[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 122 (Friday, June 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30522-30523]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-15209]


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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: 2010 Census Coverage Measurement Initial Housing Unit 
Followup.
    Form Number(s): D-1303, D-1303(PR), D-1380, D-1380(PR).
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 22,000.
    Number of Respondents: 400,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 3 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) Initial Housing Unit Followup Operation as part of 
the 2010 Census. The 2010 CCM Initial Housing Unit Followup 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 independent of and will not influence 
the 2010 Census operations.
    The 2010 CCM 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 
primary sampling unit is a block cluster, which consists of one or more 
contiguous census blocks. The P sample is a sample of housing units and 
persons in CCM block clusters obtained independently from the census. 
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 operation, and additional OMB packages will 
be submitted for subsequent CCM field operations.
    CCM will be conducted for the 2010 Census to provide estimates of 
net coverage error and components of coverage error (for omissions and 
erroneous enumerations) for housing units and persons in housing units 
(see Definition of Terms in Part B) to improve future censuses. The 
data collection and matching methodologies for previous coverage 
measurement programs were designed only to measure net coverage error, 
which measures the net difference between omissions and erroneous 
inclusions. In 2010, the CCM will classify omissions and erroneous 
census enumerations according to several classifications.
    During CCM Initial Housing Unit Followup, interviewers collect 
additional information for addresses unresolved after matching 
operations. The CCM Initial Housing Unit Followup operation attempts to 
collect additional information that might allow a resolution of match/
nonmatched codes for addresses in the CCM Independent Listing and the 
census address list, including whether occupied or vacant, and also to 
resolve potential duplicates. This 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.
    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 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]).


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    Dated: June 23, 2009.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-15209 Filed 6-25-09; 8:45 am]
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