[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 11, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37701-37702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-13362]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit 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: 2008 Census Coverage Measurement, Initial Housing Unit 
Followup Operation.
    Form Number(s): DX-1303.
    Agency Approval Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 880.
    Number of Respondents: 16,000.
    Average Hours Per Response: 3 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: In preparation for the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census 
Bureau requests authorization to conduct the Census Coverage 
Measurement (CCM) Initial Housing Unit Followup Interview as part of 
the 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal. The CCM program for the dress 
rehearsal is a dry run to ensure that all planned coverage measurement 
operations are working as expected, integrated internally, and 
coordinated with the appropriate census operations.
    The 2008 Census Dress Rehearsal will be conducted in two sites, one 
urban, and the other, a mix of urban and suburban. San Joaquin County, 
California is the urban site. South Central North Carolina has been 
selected as the urban/suburban mix test site. This area consists of 
Fayetteville and nine surrounding counties (Chatham, Cumberland, 
Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, and Scotland).
    The 2008 CCM Dress Rehearsal will be comprised of two samples 
selected to measure census coverage of housing units and the household 
population: The population sample (P sample) and the enumeration sample 
(E sample). The P sample is a sample of housing units and persons 
obtained independently from the census for a sample of block clusters. 
The E sample is a sample of census housing units and enumerations in 
the same block cluster as the P sample. The independent roster of 
housing units is obtained during the CCM Independent Listing, the 
results of which will be matched to census housing units in the sample 
block clusters and surrounding blocks. Discrepancies between the CCM 
Independent Listing and census housing unit matching are followed up in 
Initial Housing Unit Followup. A separate OMB package was submitted for 
the CCM Independent Listing field operation, and additional OMB 
packages will be submitted for subsequent CCM field operations.
    The CCM operations planned for the dress rehearsal, to the extent 
possible, will mirror those that will be conducted for the 2010 Census 
to provide estimates of net coverage error and components of coverage 
error (omissions and erroneous enumerations) for housing units and 
persons in housing units. The data collection and matching 
methodologies for previous coverage measurement programs were designed 
only to measure net coverage error, which reflects the difference 
between omissions and erroneous inclusions.
    During CCM Initial Housing Unit Followup, interviewers collect 
additional information for addresses unresolved after the matching 
operations. The CCM Initial Housing Unit Followup operation attempts to 
collect additional information that might allow a resolution of match 
codes for any differences between the independent listing results and 
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census address list and also to resolve potential duplicates. The 
Initial Housing Unit Followup operation will also determine the housing 
unit/group quarters status for living quarters flagged during the CCM 
Independent Listing operation. The Initial Housing Unit Followup data 
collection form will be created via Docuprint technology. The questions 
included for each followup case will vary depending upon the reason the 
address is being sent to followup. There will be one Initial Housing 
Unit Followup Form, DX-1303, that contains preprinted questions to ask 
respondents dependent upon the reason the address is being sent to 
followup. Interviewers will contact a member of each housing unit (or 
proxy, as a last resort) to answer the questions identified for a given 
address. When applicable, they will also update the location of an 
address on the CCM block cluster map created during the CCM Independent 
Listing operation.
    Completed Initial Housing Unit Followup Forms are subject to 
Quality Control (QC) wherein QC interviewers return to the field to 
check a sample of housing units in each block cluster to ensure the 
work performed is of acceptable quality. If the cluster fails the QC, 
then the QC interviewer reworks the entire block cluster.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 
193.
    OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection 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 Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) 
or e-mail ([email protected]).

     Dated: July 5, 2007.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E7-13362 Filed 7-10-07; 8:45 am]
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