[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 83 (Monday, April 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33314-33315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09101]


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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; 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) Sexual Orientation and 
Gender Identity Test

    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

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assess the impact of our information collection requirements and 
minimize the public's reporting burden. Public comments were previously 
requested via the Federal Register on September 19, 2023, during a 60-
day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for 
public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
    Title: American Community Survey (ACS) Methods Panel: 2024 Sexual 
Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Test.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0936.
    Form Number(s): Paper questionnaires: ACS-1(X)SGO, ACS-1(X)SGA; ACS 
internet electronic instrument (no form number), ACS CAPI(HU) 
electronic instrument (no form number), ACS Content Follow-up internet 
and CATI electronic instruments (no form numbers).
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a 
Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 281,000 respondents to the initial 
interview; 88,000 respondents to the Content Follow-up reinterview.
    Average Hours per Response: 40 minutes for the initial interview; 
20 minutes for the Content Follow-up reinterview.
    Burden Hours: 216,819 hours.

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                                                                     Estimated       Estimated         Total
                                                                     number of      burden (in       estimated
                                                                    respondents       hours)       burden hours
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Initial Interview...............................................         281,000           0.667         187,427
Content Follow-up Reinterview...................................          88,000           0.334          29,392
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    Total.......................................................  ..............  ..............         216,819
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    Needs and Uses: The information collected in the 2024 ACS SOGI test 
will be used to evaluate the quality of data from questions on sexual 
orientation and gender identity. The research will inform 
recommendations for potential production ACS implementation on question 
wording and response options, whether a confirmation question is asked 
of everyone or only of those people with discrepant responses for sex 
at birth and current gender identity, and the style of write-in boxes 
to use for internet respondents. The data will also be used to produce 
descriptive statistics on the test topics, assess the impact on other 
questions on the survey that have changed, and gain insight into 
terminology by analyzing write-in responses and responses to 
qualitative questions asked in the test. Data will be assessed by mode 
of response as well as type of respondent (proxy or self-reported 
data), in addition to other sub-groups of interest.
    Because the questions being tested under this clearance have yet to 
be asked in the American Community Survey, the data gathered will not 
be considered official statistics of the Census Bureau or other Federal 
agencies. Test results will be included in research reports that will 
be published on the Census Bureau's website. Results may also be 
prepared for presentations at professional meetings and conferences or 
for publication in professional journals. All published test results 
will be statistical products that contain only aggregated data that do 
not reveal individual responses.
    Details of the questions being tested and test plans are available 
in Supporting Statements A and B and associated attachments. See 
directions below for how to find these documents online on 
www.reginfo.gov.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: This is a one-time test.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 141, 193, and 221.
    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 0607-0936.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-09101 Filed 4-26-24; 8:45 am]
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