[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 14, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54352-54353]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18186]


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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: 2006 Person Interview and Person Interview Reinterview 
Operations.
    Form Number(s): None (automated instrument).
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden: 2,017 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 6,050.
    Average Hours Per Response: 20 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget to conduct a Census Coverage 
Measurement (CCM) Operation in preparation for the 2010 Census. The CCM 
operation is to occur during the 2006 Census Test to evaluate new 
approaches that would produce improved measures of coverage error 
components for persons enumerated while making reductions in the number 
of people duplicated.

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    A coverage measurement program evaluates the coverage of the 
Decennial Census enumeration.
    Coverage error includes:

--Components of Coverage Error--The two components of census coverage 
error are census omissions (missed persons) and erroneous inclusions. 
The latter includes duplicates, and persons who should not have been 
enumerated at a particular address (per our residence rules).
--Net Coverage Error--Reflects the difference between omissions and 
erroneous inclusions. A positive net error indicates an undercount, 
while a negative net error indicates an overcount.

    The purpose of the 2006 CCM test is not to evaluate the coverage of 
the 2006 Census Test per se, but rather to test ways of improving 
previous coverage measurement methods. The CCM operation will evaluate 
improvements to CCM data collection methods and new approaches tested 
in 2006 to provide better CCM data and more accurate measures of 
coverage error for the 2010 Census.
    The focus of the 2006 CCM Test is to test improved matching 
operations and data collection efforts designed to obtain more accurate 
information about where a person should have been enumerated according 
to our residence rules.
    An additional objective for the 2006 CCM Test is to determine if we 
can conduct coverage measurement interviews before all census data 
collection is complete, and do so without contaminating the census and 
adversely affecting coverage measurement. This contamination would have 
a small effect on the census, but a more serious effect on coverage 
measurement. There are several operational and data quality advantages 
of conducting coverage measurement interviews as close to census day as 
possible, but we do not want to do this if it will seriously affect 
measurement of coverage error.
    The 2006 CCM operations will use a sample of approximately 5,000 
housing units in selected census tracts in Travis County, Texas; and 
500 housing units on the Cheyenne River Reservation, off-reservation 
Trust Lands in South Dakota. The first operation of the CCM will be the 
PI operation. After data collected from the PI operation is matched to 
data collected by the short form enumeration in the CCM sample areas, 
certain cases will be sent for another CCM interview called the Person 
Followup Interview. A separate request for clearance will be submitted 
for that operation.
    We also will conduct a quality control operation--PI Reinterview 
(PIRI). For this operation a random sample of approximately 500 housing 
units in selected census tracts in Travis County, Texas; and 50 housing 
units on the Cheyenne River Reservation, off-reservation Trust Lands in 
South Dakota will be selected. The purpose of the operation is to 
confirm that the PI enumerator conducted a PI with an actual household 
member or a valid proxy respondent. If the PIRI staff detects falsified 
information by the original enumerator, all cases worked by the 
original enumerator are reworked by reassigning the cases to a 
different PI enumerator.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., 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 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 either by fax (202-395-7245) or 
email ([email protected]).

    Dated: September 8, 2005.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-18186 Filed 9-13-05; 8:45 am]
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