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2019, 10:30 a.m. ET.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
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Title: 2020 Census Post-Enumeration
Survey Person Interview and Person
Followup.
OMB Control Number: 0607–XXXX.
Form Number(s): D–1301, D–
1301(PR), D–1400, D–1400(S), D–1709,
D–1709(S), D–1409(E/S), D–1609(E/S).
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Number of Respondents: 293,250.
This includes 190,000 housing units for
Person Interview, 28,500 housing units
for Person Interview Reinterview,
65,000 housing units for Person
Followup, and 9,750 housing units for
Person Followup Reinterview.
Average Hours per Response: 15
minutes.
Burden Hours: 73,313 hours.
Needs and Uses:
The Post-Enumeration Survey (PES)
for the 2020 Census will be conducted
to provide estimates of census net
coverage error and components of
census coverage (such as correct
enumerations, omissions, and erroneous
enumerations, including duplicates) for
housing units and people living in
housing units to improve future
censuses. The primary sampling unit is
the Basic Collection Unit, which is the
smallest unit of collection geography for
2020 Census listing operations. As in
the past, including the 2020 Census
Coverage Measurement program, the
Post-Enumeration Survey operations
and activities must be conducted
separate from and independent of the
other 2020 Census operations.
The 2020 PES will use the dualsystem estimation procedure, which
depends on two independent systems of
measurement. The independence
between the PES and census operations
is a fundamental necessity for dualsystem estimation. The PES will
comprise two independent
enumerations of housing units and the
household population within the same
sample areas. These two enumerations
are called the enumeration sample (E
sample) and the population sample (P
sample). The E sample contains the list
of housing units and people enumerated
in the 2020 Census within a sample of
BCUs. The P sample contains housing
units and people in the sample set of
sample BCUs, but obtained
independently from the census. The
independent roster of housing units is
obtained during the PES Independent
Listing, while the independent roster of
people is obtained during the PES
Person Interview. The P sample housing
units and people will be matched to all
census housing units in the sample
BCUs and surrounding BCUs.
The results of the housing unit
matching operations will be used to
determine which PES and census
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addresses will be eligible to go to the
PES Person Followup operation. The
Person Followup operation will contain
approximately 190,000 sample
addresses. The Person Interview
Reinterview operation will be a sample
of those cases with an estimate 28,500
sample addresses.
The computer-assisted PES Person
Followup instrument will collect the
following information for the housing
units included in this operation:
1. Roster of people living at the
housing unit at the time of the PES
Person Followup operation.
2. Census Day (April 1, 2020) address
information for people who moved into
the sample address since Census Day.
3. Other addresses where a person
may have been counted on Census Day.
4. Information to determine where
each person should have been counted
on Census Day (according to Census
residence criteria). For example,
interviewers will probe for people who
might have been left off the household
roster, ask additional questions about
people who moved from another
address on Census Day to the sample
address, and collect additional
information for people with multiple
addresses.
5. Demographic information for each
person in the household on Interview
Day or Census Day. These data items
include name, date of birth, age, sex,
Hispanic origin, race, and relationship
to the householder.
6. Name and above information for
any person who has moved out of the
sample address since Census Day (if
known).
7. Tenure of the household or address
status for unoccupied housing units.
The PES Person Interview
Reinterview is a quality control
operation that will be conducted on
about 15 percent of the PES Person
Interview cases. The purpose of the PES
Person Interview Reinterview is to
confirm that the PES Person Interview
interviewer conducted a PES Person
Interview with a household member or
a proxy respondent and to conduct the
complete PES Person Interview as
needed if the original interview seems
questionable.
For each case identified during
matching with discrepancies between
the PES Person Followup operation and
census, the Census Bureau will conduct
a PES Person Followup operation for
selected people in the household.
During the PES Person Followup
operation, interviewers will use paper
questionnaires to obtain information
about the selected people. The PES
Person Followup operation will collect
the information needed to determine
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where each selected person should be
counted on Census Day (according to
2020 Census residence rules). For
example, interviewers will probe for
additional addresses where the person
may have stayed during the year and
dates of stay for each address.
The PES Person Followup
Reinterview is a quality control
operation that will be conducted on
about 15 percent of the PES PFU cases.
The purpose of the PES Person
Followup Reinterview is to confirm that
the PES Person Followup interviewer
conducted a PES Person Followup
interview with a household member or
a proxy respondent and to conduct the
complete PES Person Followup
interview as needed if the original
interview seems questionable.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Frequency: One Time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S. Code,
Sections 141 and 193.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Economic Development Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Semi-Annual and
Annual Data Collection Instruments for
Economic Development Administration
Grantees (Non-Infrastructure
Programs)
Economic Development
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on the
proposed information collections, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
SUMMARY:
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Written comments must be
submitted on or before January 13, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written
comments, requests for additional
information, or requests for copies of the
proposed information collection
instrument and instructions to Ksenia
Shadrina, Lead Performance and
Program Evaluation Analyst,
Performance and National Programs
Division, Economic Development
Administration U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Mail Stop 71030, Washington, DC
20230, or via email at KShadrina@
eda.gov or PRAcomments@doc.gov. All
comments received are part of the
public record. 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.
All comments submitted in response
to this notice are a part of the public
record and will be made available to the
public, which may include posting them
on the Regulations.gov website.
Comments will generally be posted
without change. Please do not include
information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information
or proprietary information. All
Personally Identifiable Information (for
example, name and address) voluntarily
submitted may be publicly accessible. If
you send an email comment, your email
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
that is placed in the public docket.
Please note that comments that include
a message stating the confidentiality of
the communication will be treated as
public comments and will be made
available to the public.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
I. Abstract
The Economic Development
Administration (EDA) leads the Federal
economic development agenda by
promoting innovation and
competitiveness, preparing American
regions for growth and success in the
worldwide economy. The Public Works
and Economic Development Act of 1965
(PWEDA) (42 U.S.C. 3121 et seq.) is
EDA’s organic authority and is the
primary legal authority under which
EDA awards grants. Under PWEDA,
EDA provides financial assistance to
both rural and urban distressed
communities by fostering
entrepreneurship, innovation and
productivity through investments in
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infrastructure development, capacity
building and business development in
order to attract private capital
investments and new and better jobs to
regions experiencing substantial and
persistent economic distress.
EDA’s expansive portfolio of
programs, the changing economy, and
advances in the field of program
evaluation make updates to EDA’s
methods for performance measurement
and program evaluation necessary in
order to ensure transparency,
accountability, and effectiveness of EDA
investments. The recently passed
Foundations for Evidence-Based
Policymaking Act of 2018 (Pub. L. 115–
435) further emphasizes the importance
of updating existing methodologies for
performance measurement and program
evaluation to align with evolving best
practices.
EDA proposes revising Forms ED–
916, ED–917, and ED–918, which are
currently used to collect limited
performance information on sponsored
activities and resulting outcomes from
the grantees receiving assistance under
just three of EDA’s non-infrastructure
programs: Partnership Planning,
University Center, and the Trade and
Adjustment Assistance for Firms,
respectively. The revised Forms ED–
916, ED–917, and ED–918 would
instead comprehensively cover all of
EDA’s non-infrastructure programs:
Economic Adjustment Assistance (noninfrastructure projects), including new
Revolving Loan Funds; Planning; Local
Technical Assistance, including
University Centers; Regional Innovation
Strategies; Research and National
Technical Assistance; and Trade
Adjustment Assistance for Firms. The
data on program-sponsored activities
and associated outcomes will be
collected on semi-annual and annual
bases, respectively.
The revised data collection
instruments were developed through
cooperative agreements with a number
of leading research institutions, most
notably SRI International. The
methodology and applications for the
instruments are described in the
Innovative Metrics for Economic
Development report and Toolkit for
Economic Development Practitioners
that are available on EDA’s website at
www.eda.gov/performance/.
EDA does not propose to revise the
remaining fourth form under this
information collection, Form ED–915,
which is used to collect information on
infrastructure and existing revolving
loan fund (RLF) projects funded through
awards from EDA’s Public works and
Economic Adjustment Assistance
programs. Form ED–915 would instead
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: 2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey Person Interview and
Person Followup.
OMB Control Number: 0607-XXXX.
Form Number(s): D-1301, D-1301(PR), D-1400, D-1400(S), D-1709, D-
1709(S), D-1409(E/S), D-1609(E/S).
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Number of Respondents: 293,250. This includes 190,000 housing units
for Person Interview, 28,500 housing units for Person Interview
Reinterview, 65,000 housing units for Person Followup, and 9,750
housing units for Person Followup Reinterview.
Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes.
Burden Hours: 73,313 hours.
Needs and Uses:
The Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) for the 2020 Census will be
conducted to provide estimates of census net coverage error and
components of census coverage (such as correct enumerations, omissions,
and erroneous enumerations, including duplicates) for housing units and
people living in housing units to improve future censuses. The primary
sampling unit is the Basic Collection Unit, which is the smallest unit
of collection geography for 2020 Census listing operations. As in the
past, including the 2020 Census Coverage Measurement program, the Post-
Enumeration Survey operations and activities must be conducted separate
from and independent of the other 2020 Census operations.
The 2020 PES will use the dual-system estimation procedure, which
depends on two independent systems of measurement. The independence
between the PES and census operations is a fundamental necessity for
dual-system estimation. The PES will comprise two independent
enumerations of housing units and the household population within the
same sample areas. These two enumerations are called the enumeration
sample (E sample) and the population sample (P sample). The E sample
contains the list of housing units and people enumerated in the 2020
Census within a sample of BCUs. The P sample contains housing units and
people in the sample set of sample BCUs, but obtained independently
from the census. The independent roster of housing units is obtained
during the PES Independent Listing, while the independent roster of
people is obtained during the PES Person Interview. The P sample
housing units and people will be matched to all census housing units in
the sample BCUs and surrounding BCUs.
The results of the housing unit matching operations will be used to
determine which PES and census addresses will be eligible to go to the
PES Person Followup operation. The Person Followup operation will
contain approximately 190,000 sample addresses. The Person Interview
Reinterview operation will be a sample of those cases with an estimate
28,500 sample addresses.
The computer-assisted PES Person Followup instrument will collect
the following information for the housing units included in this
operation:
1. Roster of people living at the housing unit at the time of the
PES Person Followup operation.
2. Census Day (April 1, 2020) address information for people who
moved into the sample address since Census Day.
3. Other addresses where a person may have been counted on Census
Day.
4. Information to determine where each person should have been
counted on Census Day (according to Census residence criteria). For
example, interviewers will probe for people who might have been left
off the household roster, ask additional questions about people who
moved from another address on Census Day to the sample address, and
collect additional information for people with multiple addresses.
5. Demographic information for each person in the household on
Interview Day or Census Day. These data items include name, date of
birth, age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, and relationship to the
householder.
6. Name and above information for any person who has moved out of
the sample address since Census Day (if known).
7. Tenure of the household or address status for unoccupied housing
units.
The PES Person Interview Reinterview is a quality control operation
that will be conducted on about 15 percent of the PES Person Interview
cases. The purpose of the PES Person Interview Reinterview is to
confirm that the PES Person Interview interviewer conducted a PES
Person Interview with a household member or a proxy respondent and to
conduct the complete PES Person Interview as needed if the original
interview seems questionable.
For each case identified during matching with discrepancies between
the PES Person Followup operation and census, the Census Bureau will
conduct a PES Person Followup operation for selected people in the
household. During the PES Person Followup operation, interviewers will
use paper questionnaires to obtain information about the selected
people. The PES Person Followup operation will collect the information
needed to determine
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where each selected person should be counted on Census Day (according
to 2020 Census residence rules). For example, interviewers will probe
for additional addresses where the person may have stayed during the
year and dates of stay for each address.
The PES Person Followup Reinterview is a quality control operation
that will be conducted on about 15 percent of the PES PFU cases. The
purpose of the PES Person Followup Reinterview is to confirm that the
PES Person Followup interviewer conducted a PES Person Followup
interview with a household member or a proxy respondent and to conduct
the complete PES Person Followup interview as needed if the original
interview seems questionable.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Frequency: One Time.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 141 and 193.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce
collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2019-24587 Filed 11-8-19; 8:45 am]
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