[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 13, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 20272]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-08397]
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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; High-Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook
Pulse Survey (HTOPS)
On July 22, 2024, 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 4.2 of the Household
Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607-1029, Exp. 01/31/27) and on July 12, 2024,
clearance was received to conduct the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth
Census Household Panel topical operations (OMB No. 0607-1025, Exp. 6/
30/26). Clearance for the Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey
(HTOPS) recruitment operation, January topical operation and February
topical operation (0607-1029) was approved by OMB on January 15, 2025,
and we received approval for the March, April, and May HTOPS
collections on April 11, 2025. The HTOPS is designed to ensure the
availability of frequent data collection for nationwide estimates on a
variety of topics for a variety of subgroups of the population. This
notice serves to inform you of the Department's intent to request
clearance from OMB to conduct the HTOPS June and August data
collections. The HTOPS program will not collect data in July to allow
for operational updates to our systems and processes. The June and
August topical surveys will include content from the Household Pulse
Survey. Household Pulse Survey content continues to serve as an
experimental endeavor in cooperation with other federal agencies to
produce near real-time data to understand the effects of current
events, including health events, and other social or economic events
facing the nation or a significant portion of the nation. The June
content will focus on economic issues and events and the August issue
will have health-focused content.
Data collected in the Household Pulse Survey demonstrate the
ability to quickly collect and disseminate high-frequency data products
that inform the public in urgent circumstances. Data products will
include public-use data files and detailed data tables, which can be
used by federal, state, and local agencies; academic and non-government
organizations; the media; and the public.
It is the Department's intention to commence data collection using
the revised instruments on or about June 17, 2025, and August 19, 2025.
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 publication to the Federal Register on December 9, 2024, and
February 28, 2025 (OMB No. 0607-1029) during a 30-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: High Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook
Pulse Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1029.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 16,000 (192,000 annually).
Average Hours per Response: .333 (20 minutes).
Burden Hours: 5,328 (62,936 annually).
Needs and Uses: The High-Frequency Surveys Program was established
as a natural progression from the creation of the Household Pulse
Survey. The Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey is a probability-
based nationwide nationally representative survey panel designed to
test methods to collect data on a variety of topics of interest, and
for conducting experimentation on alternative question wording and
methodological approaches. The goal of the HTOPS is to ensure
availability of frequent data collection for nationwide estimates on a
variety of topics and a variety of subgroups of the population, meeting
standards for transparent quality reporting of the Federal Statistical
Agencies and the Office of Management and Budget.
Panelists and households selected for the HTOPS were recruited from
the Census Bureau's gold standard Master Address File. This ensures
that HTOPS is rooted in this rigorously developed and maintained frame
and available for linkage to administrative records securely maintained
and curated by the Census Bureau. Invitations to complete the monthly
surveys will be sent via email and SMS messages. Questionnaires will be
mainly internet self-response. The HTOPS will maintain
representativeness by allowing respondents who do not use the internet
to respond via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). All
panelists will receive an incentive for each complete questionnaire.
Periodic replenishment samples will maintain representativeness and
panelists will be replaced after a period of three years.
Affected Public: Households.
Frequency: Monthly.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, sections 141, 182
and 193.
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 0607-1029.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-08397 Filed 5-12-25; 8:45 am]
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