[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 185 (Tuesday, September 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49983-49984]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20615]


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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 Initial and Final 
Housing Unit Follow-up.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): D-1303, D-1303PR, D-1340, D-1340PR, D-1380, D-
1380PR, D-1325, D-1325PR, D-1303.Ref, D-1303.Ref(PR), D-1340.Ref, D-
1340.Ref(PR), D-26(E/S), D-26PR, D-31 (E/S), D-31PR, D-1028(PES), D-
1028(PES)(PR).
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Number of Respondents: 216,200. This includes 180,000 housing units 
for Initial Housing Unit Follow-up, 8,000 housing units for Final 
Housing Unit Follow-up, 27,000 housing units for Initial Housing Unit 
Follow-up Quality Control, and 1,200 housing units for Final Housing 
Unit Follow-up Quality Control.
    Average Hours per Response: 5 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 18,017 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

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improve future censuses. The primary sampling unit is the Basic 
Collection Unit, which is the smallest unit of collection geography for 
2020 Census listing operations, usually a block. In addition, a Basic 
Collection Unit is the building block for field area delineations and 
other geographic delineations. As in the past, including 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.
    During the Independent Listing operation, field staff, referred to 
as ``listers,'' will canvass in their assigned Basic Collection Units 
every street, road, or other place where people might live and 
construct a list of housing units from scratch. Once the listing for 
each Basic Collection Unit is complete, the addresses are computer and 
clerically matched to the 2020 Census addresses in the Initial Housing 
Unit Matching operation. Addresses that remain unmatched or have 
unresolved address status after matching will be sent to the Initial 
Housing Unit Follow-up operation, during which listers collect 
additional information that might allow a resolution of any differences 
between the Independent Listing and the preliminary census address list 
results. Matching to a preliminary census file of housing units allows 
the Post-Enumeration Survey to conduct person interviews close to 
census day (April 1, 2020), rather than waiting until the final census 
list is available, after the delivery of apportionment data in December 
2020. In the Final Housing Unit Matching operation, addresses collected 
in the Independent Listing operation are matched to the final census 
list of housing units. The Initial Housing Unit Follow-up field 
operation seeks to answer questions needed to resolve the match or 
enumeration status of addresses identified in the Initial Housing Unit 
matching operation, while the Final Housing Unit Follow-up field 
operation seeks to answer similar questions identified in the Final 
Housing Unit matching operation.
    Addresses identified for both Initial and Final Housing Unit 
Follow-ups will generally need additional information to determine 
housing unit status (for example, to clarify if the addresses refer to 
a housing unit or commercial building and to identify duplicate 
addresses) or to resolve inconsistencies between the Post-Enumeration 
Survey and census addresses. Using paper questionnaires tailored to 
capture information needed to resolve each specific status question or 
discrepancy, listers will contact a member of each housing unit and ask 
questions to resolve housing unit status or to clarify discrepancies. 
If the listers do not find anyone at home after several attempts, they 
will try to collect the information from a proxy or by observation as a 
last resort. Proxies are respondents who are not members of the 
household.
    The Initial and Final Housing Unit Follow-up operations will also 
have separate quality control operations. The first quality control 
operation is the Initial Housing Unit Follow-up Quality Control, which 
contains 15 percent of the Initial Housing Unit Follow-up workload. The 
second quality control operation is the Final Housing Unit Follow-up 
Quality Control, which contains 15 percent of the Final Housing Unit 
Follow-up workload. These operations are implemented to ensure that the 
work performed is of acceptable quality.
    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. 2019-20615 Filed 9-23-19; 8:45 am]
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