Notice2022-08149
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
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April 15, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 73 (Friday, April 15, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22501-22503]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08149]
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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 14, 2021 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
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),
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ACS-1(PR)(GQ), GQFQ, ACS CAPI (HU), ACS RI (HU), AGQ QI, and AGQ RI.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for an Extension,
without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 3,576,000 for household respondents; 20,100
for contacts in Group Quarters; 170,900 persons 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. This estimate accurately accounts for Puerto Rico samples
sizes and responses. The number of respondents were incorrectly listed
as 3,775,200 on the 60-day Federal Register Notice.
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 Quarter-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. This burden estimate accurately accounts for Puerto Rico sample
sizes and responses. On the 60-day Federal Register Notice the burden
hours were incorrectly listed as 2,443,366.
Needs and Uses: There continues to be a need for current data
describing lower geographic areas and subpopulations. The Census Bureau
developed a methodology 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 American Community Survey
(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
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 followup 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
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 employs 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. 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
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
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information collection should be submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. 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. 2022-08149 Filed 4-14-22; 8:45 am]
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