Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request, 64041 [E7-22235]

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 14, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 64041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22235]


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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: Census Coverage Measurement 2008 Person Interview and Person 
Interview Reinterview Operations.
    OMB Control Number: None.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Burden Hours: 2,636.
    Number of Respondents: 15,813.
    Average Hours Per Response: 10 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from 
the Office of Management and Budget to conduct the Census Coverage 
Measurement (CCM) Person Interview (PI) and Person Interview 
Reinterview (PIRI) operations as part of the 2008 Census Dress 
Rehearsal. The CCM program for the dress rehearsal is a dry run to 
ensure all planned coverage measurement operations are working as 
expected, they are integrated internally and that they are coordinated 
with the appropriate census operations. The CCM operations planned for 
the dress rehearsal, to the extent possible, will mirror those that 
will be conducted for the 2010 Census to provide estimates of net 
coverage error and components of coverage error (omissions and 
erroneous enumerations) for housing units and persons in housing units. 
The data collection and matching methodologies for previous coverage 
measurement programs were designed only to measure net coverage error, 
which reflects the difference between omissions and erroneous 
inclusions.
    The 2008 CCM PI operations will use a sample of approximately 
14,375 housing units split evenly between selected census tracts in San 
Joaquin County, California; and Fayetteville, North Carolina and nine 
surrounding counties (Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, 
Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, and Scotland). The PIRI operations will be 
in the same areas and will consist of 1,438 units to make a total of 
15,813 units.
    The automated PI instrument will be used to collect the following 
information for persons in housing units only:
    1. Roster of people living at the housing unit at the time of the 
CCM PI Interview.
    2. Census Day (April 1, 2008) address information from people who 
moved into the sample address since Census Day.
    3. Other addresses where a person may have been counted on Census 
Day.
    4. Other information to help us determine where a person should 
have been counted as of Census Day (relative to Census residence 
rules). For example, enumerators will probe for persons who might have 
been left off the household roster; ask additional questions about 
persons who moved from another address on Census Day to the sample 
address; collect additional information for persons with multiple 
addresses; and collect information on the addresses of other potential 
residences for household members.
    5. Demographic information for each person in the household on 
Interview Day or Census Day, including name, date of birth, sex, race, 
Hispanic Origin, and relationship.
    6. Name and above information for any person who has moved out of 
the sample address since Census Day (if known).
    Census will also conduct a quality control operation--PI 
Reinterview (PIRI) on 10 percent of the PI cases. The purpose of the 
operation is to confirm that the PI enumerator conducted a PI interview 
with an actual household member or a valid proxy respondent and conduct 
a full person interview when falsification is suspected. If PIRI 
results indicate falsified information by the original enumerator, all 
cases worked by the original enumerator are reworked by reassigning the 
cases to a different PI enumerator.
    The 2008 CCM Test is needed in order to test the entire operation 
with all steps as developed from results of previous tests. This is to 
ensure that they are integrating properly and working as expected. It 
is also important to test timing of each part of the operation to make 
sure they coordinated properly with the census operations. This is 
particularly important because 2008 dress rehearsal is the first time 
in the 2010 testing cycle that coverage measurement operation for 
housing units will be conducted.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. Sections 141 and 193.
    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: November 7, 2007.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E7-22235 Filed 11-13-07; 8:45 am]
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