[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 248 (Friday, December 28, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67213-67222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-28164]


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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.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: 2020 Census.
    The initial Federal Register Notice (``2020 Census,'' June 8, 2018, 
Vol. 83, Number 111, pp. 26643-26653, FR Doc No.: 2018-12365) described 
the 2020 Census in full. Approval for the 2020 Census is being sought 
from OMB in phases. The first phase of approval was for the 2020 Census 
Address Canvassing operation only, which was described in Federal 
Register Notice ``2020 Census,'' October 2, 2018 (Vol. 83, No. 191, pp. 
49535-49539, FR Doc No.: 2018-21386). Address Canvassing creates the 
address list for the census and precedes census enumeration data 
collection. The remaining operations scoped for the 2020 Census data 
collection will be described below in this Federal Register Notice for 
an additional 30-day comment period; the full census description will 
be considered as a substantive change to the approved OMB materials.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-1006.
    Form Number(s): D-CN(E/S) (included with Address Canvassing 
approval), D-Q, D-Q(E/S), D-Q-GE, D-Q-GE(S), D-Q-UL, D-Q-UL(E/S), D-Q-
TL, D-Q-TL(S), D-Q-UE, D-Q-RA, D-Q-TLRA, D-Q-GERA, D-Q-MV, D-CQ-TL, D-
CQ-TL(S), D-CQ-UE, D-CQ-RA, D-CQ-TLRA, D-Q-AS, D-Q-MI, D-Q-GU, D-Q-VI, 
D-Q-VI(S), D-CQ-AS, D-CQ-MI, D-CQ-GU, D-CQ-VI, D-CQ-VI(S), D-Q-GE-AS, 
D-Q-GE-MI, D-Q-GE-GU, D-Q-GE-VI, D-Q-GE-VI(S), D-Q-ULPR(E/S), D-Q-GEPR, 
D-Q-GEPR(S), D-Q-PR(E/S), D-Q-TLPR, D-Q-TLPR(S), D-CQ-TLPR. D-CQ-
TLPR(S).
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 180,962,929 for all operations in the 2020 
Census. The total represents an addition from what was outlined in the 
previous Federal Register Notice due to the addition of an address 
collection period for a Group Quarters function.

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    Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes for census enumeration.
    Burden Hours: 26,531,593 for 2020 Census. The total represents an 
addition from what was outlined in the previous Federal Register Notice 
due to the addition of an address collection period for a Group 
Quarters function.

                                                   2020 Census
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                                                   Estimated
             Operation or category                 number of      Estimated time  per response     Total  burden
                                                  respondents                                          hours
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Address Canvassing............................      15,786,734  5 minutes.......................       1,315,561
Address Canvassing Listing QC.................       1,578,673  5 minutes.......................         131,556
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    Address Canvassing Subtotal...............      17,365,407  ................................       1,447,117
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               Geographic Areas Focused on Self-Response (this includes Mailout and Update Leave)
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Internet/Telephone/Paper......................      80,700,000  10 minutes......................      13,450,000
Update Leave..................................      11,900,000  5 minutes.......................         991,667
Update Leave QC...............................       1,190,000  5 minutes.......................          99,167
Nonresponse Followup..........................      52,700,000  10 minutes......................       8,783,333
Nonresponse Followup Reinterview..............       2,760,000  5 minutes.......................         230,000
Self-Response Quality Assurance...............         250,000  10 minutes......................          41,667
Field Verification............................         400,000  2 minutes.......................          13,333
Field Verification QC.........................          40,000  2 minutes.......................           1,333
Coverage Improvement..........................       3,200,000  7 minutes.......................         373,333
Non-ID Processing Phone Followup..............         750,000  5 minutes.......................          62,500
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    Self-Response Areas Subtotal..............     153,890,000  ................................      24,046,043
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                                   Geographic Area Focused on Update Enumerate
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Update Enumerate Production...................         506,000  12 minutes......................         101,200
Update Enumerate Listing QC...................          50,600  5 minutes.......................           4,217
Update Enumerate Reinterview..................          25,300  10 minutes......................           4,217
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    Update Enumerate Subtotal.................         581,900  ................................         109,634
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                                                 Group Quarters
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GQ Update Program.............................           7,168  10 minutes......................           1,195
GQ Advance Contact (facility).................         297,000  10 minutes......................          49,500
GQ Enumeration--eResponse (facility)..........          14,300  20 minutes......................           4,767
GQ Enumeration--person contact................       8,000,000  5 minutes.......................         666,667
Group Quarters QC.............................           8,500  5 minutes.......................             708
    Group Quarters Subtotal...................       8,326,968  ................................         722,837
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Advance            50,000  10 minutes......................           8,333
 Contact.
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Units....         600,000  10 minutes......................         100,000
Federally Affiliated Count Overseas...........              82  5 minutes.......................               7
Island Areas Censuses--Housing Units..........         138,281  40 minutes......................          92,187
Island Areas Censuses--Group Quarters.........          10,291  30 minutes......................           5,146
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    Totals....................................     180,962,929  ................................      26,531,593
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Overview of 2020 Census Operations

    Below is a summary of the needs of uses of the 2020 Census, 
followed by a more detailed overview of data collection operations. The 
geographic areas discussed in this notice refer only to the 50 states, 
the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, unless otherwise noted. The 
2020 Census also includes the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
    Needs and Uses:
    Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution mandates 
that the U.S. House of Representatives be reapportioned every ten years 
by conducting a national census of all residents. In addition to the 
reapportionment of the U.S. Congress, Census data are used to draw 
legislative district boundaries within states. Census data are also 
used by numerous agencies to determine funding allocations for the 
distribution of an estimated $675 billion of federal funds each year.
    The Census Bureau plans to conduct the most automated, modern, and 
dynamic decennial census in history. The 2020 Census includes design 
changes in four key areas, discussed below:
    (1) New methodologies to conduct the Address Canvassing operation.
    (2) Innovative ways of optimizing self-response.
    (3) The use of administrative records and third-party data to 
reduce the Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) operation workload.
    (4) The use of technology to reduce the manual effort and improve 
the productivity of field operations, while decreasing the amount of 
physical space required to perform the field operations.

(1) Reengineering Address Canvassing

    An accurate address list is the cornerstone of a successful census. 
In order to manage the work for decennial census, the Census Bureau 
uses the address and physical location of each place where someone is, 
or could be, living. The Census Bureau maintains this address list and 
spatial data for the

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United States and Puerto Rico in its Master Address File (MAF)/
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) 
System database.
    This database was created using the address files from the 1990 
Census and has been subsequently and regularly updated using:
     Information collected from decennial census operation 
updates, including address and spatial updates.
     The Delivery Sequence File of addresses from the United 
States Postal Service (USPS).
     Input from tribal, state, and local governments and third 
parties, including address and boundary updates from various programs 
conducted over the decade, such as the Local Update of Census Addresses 
operation.
     Information collected in other Census Bureau programs, 
such as the American Community Survey.
    The purpose of Address Canvassing is (1) to deliver a complete and 
accurate address list and spatial database for enumeration and 
tabulation, and (2) to determine the type and address characteristics 
for each living quarter. Prior to a field Address Canvassing data 
collection, the Census Bureau will delineate the entire land area of 
the United States, Puerto Rico, and Island Areas into Type of 
Enumeration Areas (TEAs). Most stateside United States living quarters 
will be delineated into the self-response area, where the census 
address list will be created before the census, census materials will 
be provided in the mail, and self-response modes will be supported and 
promoted. Other areas will be designated for Update Leave, Update 
Enumerate (including Remote Alaska), Military Enumeration, or Island 
Areas Enumeration.
    For the 2020 Census there will be a full Address Canvassing of the 
country that will consist of In-Office Address Canvassing complemented 
with In-Field Address Canvassing. In-Office Address Canvassing is the 
process of using empirical geographic evidence (e.g., imagery, 
comparison of the Census Bureau's address list to address lists 
provided by the United States Postal Service and governmental units 
that partner with the Census Bureau) to assess the current address list 
and make changes where necessary. This component also detects and 
captures areas of change from high-quality administrative records and 
third-party data. Advancements in technology have enabled continual 
address and spatial updates to occur throughout the decade as part of 
the In-Office Address Canvassing effort. Since 2015, satellite imagery 
has been used for the identification of areas where there are changes 
in living quarters. Where the necessary updates can be captured from 
electronic sources and are deemed to be sufficiently accurate, In-
Office Address Canvassing will complete the update process prior to the 
census. The remaining blocks will become eligible to be sent to In-
Field Address Canvassing for updating on the ground by field staff.

(2) Optimizing Self-Response

    The goal of this innovation area is to make it as easy and 
efficient as possible for people to respond to the 2020 Census by 
offering new response options through the internet and telephone, in 
addition to the traditional mailback paper questionnaire option. Self-
response reduces the need to conduct in-person follow-up operations to 
complete the enumeration, by far the most expensive method of data 
collection. To that end, the Census Bureau will motivate people to 
respond, as well as make it easy for people to respond, from any 
location at any time, even if they don't have the Census Bureau's 
preassigned ID for the address.
    The importance of responding to the 2020 Census will be 
communicated in a variety of ways, including through mailings, 
questionnaire delivery, advertising, and partnership efforts. In 
particular, the Integrated Partnership and Communications operation is 
responsible for communicating the importance of responding to the 2020 
Census.
    Internet response represents a substantial innovation for the 
Census Bureau. The internet was not a response option in the 2010 
Census. The internet response option has been included in multiple 
tests leading up to the 2020 Census: The 2014 Census Test; all three 
census tests performed in 2015; the 2016 Census Test; the 2017 Census 
Test; and the 2018 End-to-End Census Test. It has also been used in the 
American Community Survey since 2013.

(3) Utilizing Administrative Records and Third-Party Data

    For the 2020 Census, ``administrative records'' and ``third-party 
data'' are terms used to describe microdata records contained in files 
collected and maintained by Federal, state, and local government 
agencies (``administrative records'') and commercial entities (``third-
party data'') for administering programs and providing services. For 
many decades, the Census Bureau has successfully and securely used 
administrative records and third-party data for statistical purposes. 
For the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau intends to use administrative 
records from both internal sources, such as data from prior decennial 
censuses and the American Community Survey, and from a range of other 
Federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the 
Social Security Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Indian 
Health Service, the Selective Service, and the U.S. Postal Service. The 
Census Bureau is also working to acquire state government 
administrative records from enrollment in Federal block grant programs, 
such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition 
Assistance Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for 
Women, Infants, and Children.
    Throughout the decade, the Census Bureau continuously conducted 
analyses and assessments to verify that the proposed uses of 
administrative records and third-party data sources in the 2020 Census 
were appropriate in each instance. Based on this research, testing, and 
analyses, the Census Bureau announced its plans in November 2015 to 
utilize administrative records and third-party data in the 2020 Census. 
The 2020 Census Operational Plan calls for employing this information 
for the following purposes:
    I. Consistent with previous decennial censuses, the Census Bureau 
will utilize administrative records from federal and state government 
agencies and third-party data to refine contact strategies and build 
and update the residential address list.
    II. Also consistent with previous decennial censuses, the Census 
Bureau will utilize federal and state administrative records to edit or 
impute invalid, inconsistent, or missing responses.
    III. The new use of administrative records for the 2020 Census is 
to use data exclusively from federal administrative records to improve 
the accuracy and efficiency of the NRFU operation by:
    a. reducing followup on vacant housing units and nonresidential 
addresses, as designated by administrative records.
    b. enumerating households that do not self-respond and whom we were 
unable to contact after six mailings and one in-person field visit.
    For each of the purposes listed in items II, IIIa, and IIIb, the 
Census Bureau will use or plans to use administrative data only when it 
can confirm empirically across multiple sources that the data are 
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applied to the addresses and households in question. The Census Bureau 
plans to enumerate households utilizing administrative records only 
from Federal government agencies, such as the IRS. Use of 
administrative records for nonresponding addresses will be evaluated 
under a strict set of Census Bureau rules throughout the process to 
ensure completeness and accuracy.
    Based on the research and tests conducted, the Census Bureau 
estimates that under the current operational plan, Federal 
administrative records will be used to enumerate up to 6.2 million 
households of the projected total of approximately 62 million addresses 
that are expected to be in the NRFU workload for the 2020 Census. These 
6.2 million households represent less than five percent of the 
approximately 147 million addresses in the Census master address file. 
Where the Census Bureau does not have confidence in the data, such as 
when the data are inconsistent or missing in the Federal administrative 
records, the household will remain in the NRFU workload to be 
enumerated in person.

(4) Reengineering Field Operations

    The final innovation area, ``Reengineering Field Operations,'' has 
a goal of using technology to manage the 2020 Census fieldwork 
efficiently and effectively, and as a result, reduce the staffing, 
infrastructure, and brick and mortar footprint for the 2020 Census. The 
Census Bureau plans to provide most listers and enumerators with the 
capability to work completely remotely and perform all administrative 
and data collection tasks directly from a mobile device.

Supporting Documents About the 2020 Census Design and the 2020 Census 
Objectives

    Multiple Census Bureau publications provide background on the plans 
for the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census Operational Plan v3.0, which was 
published in September 2017, describes each of the 35 operations scoped 
and defined for the census. Every task performed for the 2020 Census 
must be assigned to one of the 35 operations. The Operational Plan also 
summarizes the major findings of the census tests performed this 
decade. Moreover, this document shows the planned design of the 2020 
Census as of September 2017 and identifies design decisions made, as 
well as remaining decisions to be made using census test results. (Note 
that the 2020 Census Operational Plan v4.0 will be released publicly in 
February 2019.) Key design components for the 2020 Census for every 
operation are discussed in Chapter 5 of the 2020 Census Operational 
Plan. In addition, for most of the 2020 Census Operations, the Census 
Bureau is developing a Detailed Operational Plan to document objectives 
and procedures of the operation, major tasks involved in 
implementation, the overall workflow, and the overall resources 
required. The Operational Plan and Detailed Operational Plans available 
at www.census.gov can be reference for more details about the tasks 
performed for each operation.

Type of Enumeration Areas

    Prior to the census, it is necessary to delineate all geographic 
areas into Type of Enumeration Areas (TEAs). These TEAs describe what 
methodology will be used for census material delivery and household 
enumeration in order to use the most cost-effective enumeration 
approach for achieving maximum accuracy and completeness. TEAs also 
describe what methodology will be used for updating the address frame. 
For the United States and Puerto Rico, TEAs are delineated at the block 
level based on the address and spatial data in the MAF/TIGER database.
    The MAF/TIGER does not contain data for the Island Areas, so a 
separate TEA is designated for these areas. The TEAs designated for the 
2020 Census are:
    * TEA 1 = Self-Response.
    * TEA 2 = Update Enumerate.
    * TEA 3 = Island Areas.
    * TEA 4 = Remote Alaska.
    * TEA 5 = Military.
    * TEA 6 = Update Leave.
    The most common enumeration method by percentage of households is 
self-response (TEA 1), where materials will be delivered to each 
address through the mail, and self-response will be supported and 
promoted. After the initial self-response phase, nonresponding 
households will be enumerated in the NRFU operation. Update Enumerate 
uses the methodology of updating the address list and attempting 
household enumeration at the same time. This will be used for a very 
small portion of the addresses in country, such as those with access 
problems or minimal mail service. The Island Areas are not included in 
MAF/TIGER. For these areas, the address list will be created and 
enumeration will be attempted at the same time. Remote Alaska uses the 
Update Enumerate methodology but in remote areas of Alaska that require 
a different schedule for enumeration due to changes in transportation 
accessibility and living situations related to the presence of ice. 
Military areas require special procedures due to security restrictions. 
Update Leave is an update of the address list at the same time that a 
questionnaire is left at each individual housing unit and the 
enumeration data is expected to be returned or submitted by a 
respondent. Puerto Rico is designated as entirely Update Leave (except 
for military locations) in order to create a current address list at 
the time of the census, in response to changes that may have occurred 
due to natural disasters.

A. Content and Forms Design

    The Content and Forms Design (CFD) operation is responsible for 
identifying and finalizing the content and design of questionnaires and 
associated nonquestionnaire materials. To support the 2020 Census, the 
CFD operation ensures content consistency across data collection modes 
and operations, as question wording varies depending on mode of data 
collection. The CFD operation is responsible for creating, refining, 
and finalizing instrument specifications for all data collection 
modes--internet, phone, paper, and field enumeration. This is a 
significant departure from the 2010 Census, which relied on paper for 
virtually all data collection.
    As required by law (Title 13, United States Code), the subjects 
planned for the 2020 Census were submitted to Congress on March 28, 
2017, and the questions planned for the 2020 Census were submitted to 
Congress on March 29, 2018. The proposed questions for the 2020 Census 
questionnaire include age, citizenship, Hispanic origin, race, 
relationship, sex, and tenure.

B. Language Services

    The Language Services operation provides questionnaires and related 
materials in non-English materials for respondents of Limited English 
Proficiency. For the 2020 Census, the internet instrument and Census 
Questionnaire Assistance will be available in Spanish, Chinese, 
Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog, Polish, French, Haitian 
Creole, Portuguese, and Japanese, in addition to English. The bilingual 
paper questionnaire, enumerator instrument, and field enumeration 
materials will be available in Spanish. In addition, language guides 
and language identification cards will be available in the following 
languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, 
Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French, 
German, Gujarati, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, 
Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian,

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Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Navajo, 
Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, 
Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, 
Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, and 
Yoruba.

C. Address Canvassing

    Address Canvassing, as described above, consists of two major 
components: In-Office Address Canvassing and In-Field Address 
Canvassing. In-Office Address Canvassing is the process of using 
empirical geographic evidence (e.g., imagery, comparison of the Census 
Bureau's address list to partner-provided lists) to assess the current 
address list and make changes where necessary. This component detects 
and captures areas of change from high quality administrative records 
and third-party data. Advancements in technology have enabled continual 
address and spatial updates to occur throughout the decade as part of 
the In-Office Address Canvassing effort.
    Areas not resolved by In-Office Address Canvassing become the 
universe of geographic areas worked during In-Field Address Canvassing. 
Only the In-Field component of Address Canvassing involves in person 
collection of information from residents at their living quarters.
    For In-Field Address Canvassing, an extract of addresses from the 
MAF is created, and this address list is verified and updated in the 
field, as needed. Updates can include adding units missing from the 
address list and removing nonexistent or nonresidential units from the 
list. In addition, living quarters are classified as housing units or 
group quarters. Group quarters are living quarters where people who are 
typically unrelated have group living arrangements and frequently are 
receiving some type of service. College/university student housing and 
nursing/skilled-nursing facilities are examples of group quarters.
    The MAF also has geographic data for transitory locations, which 
include recreational vehicle parks, campgrounds, racetracks, circuses, 
carnivals, marinas, hotels, and motels. People residing at transitory 
locations during the census are recorded as living in housing units 
located at transitory locations.
    During In-Field Address Canvassing, listers knock on doors at every 
structure in the assignment in an attempt to locate living quarters and 
classify each living quarter as a housing unit, group quarter, or 
transitory location. If someone answers, the lister will provide a 
Confidentiality Notice and ask about the address in order to verify or 
update the information, as appropriate. The listers will then ask if 
there are any additional living quarters in the structure or on the 
property. If there are additional living quarters, the listers will 
collect/update that information, as appropriate. In addition, there 
will be a check on the quality of the address listing work on 
approximately 10 percent of the address listing workload.
    The results of Address Canvassing are processed with MAF/TIGER and 
then used as input into the creation of the census address list for 
enumeration. This address list in turn, is used in conjunction with the 
TEA delineation to determine which materials should be printed for use 
in the operation(s) designated for each area of the country.

D. Forms Printing and Distribution

    The Forms Printing and Distribution operation prints and 
distributes paper forms to support the 2020 Census mailing strategy and 
enumeration of the population. The Forms Printing and Distribution 
operation is responsible for the printing and distribution of mailed 
internet invitations, reminder cards or letters, and questionnaire mail 
packages where materials are mailed, in multiple languages as 
determined by the Language Services operation. The letters, reminder 
cards, and questionnaires are delivered according to the mailing 
contact strategy, which is part of the internet Self-Response operation 
(discussed below).
    Every address record will be identified by an ID, which will be 
printed on questionnaires and letters and used for tracking responses. 
Paper questionnaires and responses from field operations will be linked 
to the ID in data capture. Internet and telephone respondents will be 
requested but not required to provide the ID. When an ID is not 
provided, these will be considered Non-ID responses. The Non-ID 
operation is discussed below.

E. Internet Self-Response

    The internet Self-Response (ISR) operation performs the following 
functions:
     Maximize online response to the 2020 Census through 
contact strategies and improved access for respondents.
     Collect response data via the internet to reduce paper and 
the NRFU universe.

Contact Strategies for Mailing Materials

    ``Contact strategies for mailing materials'' refers to all attempts 
by the Census Bureau to make direct contact with individual households 
by mail. Types of contact strategies include invitation letters, 
postcards, and questionnaires mailed to households.
    A primary objective of the 2020 Census is for a majority of self-
respondents to complete their census questionnaire online. An approach 
called ``Internet First,'' in which the first mailing includes an 
invitation to respond to the census online, has been developed for TEA 
1 areas to encourage respondents to use the internet. Subsequent 
mailings will be reminders to respond to the census online, until all 
remaining nonresponding households in the internet First areas receive 
a paper questionnaire in the fourth mailing. In TEA 1 areas with low 
internet coverage or connectivity or other characteristics that may 
make it less likely the respondents will complete the census 
questionnaire online, the ``Internet Choice'' contact strategy will be 
designated for use instead. This strategy includes both an invitation 
to complete the census online and a paper questionnaire as part of the 
first mailing. The Census Bureau anticipates about 20 percent of the 
households in the self-response TEA will receive the internet Choice 
treatment.
    In summary, the contact strategies for mailing materials including 
mailing date are outlined in the table below:

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Internet Self-Response Instrument

    The internet application and all related support systems are 
designed to handle the volume of responses that are expected to be 
received by internet in the 2020 Census. It is imperative that the 
application and systems service the scale of the operation in order to 
ensure that users do not experience delays while completing the survey 
or unavailability of the application. In addition, the internet 
application and other associated systems were developed to adhere to 
the highest standards of data security in order to ensure that all 
respondent data are secure and confidential.

F. Census Questionnaire Assistance

    The Census Questionnaire Assistance (CQA) operation has three 
primary functions:
     Provide questionnaire assistance by answering questions 
about specific items on the census questionnaire or other frequently 
asked questions about the census.
     Provide an option for respondents to complete a census 
interview over the telephone.
     Provide outbound calling in support of Coverage 
Improvement (discussed in the NRFU section below).
    Respondents using the internet instrument will have the ability to 
contact CQA by telephone when web-based self-service help tools cannot 
answer their questions. Each of the 13 supported languages, including 
English, will have its own toll-free number for callers. Respondents 
calling the English and Spanish language lines will initially be 
presented with a self-service Interactive Voice Response system, 
offering an assortment of automated responses to Frequently Asked 
Question information. At any time, respondents may opt to transfer to a 
customer service representative, who is prepared to further assist and 
enumerate them. All callers who need assistance in other languages will 
be connected directly to an appropriately-skilled customer service 
representative fluent in the language, based on the toll-free number 
called.

G. Update Leave

    The Update Leave (UL) operation is designed for areas where the 
majority of housing units either do not have mail delivered to the 
physical location of the housing unit or the mail delivery information 
for the housing unit cannot be verified. Designated during TEA 
delineation, UL can occur in geographic areas that:
     Do not have city-style addresses.
     Do not receive mail through city-style addresses.
     Receive mail at post office boxes.
     Have been affected by major disasters.
    The purpose of the UL operation is to update the address and 
feature data for the area assigned and to leave an internet Choice 
questionnaire package at every housing unit identified to allow the 
household to self-respond. Enumerators do not attempt to enumerate the 
household in person at this point.
    Occupants can respond online, using the ID printed on the 
questionnaire, or they can fill out and mail back the paper 
questionnaire. If they have questions or wish to respond on the 
telephone, they can call the CQA number, which is provided in the 
package.
    The UL operation includes mailing a reminder letter and a reminder 
postcard to addresses that are capable of receiving mail within the 
areas designated for UL. These mailed materials include the ID for the 
given address and the website address for the household to use in order 
to respond online. As in TEA 1, where all materials are mailed to 
housing units, any households that do not self-respond will be 
contacted during the NRFU operation. Finally, the UL operation performs 
a check on the quality of the address listing work (quality control 
[QC]) on approximately 10 percent of the production workload.

H. Update Enumerate

    The Update Enumerate (UE) operation is designated for areas where 
the initial visit requires enumerating at the living quarters while 
updating the address list. The majority of the operation will occur in 
remote geographic areas that have unique challenges associated with 
accessibility. UE can occur in the following geographic areas:
     Remote Alaska.
     Areas that were a part of the 2010 Census Remote UE 
operation, such as northern parts of Maine and southeast Alaska.
     Select American Indian areas that request to be enumerated 
in person during the initial visit.
    Note that the areas included in the 2010 Census Remote Update 
Enumerate operation might be delineated into TEA 1 or TEA 6 for the 
2020 Census, based on changes in address type or mailability.
    In the UE operation, field staff update the address and feature 
data and enumerate respondents in person. The address and feature data 
are updated on paper address registers and paper maps. The enumeration 
is collected on paper questionnaires. Field staff conducting UE follow 
a specific contact strategy for the remote locations and conduct any 
needed follow-up. The UE operation will promote the quality of the 
address work and of the enumeration data by having staff work in pairs 
and by supervisors reviewing all data collected for completion and any 
anomalies. Supervisors will rework an area to collect geographic and/or 
enumeration data when necessary to improve the

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quality of the collected data. Formalized, separate Listing QC and 
Reinterview operations will not be conducted for the operation in 2020.

I. Non-ID Processing

    For the 2020 Census, respondents will be encouraged, but not 
required, to use the Census Bureau's preassigned ID for the living 
quarters. Within the internet instrument, and, consequently, within 
CQA, it will be possible for respondents to submit their census 
response without the preassigned ID. Non-ID Processing is the effort to 
associate census responses that lack a Census ID with records included 
on the Census Bureau's 2020 Census address frame. This processing can 
occur through automated or clerical procedures. With the ISR instrument 
collecting the response and address data, it will be possible to 
perform automated processing to determine whether the address was 
already included on the address frame and extracted from the MAF. For 
those Non-ID responses not matched during automated processing, a 
clerical operation will make a further attempt to match the address to 
the 2020 Census address frame and validate nonmatching addresses. Some 
of the clerical work may require contacting the respondent to help 
determine a match or to verify the existence and location of the 
address; this is known as Non-ID Processing Phone Followup. Any 
nonmatching address whose existence and location cannot be verified by 
the clerical Non-ID operation will become a Field Verification 
assignment, handled as a component of the NRFU operation. Notably, 
Field Verification is only an address verification effort and does not 
include collection of the census questionnaire data.

J. Nonresponse Followup

    The NRFU operation serves two primary purposes:
     Determines or resolves housing unit status for addresses 
included in the NRFU workload.
     Enumerates housing units that are determined to have a 
housing unit status of occupied.
    The NRFU workload is comprised of addresses from a number of 
sources, including:
     Nonresponding addresses in TEAs 1 and 6.
     Blank mail returns or mail returns otherwise deemed to be 
too incomplete.
     Addresses considered to represent new or recently 
completed housing. These addresses are identified by the spring 2020 
USPS Delivery Sequence File and other special efforts undertaken to 
identify new housing around the time of the census--New Construction 
and Housing Unit Count Review; addresses upheld in the Local Update of 
Census Addresses appeals process; and potentially other addresses 
determined to require follow-up after the initial enumeration universe 
is established.
     Addresses with a vacant status (reported as 0 occupants) 
from internet Self-Response.
     Field Verification cases.
     Coverage Improvement cases.
     Self-Response Quality Assurance cases.
    The 2020 Census NRFU operation will be different from the NRFU 
operation conducted in the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau will 
implement a NRFU operational design that utilizes a combination of the 
following:
     Automation to facilitate data collection.
     Administrative records and third-party data usage to 
reduce the workload.
     Reengineering of staffing and management of field 
operations.
     A Best-Time-to-Contact model to increase the likelihood of 
making contact attempts when an enumerator will find people at home.
    After giving the population in the United States and Puerto Rico an 
opportunity to self-respond to the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau will 
use the most cost-effective strategy for contacting and counting people 
to ensure an accurate count.
    During the NRFU operation, enumerators will visit each housing unit 
designated for followup and determine whether the unit exists and then 
the occupancy status of the unit on April 1, 2020. If the unit exists, 
they complete an interview using an automated application on a 
smartphone. The devices will use a secure Census Bureau-provided 
enumeration application solution for conducting the NRFU field data 
collection. Enumeration data and workload updates will be transmitted 
between the NRFU instruments and response processing systems on a 
regular basis. Various techniques will be used during NRFU to make the 
data collection as efficient as possible. The number of allowed 
attempts to contact will be controlled within the automated instrument, 
and best-time-to-contact modeling will be used in the creation of the 
daily assignments. Every case in the NRFU workload will initially have 
a maximum of six unique contact days. (During the Closeout phase of the 
operation, cases may receive additional attempts, as necessary, to 
resolve incomplete cases.) After a third attempt to contact a household 
does not yield a respondent, a case will become proxy-eligible. A proxy 
is a neighbor, landlord, real estate agent, or other knowledgeable 
person who can provide information about the unit and the people who 
live there. An enumerator should attempt three proxies after each 
noninterview for a proxy-eligible case.
    In addition to the initial in-person contact attempt, these 
addresses will also receive a final mailing that encourages occupants 
to self-respond to the 2020 Census. If the initial in-person contact 
attempt was unsuccessful, the Census Bureau will use administrative 
records for the unit status or as the household response data when it 
has high-quality administrative records from trusted sources. 
Undeliverable-as-Addressed information from the USPS will serve as the 
primary administrative records source for the identification of vacant 
addresses and addresses that do not exist. Examples of sources of 
administrative records and third-party data used to enumerate occupied 
housing units include IRS Individual Tax Returns, IRS Information 
Returns, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Statistics Medicare 
Enrollment Database. Addresses will also be removed from the workload 
throughout the course of the NRFU operation as self-responses continue 
to be received.

Early NRFU

    Early NRFU occurs in areas where there are high concentrations of 
college students living in off-campus housing who are unlikely to be 
present during the scheduled dates for regular NRFU. The enumeration 
procedures for early NRFU are the same as regular NRFU, but just 
conducted at an earlier time to accommodate the schedules of select 
colleges and universities. Any early NRFU addresses that are unresolved 
by the start of NRFU will receive additional field attempts during 
regular NRFU.

NRFU Reinterview

    The NRFU Reinterview program will check the quality of the work 
done by enumerators in NRFU. A sample of approximately 5 percent of 
NRFU interviews will be selected for verification through NRFU 
Reinterview. The NRFU Reinterview program involves conducting an 
independent field reinterview for selected cases to verify that an 
enumerator conducted the interview and followed procedures. The NRFU 
Reinterview interviewer/enumerator always attempts to contact the 
respondent from the original interview, which may be a household 
member, neighbor, or some other proxy. If the original respondent 
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he/she was contacted and an enumerator conducted the original 
interview, the NRFU Reinterview interviewer/enumerator collects roster 
names and ends the interview. If the respondent was not contacted or 
does not know if an enumerator conducted the original interview, the 
NRFU Reinterview interviewer/enumerator conducts a full interview with 
the respondent.
    During the early weeks of NRFU, enumerators will conduct interviews 
with multiunit structure managers to determine the occupancy status of 
nonresponding units within the multiunit structure. This Manager Visit 
(MV) allows enumerators to identify several units as vacant or delete 
without having to attempt each unit individually. Enumerators have a 
maximum of two unique contact days to complete the MV cases. The MV 
Reinterview program will check the quality of work done by enumerators 
during the MV and will target MVs with high numbers of vacant and 
delete unit statuses. During the MV Reinterview, the enumerator will 
ask to speak to the manager from the original MV interview. If the 
respondent confirms that he/she was contacted and an enumerator 
conducted the original interview, the MV RI enumerator asks about a 
subset of the list checked during the MV. If the respondent was not 
contacted or does not know if an enumerator conducted the original MV 
interview, the MV Reinterview enumerator conducts a full interview and 
asks about the entire list during the MV.
    The NRFU universe also includes cases from Non-ID Processing that 
were not able to be matched to the address frame. As discussed in the 
Non-ID section, these are Field Verification (FV) cases, where the 
enumerators attempt to locate the address in question and collect its 
Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. A sample of the FV cases 
is selected for verification through FV QC. Since FV cases only require 
an enumerator to determine the existence of an address and will not 
require an interview with a respondent, the FV QC program will consist 
of an independent check of the production enumerators where the FV QC 
enumerator will conduct the same procedures as the FV enumerator. FV 
cases, along with their QC component, have a maximum of one field 
contact day.
    The Coverage Improvement operation resolves categories of erroneous 
enumerations (people counted in the wrong place or counted more than 
once) and omissions (people who were missed) identified through 
collected enumeration data. The Coverage Improvement operation will 
attempt to resolve these issues from both self-response and NRFU 
responses. All cases that are selected for Coverage Improvement with a 
valid phone number will be subject to an interview attempt by a CQA 
Customer Service Representative. The workload identified for the 
Coverage Improvement operation will be responses where a household 
enumeration shows a difference between the answer for the number of 
people within the household and the number of people enumerated, and 
answers to coverage questions in the initial enumeration that reflect 
potential coverage errors. Automation and the internet self-response 
option should reduce the prevalence of these types of respondent errors 
as compared to the 2010 Census, which was completed almost entirely on 
paper questionnaires.
    Self-Response Quality Assurance cases are generated as part of the 
quality assurance efforts for self-response. This re-collection of the 
enumeration data will also be worked within NRFU.

K. Group Quarters

    The 2020 Census Group Quarters (GQ) operation will enumerate people 
living or staying in group quarters and will provide an opportunity for 
people experiencing homelessness and receiving service at a service-
based location, such as a soup kitchen, to be counted in the census.
    The 2020 Census GQ operation consists of the following components:
     In-Office GQ Advance Contact.
     GQ Enumeration.
     Service-Based Enumeration.
     Military Enumeration.
     Maritime Vessel (Shipboard) Enumeration.

In-Office GQ Advance Contact

    The In-Office GQ Advance Contact is an in-office activity conducted 
in the area census offices. Preferred dates, times, methods of 
enumeration, and expected population on Census Day will be collected. 
Special instructions or concerns related to privacy, confidentiality, 
and security will also be addressed.

GQ Enumeration

    The GQ Enumeration will cover all 50 states, the District of 
Columbia, and Puerto Rico. An additional late GQ enumeration phase 
allows for the stakeholder identification and enumeration of group 
quarters that may have been missed during the earlier time frame. The 
primary method of conducting in-person enumeration of people residing 
in group quarters will be by using the Individual Census Questionnaire 
as the paper data collection instrument. In-person interviewing is 
planned for all group quarter types that are part of the field 
enumeration workload.

GQ Enumeration--eResponse Data Transfer

    eResponse uses electronic data transfer from GQ administrators to 
the Census Bureau. Client-level data from systems maintained by GQ 
Administrators can be transferred to a standardized Census Bureau 
system that will accept electronically submitted data in a standardized 
template. These data will be accepted in lieu of use of the Individual 
Census Questionnaire if data are deemed to be of sufficiently high 
quality and completeness.

Service-Based Enumeration

    The Service-Based Enumeration is specifically designed to approach 
people using service facilities because they may be missed during the 
traditional enumeration at housing units and group quarters. These 
service locations and outdoor locations include the following:
     Shelters: Shelters with sleeping facilities for people 
experiencing homelessness; shelters for children who are runaways, 
neglected, or experiencing homelessness.
     Soup kitchens.
     Regularly-scheduled mobile food vans: Stops where 
regularly scheduled mobile food vans distribute meals.
     Targeted non-sheltered outdoor locations.
    For the 2020 Census, the Service-Based Enumeration operation will 
be conducted over the three-day period that ends on April 1, 2020, 
Census Day. Service providers for shelters, soup kitchens, and 
regularly-scheduled mobile food vans will be given the flexibility for 
their facility to be enumerated on any one of the three days. Targeted 
nonsheltered outdoor locations will be enumerated April 1, 2020. Field 
Partnership Specialists with local knowledge will help to identify non-
sheltered outdoor locations during the time of the census.

Domestic Violence Shelters

    Domestic violence shelters are facilities for those seeking safety 
from domestic violence. Domestic violence shelters are enumerated using 
special procedures and specially trained personnel. These special 
procedures include inviting members for the State Coalition of the 
``National Coalition Against Domestic Violence'' to participate in the 
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Quarters Update Program to create a comprehensive and current address 
listing for domestic violence shelters. These special procedures are 
designed to protect the safety and security of respondents being 
enumerated at these locations.

Military Enumeration and Maritime Vessel Enumeration

    Military Enumeration involves enumeration of people living in GQs 
or barracks on stateside military installations or military vessels. 
Military installations are fenced, secured areas used for military 
purposes. An important feature of the military enumeration operation is 
that it includes both group quarters and housing units. A military 
vessel is defined as a United States Navy or United States Coast Guard 
vessel assigned to a home port in the United States. See part Q for 
methods we will use to count overseas military.

L. Paper Data Capture

    The Paper Data Capture operation scans and converts data from 2020 
Census paper questionnaires. Core sources for the Paper Data Capture 
operation include housing unit self-response questionnaires mailed back 
by respondents and Group Quarters Individual Census Reports. The Census 
Bureau's in-house Integrated Computer Assisted Data Entry system is 
used to capture paper responses from questionnaires. Each write-in and 
checkbox data field is data-captured, and Optical Character Recognition 
and Optical Mark Recognition are performed. If Key From Image is needed 
for forms that cannot be processed through Optical Character 
Recognition or Optical Mark Recognition, staff are presented the image 
of the page and are able to clarify, correct, or add to what was 
captured. The Census Bureau maintains the data, images of the forms, 
and the paper forms themselves until confirmation that the data have 
been correctly captured, at which point the paper forms are sent to 
destruction while the data and images are retained. The Census Bureau 
maintains the images for archiving purposes until such time as the 
National Archiving and Records Administration takes possession of the 
images for permanent archiving.

M. Response Processing

    The Response Processing Operation (RPO) supports the three major 
components of the 2020 Census: Pre-data collection activities, data 
collection activities, and post-data collection activities. 
Specifically, the operation supports the following activities:

Pre-Data Collection

     Create and distribute the initial 2020 Census enumeration 
universe of living quarters.
     Assign the specific enumeration strategy for each living 
quarter based on case status and associated paradata.

Data Collection

     Create and distribute workload files required for 
enumeration operations.
     Track case enumeration status.
     Check for suspicious returns.

Post-Data Collection

     Run post-data collection processing actions in preparation 
for producing the final 2020 Census results.

N. Redistricting Data Program

    The purpose of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program (RDP) is 
to provide to each state the legally required redistricting data 
tabulations by the mandated deadline of one year from Census Day: April 
1, 2021. In compliance with Public Law (Pub. L.) 94-171, the Census 
Bureau will tabulate for each state the total population counts by race 
and Hispanic origin. The Census Bureau will tabulate these counts for 
the total population and for the population age 18 and over in a 
prototype redistricting data file released as part of the 2018 End-to-
End Census Test. The Census Bureau intends to work with stakeholders, 
specifically ``the officers or public bodies having initial 
responsibility for the legislative apportionment of each state,'' to 
solicit feedback on the content of the prototype redistricting data 
file. If those stakeholders indicate a need for tabulations of 
citizenship data on the 2020 Census Public Law 94-171 Redistricting 
Data File, the Census Bureau will make a design change to include 
citizenship as part of that data. That new design would then be 
published in the Federal Register after it is completed in the summer 
of 2019. The Census Bureau will also tabulate housing unit counts by 
occupancy status (occupied or vacant) and provide total population 
counts for group quarters by group quarters type. For the prototype and 
for the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Files, the Census Bureau will 
provide these tabulations for a variety of standard census geographic 
areas including state, county, place, tract, and tabulation block. If 
states provide their congressional, legislative, and voting district 
boundaries through the Redistricting Data Program, the Census Bureau 
will also provide the tabulations for these areas. Tabulations by 
congressional, legislative, and voting districts will be available for 
the 50 states; equivalent tabulations will be available for the 
District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
    This program has a separate OMB clearance number. There is more 
detail about this program in Federal Register Notice ``Redistricting 
Data Program,'' July 26, 2018, (Vol. 83, No. 144, pp. 35458-35460. FR 
Doc No. 2018-15972).

O. Data Products and Dissemination

    The Data Products and Dissemination (DPD) operation performs three 
primary functions:
     Prepare and deliver the 2020 Census apportionment data for 
the President of the United States to provide to Congress by December 
31, 2020.
     Tabulate 2020 Census data products for use by the states 
for redistricting.
     Tabulate and disseminate 2020 Census data for use by the 
public.
    The DPD operation produces information required by Public Law to 
satisfy apportionment and redistricting requirements. Title 13, U.S. 
Code (U.S.C.) requires that the apportionment population counts be 
delivered to the Office of the President within nine months of the 
census date. Apportionment counts are based on the Census Unedited 
File, the Federally Affiliated Overseas Personnel and Dependents Count 
File, and a geographic file of state changes. For the 2020 Census, the 
census date is April 1, 2020, and the President will receive the counts 
by December 31, 2020.
    The DPD operation is also responsible for the production and 
dissemination of many data products, including national and state 
summary files, tabulated informational files, and data comparison 
tables. This includes electronic and printed products that cover 
population and housing unit tabulations, geographical maps, and 
products specific to the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
    The Center for Enterprise Dissemination Services and Consumer 
Innovation initiative is responsible for developing enterprise 
dissemination requirements. DPD is conducting a thorough review of the 
past product design (cross-tabulations and iterations of 
characteristics), while also looking to ensure that users can find data 
after the 2020 Census quickly and easily. The Census Bureau will 
undertake a thorough analysis of the proposed 2020 Census data products 
in keeping with our sworn obligation to protect

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respondents' data as data stewards under Title 13. Federal Register 
Notice ``Soliciting Feedback from Users on 2020 Census Data Products,'' 
July 19, 2018 (Vol. 83, pp. 34111--34112, FR Doc No. 2018-15458) was 
published with a 60-day comment period. It requested feedback from 
users on specific tables and geographic detail for decennial census 
products such as Summary File 1, Summary File 2, and the Demographic 
Profile. The last day to provide comment on the notice was September 
17, 2018. Subsequently, this notice was reopened for an additional 60-
day comment period on October 9, 2018 (Vol. 83, p. 50636, FR Doc No. 
2018-21837). The last day to provide comments on this notice was 
November 8, 2018. The final suite of 2020 Census data products will be 
determined in the summer of 2019.

P. Archiving

    The Archiving (ARC) Operation performs the following functions:
     Coordinates storage of the materials and data and provides 
records deemed permanent as the official data of the 2020 Census, 
including files containing the individual responses to the 2020 Census, 
to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
     Provides similar files to the Census Bureau's National 
Processing Center in Indiana to use as source materials to conduct the 
Age Search Service.
     Stores data to cover in-house needs.

Q. Federally Affiliated Count Overseas

    The Federally Affiliated Count Overseas operation obtains counts by 
home state of United States military and federal civilian employees who 
are stationed or assigned overseas and their dependents living with 
them. For the 2020 Census, overseas is defined as anywhere outside the 
50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas: 
American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and 
the United States Virgin Islands. Counts are submitted from Federal 
agencies and the Department of Defense (Defense Manpower Data Command) 
through a Census Bureau secure server and are used to allocate the 
federally affiliated population living overseas to their home state for 
the purposes of apportioning seats in the U.S. House of 
Representatives. If military and federal civilian employees of the U.S. 
government are deployed overseas while stationed or assigned within the 
U.S., they are counted at their U.S. residence where they live or sleep 
most of the time using administrative data provided by Federal agencies 
and the Department of Defense. See Section K for more info on how we 
count stateside military personnel.

R. Island Areas Censuses

    The purpose of the Island Areas Censuses (IAC) operation is to 
enumerate all residents of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; 
process and tabulate the collected data; and disseminate data products 
to the public. All data collection activities for the IAC will rely on 
the use of paper questionnaires, paper maps, and paper address 
registers to record the physical addresses of housing units and group 
quarters. The IAC questionnaire will leverage the American Community 
Survey questionnaire with minor wording changes in order to take into 
account the Island Areas local governments' concerns, where possible.
    Enumerators will list the addresses using paper address registers. 
Once the addresses have been listed, enumerators will visit every 
living quarter to conduct interviews with household members and follow 
up as necessary. The IAC will perform a clerical review of all 
completed questionnaires for completeness and data consistency, a 
reinterview for a sample of questionnaires, and an independent address 
check. The response data will be processed through the Decennial 
Response Processing System. Data products will include counts of the 
population and housing units, data profiles, subject tables, ranking 
tables, and supplemental tables.

S. Evaluations and Experiments

    The Census Bureau is not currently planning a separate package for 
the Evaluations and Experiments program, as has been done in past 
censuses. For the 2020 Census, these evaluations and experiments will 
be described either as Substantive Changes to this package, to the 
Census Bureau's Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing and QC OMB 
package, or within the Generic Clearance for Decennial Census Field 
Tests and Evaluations, covered under OMB approval #0607-0971.
    Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
    Frequency: Once every 10 years.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Section 141.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce 
collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection, identified by Docket number OMB-2018-0004, may be submitted 
to the Federal e-Rulemaking portal: https://www.regulations.gov within 
30 days of publication of this notice. You may also submit comments and 
recommendations to [email protected] or fax to (202)395-
5806. All comments received are part of the public record and will be 
posted to http://www.regulations.gov for public viewing. Comments will 
generally be posted without change. All Personally Identifiable 
Information (for example, name and address) voluntarily submitted by 
the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit Confidential 
Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information. 
You may submit attachments to electronic comments in Microsoft Word, 
Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF file formats only.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
Commerce Department.
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