[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 106 (Thursday, June 3, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31419-31420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13354]


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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 Followup & Person 
Followup Reinterview Operations and Respondent Debriefings.
    OMB Control Number: None
    Form Number(s): D-1301, D-1301(PR)..
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 16,629.
    Number of Respondents: 57,776.
    Average Hours per Response: Person Followup Intervirews--15 min.; 
Respondent Debriefings--10 min..
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct the Census 
Coverage Measurement (CCM) Person Followup

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(PFU) and Person Followup Reinterview (PFU RI) operations as part of 
the 2010 Census. Changes were made to this request since the notice was 
published in the Federal Register (Vol. 74, No. 249, 69061, December 
30, 2009). Respondent debriefings of the CCM Person Interview (PI) and 
CCM PFU have been added. These are to be conducted as part of a CCM 
evaluation. Details of this evaluation were not yet available at the 
time of this notice or in time to include in the CCM PI OMB package.
    The CCM program will provide estimates of net coverage error and 
components of census coverage (including omissions and erroneous 
enumerations) for housing units and persons in housing units (see 
Definition of Terms in Part B, Collections of Information Employing 
Statistical Methods). The data collection and matching methodologies 
for previous coverage measurement programs were designed only to 
measure net coverage error.
    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 PFU 
operation will contain approximately 57,776 sample addresses. The PFU 
RI Operation will be a sample of those cases with an estimate 8,667 
sample addresses.
    The paper PFU questionnaire will be used to collect address and 
dates of stay information for persons selected for followup to verify 
their residence on Census Day (April 1, 2010) and on the day of the CCM 
Person Interview for that household. PFU will also contain questions to 
resolve match and duplication status discrepancies between the CCM 
Person Interview and the Census.
    We also will conduct a quality control operation called PFU 
Reinterview (PFU RI) on 15 percent of the PFU cases. The purpose of the 
operation is to confirm that the PFU enumerator conducted a PFU 
interview with an actual household member or a valid proxy respondent 
and to conduct a full PFU interview when falsification is suspected.
    In addition to the CCM PFU and PFU RI operations, respondent 
debriefings of the CCM Person Interview (PI) and CCM PFU will be 
conducted. The purpose of the respondent debriefings is to obtain a 
qualitative gauge of how well the PI and PFU instruments performed the 
tasks they were designed to accomplish, those being to capture members 
of the household and assign usual residence. Census Residence Rules 
experts will observe approximately 220 PI and PFU personal visit 
interviews and ask respondent debriefing questions at approximately 110 
households (80 PI households and 30 PFU households). They will clarify 
or verify the usual residence of the persons listed and other persons 
who should have been counted. The experts will audiotape all observed 
interviews and debriefings of respondents if permission is given by the 
respondent. These audiotapes are for use in evaluations.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory (participation in debriefings is 
voluntary).
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., 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 email ([email protected]).

    Dated: May 28, 2010.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-13354 Filed 6-2-10; 8:45 am]
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