[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 138 (Wednesday, July 20, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43237-43238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-15465]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. 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 May 25, 2022, 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 3.5 of the Household
Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607-1013, Exp. 10/31/23). The Household Pulse
Survey was designed to meet a need for timely 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 clearance from OMB to make some
revisions to the Household Pulse Survey questionnaire. To ensure that
the data collected by the Household Pulse Survey continue to meet
information needs as they evolve over the course of the pandemic, the
Census Bureau submits this Request for Revision to an Existing
Collection for a revised Phase 3.6 questionnaire.
Phase 3.6 includes new questions on the ability to carry out day-
to-day activities due to experiencing long COVID, non-parental
childcare arrangements and costs of childcare, changes in
transportation behaviors due to cost of gas, a series of questions
regarding access to infant formula, and inflation and changes in
behavior due to increasing prices. Questions on K-12 enrollment and
educational catch-up activities will be reinstated for Phase 3.6. There
are also modifications to existing questions, including changing the
reference period for the unemployment insurance items, adding Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
as a response option to the question that asks about how households
meet spending needs, and replacing employment categories with the
standard North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes.
Several questions will be removed for Phase 3.6, including questions on
lack of access to childcare, use of public transportation and
ridesharing, working or volunteering outside the home, receipt and use
of the Child Tax Credit, post-secondary educational disruptions, and
telehealth for adults and children.
It is the Department's intention to commence data collection using
the revised instrument on or about August 24, 2022. 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, February 1, 2021, April 13, 2021, June 24, 2021, October
26, 2021, January 24, 2022, and April 18, 2022. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public comments on the proposed revisions.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
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: 235,200.
Average Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
Burden Hours: 77,616.
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, amount of monthly rent
and changes in monthly rent, access to benefits, mental health and
access to care, difficulty with self-care and communicating, intent to
receive the COVID-19 vaccine/booster, timing of coronavirus testing,
use of coronavirus treatments, the experience of long COVID, and post-
secondary educational disruption. The requested revision, if approved
by OMB, will remove selected items from the questions for which utility
has declined and add questions based on information needs expressed via
public comment and in consult with other Federal agencies. The overall
burden change to the public will be insignificant.
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. 10/30/2023).
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
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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. 2022-15465 Filed 7-19-22; 8:45 am]
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