[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1598-1599]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-313]


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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: National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated 
Recreation (FHWAR) Cell Phone and Debit Card Test.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Form Number(s): Control Advance Letter FHW-W1[T], Prenotice 
Postcard for Cell Phone Sample FHW-W1[C1], Advance Letter for Cell 
Phone Sample FHW-W1[C2], Advance Letter for Debit Card Sample FHW-
W1[D].
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 254.
    Number of Respondents: 1,500.
    Average Hours per Response: 8 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the 
U.S. Census Bureau plan to conduct (covered under separate OMB 
clearance number 1018-0088) the 2011 National Survey of Fishing, 
Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) which is authorized 
under the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the Wildlife and Sport Fish 
Restoration Programs Improvement Act of 2000. The Census Bureau is 
authorized to conduct the FHWAR under Title 13, United States Code 
Section 8(b). The FHWAR data, collected approximately every five years, 
assist Federal and State agencies in administering the Sport Fish and 
Wildlife Restoration grant programs and provide up-to-date information 
on the uses and demands for wildlife-related recreation resources, 
trends in uses of those resources, and a basis for developing and 
evaluating programs and projects to meet existing and future needs.
    The FHWAR uses an address-based sample selected from the Census 
Bureau's Master Address File (MAF). Interviewing is conducted using 
Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) and Computer-Assisted 
Personal Interviewing (CAPI). Through research conducted by Relevate, 
Lexis Nexis, and by researchers at the Census Bureau's three telephone 
centers, we estimate that we will obtain telephone numbers for 47,891 
sample households that will be eligible for CATI interviewing. With a 
total household sample of 81,955, this leaves 34,064 households 
eligible for a CAPI interview. Due to the cost of conducting personal 
visit interviews, the 2011 FHWAR budget will only fund 5,154 CAPI 
interviews. These 5,154 cases will be subsampled from the 34,064 cases 
for which we do not have a household telephone number.
    A CAPI sample in the FHWAR is particularly important because 
households with available phone numbers may differ in characteristics 
from those without telephones and those with unlisted phone numbers. By 
decreasing our sample from 34,064 to 5,154, we are introducing 
additional variance in our survey data.
    The purpose of the Cell Phone and Debit Card Test is to research 
alternative survey designs that could increase the number of CATI 
interviews while reducing the variance associated with conducting fewer 
CAPI interviews.
    Researching comparable alternatives to CAPI interviewing is 
important since the FWS has limited funding to conduct the survey. An 
FHWAR CAPI interview is estimated to cost approximately $600 per case, 
while a CATI interview is estimated to cost $65 per case.
    We plan to conduct a test in the first wave of interviewing (the 
FHWAR is conducted in three waves) that includes three panels of 500 
households each. We will select the test cases from the remaining cases 
(approximately 28,910 cases) without phone numbers after the production 
CAPI sample is selected. These 1,500 cases will remain in the CATI 
sample; they will not be sent for CAPI interviewing.
    The first panel will receive an advance letter with a cell phone. 
The advance letter will ask that a household member call the telephone 
center and complete an interview using the cell phone. The telephone 
centers will also attempt to contact these households using the 
assigned cell phone telephone number. The second panel will receive an 
advance letter and a $25 incentive. The advance letter will ask that a 
household member call the telephone center to complete an interview and 
accept the prepaid debit or gift card as a ``thank you'' for 
participating. The third panel will only receive an advance letter that 
requests a household member call the telephone center to complete an 
interview. (Note: The only way that contact will be made with 
households in the second and third panels will be if household 
respondents call the telephone center.)
    The test data from these three panels will not be included with the 
production FHWAR data and the FWS will not have access to the data.

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    If this study proves successful, it may also provide an option for 
future FHWAR surveys and other Census Bureau surveys interested in 
reducing field data collection costs.
    Affected Public: Households or individuals.
    Frequency: One-time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Section 8(b).
    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 6616, 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, 2011.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2011-313 Filed 1-10-11; 8:45 am]
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