[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 153 (Thursday, August 10, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37424-37425]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-16875]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
2018 End-to-End Census Test--Address Canvassing Operation
AGENCY: Census Bureau, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice, comment request.
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SUMMARY: The Census Bureau publishes this notice to announce a change
in the expected burden for the 2018 End-to-End Census Test--Address
Canvassing Operation. The Census Bureau invites public comment on the
increase in burden, as described below.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2018 End-to-End Census Test--Address Canvassing Operation.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0997.
Type of Request: New Collection.
Number of Respondents: 85,093.
Average Hours per Response: 5 minutes.
Burden Hours: 7,091.
Needs and Uses: The Address Canvassing operation is the first
operation in the 2018 End-to-End Census Test, with field activity
beginning in the summer of 2017. The purpose of the Address Canvassing
operation is (1) to deliver a complete and accurate address list and
spatial database for enumeration and tabulation, and (2) to determine
the type and address characteristics for each living quarter. The
Address Canvassing operation consists of two major components: In-
Office Address Canvassing and In-Field Address Canvassing. Only the
latter component involves collection of information from residents at
their living quarters.
The following objectives are crucial to a successful Address
Canvassing operation:
Test the listing and mapping capabilities required by In-
Field Address Canvassing.
Validate the creation of In-Field Address Canvassing
workload by In-Office Address Canvassing.
Conduct a listing quality control operation during In-
Field Address Canvassing.
The results of this test will inform the Census Bureau's final
preparations for the Address Canvassing Operation in advance of the
2020 Census.
The number of housing units with respondent burden in the original
OMB package was calculated based on the national estimate of 25 percent
of addresses in the Self-Response areas needing In-Field Address
Canvassing. This estimate was based on our original approach to In-
Office Address Canvassing Operation, which included two phases:
Interactive Review and Active Block Resolution. In the Interactive
Review phase staff make an initial assessment of the stability of the
blocks under review, determining whether a block is ``stable,'' or
undergoing minor changes or no changes at all, or ``unstable,'' which
indicates that there are significant changes within the block. In the
Active Block Resolution phase, which we are no longer pursuing for the
2020 Census, staff would have done a second, ``deep dive'' into the
``unstable'' blocks to attempt to resolve them by accurately
identifying the changes taking place. The Census Bureau discontinued
this second phase because we were experiencing significant issues with
productivity and quality control in the Active Block Resolution phase.
The result of this decision is that our estimated national workload for
In-Field Address Canvassing has increased from 25 percent to 30
percent. Prior to the suspension of Active Block Resolution, some of
the blocks in the three test sites were removed from In-Field Address
Canvassing workload as result of this phase of the In-Office Address
Canvassing operation. Therefore, in order to ensure that the operations
implemented in the 2018 End-to-End Census Test are consistent with the
operations we plan to execute in the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau
determined it was appropriate to add the blocks originally resolved
during Active Block Resolution back into the in-field workload for this
test.
The original estimate of burden was calculated to be:
Estimated Number of Respondents: 43,965 households.
Estimated Time per Response: 5 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,664 hours.
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Estimated Estimated time
Test site number of per response Total burden
respondents (minutes) hours
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Pierce County, Washington....................................... 20,818 5 1,735
Providence County, Rhode Island................................. 17,526 5 1,461
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia Area.................. 5,621 5 468
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Totals...................................................... 43,965 .............. 3,664
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The new burden estimate is calculated to be:
Estimated Number of Respondents: 85,093 households.
Estimated Time per Response: 5 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 7,091 hours.
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Estimated Estimated time
Test site number of per response Total burden
respondents (minutes) hours
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Pierce County, Washington....................................... 43,806 5 3,651
Providence County, Rhode Island................................. 25,409 5 2,117
Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia Area.................. 15,878 5 1,323
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Totals...................................................... 85,093 .............. 7,091
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Written comments and recommendations on this change in burden
should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to
[email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-16875 Filed 8-9-17; 8:45 am]
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