Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Census Household Panel Topical 4, Topical 5, and Topical 6 Operations, 3635 [2024-01034]

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• Census Bureau
• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 13 (Friday, January 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 3635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01034]


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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; Census Household Panel Topical 4, Topical 5, and Topical 6 
Operations

    On December 8, 2023, 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 the second and third Census 
Household Panel topical operations (OMB No. 0607-1025, Exp. 6/20/26). 
The Census Household Panel is designed to ensure availability of 
frequent data collection for nationwide estimates on a variety of 
topics for a variety of subgroups of the population. This notice serves 
to inform of the Department's intent to request clearance from OMB to 
conduct topical operations 4, 5, and 6.
    Topical surveys 4 and 5 will include content from Pew's National 
Public Opinion Reference Survey and the National Center for Health 
Statistics' Research and Development Survey. These are being asked for 
methodological reasons to study the representativeness of the 
originally recruited panel members along different benchmarked 
dimensions. Additionally, in Topical 4, we ask some questions about 
improving the CHP respondent experience. In Topical survey 6, we are 
incorporating a self-administered version of the Survey of Income and 
Program Participation (SIPP) roster and demographic questions into the 
Census Household Panel to test their usability in the field. 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 February 6, 2023, during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
    Title: Census Household Panel Topical 4, Topical 5, and Topical 6 
Operations.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-1025.
    Form Number(s): Not yet determined.
    Type of Request: Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved 
Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 11,000 panel members.
    Average Hours per Response: 4 hours per year (20 minutes for 
monthly collection).
    Burden Hours: 43,956.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Household Panel is a probability-based 
nationwide nationally representative survey panel designed to test the 
methods to collect data on a variety of topics of interest, and for 
conducting experimentation on alternative question wording and 
methodological approaches. The goal of the Census Household Panel is to 
ensure availability of frequent data collection for nationwide 
estimates on a variety of topics and a variety of subgroups of the 
population, meeting standards for transparent quality reporting of the 
Federal Statistical Agencies and the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB).
    Panelists and households selected for the Panel were recruited from 
the Census Bureau's gold standard Master Address File. This ensures the 
Panel is rooted in this rigorously developed and maintained frame and 
available for linkage to administrative records securely maintained and 
curated by the Census Bureau. Invitations to complete the monthly 
surveys will be sent via email and SMS messages, and for experimental 
purposes, Topical 4 invitations will include pressure-sealed post-
cards. Questionnaires will be mainly internet self-response. The Panel 
will maintain representativeness by allowing respondents who do not use 
the internet to respond via computer-assisted telephone interviewing 
(CATI). All panelists will receive an incentive for each complete 
questionnaire. Periodic replenishment samples will maintain 
representativeness and panelists will be replaced after a period of 
three years.
    Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
    Frequency: Monthly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141,182 and 
193.
    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 0607-1025.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-01034 Filed 1-18-24; 8:45 am]
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