[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 134 (Monday, July 13, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41947-41948]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-14977]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

U.S. Census Bureau


Notice of Correction; 2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey Initial 
and Final Housing Unit Follow-Up

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; correction; Notice of changes to the 2020 Census Post-
Enumeration Survey (PES) Initial Housing Follow-Up (IHUFU) field 
operation.

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SUMMARY: This document constitutes a notice of intent to provide a 30-
day comment period on schedule changes, procedures for collecting 
information changes and estimate of hour of burden changes to the 
approved information collection for the 2020 Census Post-Enumeration 
Survey (PES) Initial Housing Follow-Up (IHUFU) field operation. The 
Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce 
paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other 
federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or 
continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Census Bureau is issuing this 
notice to inform the public of changes in schedule, procedures for 
collecting information, and estimate of hour of burden, associated with 
the notice for public comment, titled ``2020 Census Post-Enumeration 
Survey Initial and Final Housing Unit Follow-Up,'' published in the 
Federal Register on April 17, 2019 (Vol. 84, No. 74, pp. 16000-16002).
    The following highlights the proposed revisions and the reasons:
    1. The PES IHUFU and IHUFU Quality Control operations will occur 
July 23, 2020, through September 21, 2020, instead of May 6, 2020, 
through June 19, 2020, because of COVID-19 restrictions.
    2. Procedure changes for collecting information for the PES IHUFU 
field operation are proposed to minimize personal contact because of 
COVID-19. Originally, listers were instructed to contact a household 
member (or a proxy or by observation as a last resort) to complete 
IHUFU form (D-1303) at each housing unit (HU) selected for follow-up. 
Now listers are allowed to complete the form by observation first 
before attempting to interview by telephone or by a personal visit. For 
addresses that cannot be confirmed by observation, a letter will be 
sent to the addresses, along with the confidentiality notice, inviting 
respondents to call the lister to set up a telephone interview. If 
after five days the IHUFU case cannot be completed by observation or 
the respondent has not followed up based on the letter, then a personal 
visit is required. If the respondent or the lister does not feel 
comfortable conducting the interview in person at the door, then the 
lister may ask for the phone number and conduct a telephone interview.
    3. The estimated workload is now approximately 253,800 (172,000 
original estimate) HUs for PES IHUFU in selected basic collection units 
(BCUs) in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and 31,400 (8,000 
original estimate) HUs for IHUFU in Puerto Rico. The Census Bureau 
originally underestimated the workload for 2020 Puerto Rico IHUFU, but 
the revised numbers reported in this document reflect the correct 
estimated workload.
    From the IHUFU workload, we will select a 15 percent sample of 
approximately 38,070 (25,800 original estimate) HUs from all BCUs in 
the 50 states and District of Columbia, and 4,710 (1,200 original 
estimate) HUs from all BCUs in Puerto Rico for the IHUFU QC operation. 
To calculate the estimated burden hours, we assumed a theoretical 100 
percent response rate and a completion time of five minutes per case. 
The total estimated respondent burden for the IHUFU operation is 
approximately 27,333 (17,250) hours. However, since the Collection of 
Information has changed to primarily observation, the actual total 
respondent burden is expected to be less.

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                                                                                     Estimated
                                                                     Estimated       time per      Total  burden
                            Operation                                number of     response  (in       hours
                                                                    respondents      minutes)
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                             2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey--Original Estimate
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Initial Housing Unit Follow-Up (stateside)......................         172,000               5          14,333
Initial Housing Unit Follow-Up (PR).............................           8,000               5             667
Initial Housing Unit Follow-Up Quality Control (stateside)......          25,800               5           2,150
Initial Housing Unit Follow-Up Quality Control (PR).............           1,200               5             100
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    Total.......................................................         207,000               5    17,250 hours
                                                                     respondents
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                              2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey--Revised Estimate
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Initial Housing Unit Follow-Up (stateside)......................         253,800               5          21,150
Initial Housing Unit Follow-Up (PR).............................          31,400               5           2,617
Initial Housing Unit Follow-up Quality Control (stateside)......          38,070               5           3,173
Initial Housing Unit Follow-Up Quality Control (PR).............           4,710               5             393
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    Total.......................................................         327,980               5          27,333
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    There are no other proposed changes to the 2020 Census PES IHUFU 
field operation.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website: www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting 
``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using 
the search function and entering either the title of the collection or 
the OMB Control Number 0607-1010.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-14977 Filed 7-10-20; 8:45 am]
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