[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1589-1590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-286]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will resubmit 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). The clearance request was 
withdrawn and is now being resubmitted because the Census Bureau has 
made changes to the request. The sample size has been lowered, the 
reinterview rate has been increased and a new Census Coverage 
Measurement Recall Bias Panel Study has been added. Two previous 
notices were published in the Federal Register announcing plans to 
submit this request (June 19, 2009 on page 29166 and Nov. 24, 2009 on 
page 61329). Neither of the previous notices included information about 
these changes.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: 2010 Census Coverage Measurement, Person Interview, Person 
Interview Reinterview, and Recall Bias Panel Study.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Form Number(s): All data will be collected using automated 
instruments on computers.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 68,938.
    Number of Respondents: 275,750.
    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

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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 
205,000 sample addresses. The Person Interview Reinterview Operation 
will be a sample of those cases with an estimate of 30,750 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 15 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.
    In addition to the CCM PI Operation, CCM will conduct a Recall Bias 
Panel Study that will be conducted using an automated instrument over 
the phone. The study will examine recall bias in the CCM with respect 
to residence during the 2010 Census cycle. One of the recurring 
questions regarding the 2010 CCM is whether conducting the CCM Person 
Interview (PI) and CCM Person Followup (PFU) operations, later than in 
previous post-enumeration surveys, will cause degradation on the data 
collection of respondent moves since Census Day (April 1, 2010) and the 
information on alternate addresses for the residents. The main goal of 
the study is to provide initial insight into the issue of recall bias 
for the CCM PI and PFU. This initial study will measure if we can 
detect a problem as our contact moves away from Census Day, but will 
not be able to detect if the reporting errors cancel each other out. 
Therefore, if no problem is found, we will not be able to conclude that 
there is not a problem with recall bias. The plan is to design and 
implement further studies of this issue for CCM in the 2020 Decennial 
testing life cycle.
    Four panels of random digit dialing (RDD) respondents will be 
interviewed during May, June and September 2010, and February 2011. 
These time periods represent the current timing for 2010 Census 
Nonresponse Followup, Coverage Followup, CCM Person Interview (PI), and 
the CCM Person Followup (PFU) operations. The study will collect the 
sample information as the CCM PI operation. The study will include 
10,000 numbers per panel for a total of 40,000 individuals that can be 
contacted.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: PI Operation: Mandatory.
    Recall Study: Voluntary.
    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 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: January 6, 2010.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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