Notice2025-15926
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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August 20, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 20, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40560-40561]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15926]
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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 January 15, 2025, the Department of Commerce (Department)
received clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in
accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to conduct the
Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) recruitment
operation, January topical operation and February topical operation
(0607-1029). We received approval for the March, April, and May HTOPS
collections on April 11, 2025. On June 16, 2025, we were approved for
the June and August 2025 topical collections. The HTOPS 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 the HTOPS September, October, and
December data collections. For September, we will conduct the 2030
Census Planning Survey, which is designed to understand attitudes and
behaviors that relate to 2030 Census participation across demographic
characteristics. Topics include Census knowledge and trust in Census
data, intention to respond to the 2030 Census, barriers to completing
the 2030 Census, and motivators to completing the 2030 Census. The
October and December topical surveys will include content from the
Household Pulse Survey. Household Pulse Survey content continues 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 health events, and 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; academics and non-
government organizations; the media; and the public.
It is the Department's intention to commence data collection using
the revised instruments on or about September 16, 2025, October 21,
2025, and December 9, 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 publication to the
Federal Register on December 9, 2024, February 28, 2025, and May 13,
2025 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: 8,300 (99,600 annually).
Average Hours per Response: .333 (20 minutes).
Burden Hours: 2,754 (33,167 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 is a probability-
based, nationwide, nationally representative survey panel designed to
test 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.
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
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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 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. 2025-15926 Filed 8-19-25; 8:45 am]
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