Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 5417 [E7-1836]

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 6, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 5417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1836]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


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 (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: 2004 Panel of the Survey of Program Participation, Waves 10, 
11, and 12.
    Form Number(s): SIPP 241005(L) Director's Letter; SIPP/CAPI 
Automated Instrument; SIPP 24003 Reminder Card.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0905.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Burden: 44,799.
    Number of Respondents: 44,713.
    Average Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend the expiration date 
for the 2004 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation 
(SIPP) to February 28, 2008.
    This will provide the time necessary to conduct the Wave 10, 11, 
and 12 interviews for the 2004 Panel of the SIPP. The interviews will 
include the core SIPP, which has already been approved by OMB under 
Authorization No. 0607-0905. Due to budget constraints, there are no 
topical modules for the Wave 10, 11, and 12 interviews.
    The SIPP represents a source of information for a wide variety of 
topics and allows information for separate topics to be integrated to 
form a single and unified database so that the interaction between tax, 
transfer, and other government and private policies can be examined. 
Government domestic policy formulators depend heavily upon the SIPP 
information concerning the distribution of income received directly as 
money or indirectly as in-kind benefits and the effect of tax and 
transfer programs on this distribution. They also need improved and 
expanded data on the income and general economic and financial 
situation of the U.S. population. The SIPP has provided these kinds of 
data on a continuing basis since 1983, permitting levels of economic 
well-being and changes in these levels to be measured over time.
    The survey is molded around a central ``core'' of labor force and 
income questions that remain fixed throughout the life of a panel.
    The SIPP is designed as a continuing series of national panels of 
interviewed households that are introduced every few years, with each 
panel having durations of 3 to 4 years. The 2004 Panel is scheduled for 
4 years and will include 12 waves which began on February 1, 2004. All 
household members 15 years old or over are interviewed using regular 
proxy-respondent rules. They are interviewed a total of 12 times (12 
waves), at 4-month intervals, making the SIPP a longitudinal survey. 
Sample people (all household members present at the time of the first 
interview) who move within the country and reasonably close to a SIPP 
primary sampling unit will be followed and interviewed at their new 
address. Individuals 15 years old or over who enter the household after 
Wave 1 will be interviewed; however, if these people move, they are not 
followed unless they happen to move along with a Wave 1 sample 
individual.
    Data provided by the SIPP are being used by economic policymakers, 
the Congress, state and local governments, and federal agencies that 
administer social welfare or transfer payment programs, such as the 
Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of 
Agriculture.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Every 4 months.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Section 182.
    OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202)482-0266, Department of Commerce, room 6625, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
dhynek@doc.gov).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) 
or e-mail (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).

    Dated: January 31, 2007.
Gwellnar Banks,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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