Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
| Published date | 09 September 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 47233 |
| Record Number | 2019-19312 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Census Bureau,Commerce Department |
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 174 (Monday, September 9, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 174 (Monday, September 9, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47233-47239]
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[FR Doc No: 2019-19312]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2020 Census--Evaluations and Experiments
The initial Federal Register Notice ``2020 Census'' (June 8, 2018,
Vol. 83, Number 111, pp. 26643-26653, FR Doc No.: 2018-12365) described
the 2020 Census in full. Approval for the 2020 Census is being sought
from OMB in phases. The first phase of approval was for the 2020 Census
Address Canvassing operation only, which was described in Federal
Register Notice ``2020 Census,'' October 2, 2018 (Vol. 83, No. 191, pp.
49535-49539, FR Doc No.: 2018-21386). Address Canvassing creates the
address list for the census and precedes census enumeration data
collection. The remaining enumeration operations scoped for the 2020
Census data collection were described in Federal Register Notice ``2020
Census,'' February 13, 2019 (Vol. 84, No. 30, pp 3746-3757, FR Doc.
No.: 2019-02223), which had an additional 30-day comment period. The
Evaluations and Experiments description will be considered as an
additional revision to the approved OMB materials. In addition, the
Group Quarters and Enumeration at Transitory Locations operation
descriptions will be updated in this Notice. Previous Notices have not
described fully some of the stages of these operations. In addition,
there have been some changes to stages that were previously described.
In addition, there has been an overall change to the 2020 Census
program since the prior Notice publication. This change will be
described in this Notice for the purposes of providing the most current
details about the 2020 Census program. In particular, the program
change is related to the determination of enumeration methodology by
geographic area, or the Type of Enumeration Area (TEA) delineation.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1006.
Form Number(s): D-Q1, D-Q1(E/S), D-Q-XG(E/S).
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 193,426,318 to 2020 Census.
Average Hours Per Response: 10 minutes for census enumeration.
Burden Hours: 28,984,001 for 2020 Census.
This burden is higher than shown in prior Notices for multiple
reasons. Additional phases for group quarters and transitory locations
collections have been added; the total estimated number of housing
units has been adjusted upward as a result of geographic file and TEA
updates; a supplemental file delivery of new addresses to the census
universe has now been accounted for within the Nonresponse Followup
workload estimate.
The TEAs are described further in Needs and Uses. In the final TEA
delineation, some housing units have been moved between TEAs. In
particular, the Update Leave and Update Enumerate areas have decreased
while the self-response area has increased.
An adjustment to the predicted response rate is represented with a
change between the percents attributed to self-response versus
Nonresponse Followup. The predicted response rate within the self-
response area is 61.5 percent and within the Update Leave area is 51
percent. The total burden is unchanged by these shifts.
Where the evaluations and experiments collect census data using
different techniques or questionnaires, the burden shows a separate
line for this collection. The total burden is unchanged by this
breakout.
2020 Census
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Estimated
Estimated time per Total burden
Operation or category number of response (in hours
respondents minutes)
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Address Canvassing.............................................. 15,786,734 5 1,315,561
Address Canvassing Listing Quality Control...................... 1,578,673 5 131,556
Address Canvassing Subtotal................................. 17,365,407 .............. 1,447,117
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Geographic Areas Focused on Self-Response (this includes Mailout and Update Leave)
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Internet/Telephone/Paper........................................ 87,774,467 10 14,629,078
Optimization of Self-Response Experiment........................ 118,541 10 19,757
Extending the Decennial Census Environment to the Mailing 172,992 10 28,832
Materials......................................................
Update Leave.................................................... 6,600,000 5 550,000
Update Leave Quality Control.................................... 660,000 5 55,000
Nonresponse Followup............................................ 62,934,000 10 10,489,000
Nonresponse Followup Reinterview................................ 3,146,700 5 262,225
Self-Response Quality Assurance................................. 250,000 10 41,667
Field Verification.............................................. 400,000 2 13,333
Field Verification Quality Control.............................. 40,000 2 1,333
Coverage Improvement............................................ 3,200,000 7 373,333
Non-ID Processing Phone Followup................................ 750,000 5 62,500
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Self-Response Areas Subtotal.................................... 166,046,700 .............. 26,526,058
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Geographic Area Focused on Update Enumerate
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Update Enumerate Production..................................... 35,000 12 7,000
Update Enumerate Listing Quality Control........................ 3,500 5 292
Update Enumerate Reinterview.................................... 1,750 10 292
Update Enumerate Subtotal................................... 40,250 .............. 7,584
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Group Quarters (GQ)
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Domestic Violence Shelter address collection.................... 57 20 19
GQ Advance Contact (facility)................................... 297,000 10 49,500
GQ Enumeration--eResponse (facility)............................ 14,300 20 4,767
GQ Enumeration--person contact.................................. 8,000,000 5 666,667
Service-Based Enumeration....................................... 800,000 5 66,667
Group Quarters Quality Control.................................. 8,500 5 708
Domestic Violence Shelter Enumeration........................... * 0 .............. 0
Military Enumeration............................................ * 0 .............. 0
Maritime and Military Vessel Enumeration........................ * 0 .............. 0
Group Quarters Subtotal..................................... 9,119,857 .............. 788,328
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Carnivals/Circuses address collection........................... 450 10 75
Hotels/Motels address collection................................ 55,000 10 9,167
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Advance Contact............ 50,000 10 8,333
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Units...................... 600,000 10 100,000
Federally Affiliated Count Overseas............................. 82 5 7
Island Areas Censuses--Housing Units............................ 138,281 40 92,187
Island Areas Censuses--Group Quarters........................... 10,291 30 5,146
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Totals...................................................... 193,426,318 .............. 28,984,001
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* This burden is included in GQ enumeration--person contact.
Needs and Uses:
Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution mandates
that the U.S. House of Representatives be reapportioned every ten years
by conducting an enumeration of all residents. In addition to the
reapportionment of the U.S. Congress, Census data are used to draw
legislative district boundaries within states. Census data are also
used by numerous agencies to determine funding allocations for the
distribution of an estimated $675 billion of federal funds each year.
The taking of a decennial census is mandated by Article 1, Section
2 of the U.S. Constitution. Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C),
Section 141 directs the Secretary to take a decennial census of
population and housing, determining its form and content, and further
authorizes the collection of such other census information in relation
to the decennial census, as necessary. These authorities are delegated
to the Director of the Census Bureau under Department of Commerce
Organization Order 35-2A. The Census Bureau is required to conduct the
2020 Census to collect the person and housing data that will be used
for reapportionment, redistricting, and various statistical data
products, under Title 13, U.S. Code. Additionally, the Census Bureau is
authorized under Title 13 Section 193 to conduct surveys and collect
information before, during, and after the decennial census to assist in
the conduct of the decennial census.
Type of Enumeration Areas
Prior to the census, it is necessary to delineate all geographic
areas into Type of Enumeration Areas (TEAs), which describe what
methodology will be used for census material delivery and household
enumeration in order to use the most cost-effective enumeration
approach for achieving maximum accuracy and completeness. TEAs also
describe what methodology will be used for updating the address frame.
For the United States and Puerto Rico, TEAs are delineated at the block
level based on the address and spatial data in the Census Bureau's
Master Address File (MAF)/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding
and Referencing system (TIGER) database.
The TEAs designated for the 2020 Census are:
* TEA 1 = Self-Response.
* TEA 2 = Update Enumerate.
* TEA 3 = Island Areas.
* TEA 4 = Remote Alaska.
* TEA 6 = Update Leave.
The most common enumeration method by percentage of households is
self-response (TEA 1), where materials will be delivered to each
address through the mail and self-response will be supported and
promoted. Self-response can occur when households mail back a 2020
Census paper questionnaire, submit the data on the 2020 Census internet
questionnaire, or call the telephone number for Census Questionnaire
Assistance and submit the data during the phone call. After the initial
self-response phase, nonresponding households in TEA 1 will be
enumerated in the Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) operation. In Update
Enumerate (TEA 2), Census Bureau enumerators visit an address, update
the address list, and attempt household enumeration at the same time.
This TEA will be used for a very small portion of the addresses in the
country, such as those with access problems or minimal mail service.
The Island Areas (TEA 3) are not currently included in MAF/TIGER. With
no existing address list for these areas, the address list will be
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created and enumeration will be attempted at the same time. Remote
Alaska (TEA 4) uses the Update Enumerate methodology but in remote
areas of Alaska. These areas have unique challenges associated with the
accessibility to communities where the population ranges from several
hundred people to just a few people. Communities are widely scattered
and rarely linked by roads. Most are accessible only by small-engine
airplane, snowmobile, four-wheel-drive vehicles, dogsled, or some
combination thereof. This operation occurs earlier than other
enumeration operations (starting in January) due to seasonal
availability of the population, who disperse when warmer weather
arrives. During Update Leave (TEA 6), Census Bureau staff visit an
address, update the address list, and leave a questionnaire package at
each individual housing unit. The household is expected to return the
questionnaire or submit their data online or by telephone. Puerto Rico
is designated as entirely Update Leave in order to create a current
address list at the time of the census, in response to changes that may
have occurred due to recent natural disasters. Nonresponding units in
Update Leave areas are included in the NRFU workload.
Prior Notices included a TEA 5 for Military areas. This planned
procedure is no longer being included in the 2020 Census. Areas
previously designated as TEA 5 have been redelineated into TEA 1 (Self-
Response) or TEA 6 (Update Leave) areas, depending on data that resides
within the MAF/TIGER database. This impacts the distribution of burden
by TEA.
The final delineation into TEAs also includes updated counts of
housing units within each TEA. These updated counts change the burden
table from prior publications and increase the total burden. A map of
the areas designated for the various TEAs is shown at the embedded
link: TEA Viewer.
Group Quarters
Group quarters (GQ) are living quarters where people who are
typically unrelated have group living arrangements and frequently are
receiving some type of service. College/university student housing and
nursing/skilled-nursing facilities are examples of GQs. Previous
Notices have provided some background information but have not
described fully the scope, flow of activities, collection instruments,
burden estimates, and recent program updates for the GQ data
collections and other special enumerations. For the sake of presenting
a comprehensive picture these programs will be described in full in
this Notice.
The 2020 Census Group Quarters operation will enumerate people
living or staying in GQs and will provide an opportunity for people
experiencing homelessness and receiving service at a service-based
location, such as a soup kitchen, to be counted in the census. GQs are
assigned different categories or type codes, and field procedures
sometimes differ by categories or because of GQ facility privacy
concerns. For example, procedures for colleges may differ from those
for prisons or skilled nursing homes.
The 2020 Census GQ operation consists of the following components:
GQ Frame Update.
GQ Advance Contact.
GQ Enumeration.
Service-Based Enumeration.
Military Enumeration.
Maritime/Military Vessel (Shipboard) Enumeration.
GQ Frame Update
The 2020 Census GQ Frame Update program supports the 2020 Census
enumeration frame development for the 2020 Census Group Quarters
Enumeration. Building from the 2010 Census, the GQ frame incorporates
updates from the 2020 Census Local Update of Census Addresses, Address
Canvassing, and New Construction operations, as well as the Census
Bureau's American Community Survey. Local Update of Census Addresses is
described in Federal Register Notice ``Local Update of Census Addresses
Operation,'' November 7, 2016, (Vol. 81, No. 215, pp 78109-78110, FR
Doc. 2016-26778), while New Construction is described in Federal
Register Notice ``2020 Census New Construction Program,'' October 5,
2018, (Vol. 83, No. 194, pp 50332-50334, FR Doc. 2018-21698). The
Address Canvassing operation is part of the 2020 Census package and has
been described in Federal Register Notice ``2020 Census,'' October 2,
2018, (Vol. 83 No. 181, pp 49535-49539, FR Doc. 21386).
In addition, the Count Review operation contributes addresses to
the frame in advance of and during the census. The Count Review
operation enhances the accuracy of the 2020 Census through remediating
potential gaps in coverage by:
Implementing an efficient and equitable process to
identify and incorporate housing units that are missing from the Census
Bureau's Master Address File (MAF).
Identifying and including or correcting large group
quarters, such as college/university student housing, that are missing
from the MAF or geographically misallocated.
For this operation, Federal-State Cooperative for Population
Estimates (FSCPE) representatives provide housing unit and GQ addresses
from their state, and the state-submitted addresses are compared
against the MAF. This operation does not create burden due to the
relationship with FSCPE representatives under which these updates are
provided. It is being described in this Notice in order to provide a
complete picture of the frame development and enumeration activities
for GQs.
There are two phases of review:
Phase 1
Housing Unit Review: Focuses on clusters (25+) of city-style
addresses provided by states that are missing from the MAF.
GQ Review: Focuses on addresses provided by states for large GQs of
particular types of GQs that are missing from or misallocated in the
MAF.
Phase 2
Post-Enumeration GQ Review: After GQ enumeration is completed, the
states will have the opportunity to review the enumeration status of
GQs. For GQs that were not enumerated, FSCPE participants will have the
opportunity to provide additional information to enable Late GQ
Enumeration to revisit the GQ. FSCPEs will also have a final
opportunity to add GQs that were not in the MAF but were operating on
April 1, 2020.
GQ Advance Contact
The GQ Advance Contact has both in-office and in-field activities.
The in-office GQ Advance Contact is an area census office activity
through which Census Bureau staff call GQs identified in prior frame
update phases to collect preferred contact dates, times, and methods of
enumeration as well as expected population on Census Day. Census Bureau
staff also discuss any special instructions from the GQ or concerns
related to privacy, confidentiality, and security. For cases that staff
are unable to contact or resolve during the in-office advance contact,
field supervisors make an in-field visit to the GQs to collect this
data.
GQ Enumeration
The GQ Enumeration covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia,
and Puerto Rico. The GQ enumeration uses a variety of means to collect
data in order to maximize efficiency. In-field enumeration methods are
In-Person Interview, Facility Self-Enumeration,
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Drop Off/Pick Up of Questionnaires, and Paper Response Data collection.
The first three in-field methods of enumeration provide people residing
in GQs with the Individual Census Questionnaire as the paper data
collection instrument. Paper Response Data collection refers to an
administrator at the GQ providing to the enumerator a spreadsheet or
roster with enumeration data for all occupants. This closely resembles
the eResponse Data Transfer described below.
A follow-up to ensure quality of enumerations is conducted. Area
census office management staff assign cases selected for reinterview to
clerks. The clerks use a reinterview form for each case in their
reinterview workload and telephone each GQ to confirm that the
enumerator visited the correct facility at the correct address. The
reinterview also determines if the enumerator obtained a population
count within a pre-defined acceptable range of the count provided by
the GQ contact during the reinterview.
Reinterview responses are then compared to the initial responses.
If a response is satisfactory, no further work is required. If a
response is unsatisfactory, management will conduct an investigation
into the cause. Some outcomes may result in additional data collection.
If errors occurred or if falsification by the enumerator occurred, the
case may be sent out for rework. Also, if falsification occurred, all
cases worked by that enumerator will be reinterviewed.
GQ Enumeration--eResponse Data Transfer
The GQ eResponse leverages electronic data transfers from GQ
administrators to the Census Bureau. Client-level data from systems
maintained by GQ administrators will be transferred to a standardized
Census Bureau secured system that will accept electronically submitted
data in a standardized template. These data will be accepted in lieu of
the use of the Individual Census Questionnaires if the data are deemed
to be of sufficiently high quality and completeness.
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic violence shelters are facilities for those seeking safety
from domestic violence. Domestic violence shelters are enumerated using
special procedures and specially trained personnel. These special
procedures include inviting members of the National Coalition Against
Domestic Violence state coalitions to participate in the 2020 Census
Group Quarters Frame Update Program to create a comprehensive and
current address listing for domestic violence shelters. In order to
protect the integrity of these locations, it will be necessary to have
individuals designated to be the recipient of this information and to
personally implement the procedures. Due to the sensitive nature of
these places, the Census Bureau has assured the service providers that
we will not disclose name, address, or any other type of information
about the facility or the persons staying there to anyone other than on
a ``need to know'' basis. These special procedures are designed to
protect the safety and security of respondents being enumerated at
these locations.
Service-Based Enumeration
The Service-Based Enumeration is specifically designed to approach
people using service facilities because they may be missed during the
traditional enumeration at housing units and group quarters. These
service locations and outdoor locations include the following:
Shelters: Shelters with sleeping facilities for people
experiencing homelessness; shelters for children who are runaways,
neglected, or experiencing homelessness.
Soup kitchens.
Regularly scheduled mobile food vans: Stops where
regularly scheduled mobile food vans distribute meals.
Targeted non-sheltered outdoor locations.
For the 2020 Census, the Service-Based Enumeration operation will
be conducted over the three-day period that ends on April 1, 2020,
Census Day. Service providers for shelters, soup kitchens, and
regularly scheduled mobile food vans will be given the flexibility for
their facility to be enumerated on any one of the three days. Targeted
non-sheltered outdoor locations will be enumerated April 1, 2020. Field
partnership specialists with local knowledge will help to identify non-
sheltered outdoor locations during the time of the census.
Military Enumeration
Military installations are fenced, secured areas used for military
purposes that include living quarters such as housing units and GQs for
military, civilian, and non-Department of Defense-affiliated personnel.
Residents living in housing units on military installations will have
the opportunity to respond to the census through the internet or by
mail or telephone (just like residents who do not live on
installations). The enumeration methodology at all military GQs
(barracks, military treatment facilities with assigned patients,
military disciplinary barracks and jails, and military vessels) will be
implemented under the GQ operation. Residents living in GQs will be
enumerated during the GQ enumeration, using the same set of enumeration
options.
Maritime/Military Vessel Enumeration
A maritime vessel is defined as a United States-flagged vessel with
people who live or stay aboard for extended periods of time and sail
from or to a United States port. A military vessel is defined as a
United States Navy or United States Coast Guard vessel assigned to a
home port in the United States. Maritime and Military Vessel
Enumeration is a mailout-mailback operation to enumerate people who
live or stay aboard and will not have any other opportunity to respond
in time to be included in the 2020 Census. The response burden for
military installations and maritime and military vessels is included in
the GQ enumeration count.
2020 Census Enumeration at Transitory Locations
The goal of the 2020 Census Enumeration at Transitory Locations
(ETL) operation is to enumerate individuals in occupied units at
transitory locations who do not have a Usual Home Elsewhere. A
Transitory Location (TL) is a location that is composed of living
quarters where people are unlikely to live year-round, due to the
transitory/temporary/impermanent nature of these living quarters. TLs
include recreational vehicle parks, campgrounds, racetracks, circuses,
carnivals, marinas, and hotels.
The 2020 Census ETL operation consists of the following components:
TL Frame Update.
TL Advance Contact.
Enumeration.
TL Frame Update
The 2020 Census TL Frame Update is being implemented to ensure that
the 2020 Census enumeration frame is complete and to provide an
opportunity for enumeration of people residing at transitory locations.
Building from the 2010 Census, the TL frame incorporates updates from
the Local Update of Census Addresses, Address Canvassing, and New
Construction operations. The design of the program ensures that the
2020 Census enumeration frame is updated by using specialized
procedures to update the addresses for the following types of
locations:
Carnival, circus, and fair locations.
Hotels and motels.
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Carnival and circus research is a telephone solicitation of
carnival and circus operators. Scheduled dates and corresponding
addresses for shows that will occur during ETL enumeration will be
collected. In addition, hotel and motel research is a telephone
solicitation of hotels/motels to inquire if a hotel or motel has any
rooms occupied by people who live or stay there most of the time or if
that hotel/motel is used entirely to house people experiencing
homelessness.
TL Advance Contact
The TL Advance Contact has both in-office and in-field activities.
The in-office TL Advance Contact is an area census office activity in
which TLs identified in frame update steps are called on the telephone.
Address verification, TL type, number of spaces or units at the TL, and
other advance information to support the ETL operation in the field
will be collected. For cases that staff are unable to contact or
resolve during the in-office advance contact, field supervisors make an
in-field visit to the GQs to collect this data.
TL Enumeration
The 2020 Census ETL operation will cover all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Enumerators will canvass a
transitory location in one visit to enumerate at occupied transitory
units. Respondents at a transitory location who do not have a usual
home elsewhere are counted where they are enumerated in ETL.
Evaluations and Experiments
The Census Bureau has not prepared a separate package for the
Evaluations and Experiments program, as was done in past censuses. For
the 2020 Census, these evaluations and experiments are described as
either a revision to the 2020 Census package within this Notice, to the
Census Bureau's 2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing
Operation (covered under OMB approval #0607-1009), or within the
Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations
(covered under OMB approval #0607-0971).
For the 2020 Census, operational assessments, quality profiles,
evaluations, and experiments are all produced within the Evaluations
and Experiments operation. Operational Assessments are designed to
document final volumes, rates, and costs for individual operations or
processes using data from production files and activities and
information collected from debriefings and lessons learned. They do not
include analysis. Operational assessments report out on planned versus
actual variances as they relate to budget, schedule, and workloads
(production and training) and on meeting performance success criteria.
Depending on the operation, they may include frequency distributions
and standard demographic or address tables. Quality profiles are
designed to provide the results from the quality assurance program for
an operation. No additional data collection is required for the purpose
of creating the operational assessments or the quality profiles. They
are described here for the purpose of providing the complete scope of
the Evaluations and Experiments operation.
The evaluations and experiments performed during a census represent
the initial plans for updating and improving the subsequent census.
While testing continues throughout the decade, certain aspects can only
be tested within a decennial census environment, as public awareness of
the census and of the responsibility to respond is often a key factor
of the test. Evaluations are designed to analyze, interpret, and
synthesize the effectiveness and efficiencies of census components and
their impact on data quality and coverage using data collected from
census operations, processes, systems, and auxiliary data collections.
Experiments provide quantitative or qualitative results for tests that
occur during a decennial census. Since they occur in an environment of
optimal census awareness, results simulate more closely to what
experimental treatments would yield in a full production application.
Experiments inform planning of future decennial censuses, so 2020
Census experiments will focus on planning toward a 2030 Census.
For the purposes of fully defining the Evaluations and Experiments
operation, specific assessments, evaluations, and experiments planned
for the 2020 Census are documented in the table below. Some evaluations
and experiments shown in italics are described within other OMB
approval packages, as noted in the footnotes to the table.
2020 Census Operational Assessments
Archiving Operational Assessment
Census Questionnaire Assistance Operational Assessment
Content and Forms Design Operational Assessment
Coverage Improvement Operational Assessment
Count Question Resolution Operational Assessment
Decennial Logistics Management--Logistics Management Support
Operational Assessment
Decennial Logistics Management--Space Acquisition and Lease
Management Operational Assessment
Decennial Service Center Operational Assessment
Demographic Analysis Operational Assessment
Enumeration at Transitory Locations Advance Contact Operational
Assessment
Enumeration at Transitory Locations Operational Assessment
Evaluations and Experiments Operational Assessment
Federally Affiliated Count Overseas Operational Assessment
Field Infrastructure--Field Office Administration and Payroll
Operational Assessment
Field Infrastructure--Recruiting, Onboarding, and Training
Operational Assessment
Forms Printing and Distribution Operational Assessment
Geographic Partnership Programs Operational Assessment
Group Quarters Advance Contact Assessment Report
Group Quarters Enumeration and Military Enumerations Assessment
In-Field Address Canvassing Operational Assessment
In-Office Address Canvassing Operational Assessment
Internet Self-Response Operational Assessment
Integrated Partnership and Communications Contract Assessment
Integrated Partnership and Communications Operational Assessment
Island Areas Censuses Operational Assessment
Item Nonresponse Rates Assessment Study
Language Services Operational Assessment
Local Update of Census Addresses Operational Assessment
Maritime Vessel Enumeration Report
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New Construction Operational Assessment
Non-ID Operational Assessment
Nonresponse Followup Operational Assessment
Paper Data Capture Operational Assessment
Post-Enumeration Survey Sampling and Estimation Operational
Assessment
Post-Enumeration Survey Field Operations Initial Listing and Initial
Housing Unit Followup Operational Assessment
Post-Enumeration Survey Field Operations Person Interview and Person
Followup Operational Assessment
Post-Enumeration Survey Field Operations Final Housing Unit Followup
Operational Assessment
Post-Enumeration Survey Matching Initial Housing Unit Matching
Operational Assessment
Post-Enumeration Survey Matching Person Matching Operational
Assessment
Post-Enumeration Survey Matching Final Housing Unit Matching
Operational Assessment
Redistricting Data Program Operational Assessment
Research to Support the Integrated Partnership and Communications
Program
Response Processing Operational Assessment
Response Rates Assessment Study
Self-Response Quality Assurance Operational Assessment
Service-Based Enumeration Assessment Report
Systems and Applications in the 2020 Census (Security, Privacy, and
Confidentiality)
Update Enumerate Operational Assessment
Update Leave Operational Assessment
2020 Census Quality Control (QC)
Quality Control Study Plan for Listing Operations
Quality Control Study Plan for Enumeration Operations
Address Canvassing QC Results
Update Leave QC Results
Nonresponse Followup QC Results
Person Interview QC Results
Independent Listing QC Results
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2020 Census evaluations and experiments Additional data collected
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Evaluations
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Reengineered Address Canvassing........... Salted and suppressed
addresses within Address
Canvassing: Same burden
estimate because listers
should delete incorrect
addresses (which does not
involve contact) and add
missing addresses (which is
the same burden as for
valid addresses).
Estimate certain types of
errors that can occur during In-Field
Address Canvassing. Investigate
effectiveness of In-Office Address
Canvassing and Interactive Review.
Compare costs of reengineered Address
Canvassing to 100 percent In-Field
Address Canvassing.
Evaluate In-Field Address
Canvassing listers by including false
addresses (salting) and suppressing a
sample of valid addresses.
Evaluate In-Office and In-
Field Address Canvassing using Post-
Enumeration Survey listing results
\1\.
Administrative Record Dual-System None.
Estimation.
Determine whether dual system estimates
could be generated without conducting an
independent post-enumeration survey,
using Administrative Records.
Evaluating Privacy and Confidentiality NA.
Concerns of Complete and Partial
Respondents by Mode \2\.
Capture respondents' concerns about
privacy and confidentiality during the
census, particularly with respect to the
internet response option and
administrative records use in a census
environment.
The Undercount of Young Children: A NA.
Qualitative Evaluation of Census
Materials and Operations \2\.
Conduct focus groups and cognitive
interviews to identify where existing
roster questions and procedures are
failing and how to improve them.
Research on Hard to Count Populations: Non- NA.
English Speakers and Complex Household
Residents, including Undercount of
Children Research \2\.
Assess NRFU interviews in areas associated
with potential undercoverage and non-
English speaking households. In addition,
administer a specialized enumerator
training module to a sample of Spanish-
speaking bilingual enumerators to
evaluate its impact.
Analysis of Census Internet Self-Response None.
Paradata by Language
Examine 2020 Census web paradata and
assess by language.
Group Quarters Advance Contact: Refining NA.
Classification of College or University
Student Housing \2\.
Explore whether refined classification
used in the 2020 Census results in more
accurately identifying privately owned
college housing.
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Experiments
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Extending the Census Environment to the None.
Mailing Materials.
Test effect on self-response rates of
wearable, nonmonetary mailing inserts
that promote the 2020 Census as well as
mailing materials that incorporate
elements and images developed by the 2020
Census communications campaign. In
addition, test the use of an every door
direct mail piece.
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Optimization of Self-Response in the 2020 None.
Census Experiment.
Evaluate impacts of the mailing strategy
and the influence of the internet
response option by (1) mailing a sample
of housing units a modified version of
2010 Census materials with no promotion
of the internet response option on a
schedule that resembles what occurred
during the 2010 Census, (2) mailing
another sample of housing units a
modified version of the 2020 Census
materials with no promotion of the
internet response option, (3) switching
the planned mail contact strategy between
internet choice and internet first for
another sample of housing units. In
addition, test the effectiveness of
communications and partnership activities
by not mailing and 2020 Census materials
to a sample of households.
Real-Time 2020 Census Administrative None.
Record Census Simulation.
Compare person-level, housing unit-level,
and hybrid approaches to conducting an
administrative record census.
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\1\ 2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing Operation
(OMB approval #0607-1009).
\2\ Generic Clearance for Census Bureau Field Tests and Evaluations (OMB
approval #0607-0971).
Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Frequency: Once every 10 years.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Section 141 and 193.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce
collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection, identified by Docket number OMB-2018-0004, may be submitted
to the Federal e-Rulemaking portal: https://www.regulations.gov within
30 days of publication of this notice. All comments received are part
of the public record and will be posted to http://www.regulations.gov
for public viewing. Comments will generally be posted without change.
All Personally Identifiable Information (for example, name and address)
voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do
not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information. You may submit attachments to electronic
comments in Microsoft Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF file
formats only.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2019-19312 Filed 9-6-19; 8:45 am]
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