Notice2024-09101
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Test
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Published
April 29, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentCensus Bureau
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 83 (Monday, April 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33314-33315]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09101]
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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; 2024 American Community Survey (ACS) Sexual Orientation and
Gender Identity Test
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
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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 19, 2023, 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: American Community Survey (ACS) Methods Panel: 2024 Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Test.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0936.
Form Number(s): Paper questionnaires: ACS-1(X)SGO, ACS-1(X)SGA; ACS
internet electronic instrument (no form number), ACS CAPI(HU)
electronic instrument (no form number), ACS Content Follow-up internet
and CATI electronic instruments (no form numbers).
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 281,000 respondents to the initial
interview; 88,000 respondents to the Content Follow-up reinterview.
Average Hours per Response: 40 minutes for the initial interview;
20 minutes for the Content Follow-up reinterview.
Burden Hours: 216,819 hours.
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Estimated Estimated Total
number of burden (in estimated
respondents hours) burden hours
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Initial Interview............................................... 281,000 0.667 187,427
Content Follow-up Reinterview................................... 88,000 0.334 29,392
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Total....................................................... .............. .............. 216,819
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Needs and Uses: The information collected in the 2024 ACS SOGI test
will be used to evaluate the quality of data from questions on sexual
orientation and gender identity. The research will inform
recommendations for potential production ACS implementation on question
wording and response options, whether a confirmation question is asked
of everyone or only of those people with discrepant responses for sex
at birth and current gender identity, and the style of write-in boxes
to use for internet respondents. The data will also be used to produce
descriptive statistics on the test topics, assess the impact on other
questions on the survey that have changed, and gain insight into
terminology by analyzing write-in responses and responses to
qualitative questions asked in the test. Data will be assessed by mode
of response as well as type of respondent (proxy or self-reported
data), in addition to other sub-groups of interest.
Because the questions being tested under this clearance have yet to
be asked in the American Community Survey, the data gathered will not
be considered official statistics of the Census Bureau or other Federal
agencies. Test results will be included in research reports that will
be published on the Census Bureau's website. Results may also be
prepared for presentations at professional meetings and conferences or
for publication in professional journals. All published test results
will be statistical products that contain only aggregated data that do
not reveal individual responses.
Details of the questions being tested and test plans are available
in Supporting Statements A and B and associated attachments. See
directions below for how to find these documents online on
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: This is a one-time test.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 141, 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 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 0607-0936.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-09101 Filed 4-26-24; 8:45 am]
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