Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Household Pulse Survey
| Published date | 13 April 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 19219 |
| Record Number | 2021-07509 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Census Bureau,Commerce Department |
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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.
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