Notice2025-03194
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; High-Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS)
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February 28, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 39 (Friday, February 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10879-10880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03194]
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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; High-Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook
Pulse Survey (HTOPS)
On July 22, 2024, 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 4.2 of the Household
Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607-1029, Exp. 01/31/27) and on July 12, 2024,
clearance was received to conduct the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth
Census Household Panel topical operations (OMB No. 0607-1025, Exp. 6/
30/26). Clearance for the Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey
(HTOPS) recruitment operation, January topical operation and February
topical operation (0607-1029) were approved by OMB on January 15, 2025.
The Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) is designed to
ensure the 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 you of the Department's intent
to request clearance from OMB to conduct HTOPS March, April, and May
data collections.
The topical survey that will field in March will include labor
force focused content to test a series of questions that are being
designed for production use in the Survey of Income and Program
Participation (SIPP) labor force module.
The April topical survey will include content from the Household
Pulse Survey. The Household Pulse Survey will continue to serve as an
experimental endeavor in cooperation with other federal agencies to
produce near real-time data to understand the effects of current
events, including natural disaster events or other social or economic
events facing the nation or a significant portion of the nation.
Data collected in the Household Pulse Survey demonstrate the
ability to quickly collect and disseminate high-frequency data products
that inform the public in urgent circumstances. Data products will
include public-use data files and detailed data tables, which can be
used by federal, state, and local agencies; academic and non-government
organizations; the media; and the public.
The May topical will provide important methodological data to
compare the HTOPS responses against a national benchmark and similar
survey design, pulling questions from Pew's National Public Opinion
Reference Survey. These will be used for methodological assessment of
the current panel members representativeness compared to this national
benchmark and other similar data collection strategies and will be used
to inform directions for future recruitment and replenishment. The May
topical also pilots a short series seeking to measure reasons for
migration to be used in other surveys like the Survey of Income and
Program Participation.
It is the Department's intention to commence data collection using
the revised instrument on or about March 18, 2025, April 15, 2025, and
May 20, 2025. 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 December 9, 2024 (OMB
No. 0607-1029) during a 30-day comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: High Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook
Pulse Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1029.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: March: 10,000; April/May: 20,350 (244,200
annually).
Average Hours per Response: .333 (20 minutes).
Burden Hours: March: 3.330; April/May: 6,777 (81,399 annually).
Needs and Uses: The High-Frequency Surveys Program was established
as a natural progression from the creation of the Household Pulse
Survey. The Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) 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 HTOPS 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 HTOPS were recruited from
the Census Bureau's gold standard Master Address File. This ensures
that HTOPS 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. Questionnaires will be
mainly internet self-response. The HTOPS 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: 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
<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 0607-1029.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-03194 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
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