[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 188 (Friday, September 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61068-61069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24538]


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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 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program 
Participation, Wave 7 Topical Modules.
    Form Number(s): SIPP 21705(L) Director's Letter; SIPP/CAPI 
Automated Instrument, SIPP 21003 Reminder Card.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0875.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 119,378 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 78,750.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct the Wave 7 Topical 
Module interview for the 2001 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program 
Participation (SIPP). We also request approval for a few replacement 
questions in the reinterview instrument. The core SIPP instrument and 
reinterview instrument were cleared previously. The reinterview 
instrument will be used for quality control purposes.
    The SIPP is designed as a continuing series of national panels of 
interviewed households that are introduced every few years, with each 
panel having durations of 3 to 4 years. The 2001 SIPP Panel is 
scheduled for three years and will include nine waves beginning 
February 1, 2001.
    The survey is molded around a central ``core'' of labor force and 
income questions that remain fixed throughout the life of a panel. The 
core is supplemented with questions designed to answer specific needs. 
These supplemental questions are included with the core and are 
referred to as ``topical modules.'' The topical modules for the 2001 
Panel Wave 7 are Informal Caregiving, Children's Well-Being, Retirement 
and Pension Plan Coverage, Annual Income and Retirement Accounts, and 
Taxes. Wave 7 interviews will be conducted from February through May 
2003.
    Data provided by the SIPP are being used by economic policymakers, 
the Congress, state and local governments, and Federal agencies that 
administer social welfare or transfer payment programs, such as the 
Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of 
Agriculture. The SIPP represents a source of information for a wide 
variety of topics and allows information for separate topics to be 
integrated to form a single and unified database so that the 
interaction between tax, transfer, and other government and private 
policies can be examined. Government domestic policy formulators depend 
heavily upon the

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SIPP information concerning the distribution of income received 
directly as money or indirectly as in-kind benefits and the effect of 
tax and transfer programs on this distribution. They also need improved 
and expanded data on the income and general economic and financial 
situation of the U.S. population. The SIPP has provided these kinds of 
data on a continuing basis since 1983, permitting levels of economic 
well-being and changes in these levels to be measured over time.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Every 4 months.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Section 182.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, room 6625, 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: September 23, 2002.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 02-24538 Filed 9-26-02; 8:45 am]
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