[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 24, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 61329]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-28097]



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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, Person Interview and 
Person Interview Reinterview.
    Form Number(s): All data will be collected using automated 
instruments on computers.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 99,619.
    Number of Respondents: 362,250.
    Average Hours per Response: 15 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) Person Interview (PI) and Person Interview 
Reinterview (PIRI) operations as part of the 2010 Census. The CCM 
program will 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.
    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 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 results of 
the housing unit matching operations will be used to determine which 
CCM and Census addresses will be eligible to go to the CCM Person 
Interview (PI) Operation. The PI Operations will contain approximately 
362,250 sample addresses. The Person Interview Reinterview Operation 
will be a sample of those cases with an estimate 36,225 sample 
addresses.
    The automated PI instrument will be used to collect the following 
information for persons in housing units only:
    1. Roster of people living at the housing unit at the time of the 
CCM PI Interview.
    2. Census Day (April 1, 2010) address information from people who 
moved into the sample address since Census Day.
    3. Other addresses where a person may have been counted on Census 
Day.
    4. Other information to help us determine where a person should 
have been counted as of Census Day (relative to Census residence 
rules). For example, enumerators will probe for persons who might have 
been left off the household roster; ask additional questions about 
persons who moved from another address on Census Day to the sample 
address; collect additional information for persons with multiple 
addresses; and collect information on the addresses of other potential 
residences for household members.
    5. Demographic information for each person in the household on 
Interview Day or Census Day, including name, date of birth, sex, race, 
Hispanic origin, and relationship.
    6. Name and above information for any person who has moved out of 
the sample address since Census Day (if known).
    We also will conduct a quality control operation--PI Reinterview 
(PIRI) on 10 percent of the PI cases. The purpose of the operation is 
to confirm that the PI enumerator conducted a PI interview with an 
actual household member or a valid proxy respondent and conduct a full 
person interview when falsification is suspected. If PIRI results 
indicate 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, 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]).

    Dated: November 18, 2009.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-28097 Filed 11-23-09; 8:45 am]
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