[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 60 (Thursday, March 27, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 16263]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-6259]


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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: Migration Supplement to the Current Population Survey.
    Form Number(s): CPS-263 (MIS-1) (L) (8-2007), CPS-263 (MIS-5) (L) 
(11-2006).
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0710.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of an expired 
collection.
    Burden Hours: 2,250.
    Number of Respondents: 55,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 1 minute.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct the August 2008 
Migration supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). This 
clearance request covers five topics of supplemental inquiry in 
addition to the CPS Basic instrument: Citizenship, Year of Entry, 
Residence One Year Ago, Residents and Emigrants Abroad, and Transfers.
    As part of the federal government's efforts to collect data and 
provide timely information on migration for policy planning, the main 
citizenship and year of entry questions have been collected annually on 
the CPS Basic questionnaire since 1994. The Migration supplement to the 
CPS provides some basic data on contemporary migration dynamics and 
population change that is necessary for tracking historical trends. 
This supplement will be instrumental for understanding the prevalence 
and nature of changing migration patterns, which is necessary as 
background for maintaining high data quality, utility and relevance of 
data, and for policy planning and support. When combined with CPS-
collected characteristics, such as citizenship, place of birth, 
parental nativity, income, and household relationships, the data can 
provide information on the social and economic adaptation of and the 
potential needs of the foreign-born population over time in the United 
States. The CPS August 2008 Migration supplement will be the only 
comprehensive, nationally representative source of data on multiple 
years of entry to the United States, time outside the United States 
since coming to the United States, emigration, and monetary 
remittances.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Section 182.
    OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    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 Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) 
or e-mail ([email protected]).

    Dated: March 24, 2008.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
 [FR Doc. E8-6259 Filed 3-26-08; 8:45 am]
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