Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Generic Clearance for Internet Panel Pretesting and Qualitative Survey Methods Testing

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 213 (Thursday, November 5, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69791-69792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-22596]


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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; Generic Clearance for Internet Panel Pretesting and 
Qualitative Survey Methods Testing

    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 July 20, 2026, during a 60-day comment period. This 
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
    Title: Generic Clearance for internet Panel Pretesting and 
Qualitative Survey Methods Testing.
    OMB Control Number: 0607-0978.
    Form Number(s): Various.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for an Extension, 
without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection.
    Number of Respondents: 67,600.
    Average Hours per Response: 0.25 hours.
    Burden Hours: 16,900.
    Needs and Uses: The information collected in this program will be 
used by the Census Bureau and survey sponsors to test alternative 
contact methods, including emails and text messages, improve online 
questionnaires and procedures, reduce respondent burden, and ultimately 
increase the quality of data collected in the censuses and surveys. The 
clearance will be used to conduct testing of decennial and demographic 
census and survey questionnaires as well as communications and/or 
marketing strategies and data dissemination tools for the Census Bureau 
prior to fielding them. Testing activities will primarily involve split 
panel experiment tests or remote usability testing but may also include 
other qualitative research conducted on the internet such as cognitive 
interviews, focus groups, and debriefings. Because the questionnaires 
being tested under this clearance are still in the process of 
development, the data that result from these collections are not 
considered official statistics of the Census Bureau or other Federal 
agencies. Data will be included in research reports prepared for 
sponsors inside and outside of the Census Bureau. The results may also 
be prepared for presentations related to survey methodology at 
professional meetings or publications in professional journals.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Frequency: Once.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Data collection for this project is authorized 
under the authorizing legislation for the questionnaire being tested. 
This may be Title 13, Sections 131, 141, 161, 181, 182, 193, and 301 
for Census Bureau-sponsored surveys, and Title 13, Section 8(b) and 
Title 15 for surveys sponsored by other Federal agencies. We do not now 
know what other titles will be referenced, since we do not know what

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survey questionnaires will be pretested during the course of the 
clearance.
    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 0607-0978.

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026-22596 Filed 11-4-26; 8:45 am]
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