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All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: December 20, 2018. 

Curtis M. Anderson, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–28226 Filed 12–27–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XY–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Information Collection Activity; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Rural Utilities Service (RUS) an agency 

delivering the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development 

Utilities Programs invites comments on 

this information collection for Review 

Rating Summary, RUS Form 300 which 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) will be requested. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by February 26, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas P. Dickson, Rural Development 

Innovation Center—Regulatory Team 2, 

USDA, 1400 Independence Avenue SW, 

STOP 1522, Room 5164, South 

Building, Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email 

Thomas.dickson@usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires 

that interested members of the public 

and affected agencies have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice 

identifies an information collection that 

RUS is submitting to OMB for 

extension. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Agency, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

the Agency’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments may be sent by any of the 

following methods: 

• Mail: Thomas P. Dickson, Rural 

Development Innovation Center, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., STOP 1522, 

Room 5164, South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–4492. Email: 

Thomas.Dickson@wdc.usda.gov. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Title: Review Rating Summary, RUS 

Form 300, 7 CFR part 1730. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0025. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: RUS manages loan programs 

in accordance with the RE Act of 1936, 

as amended (7 U.S.C. 901 et seq.). An 

important part of safeguarding loan 

security is to see that RUS financed 

facilities are being responsibly used, 

adequately operated, and adequately 

maintained. Future needs must be 

anticipated to ensure that facilities will 

continue to produce revenue and loans 

will be repaid as required by the RUS 

mortgage. A periodic operations and 

maintenance (O&M) review, using the 

RUS Form 300, in accordance with 7 

CFR part 1730, is an effective means for 

RUS to determine whether the 

Borrower’s systems are being properly 

operated and maintained, thereby 

protecting the loan collateral. The O&M 

review is also used to rate facilities and 

can be used for appraisals of collateral 

as prescribed by OMB Circular A–129, 

Policies for Federal Credit Programs and 

Non-Taxable Receivables. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 4 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

217. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 868. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from Robin M. Jones, 

Innovation Center, at (202) 772–1172, 

Email: robin.m.jones@wdc.usda.gov. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: December 19, 2018. 

Bette B. Brand, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–28225 Filed 12–27–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: 2020 Census. 

The initial Federal Register Notice 

(‘‘2020 Census,’’ June 8, 2018, Vol. 83, 

Number 111, pp. 26643–26653, FR Doc 

No.: 2018–12365) described the 2020 

Census in full. Approval for the 2020 

Census is being sought from OMB in 

phases. The first phase of approval was 

for the 2020 Census Address Canvassing 

operation only, which was described in 

Federal Register Notice ‘‘2020 Census,’’ 

October 2, 2018 (Vol. 83, No. 191, pp. 

49535–49539, FR Doc No.: 2018–21386). 

Address Canvassing creates the address 

list for the census and precedes census 

enumeration data collection. The 

remaining operations scoped for the 

2020 Census data collection will be 

described below in this Federal Register 

Notice for an additional 30-day 

comment period; the full census 

description will be considered as a 

substantive change to the approved 

OMB materials. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–1006. 

Form Number(s): D–CN(E/S) 

(included with Address Canvassing 

approval), D–Q, D–Q(E/S), D–Q–GE, D– 

Q–GE(S), D–Q–UL, D–Q–UL(E/S), D–Q– 

TL, D–Q–TL(S), D–Q–UE, D–Q–RA, D– 

Q–TLRA, D–Q–GERA, D–Q–MV, D–CQ– 

TL, D–CQ–TL(S), D–CQ–UE, D–CQ–RA, 

D–CQ–TLRA, D–Q–AS, D–Q–MI, D–Q– 

GU, D–Q–VI, D–Q–VI(S), D–CQ–AS, D– 

CQ–MI, D–CQ–GU, D–CQ–VI, D–CQ– 

VI(S), D–Q–GE–AS, D–Q–GE–MI, D–Q– 

GE–GU, D–Q–GE–VI, D–Q–GE–VI(S), 

D–Q–ULPR(E/S), D–Q–GEPR, D–Q– 

GEPR(S), D–Q–PR(E/S), D–Q–TLPR, D– 

Q–TLPR(S), D–CQ–TLPR. D–CQ– 

TLPR(S). 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Number of Respondents: 180,962,929 

for all operations in the 2020 Census. 

The total represents an addition from 

what was outlined in the previous 

Federal Register Notice due to the 

addition of an address collection period 

for a Group Quarters function. 


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Average Hours per Response: 10 

minutes for census enumeration. 

Burden Hours: 26,531,593 for 2020 

Census. The total represents an addition 

from what was outlined in the previous 

Federal Register Notice due to the 

addition of an address collection period 

for a Group Quarters function. 

2020 CENSUS

Operation or category 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Estimated time 

per response 

Total 

burden 

hours 

Address Canvassing .................................................................................. 15,786,734 5 minutes ......................................... 1,315,561 

Address Canvassing Listing QC ................................................................ 1,578,673 5 minutes ......................................... 131,556 

Address Canvassing Subtotal ............................................................ 17,365,407 .......................................................... 1,447,117 

Geographic Areas Focused on Self-Response (this includes Mailout and Update Leave) 

Internet/Telephone/Paper .......................................................................... 80,700,000 10 minutes ....................................... 13,450,000 

Update Leave ............................................................................................ 11,900,000 5 minutes ......................................... 991,667 

Update Leave QC ...................................................................................... 1,190,000 5 minutes ......................................... 99,167 

Nonresponse Followup .............................................................................. 52,700,000 10 minutes ....................................... 8,783,333 

Nonresponse Followup Reinterview .......................................................... 2,760,000 5 minutes ......................................... 230,000 

Self-Response Quality Assurance ............................................................. 250,000 10 minutes ....................................... 41,667 

Field Verification ........................................................................................ 400,000 2 minutes ......................................... 13,333 

Field Verification QC .................................................................................. 40,000 2 minutes ......................................... 1,333 

Coverage Improvement ............................................................................. 3,200,000 7 minutes ......................................... 373,333 

Non-ID Processing Phone Followup ......................................................... 750,000 5 minutes ......................................... 62,500 

Self-Response Areas Subtotal ........................................................... 153,890,000 .......................................................... 24,046,043 

Geographic Area Focused on Update Enumerate 

Update Enumerate Production .................................................................. 506,000 12 minutes ....................................... 101,200 

Update Enumerate Listing QC .................................................................. 50,600 5 minutes ......................................... 4,217 

Update Enumerate Reinterview ................................................................. 25,300 10 minutes ....................................... 4,217 

Update Enumerate Subtotal ............................................................... 581,900 .......................................................... 109,634 

Group Quarters 

GQ Update Program .................................................................................. 7,168 10 minutes ....................................... 1,195 

GQ Advance Contact (facility) ................................................................... 297,000 10 minutes ....................................... 49,500 

GQ Enumeration—eResponse (facility) .................................................... 14,300 20 minutes ....................................... 4,767 

GQ Enumeration—person contact ............................................................ 8,000,000 5 minutes ......................................... 666,667 

Group Quarters QC ................................................................................... 8,500 5 minutes ......................................... 708 

Group Quarters Subtotal .................................................................... 8,326,968 .......................................................... 722,837 

Enumeration at Transitory Locations—Advance Contact ......................... 50,000 10 minutes ....................................... 8,333 

Enumeration at Transitory Locations—Units ............................................. 600,000 10 minutes ....................................... 100,000 

Federally Affiliated Count Overseas .......................................................... 82 5 minutes ......................................... 7 

Island Areas Censuses—Housing Units ................................................... 138,281 40 minutes ....................................... 92,187 

Island Areas Censuses—Group Quarters ................................................. 10,291 30 minutes ....................................... 5,146 

Totals .................................................................................................. 180,962,929 .......................................................... 26,531,593 

Overview of 2020 Census Operations 

Below is a summary of the needs of 

uses of the 2020 Census, followed by a 

more detailed overview of data 

collection operations. The geographic 

areas discussed in this notice refer only 

to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, 

and Puerto Rico, unless otherwise 

noted. The 2020 Census also includes 

the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, 

Guam, American Samoa, and the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands). 

Needs and Uses: 

Article 1, Section 2 of the United 

States Constitution mandates that the 

U.S. House of Representatives be 

reapportioned every ten years by 

conducting a national census of all 

residents. In addition to the 

reapportionment of the U.S. Congress, 

Census data are used to draw legislative 

district boundaries within states. Census 

data are also used by numerous agencies 

to determine funding allocations for the 

distribution of an estimated $675 billion 

of federal funds each year. 

The Census Bureau plans to conduct 

the most automated, modern, and 

dynamic decennial census in history. 

The 2020 Census includes design 

changes in four key areas, discussed 

below: 

(1) New methodologies to conduct the 

Address Canvassing operation. 

(2) Innovative ways of optimizing selfresponse. 

(3) The use of administrative records 

and third-party data to reduce the 

Nonresponse Followup (NRFU) 

operation workload. 

(4) The use of technology to reduce 

the manual effort and improve the 

productivity of field operations, while 

decreasing the amount of physical space 

required to perform the field operations. 

(1) Reengineering Address Canvassing 

An accurate address list is the 

cornerstone of a successful census. In 

order to manage the work for decennial 

census, the Census Bureau uses the 

address and physical location of each 

place where someone is, or could be, 

living. The Census Bureau maintains 

this address list and spatial data for the 


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United States and Puerto Rico in its 

Master Address File (MAF)/ 

Topologically Integrated Geographic 

Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) 

System database. 

This database was created using the 

address files from the 1990 Census and 

has been subsequently and regularly 

updated using: 

• Information collected from 

decennial census operation updates, 

including address and spatial updates. 

• The Delivery Sequence File of 

addresses from the United States Postal 

Service (USPS). 

• Input from tribal, state, and local 

governments and third parties, 

including address and boundary 

updates from various programs 

conducted over the decade, such as the 

Local Update of Census Addresses 

operation. 

• Information collected in other 

Census Bureau programs, such as the 

American Community Survey. 

The purpose of Address Canvassing 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. 

Prior to a field Address Canvassing data 

collection, the Census Bureau will 

delineate the entire land area of the 

United States, Puerto Rico, and Island 

Areas into Type of Enumeration Areas 

(TEAs). Most stateside United States 

living quarters will be delineated into 

the self-response area, where the census 

address list will be created before the 

census, census materials will be 

provided in the mail, and self-response 

modes will be supported and promoted. 

Other areas will be designated for 

Update Leave, Update Enumerate 

(including Remote Alaska), Military 

Enumeration, or Island Areas 

Enumeration. 

For the 2020 Census there will be a 

full Address Canvassing of the country 

that will consist of In-Office Address 

Canvassing complemented with In-Field 

Address Canvassing. In-Office Address 

Canvassing is the process of using 

empirical geographic evidence (e.g., 

imagery, comparison of the Census 

Bureau’s address list to address lists 

provided by the United States Postal 

Service and governmental units that 

partner with the Census Bureau) to 

assess the current address list and make 

changes where necessary. This 

component also detects and captures 

areas of change from high-quality 

administrative records and third-party 

data. Advancements in technology have 

enabled continual address and spatial 

updates to occur throughout the decade 

as part of the In-Office Address 

Canvassing effort. Since 2015, satellite 

imagery has been used for the 

identification of areas where there are 

changes in living quarters. Where the 

necessary updates can be captured from 

electronic sources and are deemed to be 

sufficiently accurate, In-Office Address 

Canvassing will complete the update 

process prior to the census. The 

remaining blocks will become eligible to 

be sent to In-Field Address Canvassing 

for updating on the ground by field staff. 

(2) Optimizing Self-Response 

The goal of this innovation area is to 

make it as easy and efficient as possible 

for people to respond to the 2020 

Census by offering new response 

options through the internet and 

telephone, in addition to the traditional 

mailback paper questionnaire option. 

Self-response reduces the need to 

conduct in-person follow-up operations 

to complete the enumeration, by far the 

most expensive method of data 

collection. To that end, the Census 

Bureau will motivate people to respond, 

as well as make it easy for people to 

respond, from any location at any time, 

even if they don’t have the Census 

Bureau’s preassigned ID for the address. 

The importance of responding to the 

2020 Census will be communicated in a 

variety of ways, including through 

mailings, questionnaire delivery, 

advertising, and partnership efforts. In 

particular, the Integrated Partnership 

and Communications operation is 

responsible for communicating the 

importance of responding to the 2020 

Census. 

Internet response represents a 

substantial innovation for the Census 

Bureau. The internet was not a response 

option in the 2010 Census. The internet 

response option has been included in 

multiple tests leading up to the 2020 

Census: The 2014 Census Test; all three 

census tests performed in 2015; the 

2016 Census Test; the 2017 Census Test; 

and the 2018 End-to-End Census Test. It 

has also been used in the American 

Community Survey since 2013. 

(3) Utilizing Administrative Records and 

Third-Party Data 

For the 2020 Census, ‘‘administrative 

records’’ and ‘‘third-party data’’ are 

terms used to describe microdata 

records contained in files collected and 

maintained by Federal, state, and local 

government agencies (‘‘administrative 

records’’) and commercial entities 

(‘‘third-party data’’) for administering 

programs and providing services. For 

many decades, the Census Bureau has 

successfully and securely used 

administrative records and third-party 

data for statistical purposes. For the 

2020 Census, the Census Bureau intends 

to use administrative records from both 

internal sources, such as data from prior 

decennial censuses and the American 

Community Survey, and from a range of 

other Federal agencies, including the 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the 

Social Security Administration, the 

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 

Services, the Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, the Indian 

Health Service, the Selective Service, 

and the U.S. Postal Service. The Census 

Bureau is also working to acquire state 

government administrative records from 

enrollment in Federal block grant 

programs, such as the U.S. Department 

of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition 

Assistance Program and the Special 

Supplemental Nutrition Program for 

Women, Infants, and Children. 

Throughout the decade, the Census 

Bureau continuously conducted 

analyses and assessments to verify that 

the proposed uses of administrative 

records and third-party data sources in 

the 2020 Census were appropriate in 

each instance. Based on this research, 

testing, and analyses, the Census Bureau 

announced its plans in November 2015 

to utilize administrative records and 

third-party data in the 2020 Census. The 

2020 Census Operational Plan calls for 

employing this information for the 

following purposes: 

I. Consistent with previous decennial 

censuses, the Census Bureau will utilize 

administrative records from federal and 

state government agencies and thirdparty data to refine contact strategies 

and build and update the residential 

address list. 

II. Also consistent with previous 

decennial censuses, the Census Bureau 

will utilize federal and state 

administrative records to edit or impute 

invalid, inconsistent, or missing 

responses. 

III. The new use of administrative 

records for the 2020 Census is to use 

data exclusively from federal 

administrative records to improve the 

accuracy and efficiency of the NRFU 

operation by: 

a. reducing followup on vacant 

housing units and nonresidential 

addresses, as designated by 

administrative records. 

b. enumerating households that do 

not self-respond and whom we were 

unable to contact after six mailings and 

one in-person field visit. 

For each of the purposes listed in 

items II, IIIa, and IIIb, the Census 

Bureau will use or plans to use 

administrative data only when it can 

confirm empirically across multiple 

sources that the data are consistent, of 

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applied to the addresses and households 

in question. The Census Bureau plans to 

enumerate households utilizing 

administrative records only from 

Federal government agencies, such as 

the IRS. Use of administrative records 

for nonresponding addresses will be 

evaluated under a strict set of Census 

Bureau rules throughout the process to 

ensure completeness and accuracy. 

Based on the research and tests 

conducted, the Census Bureau estimates 

that under the current operational plan, 

Federal administrative records will be 

used to enumerate up to 6.2 million 

households of the projected total of 

approximately 62 million addresses that 

are expected to be in the NRFU 

workload for the 2020 Census. These 6.2 

million households represent less than 

five percent of the approximately 147 

million addresses in the Census master 

address file. Where the Census Bureau 

does not have confidence in the data, 

such as when the data are inconsistent 

or missing in the Federal administrative 

records, the household will remain in 

the NRFU workload to be enumerated in 

person. 

(4) Reengineering Field Operations 

The final innovation area, 

‘‘Reengineering Field Operations,’’ has a 

goal of using technology to manage the 

2020 Census fieldwork efficiently and 

effectively, and as a result, reduce the 

staffing, infrastructure, and brick and 

mortar footprint for the 2020 Census. 

The Census Bureau plans to provide 

most listers and enumerators with the 

capability to work completely remotely 

and perform all administrative and data 

collection tasks directly from a mobile 

device. 

Supporting Documents About the 2020 

Census Design and the 2020 Census 

Objectives 

Multiple Census Bureau publications 

provide background on the plans for the 

2020 Census. The 2020 Census 

Operational Plan v3.0, which was 

published in September 2017, describes 

each of the 35 operations scoped and 

defined for the census. Every task 

performed for the 2020 Census must be 

assigned to one of the 35 operations. 

The Operational Plan also summarizes 

the major findings of the census tests 

performed this decade. Moreover, this 

document shows the planned design of 

the 2020 Census as of September 2017 

and identifies design decisions made, as 

well as remaining decisions to be made 

using census test results. (Note that the 

2020 Census Operational Plan v4.0 will 

be released publicly in February 2019.) 

Key design components for the 2020 

Census for every operation are 

discussed in Chapter 5 of the 2020 

Census Operational Plan. In addition, 

for most of the 2020 Census Operations, 

the Census Bureau is developing a 

Detailed Operational Plan to document 

objectives and procedures of the 

operation, major tasks involved in 

implementation, the overall workflow, 

and the overall resources required. The 

Operational Plan and Detailed 

Operational Plans available at 

www.census.gov can be reference for 

more details about the tasks performed 

for each operation. 

Type of Enumeration Areas 

Prior to the census, it is necessary to 

delineate all geographic areas into Type 

of Enumeration Areas (TEAs). These 

TEAs describe what methodology will 

be used for census material delivery and 

household enumeration in order to use 

the most cost-effective enumeration 

approach for achieving maximum 

accuracy and completeness. TEAs also 

describe what methodology will be used 

for updating the address frame. For the 

United States and Puerto Rico, TEAs are 

delineated at the block level based on 

the address and spatial data in the 

MAF/TIGER database. 

The MAF/TIGER does not contain 

data for the Island Areas, so a separate 

TEA is designated for these areas. The 

TEAs designated for the 2020 Census 

are: 

* TEA 1 = Self-Response. 

* TEA 2 = Update Enumerate. 

* TEA 3 = Island Areas. 

* TEA 4 = Remote Alaska. 

* TEA 5 = Military. 

* TEA 6 = Update Leave. 

The most common enumeration 

method by percentage of households is 

self-response (TEA 1), where materials 

will be delivered to each address 

through the mail, and self-response will 

be supported and promoted. After the 

initial self-response phase, 

nonresponding households will be 

enumerated in the NRFU operation. 

Update Enumerate uses the 

methodology of updating the address 

list and attempting household 

enumeration at the same time. This will 

be used for a very small portion of the 

addresses in country, such as those with 

access problems or minimal mail 

service. The Island Areas are not 

included in MAF/TIGER. For these 

areas, the address list will be created 

and enumeration will be attempted at 

the same time. Remote Alaska uses the 

Update Enumerate methodology but in 

remote areas of Alaska that require a 

different schedule for enumeration due 

to changes in transportation 

accessibility and living situations 

related to the presence of ice. Military 

areas require special procedures due to 

security restrictions. Update Leave is an 

update of the address list at the same 

time that a questionnaire is left at each 

individual housing unit and the 

enumeration data is expected to be 

returned or submitted by a respondent. 

Puerto Rico is designated as entirely 

Update Leave (except for military 

locations) in order to create a current 

address list at the time of the census, in 

response to changes that may have 

occurred due to natural disasters. 

A. Content and Forms Design 

The Content and Forms Design (CFD) 

operation is responsible for identifying 

and finalizing the content and design of 

questionnaires and associated 

nonquestionnaire materials. To support 

the 2020 Census, the CFD operation 

ensures content consistency across data 

collection modes and operations, as 

question wording varies depending on 

mode of data collection. The CFD 

operation is responsible for creating, 

refining, and finalizing instrument 

specifications for all data collection 

modes—internet, phone, paper, and 

field enumeration. This is a significant 

departure from the 2010 Census, which 

relied on paper for virtually all data 

collection. 

As required by law (Title 13, United 

States Code), the subjects planned for 

the 2020 Census were submitted to 

Congress on March 28, 2017, and the 

questions planned for the 2020 Census 

were submitted to Congress on March 

29, 2018. The proposed questions for 

the 2020 Census questionnaire include 

age, citizenship, Hispanic origin, race, 

relationship, sex, and tenure. 

B. Language Services 

The Language Services operation 

provides questionnaires and related 

materials in non-English materials for 

respondents of Limited English 

Proficiency. For the 2020 Census, the 

internet instrument and Census 

Questionnaire Assistance will be 

available in Spanish, Chinese, 

Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, 

Tagalog, Polish, French, Haitian Creole, 

Portuguese, and Japanese, in addition to 

English. The bilingual paper 

questionnaire, enumerator instrument, 

and field enumeration materials will be 

available in Spanish. In addition, 

language guides and language 

identification cards will be available in 

the following languages: Albanian, 

Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, 

Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, 

Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French, 

German, Gujarati, Greek, Haitian Creole, 

Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, 

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Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, 

Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, 

Navajo, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, 

Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, 

Sinhala, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, 

Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, 

Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukranian, Urdu, 

Vietnamese, Yiddish, and Yoruba. 

C. Address Canvassing 

Address Canvassing, as described 

above, consists of two major 

components: In-Office Address 

Canvassing and In-Field Address 

Canvassing. In-Office Address 

Canvassing is the process of using 

empirical geographic evidence (e.g., 

imagery, comparison of the Census 

Bureau’s address list to partnerprovided lists) to assess the current 

address list and make changes where 

necessary. This component detects and 

captures areas of change from high 

quality administrative records and 

third-party data. Advancements in 

technology have enabled continual 

address and spatial updates to occur 

throughout the decade as part of the InOffice Address Canvassing effort. 

Areas not resolved by In-Office 

Address Canvassing become the 

universe of geographic areas worked 

during In-Field Address Canvassing. 

Only the In-Field component of Address 

Canvassing involves in person 

collection of information from residents 

at their living quarters. 

For In-Field Address Canvassing, an 

extract of addresses from the MAF is 

created, and this address list is verified 

and updated in the field, as needed. 

Updates can include adding units 

missing from the address list and 

removing nonexistent or nonresidential 

units from the list. In addition, living 

quarters are classified as housing units 

or group quarters. Group quarters are 

living quarters where people who are 

typically unrelated have group living 

arrangements and frequently are 

receiving some type of service. College/ 

university student housing and nursing/ 

skilled-nursing facilities are examples of 

group quarters. 

The MAF also has geographic data for 

transitory locations, which include 

recreational vehicle parks, 

campgrounds, racetracks, circuses, 

carnivals, marinas, hotels, and motels. 

People residing at transitory locations 

during the census are recorded as living 

in housing units located at transitory 

locations. 

During In-Field Address Canvassing, 

listers knock on doors at every structure 

in the assignment in an attempt to locate 

living quarters and classify each living 

quarter as a housing unit, group quarter, 

or transitory location. If someone 

answers, the lister will provide a 

Confidentiality Notice and ask about the 

address in order to verify or update the 

information, as appropriate. The listers 

will then ask if there are any additional 

living quarters in the structure or on the 

property. If there are additional living 

quarters, the listers will collect/update 

that information, as appropriate. In 

addition, there will be a check on the 

quality of the address listing work on 

approximately 10 percent of the address 

listing workload. 

The results of Address Canvassing are 

processed with MAF/TIGER and then 

used as input into the creation of the 

census address list for enumeration. 

This address list in turn, is used in 

conjunction with the TEA delineation to 

determine which materials should be 

printed for use in the operation(s) 

designated for each area of the country. 

D. Forms Printing and Distribution 

The Forms Printing and Distribution 

operation prints and distributes paper 

forms to support the 2020 Census 

mailing strategy and enumeration of the 

population. The Forms Printing and 

Distribution operation is responsible for 

the printing and distribution of mailed 

internet invitations, reminder cards or 

letters, and questionnaire mail packages 

where materials are mailed, in multiple 

languages as determined by the 

Language Services operation. The 

letters, reminder cards, and 

questionnaires are delivered according 

to the mailing contact strategy, which is 

part of the internet Self-Response 

operation (discussed below). 

Every address record will be 

identified by an ID, which will be 

printed on questionnaires and letters 

and used for tracking responses. Paper 

questionnaires and responses from field 

operations will be linked to the ID in 

data capture. Internet and telephone 

respondents will be requested but not 

required to provide the ID. When an ID 

is not provided, these will be 

considered Non-ID responses. The NonID operation is discussed below. 

E. Internet Self-Response 

The internet Self-Response (ISR) 

operation performs the following 

functions: 

• Maximize online response to the 

2020 Census through contact strategies 

and improved access for respondents. 

• Collect response data via the 

internet to reduce paper and the NRFU 

universe. 

Contact Strategies for Mailing Materials 

‘‘Contact strategies for mailing 

materials’’ refers to all attempts by the 

Census Bureau to make direct contact 

with individual households by mail. 

Types of contact strategies include 

invitation letters, postcards, and 

questionnaires mailed to households. 

A primary objective of the 2020 

Census is for a majority of selfrespondents to complete their census 

questionnaire online. An approach 

called ‘‘Internet First,’’ in which the first 

mailing includes an invitation to 

respond to the census online, has been 

developed for TEA 1 areas to encourage 

respondents to use the internet. 

Subsequent mailings will be reminders 

to respond to the census online, until all 

remaining nonresponding households in 

the internet First areas receive a paper 

questionnaire in the fourth mailing. In 

TEA 1 areas with low internet coverage 

or connectivity or other characteristics 

that may make it less likely the 

respondents will complete the census 

questionnaire online, the ‘‘Internet 

Choice’’ contact strategy will be 

designated for use instead. This strategy 

includes both an invitation to complete 

the census online and a paper 

questionnaire as part of the first mailing. 

The Census Bureau anticipates about 20 

percent of the households in the selfresponse TEA will receive the internet 

Choice treatment. 

In summary, the contact strategies for 

mailing materials including mailing 

date are outlined in the table below: 


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Internet Self-Response Instrument 

The internet application and all 

related support systems are designed to 

handle the volume of responses that are 

expected to be received by internet in 

the 2020 Census. It is imperative that 

the application and systems service the 

scale of the operation in order to ensure 

that users do not experience delays 

while completing the survey or 

unavailability of the application. In 

addition, the internet application and 

other associated systems were 

developed to adhere to the highest 

standards of data security in order to 

ensure that all respondent data are 

secure and confidential. 

F. Census Questionnaire Assistance 

The Census Questionnaire Assistance 

(CQA) operation has three primary 

functions: 

• Provide questionnaire assistance by 

answering questions about specific 

items on the census questionnaire or 

other frequently asked questions about 

the census. 

• Provide an option for respondents 

to complete a census interview over the 

telephone. 

• Provide outbound calling in 

support of Coverage Improvement 

(discussed in the NRFU section below). 

Respondents using the internet 

instrument will have the ability to 

contact CQA by telephone when webbased self-service help tools cannot 

answer their questions. Each of the 13 

supported languages, including English, 

will have its own toll-free number for 

callers. Respondents calling the English 

and Spanish language lines will initially 

be presented with a self-service 

Interactive Voice Response system, 

offering an assortment of automated 

responses to Frequently Asked Question 

information. At any time, respondents 

may opt to transfer to a customer service 

representative, who is prepared to 

further assist and enumerate them. All 

callers who need assistance in other 

languages will be connected directly to 

an appropriately-skilled customer 

service representative fluent in the 

language, based on the toll-free number 

called. 

G. Update Leave 

The Update Leave (UL) operation is 

designed for areas where the majority of 

housing units either do not have mail 

delivered to the physical location of the 

housing unit or the mail delivery 

information for the housing unit cannot 

be verified. Designated during TEA 

delineation, UL can occur in geographic 

areas that: 

• Do not have city-style addresses. 

• Do not receive mail through citystyle addresses. 

• Receive mail at post office boxes. 

• Have been affected by major 

disasters. 

The purpose of the UL operation is to 

update the address and feature data for 

the area assigned and to leave an 

internet Choice questionnaire package at 

every housing unit identified to allow 

the household to self-respond. 

Enumerators do not attempt to 

enumerate the household in person at 

this point. 

Occupants can respond online, using 

the ID printed on the questionnaire, or 

they can fill out and mail back the paper 

questionnaire. If they have questions or 

wish to respond on the telephone, they 

can call the CQA number, which is 

provided in the package. 

The UL operation includes mailing a 

reminder letter and a reminder postcard 

to addresses that are capable of 

receiving mail within the areas 

designated for UL. These mailed 

materials include the ID for the given 

address and the website address for the 

household to use in order to respond 

online. As in TEA 1, where all materials 

are mailed to housing units, any 

households that do not self-respond will 

be contacted during the NRFU 

operation. Finally, the UL operation 

performs a check on the quality of the 

address listing work (quality control 

[QC]) on approximately 10 percent of 

the production workload. 

H. Update Enumerate 

The Update Enumerate (UE) operation 

is designated for areas where the initial 

visit requires enumerating at the living 

quarters while updating the address list. 

The majority of the operation will occur 

in remote geographic areas that have 

unique challenges associated with 

accessibility. UE can occur in the 

following geographic areas: 

• Remote Alaska. 

• Areas that were a part of the 2010 

Census Remote UE operation, such as 

northern parts of Maine and southeast 

Alaska. 

• Select American Indian areas that 

request to be enumerated in person 

during the initial visit. 

Note that the areas included in the 

2010 Census Remote Update Enumerate 

operation might be delineated into TEA 

1 or TEA 6 for the 2020 Census, based 

on changes in address type or 

mailability. 

In the UE operation, field staff update 

the address and feature data and 

enumerate respondents in person. The 

address and feature data are updated on 

paper address registers and paper maps. 

The enumeration is collected on paper 

questionnaires. Field staff conducting 

UE follow a specific contact strategy for 

the remote locations and conduct any 

needed follow-up. The UE operation 

will promote the quality of the address 

work and of the enumeration data by 

having staff work in pairs and by 

supervisors reviewing all data collected 

for completion and any anomalies. 

Supervisors will rework an area to 

collect geographic and/or enumeration 

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quality of the collected data. 

Formalized, separate Listing QC and 

Reinterview operations will not be 

conducted for the operation in 2020. 

I. Non-ID Processing 

For the 2020 Census, respondents will 

be encouraged, but not required, to use 

the Census Bureau’s preassigned ID for 

the living quarters. Within the internet 

instrument, and, consequently, within 

CQA, it will be possible for respondents 

to submit their census response without 

the preassigned ID. Non-ID Processing is 

the effort to associate census responses 

that lack a Census ID with records 

included on the Census Bureau’s 2020 

Census address frame. This processing 

can occur through automated or clerical 

procedures. With the ISR instrument 

collecting the response and address 

data, it will be possible to perform 

automated processing to determine 

whether the address was already 

included on the address frame and 

extracted from the MAF. For those NonID responses not matched during 

automated processing, a clerical 

operation will make a further attempt to 

match the address to the 2020 Census 

address frame and validate nonmatching 

addresses. Some of the clerical work 

may require contacting the respondent 

to help determine a match or to verify 

the existence and location of the 

address; this is known as Non-ID 

Processing Phone Followup. Any 

nonmatching address whose existence 

and location cannot be verified by the 

clerical Non-ID operation will become a 

Field Verification assignment, handled 

as a component of the NRFU operation. 

Notably, Field Verification is only an 

address verification effort and does not 

include collection of the census 

questionnaire data. 

J. Nonresponse Followup 

The NRFU operation serves two 

primary purposes: 

• Determines or resolves housing unit 

status for addresses included in the 

NRFU workload. 

• Enumerates housing units that are 

determined to have a housing unit 

status of occupied. 

The NRFU workload is comprised of 

addresses from a number of sources, 

including: 

• Nonresponding addresses in TEAs 1 

and 6. 

• Blank mail returns or mail returns 

otherwise deemed to be too incomplete. 

• Addresses considered to represent 

new or recently completed housing. 

These addresses are identified by the 

spring 2020 USPS Delivery Sequence 

File and other special efforts undertaken 

to identify new housing around the time 

of the census—New Construction and 

Housing Unit Count Review; addresses 

upheld in the Local Update of Census 

Addresses appeals process; and 

potentially other addresses determined 

to require follow-up after the initial 

enumeration universe is established. 

• Addresses with a vacant status 

(reported as 0 occupants) from internet 

Self-Response. 

• Field Verification cases. 

• Coverage Improvement cases. 

• Self-Response Quality Assurance 

cases. 

The 2020 Census NRFU operation 

will be different from the NRFU 

operation conducted in the 2010 

Census. The Census Bureau will 

implement a NRFU operational design 

that utilizes a combination of the 

following: 

• Automation to facilitate data 

collection. 

• Administrative records and thirdparty data usage to reduce the workload. 

• Reengineering of staffing and 

management of field operations. 

• A Best-Time-to-Contact model to 

increase the likelihood of making 

contact attempts when an enumerator 

will find people at home. 

After giving the population in the 

United States and Puerto Rico an 

opportunity to self-respond to the 2020 

Census, the Census Bureau will use the 

most cost-effective strategy for 

contacting and counting people to 

ensure an accurate count. 

During the NRFU operation, 

enumerators will visit each housing unit 

designated for followup and determine 

whether the unit exists and then the 

occupancy status of the unit on April 1, 

2020. If the unit exists, they complete an 

interview using an automated 

application on a smartphone. The 

devices will use a secure Census 

Bureau-provided enumeration 

application solution for conducting the 

NRFU field data collection. 

Enumeration data and workload updates 

will be transmitted between the NRFU 

instruments and response processing 

systems on a regular basis. Various 

techniques will be used during NRFU to 

make the data collection as efficient as 

possible. The number of allowed 

attempts to contact will be controlled 

within the automated instrument, and 

best-time-to-contact modeling will be 

used in the creation of the daily 

assignments. Every case in the NRFU 

workload will initially have a maximum 

of six unique contact days. (During the 

Closeout phase of the operation, cases 

may receive additional attempts, as 

necessary, to resolve incomplete cases.) 

After a third attempt to contact a 

household does not yield a respondent, 

a case will become proxy-eligible. A 

proxy is a neighbor, landlord, real estate 

agent, or other knowledgeable person 

who can provide information about the 

unit and the people who live there. An 

enumerator should attempt three 

proxies after each noninterview for a 

proxy-eligible case. 

In addition to the initial in-person 

contact attempt, these addresses will 

also receive a final mailing that 

encourages occupants to self-respond to 

the 2020 Census. If the initial in-person 

contact attempt was unsuccessful, the 

Census Bureau will use administrative 

records for the unit status or as the 

household response data when it has 

high-quality administrative records from 

trusted sources. Undeliverable-asAddressed information from the USPS 

will serve as the primary administrative 

records source for the identification of 

vacant addresses and addresses that do 

not exist. Examples of sources of 

administrative records and third-party 

data used to enumerate occupied 

housing units include IRS Individual 

Tax Returns, IRS Information Returns, 

and the Center for Medicare and 

Medicaid Statistics Medicare 

Enrollment Database. Addresses will 

also be removed from the workload 

throughout the course of the NRFU 

operation as self-responses continue to 

be received. 

Early NRFU 

Early NRFU occurs in areas where 

there are high concentrations of college 

students living in off-campus housing 

who are unlikely to be present during 

the scheduled dates for regular NRFU. 

The enumeration procedures for early 

NRFU are the same as regular NRFU, 

but just conducted at an earlier time to 

accommodate the schedules of select 

colleges and universities. Any early 

NRFU addresses that are unresolved by 

the start of NRFU will receive additional 

field attempts during regular NRFU. 

NRFU Reinterview 

The NRFU Reinterview program will 

check the quality of the work done by 

enumerators in NRFU. A sample of 

approximately 5 percent of NRFU 

interviews will be selected for 

verification through NRFU Reinterview. 

The NRFU Reinterview program 

involves conducting an independent 

field reinterview for selected cases to 

verify that an enumerator conducted the 

interview and followed procedures. The 

NRFU Reinterview interviewer/ 

enumerator always attempts to contact 

the respondent from the original 

interview, which may be a household 

member, neighbor, or some other proxy. 

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he/she was contacted and an 

enumerator conducted the original 

interview, the NRFU Reinterview 

interviewer/enumerator collects roster 

names and ends the interview. If the 

respondent was not contacted or does 

not know if an enumerator conducted 

the original interview, the NRFU 

Reinterview interviewer/enumerator 

conducts a full interview with the 

respondent. 

During the early weeks of NRFU, 

enumerators will conduct interviews 

with multiunit structure managers to 

determine the occupancy status of 

nonresponding units within the 

multiunit structure. This Manager Visit 

(MV) allows enumerators to identify 

several units as vacant or delete without 

having to attempt each unit 

individually. Enumerators have a 

maximum of two unique contact days to 

complete the MV cases. The MV 

Reinterview program will check the 

quality of work done by enumerators 

during the MV and will target MVs with 

high numbers of vacant and delete unit 

statuses. During the MV Reinterview, 

the enumerator will ask to speak to the 

manager from the original MV 

interview. If the respondent confirms 

that he/she was contacted and an 

enumerator conducted the original 

interview, the MV RI enumerator asks 

about a subset of the list checked during 

the MV. If the respondent was not 

contacted or does not know if an 

enumerator conducted the original MV 

interview, the MV Reinterview 

enumerator conducts a full interview 

and asks about the entire list during the 

MV. 

The NRFU universe also includes 

cases from Non-ID Processing that were 

not able to be matched to the address 

frame. As discussed in the Non-ID 

section, these are Field Verification (FV) 

cases, where the enumerators attempt to 

locate the address in question and 

collect its Global Positioning System 

(GPS) coordinates. A sample of the FV 

cases is selected for verification through 

FV QC. Since FV cases only require an 

enumerator to determine the existence 

of an address and will not require an 

interview with a respondent, the FV QC 

program will consist of an independent 

check of the production enumerators 

where the FV QC enumerator will 

conduct the same procedures as the FV 

enumerator. FV cases, along with their 

QC component, have a maximum of one 

field contact day. 

The Coverage Improvement operation 

resolves categories of erroneous 

enumerations (people counted in the 

wrong place or counted more than once) 

and omissions (people who were 

missed) identified through collected 

enumeration data. The Coverage 

Improvement operation will attempt to 

resolve these issues from both selfresponse and NRFU responses. All cases 

that are selected for Coverage 

Improvement with a valid phone 

number will be subject to an interview 

attempt by a CQA Customer Service 

Representative. The workload identified 

for the Coverage Improvement operation 

will be responses where a household 

enumeration shows a difference 

between the answer for the number of 

people within the household and the 

number of people enumerated, and 

answers to coverage questions in the 

initial enumeration that reflect potential 

coverage errors. Automation and the 

internet self-response option should 

reduce the prevalence of these types of 

respondent errors as compared to the 

2010 Census, which was completed 

almost entirely on paper questionnaires. 

Self-Response Quality Assurance 

cases are generated as part of the quality 

assurance efforts for self-response. This 

re-collection of the enumeration data 

will also be worked within NRFU. 

K. Group Quarters 

The 2020 Census Group Quarters (GQ) 

operation will enumerate people living 

or staying in group quarters and will 

provide an opportunity for people 

experiencing homelessness and 

receiving service at a service-based 

location, such as a soup kitchen, to be 

counted in the census. 

The 2020 Census GQ operation 

consists of the following components: 

• In-Office GQ Advance Contact. 

• GQ Enumeration. 

• Service-Based Enumeration. 

• Military Enumeration. 

• Maritime Vessel (Shipboard) 

Enumeration. 

In-Office GQ Advance Contact 

The In-Office GQ Advance Contact is 

an in-office activity conducted in the 

area census offices. Preferred dates, 

times, methods of enumeration, and 

expected population on Census Day will 

be collected. Special instructions or 

concerns related to privacy, 

confidentiality, and security will also be 

addressed. 

GQ Enumeration 

The GQ Enumeration will cover all 50 

states, the District of Columbia, and 

Puerto Rico. An additional late GQ 

enumeration phase allows for the 

stakeholder identification and 

enumeration of group quarters that may 

have been missed during the earlier 

time frame. The primary method of 

conducting in-person enumeration of 

people residing in group quarters will 

be by using the Individual Census 

Questionnaire as the paper data 

collection instrument. In-person 

interviewing is planned for all group 

quarter types that are part of the field 

enumeration workload. 

GQ Enumeration—eResponse Data 

Transfer 

eResponse uses electronic data 

transfer from GQ administrators to the 

Census Bureau. Client-level data from 

systems maintained by GQ 

Administrators can be transferred to a 

standardized Census Bureau system that 

will accept electronically submitted 

data in a standardized template. These 

data will be accepted in lieu of use of 

the Individual Census Questionnaire if 

data are deemed to be of sufficiently 

high quality and completeness. 

Service-Based Enumeration 

The Service-Based Enumeration is 

specifically designed to approach 

people using service facilities because 

they may be missed during the 

traditional enumeration at housing units 

and group quarters. These service 

locations and outdoor locations include 

the following: 

• Shelters: Shelters with sleeping 

facilities for people experiencing 

homelessness; shelters for children who 

are runaways, neglected, or 

experiencing homelessness. 

• Soup kitchens. 

• Regularly-scheduled mobile food 

vans: Stops where regularly scheduled 

mobile food vans distribute meals. 

• Targeted non-sheltered outdoor 

locations. 

For the 2020 Census, the ServiceBased Enumeration operation will be 

conducted over the three-day period 

that ends on April 1, 2020, Census Day. 

Service providers for shelters, soup 

kitchens, and regularly-scheduled 

mobile food vans will be given the 

flexibility for their facility to be 

enumerated on any one of the three 

days. Targeted nonsheltered outdoor 

locations will be enumerated April 1, 

2020. Field Partnership Specialists with 

local knowledge will help to identify 

non-sheltered outdoor locations during 

the time of the census. 

Domestic Violence Shelters 

Domestic violence shelters are 

facilities for those seeking safety from 

domestic violence. Domestic violence 

shelters are enumerated using special 

procedures and specially trained 

personnel. These special procedures 

include inviting members for the State 

Coalition of the ‘‘National Coalition 

Against Domestic Violence’’ to 

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Quarters Update Program to create a 

comprehensive and current address 

listing for domestic violence shelters. 

These special procedures are designed 

to protect the safety and security of 

respondents being enumerated at these 

locations. 

Military Enumeration and Maritime 

Vessel Enumeration 

Military Enumeration involves 

enumeration of people living in GQs or 

barracks on stateside military 

installations or military vessels. Military 

installations are fenced, secured areas 

used for military purposes. An 

important feature of the military 

enumeration operation is that it 

includes both group quarters and 

housing units. A military vessel is 

defined as a United States Navy or 

United States Coast Guard vessel 

assigned to a home port in the United 

States. See part Q for methods we will 

use to count overseas military. 

L. Paper Data Capture 

The Paper Data Capture operation 

scans and converts data from 2020 

Census paper questionnaires. Core 

sources for the Paper Data Capture 

operation include housing unit selfresponse questionnaires mailed back by 

respondents and Group Quarters 

Individual Census Reports. The Census 

Bureau’s in-house Integrated Computer 

Assisted Data Entry system is used to 

capture paper responses from 

questionnaires. Each write-in and 

checkbox data field is data-captured, 

and Optical Character Recognition and 

Optical Mark Recognition are 

performed. If Key From Image is needed 

for forms that cannot be processed 

through Optical Character Recognition 

or Optical Mark Recognition, staff are 

presented the image of the page and are 

able to clarify, correct, or add to what 

was captured. The Census Bureau 

maintains the data, images of the forms, 

and the paper forms themselves until 

confirmation that the data have been 

correctly captured, at which point the 

paper forms are sent to destruction 

while the data and images are retained. 

The Census Bureau maintains the 

images for archiving purposes until 

such time as the National Archiving and 

Records Administration takes 

possession of the images for permanent 

archiving. 

M. Response Processing 

The Response Processing Operation 

(RPO) supports the three major 

components of the 2020 Census: Predata collection activities, data collection 

activities, and post-data collection 

activities. Specifically, the operation 

supports the following activities: 

Pre-Data Collection 

• Create and distribute the initial 

2020 Census enumeration universe of 

living quarters. 

• Assign the specific enumeration 

strategy for each living quarter based on 

case status and associated paradata. 

Data Collection 

• Create and distribute workload files 

required for enumeration operations. 

• Track case enumeration status. 

• Check for suspicious returns. 

Post-Data Collection 

• Run post-data collection processing 

actions in preparation for producing the 

final 2020 Census results. 

N. Redistricting Data Program 

The purpose of the 2020 Census 

Redistricting Data Program (RDP) is to 

provide to each state the legally 

required redistricting data tabulations 

by the mandated deadline of one year 

from Census Day: April 1, 2021. In 

compliance with Public Law (Pub. L.) 

94–171, the Census Bureau will tabulate 

for each state the total population 

counts by race and Hispanic origin. The 

Census Bureau will tabulate these 

counts for the total population and for 

the population age 18 and over in a 

prototype redistricting data file released 

as part of the 2018 End-to-End Census 

Test. The Census Bureau intends to 

work with stakeholders, specifically 

‘‘the officers or public bodies having 

initial responsibility for the legislative 

apportionment of each state,’’ to solicit 

feedback on the content of the prototype 

redistricting data file. If those 

stakeholders indicate a need for 

tabulations of citizenship data on the 

2020 Census Public Law 94–171 

Redistricting Data File, the Census 

Bureau will make a design change to 

include citizenship as part of that data. 

That new design would then be 

published in the Federal Register after 

it is completed in the summer of 2019. 

The Census Bureau will also tabulate 

housing unit counts by occupancy 

status (occupied or vacant) and provide 

total population counts for group 

quarters by group quarters type. For the 

prototype and for the 2020 Census 

Redistricting Data Files, the Census 

Bureau will provide these tabulations 

for a variety of standard census 

geographic areas including state, 

county, place, tract, and tabulation 

block. If states provide their 

congressional, legislative, and voting 

district boundaries through the 

Redistricting Data Program, the Census 

Bureau will also provide the tabulations 

for these areas. Tabulations by 

congressional, legislative, and voting 

districts will be available for the 50 

states; equivalent tabulations will be 

available for the District of Columbia 

and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 

This program has a separate OMB 

clearance number. There is more detail 

about this program in Federal Register 

Notice ‘‘Redistricting Data Program,’’ 

July 26, 2018, (Vol. 83, No. 144, pp. 

35458–35460. FR Doc No. 2018–15972). 

O. Data Products and Dissemination 

The Data Products and Dissemination 

(DPD) operation performs three primary 

functions: 

• Prepare and deliver the 2020 

Census apportionment data for the 

President of the United States to provide 

to Congress by December 31, 2020. 

• Tabulate 2020 Census data products 

for use by the states for redistricting. 

• Tabulate and disseminate 2020 

Census data for use by the public. 

The DPD operation produces 

information required by Public Law to 

satisfy apportionment and redistricting 

requirements. Title 13, U.S. Code 

(U.S.C.) requires that the apportionment 

population counts be delivered to the 

Office of the President within nine 

months of the census date. 

Apportionment counts are based on the 

Census Unedited File, the Federally 

Affiliated Overseas Personnel and 

Dependents Count File, and a 

geographic file of state changes. For the 

2020 Census, the census date is April 1, 

2020, and the President will receive the 

counts by December 31, 2020. 

The DPD operation is also responsible 

for the production and dissemination of 

many data products, including national 

and state summary files, tabulated 

informational files, and data comparison 

tables. This includes electronic and 

printed products that cover population 

and housing unit tabulations, 

geographical maps, and products 

specific to the Island Areas (U.S. Virgin 

Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 

the Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands). 

The Center for Enterprise 

Dissemination Services and Consumer 

Innovation initiative is responsible for 

developing enterprise dissemination 

requirements. DPD is conducting a 

thorough review of the past product 

design (cross-tabulations and iterations 

of characteristics), while also looking to 

ensure that users can find data after the 

2020 Census quickly and easily. The 

Census Bureau will undertake a 

thorough analysis of the proposed 2020 

Census data products in keeping with 

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under Title 13. Federal Register Notice 

‘‘Soliciting Feedback from Users on 

2020 Census Data Products,’’ July 19, 

2018 (Vol. 83, pp. 34111—34112, FR 

Doc No. 2018–15458) was published 

with a 60-day comment period. It 

requested feedback from users on 

specific tables and geographic detail for 

decennial census products such as 

Summary File 1, Summary File 2, and 

the Demographic Profile. The last day to 

provide comment on the notice was 

September 17, 2018. Subsequently, this 

notice was reopened for an additional 

60-day comment period on October 9, 

2018 (Vol. 83, p. 50636, FR Doc No. 

2018–21837). The last day to provide 

comments on this notice was November 

8, 2018. The final suite of 2020 Census 

data products will be determined in the 

summer of 2019. 

P. Archiving 

The Archiving (ARC) Operation 

performs the following functions: 

• Coordinates storage of the materials 

and data and provides records deemed 

permanent as the official data of the 

2020 Census, including files containing 

the individual responses to the 2020 

Census, to the National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA). 

• Provides similar files to the Census 

Bureau’s National Processing Center in 

Indiana to use as source materials to 

conduct the Age Search Service. 

• Stores data to cover in-house needs. 

Q. Federally Affiliated Count Overseas 

The Federally Affiliated Count 

Overseas operation obtains counts by 

home state of United States military and 

federal civilian employees who are 

stationed or assigned overseas and their 

dependents living with them. For the 

2020 Census, overseas is defined as 

anywhere outside the 50 states, the 

District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 

the Island Areas: American Samoa, 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, Guam, and the United States 

Virgin Islands. Counts are submitted 

from Federal agencies and the 

Department of Defense (Defense 

Manpower Data Command) through a 

Census Bureau secure server and are 

used to allocate the federally affiliated 

population living overseas to their home 

state for the purposes of apportioning 

seats in the U.S. House of 

Representatives. If military and federal 

civilian employees of the U.S. 

government are deployed overseas 

while stationed or assigned within the 

U.S., they are counted at their U.S. 

residence where they live or sleep most 

of the time using administrative data 

provided by Federal agencies and the 

Department of Defense. See Section K 

for more info on how we count stateside 

military personnel. 

R. Island Areas Censuses 

The purpose of the Island Areas 

Censuses (IAC) operation is to 

enumerate all residents of American 

Samoa, the Commonwealth of the 

Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), 

Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands; 

process and tabulate the collected data; 

and disseminate data products to the 

public. All data collection activities for 

the IAC will rely on the use of paper 

questionnaires, paper maps, and paper 

address registers to record the physical 

addresses of housing units and group 

quarters. The IAC questionnaire will 

leverage the American Community 

Survey questionnaire with minor 

wording changes in order to take into 

account the Island Areas local 

governments’ concerns, where possible. 

Enumerators will list the addresses 

using paper address registers. Once the 

addresses have been listed, enumerators 

will visit every living quarter to conduct 

interviews with household members 

and follow up as necessary. The IAC 

will perform a clerical review of all 

completed questionnaires for 

completeness and data consistency, a 

reinterview for a sample of 

questionnaires, and an independent 

address check. The response data will 

be processed through the Decennial 

Response Processing System. Data 

products will include counts of the 

population and housing units, data 

profiles, subject tables, ranking tables, 

and supplemental tables. 

S. Evaluations and Experiments 

The Census Bureau is not currently 

planning a separate package for the 

Evaluations and Experiments program, 

as has been done in past censuses. For 

the 2020 Census, these evaluations and 

experiments will be described either as 

Substantive Changes to this package, to 

the Census Bureau’s Post-Enumeration 

Survey Independent Listing and QC 

OMB package, or within the Generic 

Clearance for Decennial Census Field 

Tests and Evaluations, covered under 

OMB approval #0607–0971. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Frequency: Once every 10 years. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Section 141. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, identified by 

Docket number OMB–2018–0004, may 

be submitted to the Federal eRulemaking portal: https://

www.regulations.gov within 30 days of 

publication of this notice. You may also 

submit comments and recommendations 

to 2020_Census_Comments@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806. 

All comments received are part of the 

public record and will be posted to 

http://www.regulations.gov for public 

viewing. Comments will generally be 

posted without change. All Personally 

Identifiable Information (for example, 

name and address) voluntarily 

submitted by the commenter may be 

publicly accessible. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. You may submit 

attachments to electronic comments in 

Microsoft Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or 

Adobe PDF file formats only. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the 

Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

[FR Doc. 2018–28164 Filed 12–27–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–979] 

Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells, 

Whether or Not Assembled Into 

Modules, From the People’s Republic 

of China: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review and Preliminary Determination 

of No Shipments; 2016–2017 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) preliminarily determines 

that producers and/or exporters subject 

to this administrative review made sales 

of subject merchandise at less than 

normal value. Interested parties are 

invited to comment on these 

preliminary results of review. 

DATES: Applicable December 28, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Pedersen and Krisha Hill, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office IV, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–2769 and (202) 482–4037, 

respectively. 


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