.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 42 U.S.C., Section 614.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Madeleine Clayton, Departmental Forms Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-3129, Department of Commerce, room 6086, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    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 30, 2000.
Madeleine Clayton,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-30962 Filed 12-05-00; 8:45 am]
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