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All responses to this notice will be
summarized and included in the request
for OMB approval. All comments will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: December 20, 2018.
Curtis M. Anderson,
Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
Notice and request for
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AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Rural Utilities Service (RUS) an agency
delivering the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development
Utilities Programs invites comments on
this information collection for Review
Rating Summary, RUS Form 300 which
approval from the Office of Management
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DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received by February 26, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email
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burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
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technology.
Comments may be sent by any of the
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• Mail: Thomas P. Dickson, Rural
Development Innovation Center, 1400
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Room 5164, South Building,
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Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email:
Thomas.Dickson@wdc.usda.gov.
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Title: Review Rating Summary, RUS
Form 300, 7 CFR part 1730.
OMB Control Number: 0572–0025.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Abstract: RUS manages loan programs
in accordance with the RE Act of 1936,
as amended (7 U.S.C. 901 et seq.). An
important part of safeguarding loan
security is to see that RUS financed
facilities are being responsibly used,
adequately operated, and adequately
maintained. Future needs must be
anticipated to ensure that facilities will
continue to produce revenue and loans
will be repaid as required by the RUS
mortgage. A periodic operations and
maintenance (O&M) review, using the
RUS Form 300, in accordance with 7
CFR part 1730, is an effective means for
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as prescribed by OMB Circular A–129,
Policies for Federal Credit Programs and
Non-Taxable Receivables.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this collection of information
is estimated to average 4 hours per
response.
Respondents: Not-for-profit
institutions.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
217.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 868.
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Dated: December 19, 2018.
Bette B. Brand,
Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.
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following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2020 Census.
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 operations scoped for the
2020 Census data collection will be
described below in this Federal Register
Notice for an additional 30-day
comment period; the full census
description will be considered as a
substantive change to the approved
OMB materials.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1006.
Form Number(s): D–CN(E/S)
(included with Address Canvassing
approval), D–Q, D–Q(E/S), D–Q–GE, D–
Q–GE(S), D–Q–UL, D–Q–UL(E/S), D–Q–
TL, D–Q–TL(S), D–Q–UE, D–Q–RA, D–
Q–TLRA, D–Q–GERA, D–Q–MV, D–CQ–
TL, D–CQ–TL(S), D–CQ–UE, D–CQ–RA,
D–CQ–TLRA, D–Q–AS, D–Q–MI, D–Q–
GU, D–Q–VI, D–Q–VI(S), D–CQ–AS, D–
CQ–MI, D–CQ–GU, D–CQ–VI, D–CQ–
VI(S), D–Q–GE–AS, D–Q–GE–MI, D–Q–
GE–GU, D–Q–GE–VI, D–Q–GE–VI(S),
D–Q–ULPR(E/S), D–Q–GEPR, D–Q–
GEPR(S), D–Q–PR(E/S), D–Q–TLPR, D–
Q–TLPR(S), D–CQ–TLPR. D–CQ–
TLPR(S).
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 180,962,929
for all operations in the 2020 Census.
The total represents an addition from
what was outlined in the previous
Federal Register Notice due to the
addition of an address collection period
for a Group Quarters function.
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Average Hours per Response: 10
minutes for census enumeration.
Burden Hours: 26,531,593 for 2020
Census. The total represents an addition
from what was outlined in the previous
Federal Register Notice due to the
addition of an address collection period
for a Group Quarters function.
2020 CENSUS
Estimated
number of
respondents
Operation or category
Estimated time
per response
Total
burden
hours
Address Canvassing ..................................................................................
Address Canvassing Listing QC ................................................................
15,786,734
1,578,673
5 minutes .........................................
5 minutes .........................................
1,315,561
131,556
Address Canvassing Subtotal ............................................................
17,365,407
..........................................................
1,447,117
Geographic Areas Focused on Self-Response (this includes Mailout and Update Leave)
Internet/Telephone/Paper ..........................................................................
Update Leave ............................................................................................
Update Leave QC ......................................................................................
Nonresponse Followup ..............................................................................
Nonresponse Followup Reinterview ..........................................................
Self-Response Quality Assurance .............................................................
Field Verification ........................................................................................
Field Verification QC ..................................................................................
Coverage Improvement .............................................................................
Non-ID Processing Phone Followup .........................................................
80,700,000
11,900,000
1,190,000
52,700,000
2,760,000
250,000
400,000
40,000
3,200,000
750,000
10 minutes .......................................
5 minutes .........................................
5 minutes .........................................
10 minutes .......................................
5 minutes .........................................
10 minutes .......................................
2 minutes .........................................
2 minutes .........................................
7 minutes .........................................
5 minutes .........................................
13,450,000
991,667
99,167
8,783,333
230,000
41,667
13,333
1,333
373,333
62,500
Self-Response Areas Subtotal ...........................................................
153,890,000
..........................................................
24,046,043
Geographic Area Focused on Update Enumerate
Update Enumerate Production ..................................................................
Update Enumerate Listing QC ..................................................................
Update Enumerate Reinterview .................................................................
506,000
50,600
25,300
12 minutes .......................................
5 minutes .........................................
10 minutes .......................................
101,200
4,217
4,217
Update Enumerate Subtotal ...............................................................
581,900
..........................................................
109,634
GQ Update Program ..................................................................................
GQ Advance Contact (facility) ...................................................................
GQ Enumeration—eResponse (facility) ....................................................
GQ Enumeration—person contact ............................................................
Group Quarters QC ...................................................................................
Group Quarters Subtotal ....................................................................
Enumeration at Transitory Locations—Advance Contact .........................
Enumeration at Transitory Locations—Units .............................................
Federally Affiliated Count Overseas ..........................................................
Island Areas Censuses—Housing Units ...................................................
Island Areas Censuses—Group Quarters .................................................
7,168
297,000
14,300
8,000,000
8,500
8,326,968
50,000
600,000
82
138,281
10,291
10 minutes .......................................
10 minutes .......................................
20 minutes .......................................
5 minutes .........................................
5 minutes .........................................
..........................................................
10 minutes .......................................
10 minutes .......................................
5 minutes .........................................
40 minutes .......................................
30 minutes .......................................
1,195
49,500
4,767
666,667
708
722,837
8,333
100,000
7
92,187
5,146
Totals ..................................................................................................
180,962,929
..........................................................
26,531,593
Group Quarters
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Overview of 2020 Census Operations
Below is a summary of the needs of
uses of the 2020 Census, followed by a
more detailed overview of data
collection operations. The geographic
areas discussed in this notice refer only
to the 50 states, the District of Columbia,
and Puerto Rico, unless otherwise
noted. The 2020 Census also includes
the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands).
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
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conducting a national census 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 Census Bureau plans to conduct
the most automated, modern, and
dynamic decennial census in history.
The 2020 Census includes design
changes in four key areas, discussed
below:
(1) New methodologies to conduct the
Address Canvassing operation.
(2) Innovative ways of optimizing selfresponse.
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(3) The use of administrative records
and third-party data to reduce the
Nonresponse Followup (NRFU)
operation workload.
(4) The use of technology to reduce
the manual effort and improve the
productivity of field operations, while
decreasing the amount of physical space
required to perform the field operations.
(1) Reengineering Address Canvassing
An accurate address list is the
cornerstone of a successful census. In
order to manage the work for decennial
census, the Census Bureau uses the
address and physical location of each
place where someone is, or could be,
living. The Census Bureau maintains
this address list and spatial data for the
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United States and Puerto Rico in its
Master Address File (MAF)/
Topologically Integrated Geographic
Encoding and Referencing (TIGER)
System database.
This database was created using the
address files from the 1990 Census and
has been subsequently and regularly
updated using:
• Information collected from
decennial census operation updates,
including address and spatial updates.
• The Delivery Sequence File of
addresses from the United States Postal
Service (USPS).
• Input from tribal, state, and local
governments and third parties,
including address and boundary
updates from various programs
conducted over the decade, such as the
Local Update of Census Addresses
operation.
• Information collected in other
Census Bureau programs, such as the
American Community Survey.
The purpose of Address Canvassing is
(1) to deliver a complete and accurate
address list and spatial database for
enumeration and tabulation, and (2) to
determine the type and address
characteristics for each living quarter.
Prior to a field Address Canvassing data
collection, the Census Bureau will
delineate the entire land area of the
United States, Puerto Rico, and Island
Areas into Type of Enumeration Areas
(TEAs). Most stateside United States
living quarters will be delineated into
the self-response area, where the census
address list will be created before the
census, census materials will be
provided in the mail, and self-response
modes will be supported and promoted.
Other areas will be designated for
Update Leave, Update Enumerate
(including Remote Alaska), Military
Enumeration, or Island Areas
Enumeration.
For the 2020 Census there will be a
full Address Canvassing of the country
that will consist of In-Office Address
Canvassing complemented with In-Field
Address Canvassing. In-Office Address
Canvassing is the process of using
empirical geographic evidence (e.g.,
imagery, comparison of the Census
Bureau’s address list to address lists
provided by the United States Postal
Service and governmental units that
partner with the Census Bureau) to
assess the current address list and make
changes where necessary. This
component also detects and captures
areas of change from high-quality
administrative records and third-party
data. Advancements in technology have
enabled continual address and spatial
updates to occur throughout the decade
as part of the In-Office Address
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Canvassing effort. Since 2015, satellite
imagery has been used for the
identification of areas where there are
changes in living quarters. Where the
necessary updates can be captured from
electronic sources and are deemed to be
sufficiently accurate, In-Office Address
Canvassing will complete the update
process prior to the census. The
remaining blocks will become eligible to
be sent to In-Field Address Canvassing
for updating on the ground by field staff.
(2) Optimizing Self-Response
The goal of this innovation area is to
make it as easy and efficient as possible
for people to respond to the 2020
Census by offering new response
options through the internet and
telephone, in addition to the traditional
mailback paper questionnaire option.
Self-response reduces the need to
conduct in-person follow-up operations
to complete the enumeration, by far the
most expensive method of data
collection. To that end, the Census
Bureau will motivate people to respond,
as well as make it easy for people to
respond, from any location at any time,
even if they don’t have the Census
Bureau’s preassigned ID for the address.
The importance of responding to the
2020 Census will be communicated in a
variety of ways, including through
mailings, questionnaire delivery,
advertising, and partnership efforts. In
particular, the Integrated Partnership
and Communications operation is
responsible for communicating the
importance of responding to the 2020
Census.
Internet response represents a
substantial innovation for the Census
Bureau. The internet was not a response
option in the 2010 Census. The internet
response option has been included in
multiple tests leading up to the 2020
Census: The 2014 Census Test; all three
census tests performed in 2015; the
2016 Census Test; the 2017 Census Test;
and the 2018 End-to-End Census Test. It
has also been used in the American
Community Survey since 2013.
(3) Utilizing Administrative Records and
Third-Party Data
For the 2020 Census, ‘‘administrative
records’’ and ‘‘third-party data’’ are
terms used to describe microdata
records contained in files collected and
maintained by Federal, state, and local
government agencies (‘‘administrative
records’’) and commercial entities
(‘‘third-party data’’) for administering
programs and providing services. For
many decades, the Census Bureau has
successfully and securely used
administrative records and third-party
data for statistical purposes. For the
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2020 Census, the Census Bureau intends
to use administrative records from both
internal sources, such as data from prior
decennial censuses and the American
Community Survey, and from a range of
other Federal agencies, including the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the
Social Security Administration, the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, the Department of Housing
and Urban Development, the Indian
Health Service, the Selective Service,
and the U.S. Postal Service. The Census
Bureau is also working to acquire state
government administrative records from
enrollment in Federal block grant
programs, such as the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program and the Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants, and Children.
Throughout the decade, the Census
Bureau continuously conducted
analyses and assessments to verify that
the proposed uses of administrative
records and third-party data sources in
the 2020 Census were appropriate in
each instance. Based on this research,
testing, and analyses, the Census Bureau
announced its plans in November 2015
to utilize administrative records and
third-party data in the 2020 Census. The
2020 Census Operational Plan calls for
employing this information for the
following purposes:
I. Consistent with previous decennial
censuses, the Census Bureau will utilize
administrative records from federal and
state government agencies and thirdparty data to refine contact strategies
and build and update the residential
address list.
II. Also consistent with previous
decennial censuses, the Census Bureau
will utilize federal and state
administrative records to edit or impute
invalid, inconsistent, or missing
responses.
III. The new use of administrative
records for the 2020 Census is to use
data exclusively from federal
administrative records to improve the
accuracy and efficiency of the NRFU
operation by:
a. reducing followup on vacant
housing units and nonresidential
addresses, as designated by
administrative records.
b. enumerating households that do
not self-respond and whom we were
unable to contact after six mailings and
one in-person field visit.
For each of the purposes listed in
items II, IIIa, and IIIb, the Census
Bureau will use or plans to use
administrative data only when it can
confirm empirically across multiple
sources that the data are consistent, of
high quality, and can be accurately
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applied to the addresses and households
in question. The Census Bureau plans to
enumerate households utilizing
administrative records only from
Federal government agencies, such as
the IRS. Use of administrative records
for nonresponding addresses will be
evaluated under a strict set of Census
Bureau rules throughout the process to
ensure completeness and accuracy.
Based on the research and tests
conducted, the Census Bureau estimates
that under the current operational plan,
Federal administrative records will be
used to enumerate up to 6.2 million
households of the projected total of
approximately 62 million addresses that
are expected to be in the NRFU
workload for the 2020 Census. These 6.2
million households represent less than
five percent of the approximately 147
million addresses in the Census master
address file. Where the Census Bureau
does not have confidence in the data,
such as when the data are inconsistent
or missing in the Federal administrative
records, the household will remain in
the NRFU workload to be enumerated in
person.
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(4) Reengineering Field Operations
The final innovation area,
‘‘Reengineering Field Operations,’’ has a
goal of using technology to manage the
2020 Census fieldwork efficiently and
effectively, and as a result, reduce the
staffing, infrastructure, and brick and
mortar footprint for the 2020 Census.
The Census Bureau plans to provide
most listers and enumerators with the
capability to work completely remotely
and perform all administrative and data
collection tasks directly from a mobile
device.
Supporting Documents About the 2020
Census Design and the 2020 Census
Objectives
Multiple Census Bureau publications
provide background on the plans for the
2020 Census. The 2020 Census
Operational Plan v3.0, which was
published in September 2017, describes
each of the 35 operations scoped and
defined for the census. Every task
performed for the 2020 Census must be
assigned to one of the 35 operations.
The Operational Plan also summarizes
the major findings of the census tests
performed this decade. Moreover, this
document shows the planned design of
the 2020 Census as of September 2017
and identifies design decisions made, as
well as remaining decisions to be made
using census test results. (Note that the
2020 Census Operational Plan v4.0 will
be released publicly in February 2019.)
Key design components for the 2020
Census for every operation are
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discussed in Chapter 5 of the 2020
Census Operational Plan. In addition,
for most of the 2020 Census Operations,
the Census Bureau is developing a
Detailed Operational Plan to document
objectives and procedures of the
operation, major tasks involved in
implementation, the overall workflow,
and the overall resources required. The
Operational Plan and Detailed
Operational Plans available at
www.census.gov can be reference for
more details about the tasks performed
for each operation.
Type of Enumeration Areas
Prior to the census, it is necessary to
delineate all geographic areas into Type
of Enumeration Areas (TEAs). These
TEAs 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
MAF/TIGER database.
The MAF/TIGER does not contain
data for the Island Areas, so a separate
TEA is designated for these areas. 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 5 = Military.
* 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. After the
initial self-response phase,
nonresponding households will be
enumerated in the NRFU operation.
Update Enumerate uses the
methodology of updating the address
list and attempting household
enumeration at the same time. This will
be used for a very small portion of the
addresses in country, such as those with
access problems or minimal mail
service. The Island Areas are not
included in MAF/TIGER. For these
areas, the address list will be created
and enumeration will be attempted at
the same time. Remote Alaska uses the
Update Enumerate methodology but in
remote areas of Alaska that require a
different schedule for enumeration due
to changes in transportation
accessibility and living situations
related to the presence of ice. Military
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areas require special procedures due to
security restrictions. Update Leave is an
update of the address list at the same
time that a questionnaire is left at each
individual housing unit and the
enumeration data is expected to be
returned or submitted by a respondent.
Puerto Rico is designated as entirely
Update Leave (except for military
locations) in order to create a current
address list at the time of the census, in
response to changes that may have
occurred due to natural disasters.
A. Content and Forms Design
The Content and Forms Design (CFD)
operation is responsible for identifying
and finalizing the content and design of
questionnaires and associated
nonquestionnaire materials. To support
the 2020 Census, the CFD operation
ensures content consistency across data
collection modes and operations, as
question wording varies depending on
mode of data collection. The CFD
operation is responsible for creating,
refining, and finalizing instrument
specifications for all data collection
modes—internet, phone, paper, and
field enumeration. This is a significant
departure from the 2010 Census, which
relied on paper for virtually all data
collection.
As required by law (Title 13, United
States Code), the subjects planned for
the 2020 Census were submitted to
Congress on March 28, 2017, and the
questions planned for the 2020 Census
were submitted to Congress on March
29, 2018. The proposed questions for
the 2020 Census questionnaire include
age, citizenship, Hispanic origin, race,
relationship, sex, and tenure.
B. Language Services
The Language Services operation
provides questionnaires and related
materials in non-English materials for
respondents of Limited English
Proficiency. For the 2020 Census, the
internet instrument and Census
Questionnaire Assistance will be
available in Spanish, Chinese,
Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic,
Tagalog, Polish, French, Haitian Creole,
Portuguese, and Japanese, in addition to
English. The bilingual paper
questionnaire, enumerator instrument,
and field enumeration materials will be
available in Spanish. In addition,
language guides and language
identification cards will be available in
the following languages: Albanian,
Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali,
Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese,
Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French,
German, Gujarati, Greek, Haitian Creole,
Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian,
Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian,
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Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao,
Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi,
Navajo, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese,
Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,
Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish,
Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai,
Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukranian, Urdu,
Vietnamese, Yiddish, and Yoruba.
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C. Address Canvassing
Address Canvassing, as described
above, consists of two major
components: In-Office Address
Canvassing and In-Field Address
Canvassing. In-Office Address
Canvassing is the process of using
empirical geographic evidence (e.g.,
imagery, comparison of the Census
Bureau’s address list to partnerprovided lists) to assess the current
address list and make changes where
necessary. This component detects and
captures areas of change from high
quality administrative records and
third-party data. Advancements in
technology have enabled continual
address and spatial updates to occur
throughout the decade as part of the InOffice Address Canvassing effort.
Areas not resolved by In-Office
Address Canvassing become the
universe of geographic areas worked
during In-Field Address Canvassing.
Only the In-Field component of Address
Canvassing involves in person
collection of information from residents
at their living quarters.
For In-Field Address Canvassing, an
extract of addresses from the MAF is
created, and this address list is verified
and updated in the field, as needed.
Updates can include adding units
missing from the address list and
removing nonexistent or nonresidential
units from the list. In addition, living
quarters are classified as housing units
or group quarters. Group quarters 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
group quarters.
The MAF also has geographic data for
transitory locations, which include
recreational vehicle parks,
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carnivals, marinas, hotels, and motels.
People residing at transitory locations
during the census are recorded as living
in housing units located at transitory
locations.
During In-Field Address Canvassing,
listers knock on doors at every structure
in the assignment in an attempt to locate
living quarters and classify each living
quarter as a housing unit, group quarter,
or transitory location. If someone
answers, the lister will provide a
Confidentiality Notice and ask about the
address in order to verify or update the
information, as appropriate. The listers
will then ask if there are any additional
living quarters in the structure or on the
property. If there are additional living
quarters, the listers will collect/update
that information, as appropriate. In
addition, there will be a check on the
quality of the address listing work on
approximately 10 percent of the address
listing workload.
The results of Address Canvassing are
processed with MAF/TIGER and then
used as input into the creation of the
census address list for enumeration.
This address list in turn, is used in
conjunction with the TEA delineation to
determine which materials should be
printed for use in the operation(s)
designated for each area of the country.
D. Forms Printing and Distribution
The Forms Printing and Distribution
operation prints and distributes paper
forms to support the 2020 Census
mailing strategy and enumeration of the
population. The Forms Printing and
Distribution operation is responsible for
the printing and distribution of mailed
internet invitations, reminder cards or
letters, and questionnaire mail packages
where materials are mailed, in multiple
languages as determined by the
Language Services operation. The
letters, reminder cards, and
questionnaires are delivered according
to the mailing contact strategy, which is
part of the internet Self-Response
operation (discussed below).
Every address record will be
identified by an ID, which will be
printed on questionnaires and letters
and used for tracking responses. Paper
questionnaires and responses from field
operations will be linked to the ID in
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data capture. Internet and telephone
respondents will be requested but not
required to provide the ID. When an ID
is not provided, these will be
considered Non-ID responses. The NonID operation is discussed below.
E. Internet Self-Response
The internet Self-Response (ISR)
operation performs the following
functions:
• Maximize online response to the
2020 Census through contact strategies
and improved access for respondents.
• Collect response data via the
internet to reduce paper and the NRFU
universe.
Contact Strategies for Mailing Materials
‘‘Contact strategies for mailing
materials’’ refers to all attempts by the
Census Bureau to make direct contact
with individual households by mail.
Types of contact strategies include
invitation letters, postcards, and
questionnaires mailed to households.
A primary objective of the 2020
Census is for a majority of selfrespondents to complete their census
questionnaire online. An approach
called ‘‘Internet First,’’ in which the first
mailing includes an invitation to
respond to the census online, has been
developed for TEA 1 areas to encourage
respondents to use the internet.
Subsequent mailings will be reminders
to respond to the census online, until all
remaining nonresponding households in
the internet First areas receive a paper
questionnaire in the fourth mailing. In
TEA 1 areas with low internet coverage
or connectivity or other characteristics
that may make it less likely the
respondents will complete the census
questionnaire online, the ‘‘Internet
Choice’’ contact strategy will be
designated for use instead. This strategy
includes both an invitation to complete
the census online and a paper
questionnaire as part of the first mailing.
The Census Bureau anticipates about 20
percent of the households in the selfresponse TEA will receive the internet
Choice treatment.
In summary, the contact strategies for
mailing materials including mailing
date are outlined in the table below:
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Internet Self-Response Instrument
The internet application and all
related support systems are designed to
handle the volume of responses that are
expected to be received by internet in
the 2020 Census. It is imperative that
the application and systems service the
scale of the operation in order to ensure
that users do not experience delays
while completing the survey or
unavailability of the application. In
addition, the internet application and
other associated systems were
developed to adhere to the highest
standards of data security in order to
ensure that all respondent data are
secure and confidential.
F. Census Questionnaire Assistance
The Census Questionnaire Assistance
(CQA) operation has three primary
functions:
• Provide questionnaire assistance by
answering questions about specific
items on the census questionnaire or
other frequently asked questions about
the census.
• Provide an option for respondents
to complete a census interview over the
telephone.
• Provide outbound calling in
support of Coverage Improvement
(discussed in the NRFU section below).
Respondents using the internet
instrument will have the ability to
contact CQA by telephone when webbased self-service help tools cannot
answer their questions. Each of the 13
supported languages, including English,
will have its own toll-free number for
callers. Respondents calling the English
and Spanish language lines will initially
be presented with a self-service
Interactive Voice Response system,
offering an assortment of automated
responses to Frequently Asked Question
information. At any time, respondents
may opt to transfer to a customer service
representative, who is prepared to
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further assist and enumerate them. All
callers who need assistance in other
languages will be connected directly to
an appropriately-skilled customer
service representative fluent in the
language, based on the toll-free number
called.
households that do not self-respond will
be contacted during the NRFU
operation. Finally, the UL operation
performs a check on the quality of the
address listing work (quality control
[QC]) on approximately 10 percent of
the production workload.
G. Update Leave
The Update Leave (UL) operation is
designed for areas where the majority of
housing units either do not have mail
delivered to the physical location of the
housing unit or the mail delivery
information for the housing unit cannot
be verified. Designated during TEA
delineation, UL can occur in geographic
areas that:
• Do not have city-style addresses.
• Do not receive mail through citystyle addresses.
• Receive mail at post office boxes.
• Have been affected by major
disasters.
The purpose of the UL operation is to
update the address and feature data for
the area assigned and to leave an
internet Choice questionnaire package at
every housing unit identified to allow
the household to self-respond.
Enumerators do not attempt to
enumerate the household in person at
this point.
Occupants can respond online, using
the ID printed on the questionnaire, or
they can fill out and mail back the paper
questionnaire. If they have questions or
wish to respond on the telephone, they
can call the CQA number, which is
provided in the package.
The UL operation includes mailing a
reminder letter and a reminder postcard
to addresses that are capable of
receiving mail within the areas
designated for UL. These mailed
materials include the ID for the given
address and the website address for the
household to use in order to respond
online. As in TEA 1, where all materials
are mailed to housing units, any
H. Update Enumerate
The Update Enumerate (UE) operation
is designated for areas where the initial
visit requires enumerating at the living
quarters while updating the address list.
The majority of the operation will occur
in remote geographic areas that have
unique challenges associated with
accessibility. UE can occur in the
following geographic areas:
• Remote Alaska.
• Areas that were a part of the 2010
Census Remote UE operation, such as
northern parts of Maine and southeast
Alaska.
• Select American Indian areas that
request to be enumerated in person
during the initial visit.
Note that the areas included in the
2010 Census Remote Update Enumerate
operation might be delineated into TEA
1 or TEA 6 for the 2020 Census, based
on changes in address type or
mailability.
In the UE operation, field staff update
the address and feature data and
enumerate respondents in person. The
address and feature data are updated on
paper address registers and paper maps.
The enumeration is collected on paper
questionnaires. Field staff conducting
UE follow a specific contact strategy for
the remote locations and conduct any
needed follow-up. The UE operation
will promote the quality of the address
work and of the enumeration data by
having staff work in pairs and by
supervisors reviewing all data collected
for completion and any anomalies.
Supervisors will rework an area to
collect geographic and/or enumeration
data when necessary to improve the
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Formalized, separate Listing QC and
Reinterview operations will not be
conducted for the operation in 2020.
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I. Non-ID Processing
For the 2020 Census, respondents will
be encouraged, but not required, to use
the Census Bureau’s preassigned ID for
the living quarters. Within the internet
instrument, and, consequently, within
CQA, it will be possible for respondents
to submit their census response without
the preassigned ID. Non-ID Processing is
the effort to associate census responses
that lack a Census ID with records
included on the Census Bureau’s 2020
Census address frame. This processing
can occur through automated or clerical
procedures. With the ISR instrument
collecting the response and address
data, it will be possible to perform
automated processing to determine
whether the address was already
included on the address frame and
extracted from the MAF. For those NonID responses not matched during
automated processing, a clerical
operation will make a further attempt to
match the address to the 2020 Census
address frame and validate nonmatching
addresses. Some of the clerical work
may require contacting the respondent
to help determine a match or to verify
the existence and location of the
address; this is known as Non-ID
Processing Phone Followup. Any
nonmatching address whose existence
and location cannot be verified by the
clerical Non-ID operation will become a
Field Verification assignment, handled
as a component of the NRFU operation.
Notably, Field Verification is only an
address verification effort and does not
include collection of the census
questionnaire data.
J. Nonresponse Followup
The NRFU operation serves two
primary purposes:
• Determines or resolves housing unit
status for addresses included in the
NRFU workload.
• Enumerates housing units that are
determined to have a housing unit
status of occupied.
The NRFU workload is comprised of
addresses from a number of sources,
including:
• Nonresponding addresses in TEAs 1
and 6.
• Blank mail returns or mail returns
otherwise deemed to be too incomplete.
• Addresses considered to represent
new or recently completed housing.
These addresses are identified by the
spring 2020 USPS Delivery Sequence
File and other special efforts undertaken
to identify new housing around the time
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of the census—New Construction and
Housing Unit Count Review; addresses
upheld in the Local Update of Census
Addresses appeals process; and
potentially other addresses determined
to require follow-up after the initial
enumeration universe is established.
• Addresses with a vacant status
(reported as 0 occupants) from internet
Self-Response.
• Field Verification cases.
• Coverage Improvement cases.
• Self-Response Quality Assurance
cases.
The 2020 Census NRFU operation
will be different from the NRFU
operation conducted in the 2010
Census. The Census Bureau will
implement a NRFU operational design
that utilizes a combination of the
following:
• Automation to facilitate data
collection.
• Administrative records and thirdparty data usage to reduce the workload.
• Reengineering of staffing and
management of field operations.
• A Best-Time-to-Contact model to
increase the likelihood of making
contact attempts when an enumerator
will find people at home.
After giving the population in the
United States and Puerto Rico an
opportunity to self-respond to the 2020
Census, the Census Bureau will use the
most cost-effective strategy for
contacting and counting people to
ensure an accurate count.
During the NRFU operation,
enumerators will visit each housing unit
designated for followup and determine
whether the unit exists and then the
occupancy status of the unit on April 1,
2020. If the unit exists, they complete an
interview using an automated
application on a smartphone. The
devices will use a secure Census
Bureau-provided enumeration
application solution for conducting the
NRFU field data collection.
Enumeration data and workload updates
will be transmitted between the NRFU
instruments and response processing
systems on a regular basis. Various
techniques will be used during NRFU to
make the data collection as efficient as
possible. The number of allowed
attempts to contact will be controlled
within the automated instrument, and
best-time-to-contact modeling will be
used in the creation of the daily
assignments. Every case in the NRFU
workload will initially have a maximum
of six unique contact days. (During the
Closeout phase of the operation, cases
may receive additional attempts, as
necessary, to resolve incomplete cases.)
After a third attempt to contact a
household does not yield a respondent,
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a case will become proxy-eligible. A
proxy is a neighbor, landlord, real estate
agent, or other knowledgeable person
who can provide information about the
unit and the people who live there. An
enumerator should attempt three
proxies after each noninterview for a
proxy-eligible case.
In addition to the initial in-person
contact attempt, these addresses will
also receive a final mailing that
encourages occupants to self-respond to
the 2020 Census. If the initial in-person
contact attempt was unsuccessful, the
Census Bureau will use administrative
records for the unit status or as the
household response data when it has
high-quality administrative records from
trusted sources. Undeliverable-asAddressed information from the USPS
will serve as the primary administrative
records source for the identification of
vacant addresses and addresses that do
not exist. Examples of sources of
administrative records and third-party
data used to enumerate occupied
housing units include IRS Individual
Tax Returns, IRS Information Returns,
and the Center for Medicare and
Medicaid Statistics Medicare
Enrollment Database. Addresses will
also be removed from the workload
throughout the course of the NRFU
operation as self-responses continue to
be received.
Early NRFU
Early NRFU occurs in areas where
there are high concentrations of college
students living in off-campus housing
who are unlikely to be present during
the scheduled dates for regular NRFU.
The enumeration procedures for early
NRFU are the same as regular NRFU,
but just conducted at an earlier time to
accommodate the schedules of select
colleges and universities. Any early
NRFU addresses that are unresolved by
the start of NRFU will receive additional
field attempts during regular NRFU.
NRFU Reinterview
The NRFU Reinterview program will
check the quality of the work done by
enumerators in NRFU. A sample of
approximately 5 percent of NRFU
interviews will be selected for
verification through NRFU Reinterview.
The NRFU Reinterview program
involves conducting an independent
field reinterview for selected cases to
verify that an enumerator conducted the
interview and followed procedures. The
NRFU Reinterview interviewer/
enumerator always attempts to contact
the respondent from the original
interview, which may be a household
member, neighbor, or some other proxy.
If the original respondent confirms that
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he/she was contacted and an
enumerator conducted the original
interview, the NRFU Reinterview
interviewer/enumerator collects roster
names and ends the interview. If the
respondent was not contacted or does
not know if an enumerator conducted
the original interview, the NRFU
Reinterview interviewer/enumerator
conducts a full interview with the
respondent.
During the early weeks of NRFU,
enumerators will conduct interviews
with multiunit structure managers to
determine the occupancy status of
nonresponding units within the
multiunit structure. This Manager Visit
(MV) allows enumerators to identify
several units as vacant or delete without
having to attempt each unit
individually. Enumerators have a
maximum of two unique contact days to
complete the MV cases. The MV
Reinterview program will check the
quality of work done by enumerators
during the MV and will target MVs with
high numbers of vacant and delete unit
statuses. During the MV Reinterview,
the enumerator will ask to speak to the
manager from the original MV
interview. If the respondent confirms
that he/she was contacted and an
enumerator conducted the original
interview, the MV RI enumerator asks
about a subset of the list checked during
the MV. If the respondent was not
contacted or does not know if an
enumerator conducted the original MV
interview, the MV Reinterview
enumerator conducts a full interview
and asks about the entire list during the
MV.
The NRFU universe also includes
cases from Non-ID Processing that were
not able to be matched to the address
frame. As discussed in the Non-ID
section, these are Field Verification (FV)
cases, where the enumerators attempt to
locate the address in question and
collect its Global Positioning System
(GPS) coordinates. A sample of the FV
cases is selected for verification through
FV QC. Since FV cases only require an
enumerator to determine the existence
of an address and will not require an
interview with a respondent, the FV QC
program will consist of an independent
check of the production enumerators
where the FV QC enumerator will
conduct the same procedures as the FV
enumerator. FV cases, along with their
QC component, have a maximum of one
field contact day.
The Coverage Improvement operation
resolves categories of erroneous
enumerations (people counted in the
wrong place or counted more than once)
and omissions (people who were
missed) identified through collected
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enumeration data. The Coverage
Improvement operation will attempt to
resolve these issues from both selfresponse and NRFU responses. All cases
that are selected for Coverage
Improvement with a valid phone
number will be subject to an interview
attempt by a CQA Customer Service
Representative. The workload identified
for the Coverage Improvement operation
will be responses where a household
enumeration shows a difference
between the answer for the number of
people within the household and the
number of people enumerated, and
answers to coverage questions in the
initial enumeration that reflect potential
coverage errors. Automation and the
internet self-response option should
reduce the prevalence of these types of
respondent errors as compared to the
2010 Census, which was completed
almost entirely on paper questionnaires.
Self-Response Quality Assurance
cases are generated as part of the quality
assurance efforts for self-response. This
re-collection of the enumeration data
will also be worked within NRFU.
be by using the Individual Census
Questionnaire as the paper data
collection instrument. In-person
interviewing is planned for all group
quarter types that are part of the field
enumeration workload.
GQ Enumeration—eResponse Data
Transfer
eResponse uses electronic data
transfer from GQ administrators to the
Census Bureau. Client-level data from
systems maintained by GQ
Administrators can be transferred to a
standardized Census Bureau system that
will accept electronically submitted
data in a standardized template. These
data will be accepted in lieu of use of
the Individual Census Questionnaire if
data are deemed to be of sufficiently
high quality and completeness.
In-Office GQ Advance Contact
The In-Office GQ Advance Contact is
an in-office activity conducted in the
area census offices. Preferred dates,
times, methods of enumeration, and
expected population on Census Day will
be collected. Special instructions or
concerns related to privacy,
confidentiality, and security will also be
addressed.
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 ServiceBased 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 nonsheltered 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.
GQ Enumeration
The GQ Enumeration will cover all 50
states, the District of Columbia, and
Puerto Rico. An additional late GQ
enumeration phase allows for the
stakeholder identification and
enumeration of group quarters that may
have been missed during the earlier
time frame. The primary method of
conducting in-person enumeration of
people residing in group quarters will
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 for the State
Coalition of the ‘‘National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence’’ to
participate in the 2020 Census Group
K. Group Quarters
The 2020 Census Group Quarters (GQ)
operation will enumerate people living
or staying in group quarters 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.
The 2020 Census GQ operation
consists of the following components:
• In-Office GQ Advance Contact.
• GQ Enumeration.
• Service-Based Enumeration.
• Military Enumeration.
• Maritime Vessel (Shipboard)
Enumeration.
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Quarters Update Program to create a
comprehensive and current address
listing for domestic violence shelters.
These special procedures are designed
to protect the safety and security of
respondents being enumerated at these
locations.
Military Enumeration and Maritime
Vessel Enumeration
Military Enumeration involves
enumeration of people living in GQs or
barracks on stateside military
installations or military vessels. Military
installations are fenced, secured areas
used for military purposes. An
important feature of the military
enumeration operation is that it
includes both group quarters and
housing units. 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. See part Q for methods we will
use to count overseas military.
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L. Paper Data Capture
The Paper Data Capture operation
scans and converts data from 2020
Census paper questionnaires. Core
sources for the Paper Data Capture
operation include housing unit selfresponse questionnaires mailed back by
respondents and Group Quarters
Individual Census Reports. The Census
Bureau’s in-house Integrated Computer
Assisted Data Entry system is used to
capture paper responses from
questionnaires. Each write-in and
checkbox data field is data-captured,
and Optical Character Recognition and
Optical Mark Recognition are
performed. If Key From Image is needed
for forms that cannot be processed
through Optical Character Recognition
or Optical Mark Recognition, staff are
presented the image of the page and are
able to clarify, correct, or add to what
was captured. The Census Bureau
maintains the data, images of the forms,
and the paper forms themselves until
confirmation that the data have been
correctly captured, at which point the
paper forms are sent to destruction
while the data and images are retained.
The Census Bureau maintains the
images for archiving purposes until
such time as the National Archiving and
Records Administration takes
possession of the images for permanent
archiving.
M. Response Processing
The Response Processing Operation
(RPO) supports the three major
components of the 2020 Census: Predata collection activities, data collection
activities, and post-data collection
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activities. Specifically, the operation
supports the following activities:
Pre-Data Collection
• Create and distribute the initial
2020 Census enumeration universe of
living quarters.
• Assign the specific enumeration
strategy for each living quarter based on
case status and associated paradata.
Data Collection
• Create and distribute workload files
required for enumeration operations.
• Track case enumeration status.
• Check for suspicious returns.
Post-Data Collection
• Run post-data collection processing
actions in preparation for producing the
final 2020 Census results.
N. Redistricting Data Program
The purpose of the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Program (RDP) is to
provide to each state the legally
required redistricting data tabulations
by the mandated deadline of one year
from Census Day: April 1, 2021. In
compliance with Public Law (Pub. L.)
94–171, the Census Bureau will tabulate
for each state the total population
counts by race and Hispanic origin. The
Census Bureau will tabulate these
counts for the total population and for
the population age 18 and over in a
prototype redistricting data file released
as part of the 2018 End-to-End Census
Test. The Census Bureau intends to
work with stakeholders, specifically
‘‘the officers or public bodies having
initial responsibility for the legislative
apportionment of each state,’’ to solicit
feedback on the content of the prototype
redistricting data file. If those
stakeholders indicate a need for
tabulations of citizenship data on the
2020 Census Public Law 94–171
Redistricting Data File, the Census
Bureau will make a design change to
include citizenship as part of that data.
That new design would then be
published in the Federal Register after
it is completed in the summer of 2019.
The Census Bureau will also tabulate
housing unit counts by occupancy
status (occupied or vacant) and provide
total population counts for group
quarters by group quarters type. For the
prototype and for the 2020 Census
Redistricting Data Files, the Census
Bureau will provide these tabulations
for a variety of standard census
geographic areas including state,
county, place, tract, and tabulation
block. If states provide their
congressional, legislative, and voting
district boundaries through the
Redistricting Data Program, the Census
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Bureau will also provide the tabulations
for these areas. Tabulations by
congressional, legislative, and voting
districts will be available for the 50
states; equivalent tabulations will be
available for the District of Columbia
and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
This program has a separate OMB
clearance number. There is more detail
about this program in Federal Register
Notice ‘‘Redistricting Data Program,’’
July 26, 2018, (Vol. 83, No. 144, pp.
35458–35460. FR Doc No. 2018–15972).
O. Data Products and Dissemination
The Data Products and Dissemination
(DPD) operation performs three primary
functions:
• Prepare and deliver the 2020
Census apportionment data for the
President of the United States to provide
to Congress by December 31, 2020.
• Tabulate 2020 Census data products
for use by the states for redistricting.
• Tabulate and disseminate 2020
Census data for use by the public.
The DPD operation produces
information required by Public Law to
satisfy apportionment and redistricting
requirements. Title 13, U.S. Code
(U.S.C.) requires that the apportionment
population counts be delivered to the
Office of the President within nine
months of the census date.
Apportionment counts are based on the
Census Unedited File, the Federally
Affiliated Overseas Personnel and
Dependents Count File, and a
geographic file of state changes. For the
2020 Census, the census date is April 1,
2020, and the President will receive the
counts by December 31, 2020.
The DPD operation is also responsible
for the production and dissemination of
many data products, including national
and state summary files, tabulated
informational files, and data comparison
tables. This includes electronic and
printed products that cover population
and housing unit tabulations,
geographical maps, and products
specific to the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin
Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and
the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands).
The Center for Enterprise
Dissemination Services and Consumer
Innovation initiative is responsible for
developing enterprise dissemination
requirements. DPD is conducting a
thorough review of the past product
design (cross-tabulations and iterations
of characteristics), while also looking to
ensure that users can find data after the
2020 Census quickly and easily. The
Census Bureau will undertake a
thorough analysis of the proposed 2020
Census data products in keeping with
our sworn obligation to protect
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respondents’ data as data stewards
under Title 13. Federal Register Notice
‘‘Soliciting Feedback from Users on
2020 Census Data Products,’’ July 19,
2018 (Vol. 83, pp. 34111—34112, FR
Doc No. 2018–15458) was published
with a 60-day comment period. It
requested feedback from users on
specific tables and geographic detail for
decennial census products such as
Summary File 1, Summary File 2, and
the Demographic Profile. The last day to
provide comment on the notice was
September 17, 2018. Subsequently, this
notice was reopened for an additional
60-day comment period on October 9,
2018 (Vol. 83, p. 50636, FR Doc No.
2018–21837). The last day to provide
comments on this notice was November
8, 2018. The final suite of 2020 Census
data products will be determined in the
summer of 2019.
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P. Archiving
The Archiving (ARC) Operation
performs the following functions:
• Coordinates storage of the materials
and data and provides records deemed
permanent as the official data of the
2020 Census, including files containing
the individual responses to the 2020
Census, to the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA).
• Provides similar files to the Census
Bureau’s National Processing Center in
Indiana to use as source materials to
conduct the Age Search Service.
• Stores data to cover in-house needs.
Q. Federally Affiliated Count Overseas
The Federally Affiliated Count
Overseas operation obtains counts by
home state of United States military and
federal civilian employees who are
stationed or assigned overseas and their
dependents living with them. For the
2020 Census, overseas is defined as
anywhere outside the 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and
the Island Areas: American Samoa,
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, Guam, and the United States
Virgin Islands. Counts are submitted
from Federal agencies and the
Department of Defense (Defense
Manpower Data Command) through a
Census Bureau secure server and are
used to allocate the federally affiliated
population living overseas to their home
state for the purposes of apportioning
seats in the U.S. House of
Representatives. If military and federal
civilian employees of the U.S.
government are deployed overseas
while stationed or assigned within the
U.S., they are counted at their U.S.
residence where they live or sleep most
of the time using administrative data
provided by Federal agencies and the
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military personnel.
R. Island Areas Censuses
The purpose of the Island Areas
Censuses (IAC) operation is to
enumerate all residents of American
Samoa, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI),
Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands;
process and tabulate the collected data;
and disseminate data products to the
public. All data collection activities for
the IAC will rely on the use of paper
questionnaires, paper maps, and paper
address registers to record the physical
addresses of housing units and group
quarters. The IAC questionnaire will
leverage the American Community
Survey questionnaire with minor
wording changes in order to take into
account the Island Areas local
governments’ concerns, where possible.
Enumerators will list the addresses
using paper address registers. Once the
addresses have been listed, enumerators
will visit every living quarter to conduct
interviews with household members
and follow up as necessary. The IAC
will perform a clerical review of all
completed questionnaires for
completeness and data consistency, a
reinterview for a sample of
questionnaires, and an independent
address check. The response data will
be processed through the Decennial
Response Processing System. Data
products will include counts of the
population and housing units, data
profiles, subject tables, ranking tables,
and supplemental tables.
S. Evaluations and Experiments
The Census Bureau is not currently
planning a separate package for the
Evaluations and Experiments program,
as has been done in past censuses. For
the 2020 Census, these evaluations and
experiments will be described either as
Substantive Changes to this package, to
the Census Bureau’s Post-Enumeration
Survey Independent Listing and QC
OMB package, or within the Generic
Clearance for Decennial Census Field
Tests and Evaluations, covered under
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.
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.
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Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, identified by
Docket number OMB–2018–0004, may
be submitted to the Federal eRulemaking portal: https://
www.regulations.gov within 30 days of
publication of this notice. You may also
submit comments and recommendations
to 2020_Census_Comments@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806.
All comments received are part of the
public record and will be posted to
https://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.
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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.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2020 Census.
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 operations scoped for the 2020 Census data
collection will be described below in this Federal Register Notice for
an additional 30-day comment period; the full census description will
be considered as a substantive change to the approved OMB materials.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1006.
Form Number(s): D-CN(E/S) (included with Address Canvassing
approval), D-Q, D-Q(E/S), D-Q-GE, D-Q-GE(S), D-Q-UL, D-Q-UL(E/S), D-Q-
TL, D-Q-TL(S), D-Q-UE, D-Q-RA, D-Q-TLRA, D-Q-GERA, D-Q-MV, D-CQ-TL, D-
CQ-TL(S), D-CQ-UE, D-CQ-RA, D-CQ-TLRA, D-Q-AS, D-Q-MI, D-Q-GU, D-Q-VI,
D-Q-VI(S), D-CQ-AS, D-CQ-MI, D-CQ-GU, D-CQ-VI, D-CQ-VI(S), D-Q-GE-AS,
D-Q-GE-MI, D-Q-GE-GU, D-Q-GE-VI, D-Q-GE-VI(S), D-Q-ULPR(E/S), D-Q-GEPR,
D-Q-GEPR(S), D-Q-PR(E/S), D-Q-TLPR, D-Q-TLPR(S), D-CQ-TLPR. D-CQ-
TLPR(S).
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 180,962,929 for all operations in the 2020
Census. The total represents an addition from what was outlined in the
previous Federal Register Notice due to the addition of an address
collection period for a Group Quarters function.
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Average Hours per Response: 10 minutes for census enumeration.
Burden Hours: 26,531,593 for 2020 Census. The total represents an
addition from what was outlined in the previous Federal Register Notice
due to the addition of an address collection period for a Group
Quarters function.
2020 Census
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Estimated
Operation or category number of Estimated time per response Total burden
respondents hours
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Address Canvassing............................ 15,786,734 5 minutes....................... 1,315,561
Address Canvassing Listing QC................. 1,578,673 5 minutes....................... 131,556
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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...................... 80,700,000 10 minutes...................... 13,450,000
Update Leave.................................. 11,900,000 5 minutes....................... 991,667
Update Leave QC............................... 1,190,000 5 minutes....................... 99,167
Nonresponse Followup.......................... 52,700,000 10 minutes...................... 8,783,333
Nonresponse Followup Reinterview.............. 2,760,000 5 minutes....................... 230,000
Self-Response Quality Assurance............... 250,000 10 minutes...................... 41,667
Field Verification............................ 400,000 2 minutes....................... 13,333
Field Verification QC......................... 40,000 2 minutes....................... 1,333
Coverage Improvement.......................... 3,200,000 7 minutes....................... 373,333
Non-ID Processing Phone Followup.............. 750,000 5 minutes....................... 62,500
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Self-Response Areas Subtotal.............. 153,890,000 ................................ 24,046,043
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Geographic Area Focused on Update Enumerate
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Update Enumerate Production................... 506,000 12 minutes...................... 101,200
Update Enumerate Listing QC................... 50,600 5 minutes....................... 4,217
Update Enumerate Reinterview.................. 25,300 10 minutes...................... 4,217
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Update Enumerate Subtotal................. 581,900 ................................ 109,634
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Group Quarters
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GQ Update Program............................. 7,168 10 minutes...................... 1,195
GQ Advance Contact (facility)................. 297,000 10 minutes...................... 49,500
GQ Enumeration--eResponse (facility).......... 14,300 20 minutes...................... 4,767
GQ Enumeration--person contact................ 8,000,000 5 minutes....................... 666,667
Group Quarters QC............................. 8,500 5 minutes....................... 708
Group Quarters Subtotal................... 8,326,968 ................................ 722,837
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Advance 50,000 10 minutes...................... 8,333
Contact.
Enumeration at Transitory Locations--Units.... 600,000 10 minutes...................... 100,000
Federally Affiliated Count Overseas........... 82 5 minutes....................... 7
Island Areas Censuses--Housing Units.......... 138,281 40 minutes...................... 92,187
Island Areas Censuses--Group Quarters......... 10,291 30 minutes...................... 5,146
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Totals.................................... 180,962,929 ................................ 26,531,593
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Overview of 2020 Census Operations
Below is a summary of the needs of uses of the 2020 Census,
followed by a more detailed overview of data collection operations. The
geographic areas discussed in this notice refer only to the 50 states,
the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, unless otherwise noted. The
2020 Census also includes the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
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 a national census 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 Census Bureau plans to conduct the most automated, modern, and
dynamic decennial census in history. The 2020 Census includes design
changes in four key areas, discussed below:
(1) New methodologies to conduct the Address Canvassing operation.
(2) Innovative ways of optimizing self-response.
(3) The use of administrative records and third-party data to
reduce the Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) operation workload.
(4) The use of technology to reduce the manual effort and improve
the productivity of field operations, while decreasing the amount of
physical space required to perform the field operations.
(1) Reengineering Address Canvassing
An accurate address list is the cornerstone of a successful census.
In order to manage the work for decennial census, the Census Bureau
uses the address and physical location of each place where someone is,
or could be, living. The Census Bureau maintains this address list and
spatial data for the
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United States and Puerto Rico in its Master Address File (MAF)/
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER)
System database.
This database was created using the address files from the 1990
Census and has been subsequently and regularly updated using:
Information collected from decennial census operation
updates, including address and spatial updates.
The Delivery Sequence File of addresses from the United
States Postal Service (USPS).
Input from tribal, state, and local governments and third
parties, including address and boundary updates from various programs
conducted over the decade, such as the Local Update of Census Addresses
operation.
Information collected in other Census Bureau programs,
such as the American Community Survey.
The purpose of Address Canvassing is (1) to deliver a complete and
accurate address list and spatial database for enumeration and
tabulation, and (2) to determine the type and address characteristics
for each living quarter. Prior to a field Address Canvassing data
collection, the Census Bureau will delineate the entire land area of
the United States, Puerto Rico, and Island Areas into Type of
Enumeration Areas (TEAs). Most stateside United States living quarters
will be delineated into the self-response area, where the census
address list will be created before the census, census materials will
be provided in the mail, and self-response modes will be supported and
promoted. Other areas will be designated for Update Leave, Update
Enumerate (including Remote Alaska), Military Enumeration, or Island
Areas Enumeration.
For the 2020 Census there will be a full Address Canvassing of the
country that will consist of In-Office Address Canvassing complemented
with In-Field Address Canvassing. In-Office Address Canvassing is the
process of using empirical geographic evidence (e.g., imagery,
comparison of the Census Bureau's address list to address lists
provided by the United States Postal Service and governmental units
that partner with the Census Bureau) to assess the current address list
and make changes where necessary. This component also detects and
captures areas of change from high-quality administrative records and
third-party data. Advancements in technology have enabled continual
address and spatial updates to occur throughout the decade as part of
the In-Office Address Canvassing effort. Since 2015, satellite imagery
has been used for the identification of areas where there are changes
in living quarters. Where the necessary updates can be captured from
electronic sources and are deemed to be sufficiently accurate, In-
Office Address Canvassing will complete the update process prior to the
census. The remaining blocks will become eligible to be sent to In-
Field Address Canvassing for updating on the ground by field staff.
(2) Optimizing Self-Response
The goal of this innovation area is to make it as easy and
efficient as possible for people to respond to the 2020 Census by
offering new response options through the internet and telephone, in
addition to the traditional mailback paper questionnaire option. Self-
response reduces the need to conduct in-person follow-up operations to
complete the enumeration, by far the most expensive method of data
collection. To that end, the Census Bureau will motivate people to
respond, as well as make it easy for people to respond, from any
location at any time, even if they don't have the Census Bureau's
preassigned ID for the address.
The importance of responding to the 2020 Census will be
communicated in a variety of ways, including through mailings,
questionnaire delivery, advertising, and partnership efforts. In
particular, the Integrated Partnership and Communications operation is
responsible for communicating the importance of responding to the 2020
Census.
Internet response represents a substantial innovation for the
Census Bureau. The internet was not a response option in the 2010
Census. The internet response option has been included in multiple
tests leading up to the 2020 Census: The 2014 Census Test; all three
census tests performed in 2015; the 2016 Census Test; the 2017 Census
Test; and the 2018 End-to-End Census Test. It has also been used in the
American Community Survey since 2013.
(3) Utilizing Administrative Records and Third-Party Data
For the 2020 Census, ``administrative records'' and ``third-party
data'' are terms used to describe microdata records contained in files
collected and maintained by Federal, state, and local government
agencies (``administrative records'') and commercial entities (``third-
party data'') for administering programs and providing services. For
many decades, the Census Bureau has successfully and securely used
administrative records and third-party data for statistical purposes.
For the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau intends to use administrative
records from both internal sources, such as data from prior decennial
censuses and the American Community Survey, and from a range of other
Federal agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the
Social Security Administration, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Indian
Health Service, the Selective Service, and the U.S. Postal Service. The
Census Bureau is also working to acquire state government
administrative records from enrollment in Federal block grant programs,
such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for
Women, Infants, and Children.
Throughout the decade, the Census Bureau continuously conducted
analyses and assessments to verify that the proposed uses of
administrative records and third-party data sources in the 2020 Census
were appropriate in each instance. Based on this research, testing, and
analyses, the Census Bureau announced its plans in November 2015 to
utilize administrative records and third-party data in the 2020 Census.
The 2020 Census Operational Plan calls for employing this information
for the following purposes:
I. Consistent with previous decennial censuses, the Census Bureau
will utilize administrative records from federal and state government
agencies and third-party data to refine contact strategies and build
and update the residential address list.
II. Also consistent with previous decennial censuses, the Census
Bureau will utilize federal and state administrative records to edit or
impute invalid, inconsistent, or missing responses.
III. The new use of administrative records for the 2020 Census is
to use data exclusively from federal administrative records to improve
the accuracy and efficiency of the NRFU operation by:
a. reducing followup on vacant housing units and nonresidential
addresses, as designated by administrative records.
b. enumerating households that do not self-respond and whom we were
unable to contact after six mailings and one in-person field visit.
For each of the purposes listed in items II, IIIa, and IIIb, the
Census Bureau will use or plans to use administrative data only when it
can confirm empirically across multiple sources that the data are
consistent, of high quality, and can be accurately
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applied to the addresses and households in question. The Census Bureau
plans to enumerate households utilizing administrative records only
from Federal government agencies, such as the IRS. Use of
administrative records for nonresponding addresses will be evaluated
under a strict set of Census Bureau rules throughout the process to
ensure completeness and accuracy.
Based on the research and tests conducted, the Census Bureau
estimates that under the current operational plan, Federal
administrative records will be used to enumerate up to 6.2 million
households of the projected total of approximately 62 million addresses
that are expected to be in the NRFU workload for the 2020 Census. These
6.2 million households represent less than five percent of the
approximately 147 million addresses in the Census master address file.
Where the Census Bureau does not have confidence in the data, such as
when the data are inconsistent or missing in the Federal administrative
records, the household will remain in the NRFU workload to be
enumerated in person.
(4) Reengineering Field Operations
The final innovation area, ``Reengineering Field Operations,'' has
a goal of using technology to manage the 2020 Census fieldwork
efficiently and effectively, and as a result, reduce the staffing,
infrastructure, and brick and mortar footprint for the 2020 Census. The
Census Bureau plans to provide most listers and enumerators with the
capability to work completely remotely and perform all administrative
and data collection tasks directly from a mobile device.
Supporting Documents About the 2020 Census Design and the 2020 Census
Objectives
Multiple Census Bureau publications provide background on the plans
for the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census Operational Plan v3.0, which was
published in September 2017, describes each of the 35 operations scoped
and defined for the census. Every task performed for the 2020 Census
must be assigned to one of the 35 operations. The Operational Plan also
summarizes the major findings of the census tests performed this
decade. Moreover, this document shows the planned design of the 2020
Census as of September 2017 and identifies design decisions made, as
well as remaining decisions to be made using census test results. (Note
that the 2020 Census Operational Plan v4.0 will be released publicly in
February 2019.) Key design components for the 2020 Census for every
operation are discussed in Chapter 5 of the 2020 Census Operational
Plan. In addition, for most of the 2020 Census Operations, the Census
Bureau is developing a Detailed Operational Plan to document objectives
and procedures of the operation, major tasks involved in
implementation, the overall workflow, and the overall resources
required. The Operational Plan and Detailed Operational Plans available
at www.census.gov can be reference for more details about the tasks
performed for each operation.
Type of Enumeration Areas
Prior to the census, it is necessary to delineate all geographic
areas into Type of Enumeration Areas (TEAs). These TEAs 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 MAF/TIGER database.
The MAF/TIGER does not contain data for the Island Areas, so a
separate TEA is designated for these areas. 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 5 = Military.
* 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. After the initial self-response phase, nonresponding
households will be enumerated in the NRFU operation. Update Enumerate
uses the methodology of updating the address list and attempting
household enumeration at the same time. This will be used for a very
small portion of the addresses in country, such as those with access
problems or minimal mail service. The Island Areas are not included in
MAF/TIGER. For these areas, the address list will be created and
enumeration will be attempted at the same time. Remote Alaska uses the
Update Enumerate methodology but in remote areas of Alaska that require
a different schedule for enumeration due to changes in transportation
accessibility and living situations related to the presence of ice.
Military areas require special procedures due to security restrictions.
Update Leave is an update of the address list at the same time that a
questionnaire is left at each individual housing unit and the
enumeration data is expected to be returned or submitted by a
respondent. Puerto Rico is designated as entirely Update Leave (except
for military locations) in order to create a current address list at
the time of the census, in response to changes that may have occurred
due to natural disasters.
A. Content and Forms Design
The Content and Forms Design (CFD) operation is responsible for
identifying and finalizing the content and design of questionnaires and
associated nonquestionnaire materials. To support the 2020 Census, the
CFD operation ensures content consistency across data collection modes
and operations, as question wording varies depending on mode of data
collection. The CFD operation is responsible for creating, refining,
and finalizing instrument specifications for all data collection
modes--internet, phone, paper, and field enumeration. This is a
significant departure from the 2010 Census, which relied on paper for
virtually all data collection.
As required by law (Title 13, United States Code), the subjects
planned for the 2020 Census were submitted to Congress on March 28,
2017, and the questions planned for the 2020 Census were submitted to
Congress on March 29, 2018. The proposed questions for the 2020 Census
questionnaire include age, citizenship, Hispanic origin, race,
relationship, sex, and tenure.
B. Language Services
The Language Services operation provides questionnaires and related
materials in non-English materials for respondents of Limited English
Proficiency. For the 2020 Census, the internet instrument and Census
Questionnaire Assistance will be available in Spanish, Chinese,
Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Tagalog, Polish, French, Haitian
Creole, Portuguese, and Japanese, in addition to English. The bilingual
paper questionnaire, enumerator instrument, and field enumeration
materials will be available in Spanish. In addition, language guides
and language identification cards will be available in the following
languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian,
Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French,
German, Gujarati, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong,
Hungarian, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Italian,
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Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Navajo,
Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian,
Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu,
Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, and
Yoruba.
C. Address Canvassing
Address Canvassing, as described above, consists of two major
components: In-Office Address Canvassing and In-Field Address
Canvassing. In-Office Address Canvassing is the process of using
empirical geographic evidence (e.g., imagery, comparison of the Census
Bureau's address list to partner-provided lists) to assess the current
address list and make changes where necessary. This component detects
and captures areas of change from high quality administrative records
and third-party data. Advancements in technology have enabled continual
address and spatial updates to occur throughout the decade as part of
the In-Office Address Canvassing effort.
Areas not resolved by In-Office Address Canvassing become the
universe of geographic areas worked during In-Field Address Canvassing.
Only the In-Field component of Address Canvassing involves in person
collection of information from residents at their living quarters.
For In-Field Address Canvassing, an extract of addresses from the
MAF is created, and this address list is verified and updated in the
field, as needed. Updates can include adding units missing from the
address list and removing nonexistent or nonresidential units from the
list. In addition, living quarters are classified as housing units or
group quarters. Group quarters 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 group quarters.
The MAF also has geographic data for transitory locations, which
include recreational vehicle parks, campgrounds, racetracks, circuses,
carnivals, marinas, hotels, and motels. People residing at transitory
locations during the census are recorded as living in housing units
located at transitory locations.
During In-Field Address Canvassing, listers knock on doors at every
structure in the assignment in an attempt to locate living quarters and
classify each living quarter as a housing unit, group quarter, or
transitory location. If someone answers, the lister will provide a
Confidentiality Notice and ask about the address in order to verify or
update the information, as appropriate. The listers will then ask if
there are any additional living quarters in the structure or on the
property. If there are additional living quarters, the listers will
collect/update that information, as appropriate. In addition, there
will be a check on the quality of the address listing work on
approximately 10 percent of the address listing workload.
The results of Address Canvassing are processed with MAF/TIGER and
then used as input into the creation of the census address list for
enumeration. This address list in turn, is used in conjunction with the
TEA delineation to determine which materials should be printed for use
in the operation(s) designated for each area of the country.
D. Forms Printing and Distribution
The Forms Printing and Distribution operation prints and
distributes paper forms to support the 2020 Census mailing strategy and
enumeration of the population. The Forms Printing and Distribution
operation is responsible for the printing and distribution of mailed
internet invitations, reminder cards or letters, and questionnaire mail
packages where materials are mailed, in multiple languages as
determined by the Language Services operation. The letters, reminder
cards, and questionnaires are delivered according to the mailing
contact strategy, which is part of the internet Self-Response operation
(discussed below).
Every address record will be identified by an ID, which will be
printed on questionnaires and letters and used for tracking responses.
Paper questionnaires and responses from field operations will be linked
to the ID in data capture. Internet and telephone respondents will be
requested but not required to provide the ID. When an ID is not
provided, these will be considered Non-ID responses. The Non-ID
operation is discussed below.
E. Internet Self-Response
The internet Self-Response (ISR) operation performs the following
functions:
Maximize online response to the 2020 Census through
contact strategies and improved access for respondents.
Collect response data via the internet to reduce paper and
the NRFU universe.
Contact Strategies for Mailing Materials
``Contact strategies for mailing materials'' refers to all attempts
by the Census Bureau to make direct contact with individual households
by mail. Types of contact strategies include invitation letters,
postcards, and questionnaires mailed to households.
A primary objective of the 2020 Census is for a majority of self-
respondents to complete their census questionnaire online. An approach
called ``Internet First,'' in which the first mailing includes an
invitation to respond to the census online, has been developed for TEA
1 areas to encourage respondents to use the internet. Subsequent
mailings will be reminders to respond to the census online, until all
remaining nonresponding households in the internet First areas receive
a paper questionnaire in the fourth mailing. In TEA 1 areas with low
internet coverage or connectivity or other characteristics that may
make it less likely the respondents will complete the census
questionnaire online, the ``Internet Choice'' contact strategy will be
designated for use instead. This strategy includes both an invitation
to complete the census online and a paper questionnaire as part of the
first mailing. The Census Bureau anticipates about 20 percent of the
households in the self-response TEA will receive the internet Choice
treatment.
In summary, the contact strategies for mailing materials including
mailing date are outlined in the table below:
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Internet Self-Response Instrument
The internet application and all related support systems are
designed to handle the volume of responses that are expected to be
received by internet in the 2020 Census. It is imperative that the
application and systems service the scale of the operation in order to
ensure that users do not experience delays while completing the survey
or unavailability of the application. In addition, the internet
application and other associated systems were developed to adhere to
the highest standards of data security in order to ensure that all
respondent data are secure and confidential.
F. Census Questionnaire Assistance
The Census Questionnaire Assistance (CQA) operation has three
primary functions:
Provide questionnaire assistance by answering questions
about specific items on the census questionnaire or other frequently
asked questions about the census.
Provide an option for respondents to complete a census
interview over the telephone.
Provide outbound calling in support of Coverage
Improvement (discussed in the NRFU section below).
Respondents using the internet instrument will have the ability to
contact CQA by telephone when web-based self-service help tools cannot
answer their questions. Each of the 13 supported languages, including
English, will have its own toll-free number for callers. Respondents
calling the English and Spanish language lines will initially be
presented with a self-service Interactive Voice Response system,
offering an assortment of automated responses to Frequently Asked
Question information. At any time, respondents may opt to transfer to a
customer service representative, who is prepared to further assist and
enumerate them. All callers who need assistance in other languages will
be connected directly to an appropriately-skilled customer service
representative fluent in the language, based on the toll-free number
called.
G. Update Leave
The Update Leave (UL) operation is designed for areas where the
majority of housing units either do not have mail delivered to the
physical location of the housing unit or the mail delivery information
for the housing unit cannot be verified. Designated during TEA
delineation, UL can occur in geographic areas that:
Do not have city-style addresses.
Do not receive mail through city-style addresses.
Receive mail at post office boxes.
Have been affected by major disasters.
The purpose of the UL operation is to update the address and
feature data for the area assigned and to leave an internet Choice
questionnaire package at every housing unit identified to allow the
household to self-respond. Enumerators do not attempt to enumerate the
household in person at this point.
Occupants can respond online, using the ID printed on the
questionnaire, or they can fill out and mail back the paper
questionnaire. If they have questions or wish to respond on the
telephone, they can call the CQA number, which is provided in the
package.
The UL operation includes mailing a reminder letter and a reminder
postcard to addresses that are capable of receiving mail within the
areas designated for UL. These mailed materials include the ID for the
given address and the website address for the household to use in order
to respond online. As in TEA 1, where all materials are mailed to
housing units, any households that do not self-respond will be
contacted during the NRFU operation. Finally, the UL operation performs
a check on the quality of the address listing work (quality control
[QC]) on approximately 10 percent of the production workload.
H. Update Enumerate
The Update Enumerate (UE) operation is designated for areas where
the initial visit requires enumerating at the living quarters while
updating the address list. The majority of the operation will occur in
remote geographic areas that have unique challenges associated with
accessibility. UE can occur in the following geographic areas:
Remote Alaska.
Areas that were a part of the 2010 Census Remote UE
operation, such as northern parts of Maine and southeast Alaska.
Select American Indian areas that request to be enumerated
in person during the initial visit.
Note that the areas included in the 2010 Census Remote Update
Enumerate operation might be delineated into TEA 1 or TEA 6 for the
2020 Census, based on changes in address type or mailability.
In the UE operation, field staff update the address and feature
data and enumerate respondents in person. The address and feature data
are updated on paper address registers and paper maps. The enumeration
is collected on paper questionnaires. Field staff conducting UE follow
a specific contact strategy for the remote locations and conduct any
needed follow-up. The UE operation will promote the quality of the
address work and of the enumeration data by having staff work in pairs
and by supervisors reviewing all data collected for completion and any
anomalies. Supervisors will rework an area to collect geographic and/or
enumeration data when necessary to improve the
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quality of the collected data. Formalized, separate Listing QC and
Reinterview operations will not be conducted for the operation in 2020.
I. Non-ID Processing
For the 2020 Census, respondents will be encouraged, but not
required, to use the Census Bureau's preassigned ID for the living
quarters. Within the internet instrument, and, consequently, within
CQA, it will be possible for respondents to submit their census
response without the preassigned ID. Non-ID Processing is the effort to
associate census responses that lack a Census ID with records included
on the Census Bureau's 2020 Census address frame. This processing can
occur through automated or clerical procedures. With the ISR instrument
collecting the response and address data, it will be possible to
perform automated processing to determine whether the address was
already included on the address frame and extracted from the MAF. For
those Non-ID responses not matched during automated processing, a
clerical operation will make a further attempt to match the address to
the 2020 Census address frame and validate nonmatching addresses. Some
of the clerical work may require contacting the respondent to help
determine a match or to verify the existence and location of the
address; this is known as Non-ID Processing Phone Followup. Any
nonmatching address whose existence and location cannot be verified by
the clerical Non-ID operation will become a Field Verification
assignment, handled as a component of the NRFU operation. Notably,
Field Verification is only an address verification effort and does not
include collection of the census questionnaire data.
J. Nonresponse Followup
The NRFU operation serves two primary purposes:
Determines or resolves housing unit status for addresses
included in the NRFU workload.
Enumerates housing units that are determined to have a
housing unit status of occupied.
The NRFU workload is comprised of addresses from a number of
sources, including:
Nonresponding addresses in TEAs 1 and 6.
Blank mail returns or mail returns otherwise deemed to be
too incomplete.
Addresses considered to represent new or recently
completed housing. These addresses are identified by the spring 2020
USPS Delivery Sequence File and other special efforts undertaken to
identify new housing around the time of the census--New Construction
and Housing Unit Count Review; addresses upheld in the Local Update of
Census Addresses appeals process; and potentially other addresses
determined to require follow-up after the initial enumeration universe
is established.
Addresses with a vacant status (reported as 0 occupants)
from internet Self-Response.
Field Verification cases.
Coverage Improvement cases.
Self-Response Quality Assurance cases.
The 2020 Census NRFU operation will be different from the NRFU
operation conducted in the 2010 Census. The Census Bureau will
implement a NRFU operational design that utilizes a combination of the
following:
Automation to facilitate data collection.
Administrative records and third-party data usage to
reduce the workload.
Reengineering of staffing and management of field
operations.
A Best-Time-to-Contact model to increase the likelihood of
making contact attempts when an enumerator will find people at home.
After giving the population in the United States and Puerto Rico an
opportunity to self-respond to the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau will
use the most cost-effective strategy for contacting and counting people
to ensure an accurate count.
During the NRFU operation, enumerators will visit each housing unit
designated for followup and determine whether the unit exists and then
the occupancy status of the unit on April 1, 2020. If the unit exists,
they complete an interview using an automated application on a
smartphone. The devices will use a secure Census Bureau-provided
enumeration application solution for conducting the NRFU field data
collection. Enumeration data and workload updates will be transmitted
between the NRFU instruments and response processing systems on a
regular basis. Various techniques will be used during NRFU to make the
data collection as efficient as possible. The number of allowed
attempts to contact will be controlled within the automated instrument,
and best-time-to-contact modeling will be used in the creation of the
daily assignments. Every case in the NRFU workload will initially have
a maximum of six unique contact days. (During the Closeout phase of the
operation, cases may receive additional attempts, as necessary, to
resolve incomplete cases.) After a third attempt to contact a household
does not yield a respondent, a case will become proxy-eligible. A proxy
is a neighbor, landlord, real estate agent, or other knowledgeable
person who can provide information about the unit and the people who
live there. An enumerator should attempt three proxies after each
noninterview for a proxy-eligible case.
In addition to the initial in-person contact attempt, these
addresses will also receive a final mailing that encourages occupants
to self-respond to the 2020 Census. If the initial in-person contact
attempt was unsuccessful, the Census Bureau will use administrative
records for the unit status or as the household response data when it
has high-quality administrative records from trusted sources.
Undeliverable-as-Addressed information from the USPS will serve as the
primary administrative records source for the identification of vacant
addresses and addresses that do not exist. Examples of sources of
administrative records and third-party data used to enumerate occupied
housing units include IRS Individual Tax Returns, IRS Information
Returns, and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Statistics Medicare
Enrollment Database. Addresses will also be removed from the workload
throughout the course of the NRFU operation as self-responses continue
to be received.
Early NRFU
Early NRFU occurs in areas where there are high concentrations of
college students living in off-campus housing who are unlikely to be
present during the scheduled dates for regular NRFU. The enumeration
procedures for early NRFU are the same as regular NRFU, but just
conducted at an earlier time to accommodate the schedules of select
colleges and universities. Any early NRFU addresses that are unresolved
by the start of NRFU will receive additional field attempts during
regular NRFU.
NRFU Reinterview
The NRFU Reinterview program will check the quality of the work
done by enumerators in NRFU. A sample of approximately 5 percent of
NRFU interviews will be selected for verification through NRFU
Reinterview. The NRFU Reinterview program involves conducting an
independent field reinterview for selected cases to verify that an
enumerator conducted the interview and followed procedures. The NRFU
Reinterview interviewer/enumerator always attempts to contact the
respondent from the original interview, which may be a household
member, neighbor, or some other proxy. If the original respondent
confirms that
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he/she was contacted and an enumerator conducted the original
interview, the NRFU Reinterview interviewer/enumerator collects roster
names and ends the interview. If the respondent was not contacted or
does not know if an enumerator conducted the original interview, the
NRFU Reinterview interviewer/enumerator conducts a full interview with
the respondent.
During the early weeks of NRFU, enumerators will conduct interviews
with multiunit structure managers to determine the occupancy status of
nonresponding units within the multiunit structure. This Manager Visit
(MV) allows enumerators to identify several units as vacant or delete
without having to attempt each unit individually. Enumerators have a
maximum of two unique contact days to complete the MV cases. The MV
Reinterview program will check the quality of work done by enumerators
during the MV and will target MVs with high numbers of vacant and
delete unit statuses. During the MV Reinterview, the enumerator will
ask to speak to the manager from the original MV interview. If the
respondent confirms that he/she was contacted and an enumerator
conducted the original interview, the MV RI enumerator asks about a
subset of the list checked during the MV. If the respondent was not
contacted or does not know if an enumerator conducted the original MV
interview, the MV Reinterview enumerator conducts a full interview and
asks about the entire list during the MV.
The NRFU universe also includes cases from Non-ID Processing that
were not able to be matched to the address frame. As discussed in the
Non-ID section, these are Field Verification (FV) cases, where the
enumerators attempt to locate the address in question and collect its
Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. A sample of the FV cases
is selected for verification through FV QC. Since FV cases only require
an enumerator to determine the existence of an address and will not
require an interview with a respondent, the FV QC program will consist
of an independent check of the production enumerators where the FV QC
enumerator will conduct the same procedures as the FV enumerator. FV
cases, along with their QC component, have a maximum of one field
contact day.
The Coverage Improvement operation resolves categories of erroneous
enumerations (people counted in the wrong place or counted more than
once) and omissions (people who were missed) identified through
collected enumeration data. The Coverage Improvement operation will
attempt to resolve these issues from both self-response and NRFU
responses. All cases that are selected for Coverage Improvement with a
valid phone number will be subject to an interview attempt by a CQA
Customer Service Representative. The workload identified for the
Coverage Improvement operation will be responses where a household
enumeration shows a difference between the answer for the number of
people within the household and the number of people enumerated, and
answers to coverage questions in the initial enumeration that reflect
potential coverage errors. Automation and the internet self-response
option should reduce the prevalence of these types of respondent errors
as compared to the 2010 Census, which was completed almost entirely on
paper questionnaires.
Self-Response Quality Assurance cases are generated as part of the
quality assurance efforts for self-response. This re-collection of the
enumeration data will also be worked within NRFU.
K. Group Quarters
The 2020 Census Group Quarters (GQ) operation will enumerate people
living or staying in group quarters 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.
The 2020 Census GQ operation consists of the following components:
In-Office GQ Advance Contact.
GQ Enumeration.
Service-Based Enumeration.
Military Enumeration.
Maritime Vessel (Shipboard) Enumeration.
In-Office GQ Advance Contact
The In-Office GQ Advance Contact is an in-office activity conducted
in the area census offices. Preferred dates, times, methods of
enumeration, and expected population on Census Day will be collected.
Special instructions or concerns related to privacy, confidentiality,
and security will also be addressed.
GQ Enumeration
The GQ Enumeration will cover all 50 states, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico. An additional late GQ enumeration phase
allows for the stakeholder identification and enumeration of group
quarters that may have been missed during the earlier time frame. The
primary method of conducting in-person enumeration of people residing
in group quarters will be by using the Individual Census Questionnaire
as the paper data collection instrument. In-person interviewing is
planned for all group quarter types that are part of the field
enumeration workload.
GQ Enumeration--eResponse Data Transfer
eResponse uses electronic data transfer from GQ administrators to
the Census Bureau. Client-level data from systems maintained by GQ
Administrators can be transferred to a standardized Census Bureau
system that will accept electronically submitted data in a standardized
template. These data will be accepted in lieu of use of the Individual
Census Questionnaire if data are deemed to be of sufficiently high
quality and completeness.
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
nonsheltered 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.
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 for the State Coalition of the
``National Coalition Against Domestic Violence'' to participate in the
2020 Census Group
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Quarters Update Program to create a comprehensive and current address
listing for domestic violence shelters. These special procedures are
designed to protect the safety and security of respondents being
enumerated at these locations.
Military Enumeration and Maritime Vessel Enumeration
Military Enumeration involves enumeration of people living in GQs
or barracks on stateside military installations or military vessels.
Military installations are fenced, secured areas used for military
purposes. An important feature of the military enumeration operation is
that it includes both group quarters and housing units. 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. See part Q for
methods we will use to count overseas military.
L. Paper Data Capture
The Paper Data Capture operation scans and converts data from 2020
Census paper questionnaires. Core sources for the Paper Data Capture
operation include housing unit self-response questionnaires mailed back
by respondents and Group Quarters Individual Census Reports. The Census
Bureau's in-house Integrated Computer Assisted Data Entry system is
used to capture paper responses from questionnaires. Each write-in and
checkbox data field is data-captured, and Optical Character Recognition
and Optical Mark Recognition are performed. If Key From Image is needed
for forms that cannot be processed through Optical Character
Recognition or Optical Mark Recognition, staff are presented the image
of the page and are able to clarify, correct, or add to what was
captured. The Census Bureau maintains the data, images of the forms,
and the paper forms themselves until confirmation that the data have
been correctly captured, at which point the paper forms are sent to
destruction while the data and images are retained. The Census Bureau
maintains the images for archiving purposes until such time as the
National Archiving and Records Administration takes possession of the
images for permanent archiving.
M. Response Processing
The Response Processing Operation (RPO) supports the three major
components of the 2020 Census: Pre-data collection activities, data
collection activities, and post-data collection activities.
Specifically, the operation supports the following activities:
Pre-Data Collection
Create and distribute the initial 2020 Census enumeration
universe of living quarters.
Assign the specific enumeration strategy for each living
quarter based on case status and associated paradata.
Data Collection
Create and distribute workload files required for
enumeration operations.
Track case enumeration status.
Check for suspicious returns.
Post-Data Collection
Run post-data collection processing actions in preparation
for producing the final 2020 Census results.
N. Redistricting Data Program
The purpose of the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program (RDP) is
to provide to each state the legally required redistricting data
tabulations by the mandated deadline of one year from Census Day: April
1, 2021. In compliance with Public Law (Pub. L.) 94-171, the Census
Bureau will tabulate for each state the total population counts by race
and Hispanic origin. The Census Bureau will tabulate these counts for
the total population and for the population age 18 and over in a
prototype redistricting data file released as part of the 2018 End-to-
End Census Test. The Census Bureau intends to work with stakeholders,
specifically ``the officers or public bodies having initial
responsibility for the legislative apportionment of each state,'' to
solicit feedback on the content of the prototype redistricting data
file. If those stakeholders indicate a need for tabulations of
citizenship data on the 2020 Census Public Law 94-171 Redistricting
Data File, the Census Bureau will make a design change to include
citizenship as part of that data. That new design would then be
published in the Federal Register after it is completed in the summer
of 2019. The Census Bureau will also tabulate housing unit counts by
occupancy status (occupied or vacant) and provide total population
counts for group quarters by group quarters type. For the prototype and
for the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Files, the Census Bureau will
provide these tabulations for a variety of standard census geographic
areas including state, county, place, tract, and tabulation block. If
states provide their congressional, legislative, and voting district
boundaries through the Redistricting Data Program, the Census Bureau
will also provide the tabulations for these areas. Tabulations by
congressional, legislative, and voting districts will be available for
the 50 states; equivalent tabulations will be available for the
District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
This program has a separate OMB clearance number. There is more
detail about this program in Federal Register Notice ``Redistricting
Data Program,'' July 26, 2018, (Vol. 83, No. 144, pp. 35458-35460. FR
Doc No. 2018-15972).
O. Data Products and Dissemination
The Data Products and Dissemination (DPD) operation performs three
primary functions:
Prepare and deliver the 2020 Census apportionment data for
the President of the United States to provide to Congress by December
31, 2020.
Tabulate 2020 Census data products for use by the states
for redistricting.
Tabulate and disseminate 2020 Census data for use by the
public.
The DPD operation produces information required by Public Law to
satisfy apportionment and redistricting requirements. Title 13, U.S.
Code (U.S.C.) requires that the apportionment population counts be
delivered to the Office of the President within nine months of the
census date. Apportionment counts are based on the Census Unedited
File, the Federally Affiliated Overseas Personnel and Dependents Count
File, and a geographic file of state changes. For the 2020 Census, the
census date is April 1, 2020, and the President will receive the counts
by December 31, 2020.
The DPD operation is also responsible for the production and
dissemination of many data products, including national and state
summary files, tabulated informational files, and data comparison
tables. This includes electronic and printed products that cover
population and housing unit tabulations, geographical maps, and
products specific to the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam,
American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands).
The Center for Enterprise Dissemination Services and Consumer
Innovation initiative is responsible for developing enterprise
dissemination requirements. DPD is conducting a thorough review of the
past product design (cross-tabulations and iterations of
characteristics), while also looking to ensure that users can find data
after the 2020 Census quickly and easily. The Census Bureau will
undertake a thorough analysis of the proposed 2020 Census data products
in keeping with our sworn obligation to protect
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respondents' data as data stewards under Title 13. Federal Register
Notice ``Soliciting Feedback from Users on 2020 Census Data Products,''
July 19, 2018 (Vol. 83, pp. 34111--34112, FR Doc No. 2018-15458) was
published with a 60-day comment period. It requested feedback from
users on specific tables and geographic detail for decennial census
products such as Summary File 1, Summary File 2, and the Demographic
Profile. The last day to provide comment on the notice was September
17, 2018. Subsequently, this notice was reopened for an additional 60-
day comment period on October 9, 2018 (Vol. 83, p. 50636, FR Doc No.
2018-21837). The last day to provide comments on this notice was
November 8, 2018. The final suite of 2020 Census data products will be
determined in the summer of 2019.
P. Archiving
The Archiving (ARC) Operation performs the following functions:
Coordinates storage of the materials and data and provides
records deemed permanent as the official data of the 2020 Census,
including files containing the individual responses to the 2020 Census,
to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Provides similar files to the Census Bureau's National
Processing Center in Indiana to use as source materials to conduct the
Age Search Service.
Stores data to cover in-house needs.
Q. Federally Affiliated Count Overseas
The Federally Affiliated Count Overseas operation obtains counts by
home state of United States military and federal civilian employees who
are stationed or assigned overseas and their dependents living with
them. For the 2020 Census, overseas is defined as anywhere outside the
50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas:
American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and
the United States Virgin Islands. Counts are submitted from Federal
agencies and the Department of Defense (Defense Manpower Data Command)
through a Census Bureau secure server and are used to allocate the
federally affiliated population living overseas to their home state for
the purposes of apportioning seats in the U.S. House of
Representatives. If military and federal civilian employees of the U.S.
government are deployed overseas while stationed or assigned within the
U.S., they are counted at their U.S. residence where they live or sleep
most of the time using administrative data provided by Federal agencies
and the Department of Defense. See Section K for more info on how we
count stateside military personnel.
R. Island Areas Censuses
The purpose of the Island Areas Censuses (IAC) operation is to
enumerate all residents of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands;
process and tabulate the collected data; and disseminate data products
to the public. All data collection activities for the IAC will rely on
the use of paper questionnaires, paper maps, and paper address
registers to record the physical addresses of housing units and group
quarters. The IAC questionnaire will leverage the American Community
Survey questionnaire with minor wording changes in order to take into
account the Island Areas local governments' concerns, where possible.
Enumerators will list the addresses using paper address registers.
Once the addresses have been listed, enumerators will visit every
living quarter to conduct interviews with household members and follow
up as necessary. The IAC will perform a clerical review of all
completed questionnaires for completeness and data consistency, a
reinterview for a sample of questionnaires, and an independent address
check. The response data will be processed through the Decennial
Response Processing System. Data products will include counts of the
population and housing units, data profiles, subject tables, ranking
tables, and supplemental tables.
S. Evaluations and Experiments
The Census Bureau is not currently planning a separate package for
the Evaluations and Experiments program, as has been done in past
censuses. For the 2020 Census, these evaluations and experiments will
be described either as Substantive Changes to this package, to the
Census Bureau's Post-Enumeration Survey Independent Listing and QC OMB
package, or within the Generic Clearance for Decennial Census Field
Tests and Evaluations, covered under 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.
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. You may also submit comments and
recommendations to 2020_Census_Comments@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395-
5806. All comments received are part of the public record and will be
posted to https://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.
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