[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 13, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 19219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-07509]
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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; Household Pulse Survey
On March 18, 2021, the Department of Commerce received clearance
from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to conduct Phase 3.1 of the Household
Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607-1013, Exp. 10/31/23). Phase 3.1 of the
Household Pulse Survey includes new content designed to meet current
needs for information associated with household experiences during the
Covid-19 pandemic.
The Department is committed to ensuring that the data collected by
the Household Pulse Survey continue to meet information needs as they
may evolve over the course of the pandemic. This notice serves to
inform of the Department's intent to request emergency clearance from
OMB to add content to the Household Pulse Survey not included in the
Request for Revision for Phase 3.1 approved on March 18, 2021. The
content under consideration includes demographic screener questions
from the Department of Defense (DOD) to identify Service members and
military spouses (Q8a), and from the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) to classify respondents employed in
``essential'' worker groups (Q13c and Q13d). The Household Pulse Survey
is designed to collect and disseminate data on a near real-time basis
to inform on the social and economic impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Data from the Household Pulse Survey will allow DOD to enhance services
and target resources to help alleviate the impact of the pandemic on
Service members and their families. The CDC will use the data to
respond to ongoing impacts of the pandemic and target outreach efforts
to promote vaccine access and uptake among essential worker groups.
It is the Department's intention to commence data collection using
the revised instrument on or about April 14, 2021. The Department
invites 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 sought on
the Household Pulse Survey via the Federal Register on May 19, 2020,
June 3, 2020, and again on February 1, 2021. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments on the proposed revisions.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Household Pulse Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1013.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 3,150,000.
Average Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
Burden Hours: 1,039,500.
Needs and Uses: Data produced by the Household Pulse Survey are
designed to inform on a range of topics related to households'
experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics to date have included
employment, facility to telework, travel patterns, income loss,
spending patterns, food and housing security, access to benefits,
mental health and access to care, intent to receive the COVID-19
vaccine, and educational disruption (K-12 and post-secondary). The
requested revision, if approved by OMB, will include additional items
that will allow agencies to enhance services and target resources to
help alleviate the impact of the pandemic on Service members and their
families and target outreach efforts to promote vaccine access and
uptake among essential worker groups. The overall burden to the public
will remain unchanged.
The Household Pulse Survey was initially launched in April, 2020 as
an experimental project (see https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products.html) under emergency clearance from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) initially granted April 19, 2020; regular
clearance was subsequently sought and approved by OMB on October 30,
2020 (OMB No. 0607-1013; Exp. 10/31/2023).
Affected Public: Households.
Frequency: Households will be selected once to participate in a 20-
minute survey.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 182
and 196.
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 0607-1013.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-07509 Filed 4-12-21; 8:45 am]
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