[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 12, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61008-61009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24587]


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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 Person Interview and 
Person Followup.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
    Form Number(s): D-1301, D-1301(PR), D-1400, D-1400(S), D-1709, D-
1709(S), D-1409(E/S), D-1609(E/S).
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Number of Respondents: 293,250. This includes 190,000 housing units 
for Person Interview, 28,500 housing units for Person Interview 
Reinterview, 65,000 housing units for Person Followup, and 9,750 
housing units for Person Followup Reinterview.
    Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 73,313 hours.
    Needs and Uses:
    The Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) 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 
of collection geography for 2020 Census listing operations. As in the 
past, including the 2020 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 2020 PES will use the dual-system estimation procedure, which 
depends on two independent systems of measurement. The independence 
between the PES and census operations is a fundamental necessity for 
dual-system estimation. The PES will comprise two independent 
enumerations of housing units and the household population within the 
same sample areas. These two enumerations are called the enumeration 
sample (E sample) and the population sample (P sample). The E sample 
contains the list of housing units and people enumerated in the 2020 
Census within a sample of BCUs. The P sample contains housing units and 
people in the sample set of sample BCUs, but obtained independently 
from the census. The independent roster of housing units is obtained 
during the PES Independent Listing, while the independent roster of 
people is obtained during the PES Person Interview. The P sample 
housing units and people will be matched to all census housing units in 
the sample BCUs and surrounding BCUs.
    The results of the housing unit matching operations will be used to 
determine which PES and census addresses will be eligible to go to the 
PES Person Followup operation. The Person Followup operation will 
contain approximately 190,000 sample addresses. The Person Interview 
Reinterview operation will be a sample of those cases with an estimate 
28,500 sample addresses.
    The computer-assisted PES Person Followup instrument will collect 
the following information for the housing units included in this 
operation:
    1. Roster of people living at the housing unit at the time of the 
PES Person Followup operation.
    2. Census Day (April 1, 2020) address information for people who 
moved into the sample address since Census Day.
    3. Other addresses where a person may have been counted on Census 
Day.
    4. Information to determine where each person should have been 
counted on Census Day (according to Census residence criteria). For 
example, interviewers will probe for people who might have been left 
off the household roster, ask additional questions about people who 
moved from another address on Census Day to the sample address, and 
collect additional information for people with multiple addresses.
    5. Demographic information for each person in the household on 
Interview Day or Census Day. These data items include name, date of 
birth, age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, and relationship to the 
householder.
    6. Name and above information for any person who has moved out of 
the sample address since Census Day (if known).
    7. Tenure of the household or address status for unoccupied housing 
units.
    The PES Person Interview Reinterview is a quality control operation 
that will be conducted on about 15 percent of the PES Person Interview 
cases. The purpose of the PES Person Interview Reinterview is to 
confirm that the PES Person Interview interviewer conducted a PES 
Person Interview with a household member or a proxy respondent and to 
conduct the complete PES Person Interview as needed if the original 
interview seems questionable.
    For each case identified during matching with discrepancies between 
the PES Person Followup operation and census, the Census Bureau will 
conduct a PES Person Followup operation for selected people in the 
household. During the PES Person Followup operation, interviewers will 
use paper questionnaires to obtain information about the selected 
people. The PES Person Followup operation will collect the information 
needed to determine

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where each selected person should be counted on Census Day (according 
to 2020 Census residence rules). For example, interviewers will probe 
for additional addresses where the person may have stayed during the 
year and dates of stay for each address.
    The PES Person Followup Reinterview is a quality control operation 
that will be conducted on about 15 percent of the PES PFU cases. The 
purpose of the PES Person Followup Reinterview is to confirm that the 
PES Person Followup interviewer conducted a PES Person Followup 
interview with a household member or a proxy respondent and to conduct 
the complete PES Person Followup interview as needed if the original 
interview seems questionable.
    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. 2019-24587 Filed 11-8-19; 8:45 am]
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