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three age-based topical sets of questions.
The second mode is a mailout/mailback
of a self-administered paper-and-pencil
interviewing (PAPI) screener instrument
followed by a separate mailout/mailback
of a PAPI age-based topical instrument.
The National Survey of Children’s
Health (NSCH) is a large-scale (sample
size is up to 385,000 addresses) national
survey with approximately 200,000
addresses included in the base
production survey and approximately
185,000 addresses included as part of
fifteen separate age-based, state-based,
or region-based oversamples. The 2023
NSCH will include a topical incentive
test. Prior cycles of the survey have
included a $5 unconditional cash
incentive with the initial mailing of the
paper topical questionnaire. The
incentive has proven to be a costeffective intervention for increasing
survey response and reducing
nonresponse bias. The 2023 NSCH will
continue to test a $10 cash incentive,
with a focus on lower responding
households.
As in prior cycles of the NSCH, there
remain two key, non-experimental
design elements. The first additional
non-experimental design element is a $5
screener cash incentive mailed to 90%
of sampled addresses; the remaining
10% (the control) will receive no
incentive to monitor the effectiveness of
the cash incentive. This incentive is
designed to increase response and
reduce nonresponse bias. The incentive
amount was chosen based on the results
of the 2022 NSCH as well as funding
availability. The second additional nonexperimental design element is a data
collection procedure based on the block
group-level paper-only response
probability used to identify households
(30% of the sample) that would be more
likely to respond by paper and send
them a paper questionnaire in the initial
mailing.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: The 2023 collection is the
eighth administration of the NSCH. It is
an annual survey, with a new sample
drawn for each administration.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Census Authority:
Title 13, United States Code (U.S.C.),
Section 8(b) (13 U.S.C. 8(b)).
HRSA MCHB Authority: Section
501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 701).
United States Department of
Agriculture Authority: Agriculture
Improvement Act of 2018, Public Law
115–334.
United States Department of Health
and Human Services’ Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
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National Center on Birth Defects and
Developmental Disabilities Authority:
Public Health Service Act, Section 301,
42 U.S.C. 241.
United States Department of Health
and Human Services’ Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion
Authority: Sections 301(a), 307, and
399G of the Public Health Service [42
U.S.C. 241(a), 242l, and 280e–11], as
amended.
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 0607–0990.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; The American Community
Survey and Puerto Rico Community
Survey
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite 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 requested
via the Federal Register on September
13, 2022 during a 60-day comment
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period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: The American Community
Survey and the Puerto Rico Community
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0810.
Form Number(s): ACS–1, ACS–1(SP),
ACS–1(PR), ACS–1(PR)SP, ACS–1(GQ),
ACS–1(PR)(GQ), GQFQ, ACS CAPI
(HU), ACS RI (HU), AGQ QI, and AGQ
RI.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 3,576,000 for
household respondents; 20,100 for
contacts in group quarters; 170,900
people in group quarters; 22,875
households for reinterview; and 1,422
group quarters contacts for reinterview.
The total estimated number of
respondents is 3,791,297.
Average Hours per Response: 40
minutes for the average household
questionnaire; 15 minutes for a group
quarters facility questionnaire; 25
minutes for a group quarters person
questionnaire; 10 minutes for a
household reinterview; 10 minutes for a
group quarters-level reinterview.
Burden Hours: 2,384,000 for
household respondents; 5,025 for
contacts in group quarters; 71,208 for
group quarters residents; 3,813
households for reinterview; and 237
group quarters contacts for reinterview.
The estimate is an annual average of
2,464,283 burden hours.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census
Bureau requests authorization from the
OMB for revisions to the American
Community Survey (ACS). The ACS is
one of the Department of Commerce’s
most valuable data products, used
extensively by businesses,
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
local governments, and many federal
agencies. In conducting this survey, the
Census Bureau’s top priority is
respecting the time and privacy of the
people providing information while
preserving its value to the public.
In 2024, the ACS plans to add internet
self-response as an additional option to
the group quarters data collection
operation. The Census Bureau believes
there is value in offering a self-response
option to people living in certain types
of group quarters—college/university
student housing, group homes, military
barracks, workers’ group living quarters
and Job Corps centers, and emergency
and transitional shelters. The group
quarters data collection operation will
continue to offer paper, telephone, and
in-person response options to collect
data.
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The Census Bureau is authorized by
law (Title 13, U.S. Code) to use existing
information that has already been
collected by other government agencies,
whenever possible and consistent with
the kind, timeliness, quality, and scope
of the statistics required, instead of
asking for such information directly
from the public. The Census Bureau is
allowed to use these data for statistical
purposes only and may not use these
records for enforcement purposes or to
decide on eligibility for a benefit.
Additionally, Census Bureau research
has shown that using administrative
data can reduce respondent burden and
improve the quality of the ACS data. In
2024, the Census Bureau will
supplement or replace ACS survey data
for the question asking about property
acreage. The Census Bureau will
continue research to explore how
administrative data can be used for
other items on the survey, with initial
efforts focusing on other housing items,
such as agricultural sales and year built.
In addition to using administrative
records and in coordination with the
Office of Management and Budget
Interagency Committee for the ACS, the
Census Bureau solicited proposals for
question changes or additions from
more than 20 federal agencies.
Approved topics underwent cognitive
testing to verify that proposed question
wording would be understood by
respondents. Based on cognitive testing
results, the Census Bureau proposes to
update wording in 2024 for questions on
three topics: condominium fees, home
heating fuel, and journey to work. The
Census Bureau proposes to implement
these three topics without additional
testing; other topics are still undergoing
testing.
The condominium fees question
would be extended to include
homeowners association (HOA) fees.
Data sources continue to show housing
units that are part of HOAs outnumber
housing units in condominiums. In
order to provide more comprehensive
and accurate costs of owning a home,
the ACS needs to capture HOA fees for
these homes. Adding these fees to the
existing condominium fees question
avoids adding a new question to the
ACS and therefore minimizes
respondent burden.
The change to the home heating fuel
question would update the natural gas
and bottled gas categories. This will aid
respondents in identifying the correct
category more easily by using more
commonly used terminology. In Puerto
Rico, the question wording also changed
to indicate respondents should only
include fuel that heats their home.
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The journey to work question would
be updated to include ride-sharing
services as a mode of transportation to
work to account for new and growing
travel trends. This will reduce
ambiguity in the current question about
where respondents should report ridesharing commutes and will allow the
government to monitor changes in
transportation patterns for planning
purposes.
Since the 60-day Federal Register
Notice, Doc. 2022–19705, Volume 87,
pages 55990–55993 posted on
September 13, 2022, the Veterans
Administration requested the ACS
adjust the dates for the Vietnam War
and Korean War to reflect the dates that
they use for program evaluation (each
period would be adjusted by one
month). The Veterans Administration
also requested that ‘‘Post 9/11’’ be
added as a descriptor for the current
service period; that ‘‘Vietnam era’’ be
changed to ‘‘Vietnam War’’; and names
of war periods be moved to the end of
the date range for uniform appearance.
The Veterans Administration requested
that the date ranges use the word
‘‘through’’ instead of ‘‘to’’ for clarity.
The updated dates for period of service
will match the dates that the Veterans
Administration uses for program
evaluation as well as the official
historical dates of war periods
published by the Congressional
Research Service. Moving names of war
periods to the end of service categories
will create a more uniform appearance
of the question text, with dates listed
first for all periods.
The addition of White and Black or
African American write-in lines in the
race question led the Census Bureau to
research redundancies between data
collected from the improved race
question and the ancestry question.
Findings from this research may lead
the Census Bureau to recommend the
removal of the ancestry question from
the American Community Survey.
The Census Bureau developed the
ACS to collect and update demographic,
social, economic, and housing data
every year that are essentially the same
as the ‘‘long-form’’ data that the Census
Bureau formerly collected once a decade
as part of the decennial census. The
ACS blends the strength of small area
estimation with the high quality of
current surveys. The ACS is an ongoing
monthly survey that collects detailed
housing and socioeconomic data from
about 3.5 million addresses in the
United States and about 36,000
addresses in Puerto Rico each year. The
ACS also collects detailed
socioeconomic data from about 170,000
residents living in group quarters
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facilities in the United States and about
900 in Puerto Rico. The ACS is now the
only source of comparable data about
social, economic, housing, and
demographic characteristics for small
areas and small subpopulations across
the nation and in Puerto Rico. Every
community in the nation continues to
receive a detailed, statistical portrait of
its social, economic, housing, and
demographic characteristics each year
through one-year and five-year ACS
products.
To collect the ACS data, the Census
Bureau uses a multiple mode contact
strategy. These modes include mail,
internet, telephone, and personal visit.
To encourage self-response in the ACS,
the Census Bureau sends up to five
mailings to housing units selected to be
in the sample. The first mailing, sent to
all mailable addresses in the sample,
includes an invitation to participate in
the ACS online and states that a paper
questionnaire will be sent in a few
weeks to those unable to respond
online. The second mailing is a letter
that reminds respondents to complete
the survey online, thanks them if they
have already done so, and informs them
that a paper form will be sent at a later
date if the Census Bureau does not
receive their response. In a third
mailing, the questionnaire package is
sent only to those sample addresses that
have not completed the online
questionnaire within two and a half
weeks. The fourth mailing is a postcard
that reminds respondents to respond
and informs them that an interviewer
may contact them if they do not
complete the survey. A fifth mailing is
a letter sent to respondents who have
not completed the survey within five
weeks. This letter provides a due date
and reminds the respondents to return
their questionnaires to be removed from
future contact. The Census Bureau will
ask those who fill out the survey online
to provide an email address, which will
be used to send an email reminder to
households that did not complete the
online form. The reminder asks them to
log back in to finish responding to the
survey. If the Census Bureau does not
receive a response or if the household
refuses to participate, the address may
be selected for computer-assisted
personal interviewing, the nonresponse
follow-up data collection mode.
Some addresses are deemed
unmailable because the address is
incomplete or directs mail only to a post
office box. The Census Bureau currently
collects data for these housing units
using both online and computer-assisted
personal interviewing. A small sample
of respondents from the nonresponse
follow-up data collection interview are
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recontacted for quality assurance
purposes.
For sample housing units in the
Puerto Rico Community Survey, a
different mail strategy is employed. The
Census Bureau continues to use the
previously used mail strategy with no
references to an internet response
option. The Census Bureau sends up to
five mailings to a Puerto Rico address
selected to be in the sample. The first
mailing includes a prenotice letter. The
second and fourth mailings include the
paper survey. The third and fifth
mailings serve as a reminder to respond
to the survey. Puerto Rico addresses
deemed unmailable because the address
is incomplete or directs mail only to a
post office box are collected by
computer-assisted personal
interviewing. A small sample of
respondents from the nonresponse
follow-up data collection interview are
recontacted for quality assurance
purposes.
The Census Bureau uses a different
strategy to collect data from group
quarters. The Census Bureau defines
group quarters as places where people
live or stay, in a group living
arrangement that is owned or managed
by an entity or organization providing
housing and/or services for the
residents, such as college/university
student housing, residential treatment
centers, skilled nursing facilities, group
homes, military barracks, correctional
facilities, workers’ group living quarters
and Job Corps centers, and emergency
and transitional shelters. The Census
Bureau collects data for group quarters
primarily through personal interview.
The Census Bureau will obtain the
facility information by conducting a
personal visit interview with a group
quarters contact. During this interview,
the Census Bureau obtains roster of
residents and randomly selects them for
person-level interviews. During the
person-level phase, a field
representative uses a computer-assisted
personal interviewing instrument to
collect detailed information for each
sampled resident. Field representatives
also have the option to distribute a
bilingual (English/Spanish)
questionnaire to residents for selfresponse if unable to complete a
computer-assisted personal interviewing
interview. Beginning in 2024, residents
in some group quarters will have the
option to self-respond to the survey
online. A small sample of respondents
are recontacted for quality assurance
purposes.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: Monthly.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
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Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 141
and 193, and 221.
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 0607–0810.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
[FR Doc. 2023–04952 Filed 3–9–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[B–19–2023]
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 138,
Notification of Proposed Production
Activity; Intel Corporation;
(Semiconductor Products); New
Albany, Ohio
Intel Corporation submitted a
notification of proposed production
activity to the FTZ Board (the Board) for
its facility in New Albany, Ohio, within
Subzone 138I. The notification
conforming to the requirements of the
Board’s regulations (15 CFR 400.22) was
received on March 2, 2023.
Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ
production activity would be limited to
the specific foreign-status material(s)/
component(s) and specific finished
product(s) described in the submitted
notification (summarized below) and
subsequently authorized by the Board.
The benefits that may stem from
conducting production activity under
FTZ procedures are explained in the
background section of the Board’s
website—accessible via www.trade.gov/
ftz.
The proposed finished products
include semiconductor transducers,
electronic integrated circuit processors
and amplifiers, electronic memory
circuits, and electronic integrated
circuits (duty rates are duty-free).
The proposed foreign-status materials
and components include: methane
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(liquid; gas); chlorine; oxygen;
hydrogen; helium; xenon; nitrogen;
hydrochloric acid; hydrogen chloride;
nitric acid; phosphoric acid; phosphoric
acid based solution; hydrofluoric acid
(also known as hydrogen fluoride);
silicate reagent; hydrogen bromide;
carbon dioxide; silica; carbon
monoxide; dinitrogen monoxide (also
known as nitrous oxide); nitric oxide;
sulfur dioxide; boron trichloride;
dichlorosilane; silane; silicon
tetrachloride; chlorine trifluoride;
diiodosilane; nitrogen trifluoride;
anhydrous ammonia; ammonia;
potassium hydroxide; potassium
hydroxide based slurry; sulfur
hexafluoride gas; tungsten hexafluoride;
potassium hydroxide based slurry;
sulfur hexafluoride gas; tungsten
hexafluoride; titanium tetrachloride;
carbonyl sulfide; copper sulphate
solution; potassium chloride electrode
filling solution; cerium hydroxide based
slurry; hydrogen peroxide; disilane; noctane; ethyne (also known as
acetylene); hydrocarbon solution;
trifluoromethane; tetrafluoromethane
(also known as perfluoromethane);
hexafluoro-1,3-butadiene;
octafluorocyclobutane; isopropyl
alcohol; tert-butyl alcohol;
hexachlorodisilane; 2-heptanone;
cyclohexanone; cyclopentanone; butyl
acetate; propylene glycol monomethyl
ether acetate (PGMEA);
pentakis(dimethylamido)tantalum
powder;
tetrakis(methylethylamino)zirconium;
N-methylethanolamine solution;
tetramethylammonium hydroxide
developer solution;
bis(diethylamino)silane;
hexamethyldisilazane photoresist; N,Nbis(1-methylethyl)silanamine;
tetramethylsilane; trimethylaluminum;
trimethylsilane; butyrolactone;
potassium chloride based solution;
methyl 2-hydroxyisobutyrate based
photoresist solution; PGMEA based
photoresist solution; PGMEA based
undercoat material; polyglycerol
polymer based slurry; surfactant
solution; butoxyethanol based wafer
cleaning solution; ethanolamine based
wafer cleaning solution; 1hydroxyethane-1,1-diphosphonic acid
based wafer cleaning solution; bolt
release lubrication; acetic acid based
slurry; ammonium hydroxide based
slurry; amorphous silica based slurry;
cerium dioxide based slurry; potassium
hydroxide based slurry; silica based
slurry; tetraethylammonium hydroxide
based slurry; silica and phosphoric acid
based slurry; various mixtures
(photoresist chemicals; diborane and
argon; diborane and hydrogen; fluorine
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; The American Community Survey and Puerto Rico Community Survey
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite 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 requested via the
Federal Register on September 13, 2022 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: The American Community Survey and the Puerto Rico Community
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0810.
Form Number(s): ACS-1, ACS-1(SP), ACS-1(PR), ACS-1(PR)SP, ACS-
1(GQ), ACS-1(PR)(GQ), GQFQ, ACS CAPI (HU), ACS RI (HU), AGQ QI, and AGQ
RI.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 3,576,000 for household respondents; 20,100
for contacts in group quarters; 170,900 people in group quarters;
22,875 households for reinterview; and 1,422 group quarters contacts
for reinterview. The total estimated number of respondents is
3,791,297.
Average Hours per Response: 40 minutes for the average household
questionnaire; 15 minutes for a group quarters facility questionnaire;
25 minutes for a group quarters person questionnaire; 10 minutes for a
household reinterview; 10 minutes for a group quarters-level
reinterview.
Burden Hours: 2,384,000 for household respondents; 5,025 for
contacts in group quarters; 71,208 for group quarters residents; 3,813
households for reinterview; and 237 group quarters contacts for
reinterview. The estimate is an annual average of 2,464,283 burden
hours.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests authorization from
the OMB for revisions to the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS
is one of the Department of Commerce's most valuable data products,
used extensively by businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
local governments, and many federal agencies. In conducting this
survey, the Census Bureau's top priority is respecting the time and
privacy of the people providing information while preserving its value
to the public.
In 2024, the ACS plans to add internet self-response as an
additional option to the group quarters data collection operation. The
Census Bureau believes there is value in offering a self-response
option to people living in certain types of group quarters--college/
university student housing, group homes, military barracks, workers'
group living quarters and Job Corps centers, and emergency and
transitional shelters. The group quarters data collection operation
will continue to offer paper, telephone, and in-person response options
to collect data.
[[Page 14977]]
The Census Bureau is authorized by law (Title 13, U.S. Code) to use
existing information that has already been collected by other
government agencies, whenever possible and consistent with the kind,
timeliness, quality, and scope of the statistics required, instead of
asking for such information directly from the public. The Census Bureau
is allowed to use these data for statistical purposes only and may not
use these records for enforcement purposes or to decide on eligibility
for a benefit. Additionally, Census Bureau research has shown that
using administrative data can reduce respondent burden and improve the
quality of the ACS data. In 2024, the Census Bureau will supplement or
replace ACS survey data for the question asking about property acreage.
The Census Bureau will continue research to explore how administrative
data can be used for other items on the survey, with initial efforts
focusing on other housing items, such as agricultural sales and year
built.
In addition to using administrative records and in coordination
with the Office of Management and Budget Interagency Committee for the
ACS, the Census Bureau solicited proposals for question changes or
additions from more than 20 federal agencies. Approved topics underwent
cognitive testing to verify that proposed question wording would be
understood by respondents. Based on cognitive testing results, the
Census Bureau proposes to update wording in 2024 for questions on three
topics: condominium fees, home heating fuel, and journey to work. The
Census Bureau proposes to implement these three topics without
additional testing; other topics are still undergoing testing.
The condominium fees question would be extended to include
homeowners association (HOA) fees. Data sources continue to show
housing units that are part of HOAs outnumber housing units in
condominiums. In order to provide more comprehensive and accurate costs
of owning a home, the ACS needs to capture HOA fees for these homes.
Adding these fees to the existing condominium fees question avoids
adding a new question to the ACS and therefore minimizes respondent
burden.
The change to the home heating fuel question would update the
natural gas and bottled gas categories. This will aid respondents in
identifying the correct category more easily by using more commonly
used terminology. In Puerto Rico, the question wording also changed to
indicate respondents should only include fuel that heats their home.
The journey to work question would be updated to include ride-
sharing services as a mode of transportation to work to account for new
and growing travel trends. This will reduce ambiguity in the current
question about where respondents should report ride-sharing commutes
and will allow the government to monitor changes in transportation
patterns for planning purposes.
Since the 60-day Federal Register Notice, Doc. 2022-19705, Volume
87, pages 55990-55993 posted on September 13, 2022, the Veterans
Administration requested the ACS adjust the dates for the Vietnam War
and Korean War to reflect the dates that they use for program
evaluation (each period would be adjusted by one month). The Veterans
Administration also requested that ``Post 9/11'' be added as a
descriptor for the current service period; that ``Vietnam era'' be
changed to ``Vietnam War''; and names of war periods be moved to the
end of the date range for uniform appearance. The Veterans
Administration requested that the date ranges use the word ``through''
instead of ``to'' for clarity. The updated dates for period of service
will match the dates that the Veterans Administration uses for program
evaluation as well as the official historical dates of war periods
published by the Congressional Research Service. Moving names of war
periods to the end of service categories will create a more uniform
appearance of the question text, with dates listed first for all
periods.
The addition of White and Black or African American write-in lines
in the race question led the Census Bureau to research redundancies
between data collected from the improved race question and the ancestry
question. Findings from this research may lead the Census Bureau to
recommend the removal of the ancestry question from the American
Community Survey.
The Census Bureau developed the ACS to collect and update
demographic, social, economic, and housing data every year that are
essentially the same as the ``long-form'' data that the Census Bureau
formerly collected once a decade as part of the decennial census. The
ACS blends the strength of small area estimation with the high quality
of current surveys. The ACS is an ongoing monthly survey that collects
detailed housing and socioeconomic data from about 3.5 million
addresses in the United States and about 36,000 addresses in Puerto
Rico each year. The ACS also collects detailed socioeconomic data from
about 170,000 residents living in group quarters facilities in the
United States and about 900 in Puerto Rico. The ACS is now the only
source of comparable data about social, economic, housing, and
demographic characteristics for small areas and small subpopulations
across the nation and in Puerto Rico. Every community in the nation
continues to receive a detailed, statistical portrait of its social,
economic, housing, and demographic characteristics each year through
one-year and five-year ACS products.
To collect the ACS data, the Census Bureau uses a multiple mode
contact strategy. These modes include mail, internet, telephone, and
personal visit. To encourage self-response in the ACS, the Census
Bureau sends up to five mailings to housing units selected to be in the
sample. The first mailing, sent to all mailable addresses in the
sample, includes an invitation to participate in the ACS online and
states that a paper questionnaire will be sent in a few weeks to those
unable to respond online. The second mailing is a letter that reminds
respondents to complete the survey online, thanks them if they have
already done so, and informs them that a paper form will be sent at a
later date if the Census Bureau does not receive their response. In a
third mailing, the questionnaire package is sent only to those sample
addresses that have not completed the online questionnaire within two
and a half weeks. The fourth mailing is a postcard that reminds
respondents to respond and informs them that an interviewer may contact
them if they do not complete the survey. A fifth mailing is a letter
sent to respondents who have not completed the survey within five
weeks. This letter provides a due date and reminds the respondents to
return their questionnaires to be removed from future contact. The
Census Bureau will ask those who fill out the survey online to provide
an email address, which will be used to send an email reminder to
households that did not complete the online form. The reminder asks
them to log back in to finish responding to the survey. If the Census
Bureau does not receive a response or if the household refuses to
participate, the address may be selected for computer-assisted personal
interviewing, the nonresponse follow-up data collection mode.
Some addresses are deemed unmailable because the address is
incomplete or directs mail only to a post office box. The Census Bureau
currently collects data for these housing units using both online and
computer-assisted personal interviewing. A small sample of respondents
from the nonresponse follow-up data collection interview are
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recontacted for quality assurance purposes.
For sample housing units in the Puerto Rico Community Survey, a
different mail strategy is employed. The Census Bureau continues to use
the previously used mail strategy with no references to an internet
response option. The Census Bureau sends up to five mailings to a
Puerto Rico address selected to be in the sample. The first mailing
includes a prenotice letter. The second and fourth mailings include the
paper survey. The third and fifth mailings serve as a reminder to
respond to the survey. Puerto Rico addresses deemed unmailable because
the address is incomplete or directs mail only to a post office box are
collected by computer-assisted personal interviewing. A small sample of
respondents from the nonresponse follow-up data collection interview
are recontacted for quality assurance purposes.
The Census Bureau uses a different strategy to collect data from
group quarters. The Census Bureau defines group quarters as places
where people live or stay, in a group living arrangement that is owned
or managed by an entity or organization providing housing and/or
services for the residents, such as college/university student housing,
residential treatment centers, skilled nursing facilities, group homes,
military barracks, correctional facilities, workers' group living
quarters and Job Corps centers, and emergency and transitional
shelters. The Census Bureau collects data for group quarters primarily
through personal interview. The Census Bureau will obtain the facility
information by conducting a personal visit interview with a group
quarters contact. During this interview, the Census Bureau obtains
roster of residents and randomly selects them for person-level
interviews. During the person-level phase, a field representative uses
a computer-assisted personal interviewing instrument to collect
detailed information for each sampled resident. Field representatives
also have the option to distribute a bilingual (English/Spanish)
questionnaire to residents for self-response if unable to complete a
computer-assisted personal interviewing interview. Beginning in 2024,
residents in some group quarters will have the option to self-respond
to the survey online. A small sample of respondents are recontacted for
quality assurance purposes.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: Monthly.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 141 and 193, and 221.
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 0607-0810.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-04952 Filed 3-9-23; 8:45 am]
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