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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. 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 (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2018 End-to-End Census Test—
Peak Operations.
OMB Control Number: 0607–xxxx.
Form Number(s):
DH–16(LN)(E/S)
Postcards
DH–9(P)
DH–9(P)(E/S)
DH–9(C)
DH–9(C)(E/S)
DH–9
DH–9(E/S)
DH–9(AR)(E/S)
Information Inserts
DH–17(CQA)
DH–17I(E/S)
DH–17I(E/S)P1
Envelopes
DH–5(E/S)
DH–5(GQ)
DH–5(eResponse)
DH–6A(IN)(UL)(E/S)
DH–6A(IN)
DH–6A(IN)(E/S)
DH–6B(IN)(E/S)
DH–6A(1)(IN)(E/S)
DH–8A
DH–8A(E/S)
DH–40
DH–40(S)
DH–40(GQ)
Brochures
DH–1183 GQE
DH–1184 SBE
Group Quarters Facility Manager
Letters
DH–18(eResponse)
DH–18(GQ)
DH–30(L)(FM)(E/S)
DH–30(L)(HC)(E/S)
DH–30(L)(SH)(E/S)
Questionnaires
Confidentiality Notice
DH–1
DH–1(E/S)
DH–1(UL)
DH–1(E/S) UL
DH–20
DH–20(S)
DH–61(ICQ) Informational Copy
DH–61(ICQ)(S) Informational Copy
DH–31(GQ)(E/S)
DH–31(UL)(E/S)
Questionnaire Cover Letters
DH–16(L1)
DH–16(L1)(E/S)
DH–16(L2)
DH–16(L2)(E/S)
DH–16(L3)
DH–16(L3)(E/S)
DH–16(L4)
DH–16(L4)(E/S)
DH–17(L1)
DH–17(L1)(E/S)
Field Materials
DH–26(E/S)
DH–28(E/S)
DH–28(MU)(E/S)
Re-Interview Form
DH–941(GQE)
Living Quarters Flashcard
DH–1028.4
DH–1028.4(S)
Enumeration Records
Group Quarters Enumeration Record
Regularly Scheduled Mobile Food Van
Enumeration Record
Shelter Enumeration Record
Soup Kitchen Enumeration Record
Targeted Non-Sheltered Outdoor
Location Enumeration Record
Update Leave
DH–16(L2)(UL)
DH–16(L2)(UL)(E/S)
Nonresponse Follow-Up
Group Quarters Advance Contact Call
Scripts
DH–16(LN)
Soup Kitchen
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Non-SBE Group Quarters
Emergency and Transitional Shelters
Mobile Food Vans
Instrument Specifications
DH–1055(GQE)
DH–1059(SE)
Field Enumeration Instrument
Specifications
Field Verification (FV)
Non-Response Follow-up/Update Leave
Follow-up (NRFU/ULF)
Multi-Unit Manager Visit (MU)
NRFU Re-interview (RI)
Multi-Unit Manager Visit Re-interview
(MU RI)
Group Quarters eResponse
eResponse video script
eResponse template
Group Quarters Field Materials
DH–116
DH–1054(GQE)
DH–1054(SBE)
Census Questionnaire Assistance
Specifications
Coverage Improvement Screenshots
Type of Request: New Collection.
Number of Respondents: 336,645.
Average Hours Per Response: 10
minutes.
Burden Hours: 55,886 hours.
TEST SITE—PROVIDENCE COUNTY, RHODE ISLAND
Estimated
number of
respondents
Operation or category
Estimated
time per
response
(minutes)
Total
burden
hours
114,000
163,000
16,300
2,000
300
500
40
1,600
500
28,000
50
115
4,600
140
5,500
10
10
10
5
5
10
10
10
10
10
5
5
10
2
10
19,000
27,167
2,717
167
25
83
7
267
83
4,667
4
10
767
5
917
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Self-Response—Internet/Telephone/Paper .................................................................................
Nonresponse Follow-up ...............................................................................................................
Nonresponse Follow-up Re-interview ..........................................................................................
Update Leave Production ............................................................................................................
Update Leave QC ........................................................................................................................
GQ Advance Contact (facility) .....................................................................................................
GQ SBE—facility contact .............................................................................................................
GQ SBE—person contact ............................................................................................................
GQ Enumeration—facility contact ...............................................................................................
GQ Enumeration—person contact ..............................................................................................
Group Quarters QC .....................................................................................................................
Non-ID Processing Phone Follow-up ..........................................................................................
Re-collect .....................................................................................................................................
Field Verification ..........................................................................................................................
Coverage Improvement ...............................................................................................................
336,645
........................
55,886
Needs and Uses: During the years
preceding the 2020 Census, the Census
Bureau will pursue its commitment to
reduce the costs of conducting a
decennial census while maintaining our
commitment to quality. In 2018, the
Census Bureau will be performing the
2018 End-to-End Census Test. This last
major test before the 2020 Census is
designed to (1) test and validate 2020
Census operations, procedures, systems,
and field infrastructure to ensure proper
integration and conformance with
requirements, and (2) produce
prototypes of geographic and data
products.
New approaches to the design of the
2020 Census are classified into four key
innovation areas. These areas have been
the subject of Census Bureau testing this
decade to identify methodological
improvements, technological advances,
and possibilities for cost savings. One of
these innovation areas is Optimizing
Self-Response, which is focused on
improving methods for increasing the
number of people who take advantage of
self-response options, including
responding by internet. The 2018 Endto-End Census Test is designed to
evaluate several strategies for
optimizing self-response, including two
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contact strategies, either or both of
which may be included in the design of
the 2020 Census. Two of the other
innovation areas—Utilizing
Administrative Records and Third-Party
Data and Reengineering Field
Operations—will be incorporated into
the functionality that will be tested in
this test. In particular, this Peak
Operations portion of the 2018 End-toEnd Census Test will encompass
operations and systems related to (1)
Optimizing Self-Response, including
contact strategies, questionnaire
content, and language support; (2)
Update Leave (UL), including
technological and operational testing;
(3) Nonresponse Follow-up (NRFU),
including technological and operational
improvements; and (4) Group Quarters
(GQ), including technological and
operational testing. The UL and GQ
operations are being fielded for the first
time this decade.
The remaining innovation area—
Reengineering Address Canvassing—
contains innovations that have been
tested in the 2016 Address Canvassing
test and in the 2018 End-to-End Census
Test Address Canvassing. The 2018
End-to-End Census Test Address
Canvassing precedes the enumeration
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operations included in and creates the
address list for this 2018 End-to-End
Census Test Peak Operations test. The
Address Canvassing portion of this test
was described in an earlier Federal
Register Notice and included in a
different OMB clearance due to timing
considerations.
Optimizing Self-Response is focused
on improving methods for increasing
the number of people who take
advantage of self-response options. The
2018 End-to-End Census Test will
include two different mailing strategies
to optimize the rate at which the public
self-responds to the decennial census,
thereby reducing costs of the 2020
Census by decreasing the workload for
following up at nonresponding units.
Internet First is the primary mail
contact strategy proposed for the 2020
Census and has been used in Census
Bureau research and testing efforts since
2012. (In previous tests, this strategy
was called Internet Push.) This strategy
includes the mailing of a letter
encouraging respondents to complete
the questionnaire online, two follow-up
reminders, after which a paper
questionnaire is mailed to
nonresponding housing units. A final
reminder postcard is the last mailing.
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Internet Choice includes a paper
questionnaire in the first mailing, along
with an invitation to complete the
questionnaire online, providing a choice
of internet or paper response from the
beginning of the contact strategy.
(Subsequent mailings are of the same
number and type as the Internet First
strategy.) This strategy is targeted to
households in areas least likely to
respond online, as indicated by a
number of factors, including internet
availability and historical census
response rates.
In addition, the 2018 End-to-End
Census Test provides the Census Bureau
with an opportunity to enhance the user
experience, performance, and
functionality of the internet selfresponse instrument.
The Update Leave (UL) operation is
designed for areas where the Census
Bureau has concerns about accurate
mail delivery and needs to determine
the Census block location of each
housing unit. The current design
capitalizes on 2020 Census
methodological improvements such as
internet self-response and automated
field operations. UL is conducted
mostly in geographic areas that have one
or more of the following characteristics:
• Do not have city-style addresses
like 123 Main Street.
• Do not receive mail through citystyle addresses.
• Receive mail at post office boxes
rather than at physical addresses.
• Have unique challenges associated
with accessibility, such as dirt roads or
seasonal access.
• Have recently been affected by
natural disasters.
• Have high concentrations of
seasonally vacant housing.
The following objectives are being
tested for Update Leave:
• Integrating listing operation and
systems.
• Testing the ability to link a
questionnaire ID to an address.
• Testing field supervisor to
enumerator ratios.
The 2018 End-to-End Census Test will
allow the Census Bureau to continue to
refine, optimize, and assess the
operational procedures and technical
design of the Nonresponse Follow-up
(NRFU) operation. NRFU is a field
operation for determining housing unit
status (occupied, vacant, or delete) and
for gathering the enumeration data at
addresses for which no self-response
was received. This test will build on the
results of previous field tests this
decade where the NRFU operation has
been conducted. In particular, NRFU is
now a fully automated operation,
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whereas it was performed using paper
materials in the 2010 Census.
The 2018 End-to-End Census Test will
inform Census Bureau technological and
operational planning and design for the
enumeration of the population residing
in group quarters (GQs). GQs 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. To date, some small-scale testing
has been done to test electronic
transmission of GQ’s enumeration
responses. The 2018 End-to-End Census
Test expands on these results to allow
the opportunity to evaluate procedures
and technologies for conducting GQ
enumeration operations. The set of
operations planned for GQ enumeration
is GQ Advance Contact, Service-Based
Enumeration, and, finally, GQ
Enumeration. These operations have
been used in previous censuses. The GQ
Advance Contact is an operation where
facility contact and planning data are
collected, including the ability of the
GQ facility to provide electronic records
for the enumeration. Service-Based
Enumeration has the objective of
counting individuals who will not be
enumerated at a living quarter but are
receiving some type of service. The GQ
Enumeration is the final stage of
enumerating individuals residing at the
GQ.
The Census Bureau recognizes that
the OMB is continuing to lead the
discussion among federal agencies and
other stakeholders on race/ethnicity
from the perspective of data collection
and dissemination guidance and
standards, and that the final
determination has not been made on the
format of the race/ethnicity question for
the 2020 Census. If it is determined that
the combined race/ethnicity question
format may be used for the 2020 Census
(versus the separate race and Hispanic
Origin questions used for the 2010
Census), it will be crucial for the Census
Bureau to ensure that critical operations
are fully prepared to go into production
for the 2020 Census using the combined
question.
Therefore, the 2018 End-to-End
Census Test data collection operations
will use the combined race/ethnicity
question version (which also includes a
Middle Eastern or North African
category) to further its analysis and
understanding of mode differences for
the race/ethnicity responses before
deploying the 2020 Census
questionnaire. Particular test objectives
are:
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• Internet Self-Response: Continue
testing the combined race/ethnicity
question under the further
enhancements of the internet selfresponse instrument for the 2018 Endto-End Census Test in regards to user
experience, performance, and
functionality; and ensure that the
resulting response data and Para data
meet the requirements of follow-up and
data processing operations.
• Nonresponse Follow-up: Continue
testing the combined race/ethnicity
question under the further
enhancements of the field enumeration
instrument; assess enumerators’
experience with the field enumeration
instrument and their navigation of the
race/ethnicity question within the
instrument. Input will be gathered
during the post-operation field
enumerator debriefing sessions.
• Update Leave and Group Quarters:
Examine the 2018 End-to-End Census
Test results by mode, including Update
Leave and Group Quarters operations,
which will be fielded for the first time
this decade.
The results of this test will inform the
Census Bureau’s final preparations in
advance of the 2020 Census. In
particular, conducting a live operation
will ensure all the systems, instruments,
and processes are functioning correctly
or will provide indicators of what needs
to be fixed. In addition, metrics
collected during the operation will
provide additional data to be used for
budget and operational planning
purposes.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 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 should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. 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 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2018 End-to-End Census Test--Peak Operations.
OMB Control Number: 0607-xxxx.
Form Number(s):
Questionnaires
DH-1
DH-1(E/S)
DH-1(UL)
DH-1(E/S) UL
DH-20
DH-20(S)
DH-61(ICQ) Informational Copy
DH-61(ICQ)(S) Informational Copy
Questionnaire Cover Letters
DH-16(L1)
DH-16(L1)(E/S)
DH-16(L2)
DH-16(L2)(E/S)
DH-16(L3)
DH-16(L3)(E/S)
DH-16(L4)
DH-16(L4)(E/S)
DH-17(L1)
DH-17(L1)(E/S)
Update Leave
DH-16(L2)(UL)
DH-16(L2)(UL)(E/S)
Nonresponse Follow-Up
DH-16(LN)
DH-16(LN)(E/S)
Postcards
DH-9(P)
DH-9(P)(E/S)
DH-9(C)
DH-9(C)(E/S)
DH-9
DH-9(E/S)
DH-9(AR)(E/S)
Information Inserts
DH-17(CQA)
DH-17I(E/S)
DH-17I(E/S)P1
Envelopes
DH-5(E/S)
DH-5(GQ)
DH-5(eResponse)
DH-6A(IN)(UL)(E/S)
DH-6A(IN)
DH-6A(IN)(E/S)
DH-6B(IN)(E/S)
DH-6A(1)(IN)(E/S)
DH-8A
DH-8A(E/S)
DH-40
DH-40(S)
DH-40(GQ)
Brochures
DH-1183 GQE
DH-1184 SBE
Group Quarters Facility Manager Letters
DH-18(eResponse)
DH-18(GQ)
DH-30(L)(FM)(E/S)
DH-30(L)(HC)(E/S)
DH-30(L)(SH)(E/S)
Confidentiality Notice
DH-31(GQ)(E/S)
DH-31(UL)(E/S)
Field Materials
DH-26(E/S)
DH-28(E/S)
DH-28(MU)(E/S)
Re-Interview Form
DH-941(GQE)
Living Quarters Flashcard
DH-1028.4
DH-1028.4(S)
Enumeration Records
Group Quarters Enumeration Record
Regularly Scheduled Mobile Food Van Enumeration Record
Shelter Enumeration Record
Soup Kitchen Enumeration Record
Targeted Non-Sheltered Outdoor Location Enumeration Record
Group Quarters Advance Contact Call Scripts
Soup Kitchen
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Non-SBE Group Quarters
Emergency and Transitional Shelters
Mobile Food Vans
Group Quarters eResponse
eResponse video script
eResponse template
Group Quarters Field Materials
DH-116
DH-1054(GQE)
DH-1054(SBE)
DH-1055(GQE)
DH-1059(SE)
Field Enumeration Instrument Specifications
Field Verification (FV)
Non-Response Follow-up/Update Leave Follow-up (NRFU/ULF)
Multi-Unit Manager Visit (MU)
NRFU Re-interview (RI)
Multi-Unit Manager Visit Re-interview (MU RI)
Instrument Specifications
Census Questionnaire Assistance Specifications
Coverage Improvement Screenshots
Type of Request: New Collection.
Number of Respondents: 336,645.
Average Hours Per Response: 10 minutes.
Burden Hours: 55,886 hours.
Test Site--Providence County, Rhode Island
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Estimated Estimated time
Operation or category number of per response Total burden
respondents (minutes) hours
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Self-Response--Internet/Telephone/Paper......................... 114,000 10 19,000
Nonresponse Follow-up........................................... 163,000 10 27,167
Nonresponse Follow-up Re-interview.............................. 16,300 10 2,717
Update Leave Production......................................... 2,000 5 167
Update Leave QC................................................. 300 5 25
GQ Advance Contact (facility)................................... 500 10 83
GQ SBE--facility contact........................................ 40 10 7
GQ SBE--person contact.......................................... 1,600 10 267
GQ Enumeration--facility contact................................ 500 10 83
GQ Enumeration--person contact.................................. 28,000 10 4,667
Group Quarters QC............................................... 50 5 4
Non-ID Processing Phone Follow-up............................... 115 5 10
Re-collect...................................................... 4,600 10 767
Field Verification.............................................. 140 2 5
Coverage Improvement............................................ 5,500 10 917
-----------------------------------------------
Totals...................................................... 336,645 .............. 55,886
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Needs and Uses: During the years preceding the 2020 Census, the
Census Bureau will pursue its commitment to reduce the costs of
conducting a decennial census while maintaining our commitment to
quality. In 2018, the Census Bureau will be performing the 2018 End-to-
End Census Test. This last major test before the 2020 Census is
designed to (1) test and validate 2020 Census operations, procedures,
systems, and field infrastructure to ensure proper integration and
conformance with requirements, and (2) produce prototypes of geographic
and data products.
New approaches to the design of the 2020 Census are classified into
four key innovation areas. These areas have been the subject of Census
Bureau testing this decade to identify methodological improvements,
technological advances, and possibilities for cost savings. One of
these innovation areas is Optimizing Self-Response, which is focused on
improving methods for increasing the number of people who take
advantage of self-response options, including responding by internet.
The 2018 End-to-End Census Test is designed to evaluate several
strategies for optimizing self-response, including two contact
strategies, either or both of which may be included in the design of
the 2020 Census. Two of the other innovation areas--Utilizing
Administrative Records and Third-Party Data and Reengineering Field
Operations--will be incorporated into the functionality that will be
tested in this test. In particular, this Peak Operations portion of the
2018 End-to-End Census Test will encompass operations and systems
related to (1) Optimizing Self-Response, including contact strategies,
questionnaire content, and language support; (2) Update Leave (UL),
including technological and operational testing; (3) Nonresponse
Follow-up (NRFU), including technological and operational improvements;
and (4) Group Quarters (GQ), including technological and operational
testing. The UL and GQ operations are being fielded for the first time
this decade.
The remaining innovation area--Reengineering Address Canvassing--
contains innovations that have been tested in the 2016 Address
Canvassing test and in the 2018 End-to-End Census Test Address
Canvassing. The 2018 End-to-End Census Test Address Canvassing precedes
the enumeration operations included in and creates the address list for
this 2018 End-to-End Census Test Peak Operations test. The Address
Canvassing portion of this test was described in an earlier Federal
Register Notice and included in a different OMB clearance due to timing
considerations.
Optimizing Self-Response is focused on improving methods for
increasing the number of people who take advantage of self-response
options. The 2018 End-to-End Census Test will include two different
mailing strategies to optimize the rate at which the public self-
responds to the decennial census, thereby reducing costs of the 2020
Census by decreasing the workload for following up at nonresponding
units.
Internet First is the primary mail contact strategy proposed for
the 2020 Census and has been used in Census Bureau research and testing
efforts since 2012. (In previous tests, this strategy was called
Internet Push.) This strategy includes the mailing of a letter
encouraging respondents to complete the questionnaire online, two
follow-up reminders, after which a paper questionnaire is mailed to
nonresponding housing units. A final reminder postcard is the last
mailing.
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Internet Choice includes a paper questionnaire in the first
mailing, along with an invitation to complete the questionnaire online,
providing a choice of internet or paper response from the beginning of
the contact strategy. (Subsequent mailings are of the same number and
type as the Internet First strategy.) This strategy is targeted to
households in areas least likely to respond online, as indicated by a
number of factors, including internet availability and historical
census response rates.
In addition, the 2018 End-to-End Census Test provides the Census
Bureau with an opportunity to enhance the user experience, performance,
and functionality of the internet self-response instrument.
The Update Leave (UL) operation is designed for areas where the
Census Bureau has concerns about accurate mail delivery and needs to
determine the Census block location of each housing unit. The current
design capitalizes on 2020 Census methodological improvements such as
internet self-response and automated field operations. UL is conducted
mostly in geographic areas that have one or more of the following
characteristics:
Do not have city-style addresses like 123 Main Street.
Do not receive mail through city-style addresses.
Receive mail at post office boxes rather than at physical
addresses.
Have unique challenges associated with accessibility, such
as dirt roads or seasonal access.
Have recently been affected by natural disasters.
Have high concentrations of seasonally vacant housing.
The following objectives are being tested for Update Leave:
Integrating listing operation and systems.
Testing the ability to link a questionnaire ID to an
address.
Testing field supervisor to enumerator ratios.
The 2018 End-to-End Census Test will allow the Census Bureau to
continue to refine, optimize, and assess the operational procedures and
technical design of the Nonresponse Follow-up (NRFU) operation. NRFU is
a field operation for determining housing unit status (occupied,
vacant, or delete) and for gathering the enumeration data at addresses
for which no self-response was received. This test will build on the
results of previous field tests this decade where the NRFU operation
has been conducted. In particular, NRFU is now a fully automated
operation, whereas it was performed using paper materials in the 2010
Census.
The 2018 End-to-End Census Test will inform Census Bureau
technological and operational planning and design for the enumeration
of the population residing in group quarters (GQs). GQs 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. To date, some small-scale testing has
been done to test electronic transmission of GQ's enumeration
responses. The 2018 End-to-End Census Test expands on these results to
allow the opportunity to evaluate procedures and technologies for
conducting GQ enumeration operations. The set of operations planned for
GQ enumeration is GQ Advance Contact, Service-Based Enumeration, and,
finally, GQ Enumeration. These operations have been used in previous
censuses. The GQ Advance Contact is an operation where facility contact
and planning data are collected, including the ability of the GQ
facility to provide electronic records for the enumeration. Service-
Based Enumeration has the objective of counting individuals who will
not be enumerated at a living quarter but are receiving some type of
service. The GQ Enumeration is the final stage of enumerating
individuals residing at the GQ.
The Census Bureau recognizes that the OMB is continuing to lead the
discussion among federal agencies and other stakeholders on race/
ethnicity from the perspective of data collection and dissemination
guidance and standards, and that the final determination has not been
made on the format of the race/ethnicity question for the 2020 Census.
If it is determined that the combined race/ethnicity question format
may be used for the 2020 Census (versus the separate race and Hispanic
Origin questions used for the 2010 Census), it will be crucial for the
Census Bureau to ensure that critical operations are fully prepared to
go into production for the 2020 Census using the combined question.
Therefore, the 2018 End-to-End Census Test data collection
operations will use the combined race/ethnicity question version (which
also includes a Middle Eastern or North African category) to further
its analysis and understanding of mode differences for the race/
ethnicity responses before deploying the 2020 Census questionnaire.
Particular test objectives are:
Internet Self-Response: Continue testing the combined
race/ethnicity question under the further enhancements of the internet
self-response instrument for the 2018 End-to-End Census Test in regards
to user experience, performance, and functionality; and ensure that the
resulting response data and Para data meet the requirements of follow-
up and data processing operations.
Nonresponse Follow-up: Continue testing the combined race/
ethnicity question under the further enhancements of the field
enumeration instrument; assess enumerators' experience with the field
enumeration instrument and their navigation of the race/ethnicity
question within the instrument. Input will be gathered during the post-
operation field enumerator debriefing sessions.
Update Leave and Group Quarters: Examine the 2018 End-to-
End Census Test results by mode, including Update Leave and Group
Quarters operations, which will be fielded for the first time this
decade.
The results of this test will inform the Census Bureau's final
preparations in advance of the 2020 Census. In particular, conducting a
live operation will ensure all the systems, instruments, and processes
are functioning correctly or will provide indicators of what needs to
be fixed. In addition, metrics collected during the operation will
provide additional data to be used for budget and operational planning
purposes.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 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 should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-14726 Filed 7-12-17; 8:45 am]
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