[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8764-8765]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3390]


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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: 2005 Census Survey of Maricopa County, Arizona.
    Form Number(s): CSMA-1, CSMA-1(PV), CSMA-1 L1, CSMA-1 L2, CSMA-1 
L3, CSMA-2, CSMA-1(RI), SC-116, and SC-351(GQ).
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 12,042 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 118,607.
    Avg. Hours Per Response: Housing Units--6 min.; Group Quarters--10 
min.; Reinterview--8 min.
    Needs and Uses: In lieu of a Special Census, the Maricopa 
Association of Governments (MAG), at the request of their member 
jurisdictions (24 cities and towns within Maricopa County), requested 
the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a data collection effort for the 
purpose of updating population and housing unit information from the 
Census 2000. This data collection effort is called the 2005 Census 
Survey of Maricopa County, Arizona (CSMA). The CSMA will produce 
September 1, 2005 estimates for housing units, occupied housing units, 
resident population; resident population living in housing units; and 
resident population not living in housing units (group quarters and 
outdoor locations) for Maricopa County, 24 cities in the county, the 
balance of the county, 5 sub-areas for Phoenix, and 2 sub-areas for 
Mesa. The resident population estimates will be used to distribute 
state-shared revenues.
    The MAG requested that we produce the estimates by a survey of 
housing units and a 100 percent enumeration of the non-housing unit 
population.
    The Census Bureau will conduct a survey of housing units to produce 
the estimates for resident population in housing units, the number of 
housing units, and the number of occupied housing units. We will 
contact each identified group quarters and visit outdoor locations to 
obtain the resident population not living in housing units. We will sum 
the two resident populations to produce the total number of residents.
    We will mail each sample housing unit a questionnaire to determine 
whether it was occupied on September 1, 2005. If it was occupied, we 
will ask for the total number of people living in the housing unit and 
for each person's name, age, and sex. We will follow-up with each 
housing unit that does not return its questionnaire and conduct either 
a computer assisted telephone interview or a personal visit interview. 
We will use a vendor's data base to obtain phone numbers by matching on 
the address.
    We will have a reinterview program for the cases completed by 
personal visit. The reinterview program will contact approximately ten 
percent of the personal visit cases to check the enumerators' work. 
Reinterview is necessary to deter the falsification of data by 
enumerators in the field. Its primary purpose is to identify 
enumerators who intentionally falsify data, and to promptly remove 
them. Reinterview is also used for quality assurance purposes to ensure 
that enumerators are following procedures correctly, and to retrain 
those who are not.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households; business or other for-
profit; not-for-profit institutions.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 8.
    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

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Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) or e-mail ([email protected]).

    Dated: February 16, 2005.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-3390 Filed 2-22-05; 8:45 am]
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