Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Household Pulse Survey, 67865 [2022-24575]

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• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• U.s. Census Bureau

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 217 (Thursday, November 10, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 67865]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-24575]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

U.S. Census Bureau


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Household Pulse Survey

    On September 12, 2022, the Department of Commerce received 
clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to conduct Phase 3.6 of the 
Household Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607-1013, Exp. 10/31/23). The 
Household Pulse Survey was designed to meet a need for timely 
information associated with household experiences during the Covid-19 
pandemic. The Department is committed to ensuring that the data 
collected by the Household Pulse Survey continue to meet information 
needs as they may evolve over the course of the pandemic. This notice 
serves to inform of the Department's intent to request clearance from 
OMB to make some revisions to the Household Pulse Survey questionnaire. 
To ensure that the data collected by the Household Pulse Survey 
continue to meet information needs as they evolve over the course of 
the pandemic, the Census Bureau submits this Request for Revision to an 
Existing Collection for a revised Phase 3.7 questionnaire.
    Phase 3.7 includes new questions on changes in travel and spending 
due to increasing prices, school meals, displacement due to natural 
disaster, receipt/loss of Medicaid coverage, and a question that asks 
certain respondents if they are not working due to coronavirus, natural 
disaster, or another reason. There are also modifications to existing 
vaccine booster, children's vaccine booster, infant formula, reasons 
not working, and inflation items. Several questions will be removed for 
Phase 3.7, including replaced children's vaccine booster items, and 
questions about educational catch-up activities and the receipt of 
antiviral/antibody treatments.
    It is the Department's intention to commence data collection using 
the revised instrument on or about December 7, 2022. The Department 
invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on 
proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us assess 
the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the 
public's reporting burden. Public comments were previously sought on 
the Household Pulse Survey via the Federal Register on May 19, 2020, 
June 3, 2020, February 1, 2021, April 13, 2021, June 24, 2021, October 
26, 2021, January 24, 2022, April 18, 2022, and July 2, 2022. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments on the 
proposed revisions.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
    Title: Household Pulse Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-1013.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved 
Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 136,779.
    Average Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
    Burden Hours: 45,137.
    Needs and Uses: Data produced by the Household Pulse Survey are 
designed to inform on a range of topics related to households' 
experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics to date have included 
employment, facility to telework, travel patterns, income loss, 
spending patterns, food and housing security, amount of monthly rent 
and changes in monthly rent, access to benefits, mental health and 
access to care, difficulty with self-care and communicating, intent to 
receive the COVID-19 vaccine/booster, timing of coronavirus testing, 
use of coronavirus treatments, the experience of long COVID, post-
secondary educational disruption, access to infant formula, the effects 
of increasing prices, natural disasters, and school meals for children. 
The requested revision, if approved by OMB, will remove selected items 
from the questions for which utility has declined and add questions 
based on information needs expressed via public comment and in consult 
with other Federal agencies. The overall burden change to the public 
will be insignificant.
    The Household Pulse Survey was initially launched in April, 2020 as 
an experimental project (see https://www.census.gov/data/experimental-data-products.html) under emergency clearance from the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) initially granted April 19, 2020; regular 
clearance was subsequently sought and approved by OMB on October 30, 
2020 (OMB No. 0607-1013; Exp. 10/30/2023).
    Affected Public: Households.
    Frequency: Households will be selected once to participate in a 20-
minute survey.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 182 
and 196.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0607-1013.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-24575 Filed 11-9-22; 8:45 am]
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