[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 160 (Tuesday, August 18, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 50801]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-18034]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Census Bureau


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Current Population Survey, School Enrollment Supplement

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register (84 FR 13628) on April 5, 2019, during a 60-day 
comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public 
comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Current Population Survey, School Enrollment Supplement.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0464.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for Non-Substantive 
Change to a Currently Approved Information Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 54,000.
    Average Hours per Response: 0.05.
    Burden Hours: 2,700.
    Needs and Uses: The Current Population Survey, School Enrollment 
Supplement provides information on the population 3 years old and older 
on school enrollment, junior or regular college attendance, and high 
school graduation. It has been fielded annually from October 2005 to 
October 2019. This request is to add seven questions to the School 
Enrollment Supplement in October 2020. The added questions will assist 
researchers to understand how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic 
affected schooling at an individual child level, such as:
     How children received instruction in a distance-format, if 
at all;
     how much digital and internet access children had, if at 
all;
     how much live interaction children had with teachers, if 
at all; and
     how much time was spent on distance learning.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 141, 
and 182; and Title 29, United States Code, Section 2 authorize the 
Census Bureau to collect this information. The Education Sciences 
Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA, Title 20, United States Code, Section 9543) 
authorizes the National Center for Education Statistics to collect this 
information.
    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 0607-0464.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-18034 Filed 8-17-20; 8:45 am]
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