[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 236 (Monday, December 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74456-74457]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-28911]


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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

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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: 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Independent Listing 
Operation.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Form Number(s): D-1302, D-1302(PR).
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 38,563.
    Number of Respondents: 1,000,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 2 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget to conduct the Census Coverage 
Measurement (CCM) Independent Listing Operation as part of the 2010 
Census. The 2010 CCM Independent Listing Operation will be conducted in 
the U.S. (excluding remote Alaska) and in Puerto Rico, in selected CCM 
sampled areas. As in the past, the CCM operations and activities will 
be conducted separate from and independent of the 2010 Census 
operations.
    CCM 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 
to improve future censuses. 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.
    The Independent Listing Operation is the first step in the CCM 
process. It will be conducted to obtain a complete inventory of all 
housing unit addresses within the CCM sample block clusters before the 
2010 Census enumeration commences. In those block clusters throughout 
the 50 states (excluding remote Alaska), the District of Columbia, and 
Puerto Rico, listers will canvass every street, road, or other place 
where people might live in their assigned block clusters and construct 
a list of housing units. Listers will contact a member of each housing 
unit (or proxy, as a last resort) to ensure all units at a given 
address are identified. They will also identify the location of each 
housing unit by assigning map spots on block maps provided with their 
assignment materials.
    Completed Independent Listing Books are subject to Dependent 
Quality Control (DQC) wherein DQC listers return to the field to check 
12 housing units per block cluster from a pre-specified random start to 
ensure that the work performed is of acceptable quality and to verify 
that the correct blocks were visited. If the block cluster fails the 
DQC, then the DQC lister reworks the entire block cluster. The 
completed listing books are keyed for matching against the census 
Decennial Master Address File for the same areas.
    There will be two Independent Listing Forms, D-1302 and D-1302 
(PR). The D-1302 is the English version of the listing form and will be 
used in CCM sample areas in the 50 states (excluding remote Alaska) and 
the District of Columbia. The D-1302 (PR) is the Spanish version of the 
listing form and will be used only in the CCM sample areas in Puerto 
Rico.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Section 141 
authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a decennial census of 
the population, and Section 193 authorizes the Secretary to conduct 
tests to gather supplementary information related to the census.
    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 7845, 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: December 3, 2008.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E8-28911 Filed 12-5-08; 8:45 am]
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