[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 66 (Friday, April 5, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13628-13629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-06652]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

 Census Bureau


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, Commerce.
    Title: 2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing 
Operation.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): D-31(PES-IL), D-31(PES-IL)PR, D-26(E/S).
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Number of Respondents: 565,000 Housing Units for Independent 
Listing and 85,000 housing units for Independent Listing Quality 
Control.
    Average Hours per Response: 5 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 54,167 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The Post-Enumeration Survey for the 2020 Census 
will be conducted to provide estimates of census net coverage error and 
components of census coverage (such as correct enumerations, omissions, 
and erroneous enumerations, including duplicates) for housing units and 
people living in housing units to improve future censuses. The primary 
sampling unit is the Basic Collection Unit, which is the smallest unit 
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collection geography for 2020 Census listing operations. As in the 
past, including in the 2010 Census Coverage Measurement program, the 
Post-Enumeration Survey operations and activities must be conducted 
separate from and independent of the other 2020 Census operations.
    The Independent Listing operation is the first field operation in 
the Post-Enumeration Survey process. It will be conducted to obtain a 
complete inventory of all housing unit addresses within the Post-
Enumeration Survey sample of basic collection units in the United 
States (excluding remote Alaska) and in Puerto Rico before the 2020 
Census enumeration commences. Group quarters will be excluded. Remote 
Alaska is out of scope for the PES because the seasonal nature of 
addresses and the population throughout the year make it infeasible to 
accurately conduct the matching and follow-up operations necessary for 
dual-system estimation. For this reason, the Census Bureau's past post-
enumeration surveys have never included remote Alaska.
    Field staff, referred to as ``listers,'' will canvass every street, 
road, or other place where people might live in their assigned basic 
collection units and construct a list of housing units using an 
automated data collection instrument on a laptop. Listers will attempt 
to contact a member of each housing unit they encounter on their route 
to ensure all units at a given address are identified. If someone 
answers, the lister will provide a Confidentiality Notice and ask about 
the address in order to collect the address information, as 
appropriate. If the lister does not find anyone at home after several 
attempts, he or she will try to collect the information from a proxy or 
add any found addresses to the address list by observation as a last 
resort. Proxies are respondents who are not members of the household. 
Listers will also identify the location of each housing unit by 
collecting map spots (i.e., Global Positioning System (GPS) 
coordinates). The lister will also collect information on the status of 
each housing unit, such as occupied, vacant, under construction, empty 
trailer park, etc.
    Completed Independent Listing basic collection units will be 
automatically reviewed for unusual characteristics (such as GPS 
information indicating that the lister was far from the units they were 
listing). Basic collection units with unusual characteristics may be 
subject to a quality control wherein quality control listers return to 
the field to check a portion of units to ensure that the work performed 
meets Census Bureau quality standards.
    As previously discussed within the presubmission Federal Register 
Notice for Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing and Quality 
Control (FR Vol. 83, Number 207, October 25, 2018, Pages 53849-53850), 
the 2020 Census Evaluations and Experiments program will also be 
receiving the data collected in this operation for a 2020 Census 
evaluation of the 2020 Census Address Canvassing operation. This 
evaluation will take full advantage of the fact that it uses the same 
listing procedures as the Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing. 
The sample size for the Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing is 
sufficient for the Address Canvassing evaluation needs. Using the 
collected data for both purposes minimizes respondent burden. Specific 
details of the Address Canvassing evaluation will be described in a 
subsequent Nonsubstantive Change to the Post-Enumeration Survey 
Independent Listing data collection. Other components of the 2020 
Census Experiments and Evaluations program are described in either the 
Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations 
(covered under OMB approval #0607-0971), or will be described as the 
third component of the 2020 Census data collection (covered under OMB 
approval #0607-1006, Evaluations and Experiments component, to appear).
    Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
    Frequency: One Time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 141 and 193.
    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 should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to [email protected] or fax to (202)395-5806.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, 
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2019-06652 Filed 4-4-19; 8:45 am]
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