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classes across the landscape which 

would decrease the susceptibility of 

large scale mountain pine beetle 

outbreaks. Treatments proposed within 

the Browns Mountain Late Successional 

Reserve (LSR) are designed to accelerate 

the development of large trees and 

reduce stand densities which would 

reduce the risk of a stand to fire, insects 

and disease. No commercial treatments 

are proposed in Northern spotted owl 

(NSO) high quality habitat nor within 

activity centers or within high value 

habitat within LSR. Ladder fuel 

reduction treatments proposed in high 

value NSO habitat (approximately 920 

acres) would affect the lowest canopy 

layer and stands would remain 

overstocked and above the upper 

management zone density. 

To meet the need to improve fire 

management opportunities and provide 

for public and firefighter safety, this 

project proposes to treat approximately 

16,800 acres of treatment to meet 

hazardous fuels reduction objectives. 

The Twin projects also proposes to: 

(a) Rehab dispersed sites that are 

causing resource damage; (b) enhance 

spawning gravel, address boat ramp 

erosion and improve accessible trails; 

(c) establish a buffer between developed 

and dispersed campsites; (d) remove 

trees showing signs of future failure 

within developed sites; and (e) close 

and decommissioning system roads and 

decommission user-created roads. 

Responsible Official 

The responsible official will be Kevin 

Larkin, District Ranger, Bend-Fort Rock 

Ranger District. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The responsible official will consider 

how the proposed action meets the 

project’s purpose and need, how public 

comments have been considered, and 

what the short and long term effects and 

benefits are to other resource areas. 

Scoping Process 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process, which guides the 

development of the EIS. Public 

comments regading this proposal are 

requested in order to assist in 

identifying issues and opportunities 

associated with the proposal, how to 

best manage resources, and to focus the 

analysis. Those wishing to object must 

meet the requirements at 36 CFR 218. 

It is important that reviewers provide 

their comments at such times and in 

such manner that they are useful to the 

agency’s preparation of the EIS. 

Therefore, comments should be 

provided prior to the close of the 

comment period and should clearly 

articulate the reviewer’s concerns and 

contentions. 

Comments received in response to 

this solicitation, including names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be part of the public record for this 

proposed action. Comments submitted 

anonymously will be accepted and 

considered. 

Dated: May 9, 2018. 

Chris French, 

Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 

System. 

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BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

AGENCY: United States Commission on 

Civil Rights. 

ACTION: Notice of Commission public 

business meeting. 

DATES: Friday, June 15, 2018, 12:00 p.m. 

EST. 

ADDRESSES: Place: National Place 

Building, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 

11th Floor, Suite 1150, Washington, DC 

20425. (Entrance on F Street NW.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Walch: (202) 376–8371; TTY: 

(202) 376–8116; publicaffairs@

usccr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

business meeting is open to the public. 

There will also be a call-in line for 

individuals who desire to listen to the 

presentations: (888) 378–0320; 

Conference ID 7025358. The event will 

also live-stream at https://

www.youtube.com/user/USCCR/videos. 

(Please note that streaming information 

is subject to change.) Persons with 

disabilities who need accommodation 

should contact Pamela Dunston at (202) 

376–8105 or at access@usccr.gov at least 

seven (7) business days before the 

scheduled date of the meeting. 

Meeting Agenda 

I. Approval of Agenda 

II. Business Meeting 

A. Speaker Series: ‘‘50 Years Later: 

Reflecting on the 1968 U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights 

Hearings on the Civil Rights of 

Mexican-Americans’’ 

• J. Richard Avena, former director, 

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ 

then-Field Office in San Antonio, 

Texas 

• Robert Brischetto, Ph.D., Founding 

Executive Director, Southwest Voter 

Research Institute 

• Candace de Leon-Zepeda, Ph.D., 

Chair of the Department of English, 

Mass Communications and Drama, 

Our Lady of the Lake University 

B. Discussion and Vote on 

Commission report: ‘‘An 

Examination of Excessive Force and 

Modern Policing Practices’’ 

C. Discussion and Vote on 

Commission Advisory Committee 

Chairs 

a. Carol Johnson, nominated to Chair 

the Arkansas Advisory Committee 

b. John Malcolm, nominated to Chair 

the District of Columbia Advisory 

Committee 

c. Nadine Smith, nominated to Chair 

the Florida Advisory Committee 

d. Melanie Vigil, nominated to Chair 

the Wyoming Advisory Committee 

D. Presentation by Minnesota 

Advisory Committee Chair Velma 

Korbel, on the recently released 

report, ‘‘Civil Rights and Policing 

Practices in Minnesota.’’ 

E. Presentation by New York Advisory 

Committee Chair Alexandra Korry, 

on the recently released report, 

‘‘The Civil Rights Implications of 

‘Broken Windows’ Policing in NYC 

and General NYPD Accountability 

to the Public’’ 

F. Management and Operations 

• Staff Director’s Report 

III. Adjourn Meeting 

Dated: June 5, 2018. 

Brian Walch, 

Director, Communications and Public 

Engagement. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12428 Filed 6–6–18; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; 2020 Census 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before August 7, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

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Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

internet at PRAcomments@doc.gov). 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by Docket number USBC– 

2018–0005, to the Federal e-Rulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. All 

comments received are part of the 

public record. No comments will be 

posted to http://www.regulations.gov for 

public viewing until after the comment 

period has closed. 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Robin A. Pennington, Rm. 

2H465, U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial 

Census Management Division, 

Washington, DC 20233 or by email to 

Robin.A.Pennington@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Article 1, Section 2 of the United 

States Constitution mandates that the 

U.S. House of Representatives be 

reapportioned every ten years after 

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. Census data also are 

used to determine funding allocations 

for the distribution of an estimated $675 

billion of federal funds each year. 

The goal of the 2020 Census is to 

count everyone once, only once, and in 

the right place. From the 2020 Census 

data, the Census Bureau will produce 

the basic population totals by state for 

congressional apportionment, as 

mandated by the U.S. Constitution and 

Title 13, U.S. Code. Title 13 also 

provides for the confidentiality of 

responses. Anyone who handles census 

data swears an oath for life to keep those 

data confidential. Under Title 13, it is 

against the law to disclose confidential 

information or any information that 

could identify an individual 

respondent. The information the Census 

Bureau collects cannot be used for any 

reason except to produce statistics, and 

violations of Title 13 are punishable by 

fines and up to five years in prison. 

This clearance request covers the 50 

states, the District of Columbia, the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, federally 

affiliated persons overseas, and the 

Island Areas of American Samoa, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, Guam, and the United States 

Virgin Islands. The methods of data 

collection for the Federally Affiliated 

Count Overseas and the Island Areas 

Censuses are different from the data 

collections described throughout this 

document and will be described 

separately in sections specific to those 

operations. 

In compliance with Public Law 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 

of 18 years of age and over. The Census 

Bureau intends to work with the 

National Conference of State 

Legislatures and other stakeholders to 

solicit feedback as to how the states 

would prefer to receive tabulations of 

citizenship data. If stakeholders such as 

the National Conference of State 

Legislatures elect to receive tabulations 

of citizenship data, the Census Bureau 

will make require a design change to 

include citizenship as part of the Public 

Law 94–171 Redistricting Data File. 

That new design plan would then be 

published in the Federal Register after 

the 2020 Census final design is 

completed in the summer of 2019. For 

the prototype and for the 2020 Census, 

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 

districts through the Redistricting Data 

Program, the Census Bureau will also 

provide the tabulations for these areas. 

The Census Bureau also will tabulate 

housing unit counts by occupancy 

status (occupied or vacant) and provide 

total population counts for group 

quarters by group quarters type for a 

select set of geography, including 

tabulation blocks. Tallies by 

congressional, legislative, and voting 

districts will be available for the 50 

states; equivalent tallies will be 

available for the District of Columbia 

and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 

Tallies for state, county, and place will 

be available for the Island Areas. 

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: 

(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. 

To the extent that these innovations 

influence the collection of data from 

respondents in the 2020 Census, these 

innovations will be described below. 

(1) Reengineering Address Canvassing 

A complete and accurate address list 

is the cornerstone of a successful 

census. In order to conduct the 

decennial census and enumerate in the 

census all people at a location, the 

Census Bureau needs the address and 

physical location of each place where 

someone is, or could be, living. In other 

words, all living quarters need to be 

identified. The Census Bureau 

maintains an address list and spatial 

data for the 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. 

• Information collected in other 

Census Bureau programs, such as the 

American Community Survey. 

Type of Enumeration Areas 

Prior to the census, it is necessary to 

delineate all geographic areas included 

in the 2020 Census 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. 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 

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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 enumeration data 

is expected to be returned or submitted 

by a respondent. After the initial selfresponse phase, nonresponding 

households will be enumerated in the 

NRFU operation. Puerto Rico is 

designated as entirely Update Leave. 

These TEAs, programs, and operations 

will be described throughout this notice. 

Address Canvassing 

Address Canvassing is the process of 

validating and updating addresses in the 

MAF and spatial data in TIGER before 

the census in order to create the initial 

list of addresses to be enumerated in the 

census. All housing units, group 

quarters, and transitory locations need 

to be identified and located correctly on 

the map as recorded in TIGER. 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. 

Transitory locations 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. Address Canvassing will not 

occur in Island Areas. 

For the 2020 Census, the Census 

Bureau is using In-Office Address 

Canvassing for the first time, in addition 

to In-Field Address Canvassing. This 

innovation involves the use of 

electronic sources for much of the 

validation and updating of MAF/TIGER. 

Since 2015, the Census Bureau has used 

analysis of satellite imagery to identify 

areas of the United States and Puerto 

Rico where changes in living quarters 

have occurred. In-Office Address 

Canvassing is the process of using 

empirical geographic evidence (e.g., 

imagery and comparison of the Census 

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

address list. This process detects and 

identifies change using high-quality 

imagery, administrative data, and thirdparty sources to review and update the 

address last. 

However, the Census Bureau will still 

need to conduct In-Field Address 

Canvassing in order to update the 

address and spatial data for an 

estimated 30 percent of housing units in 

TEA 1. The Census Bureau will make a 

final determination on which areas will 

be canvassed using In-Field Address 

Canvassing by March 2019. Some InOffice Address Canvassing activities 

will continue improving the address list 

until March 2020. In-Field Address 

Canvassing is the only stage of Address 

Canvassing that involves collecting 

information from the general public. 

The associated response burden is 

detailed later in this notice. 

(2) Optimizing Self-Response 

The goal of this innovation area is to 

communicate the importance of the 

2020 Census to the entire population of 

the 50 states, the District of Columbia, 

and Puerto Rico, in order to generate the 

largest possible self-response. Selfresponse reduces the need to conduct 

in-person follow-up operations to 

complete the enumeration. 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. 

Internet Self-Response 

One major means of making it easier 

for people to respond is by providing an 

internet questionnaire and using 

mailings, questionnaire delivery, 

advertising, and publicity to tell the 

public about this option. Internet 

response represents a substantial 

innovation for the enterprise. 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. 

Based on results from these tests, 

response rates from prior censuses, and 

data from the American Community 

Survey and other surveys, the Census 

Bureau estimates that 45 percent of U.S. 

households in areas that receive 

mailouts of materials from the Census 

Bureau will respond via the internet 

before the initial NRFU workload is 

created. At the same time, the Census 

Bureau recognizes the need for alternate 

response modes to allow respondents to 

complete their 2020 Census 

questionnaire, including paper 

questionnaires as used in the past. 

Details about the contact strategy for 

mailed materials in TEA 1 will be 

discussed below. The Census 

Questionnaire Assistance operation, 

also described below, will provide the 

third mode of self-response. Overall, the 

Census Bureau estimates that 60.5 

percent of households that receive 

mailouts or hand delivery of materials 

from the Census Bureau will selfrespond in one of these three modes 

(i.e., internet, paper, telephone) prior to 

the beginning of NRFU activities. 

(3) Utilizing Administrative Records and 

Third-Party Data 

For the 2020 Census, ‘‘administrative 

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

terms used to describe micro data 

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. Finally, 

the Census Bureau is also utilizing 

commercial third-party data from 

organizations such as CoreLogic and the 

Veterans Service Group of Illinois. 

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: 

1. Consistent with previous decennial 

censuses, the Census Bureau will utilize 

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state government agencies and thirdparty data to refine contact strategies 

and build and update the residential 

address list. 

2. 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. 

3. 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 NRFU 

operations by: 

a. Removing vacant housing units and 

nonresidential addresses from the NRFU 

workload. 

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 2, 3a and 3b, the Census Bureau 

uses or plans to use administrative data 

only when it can confirm empirically 

across multiple sources that the data are 

consistent, of high quality, and can be 

accurately 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 Internal Revenue Service. Each of 

the 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 6.5 million 

households of the projected total of 

approximately 60 million addresses that 

are expected to be the NRFU workload 

for the 2020 Census. These 6.5 million 

households represent less than five 

percent of the approximately 145 

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. 

(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. 

These changes to census field 

operations will not be apparent to 

respondents to any of the data collection 

operations. 

The 2020 Census Operations 

The set of 35 operations that 

constitute all processes that will occur 

in the course of the 2020 Census is 

described in the 2020 Census 

Operational Plan. In addition to the 

public-facing data collection operations, 

there are operations in the categories of 

support, Information Technology, 

infrastructure, data publication, and 

testing and evaluation. The sections 

below outline data collection operations 

in the 2020 Census along with some 

operations that directly support these 

data collection operations by producing 

materials for the 2020 Census. 

Some data collection operations that 

are included in the 2020 Census 

Operational Plan are not described in 

this notice. These were or will be 

described in separate notices because of 

timing, type of work, or other 

considerations: Local Update of Census 

Addresses (Federal Register Notices: 81 

FR 42686; 81 FR 78109), Redistricting 

Data Program (Federal Register Notices: 

80 FR 40993; 80 FR 62015), Integrated 

Partnership and Communications 

(Federal Register Notice: 82 FR 38875), 

Evaluations and Experiments, and 

Count Question Resolution. In addition, 

all Coverage Measurement field 

operations, which result in an 

independent estimate of the coverage of 

the census, will be handled through 

separate Federal Register Notices. 

Final plans for each of these 

operations could receive minor updates 

or other changes as a result of lessons 

learned during the 2018 End-to-End 

Census Test, further systems testing, or 

other input received from stakeholders 

after the date of this posting. Consistent 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 procedures, shortly after the 60- 

day comment period for this Notice 

ends, a 30-day Federal Register Notice 

of a pending information collection will 

provide the latest information on plans 

for every data collection operation in 

the 2020 Census and provide an 

additional opportunity for the public to 

comment. 

The Content and Forms Design and 

the Language Services operations for the 

2020 Census are essential to data 

collection because they involve the 

development and translation of 

materials used with respondents. These 

two operations are described below to 

set the stage for the discussion of the 

remaining 2020 Census data collection 

operations. 

(A) Content and Forms Design 

The Census Bureau submitted the 

subjects planned for the 2020 Census to 

Congress on March 28, 2017, and the 

questions planned for the 2020 Census 

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 

Individuals of Limited English 

Proficiency require language assistance 

in order to complete their census 

questionnaires. The Census Bureau has 

identified the largest Limited English 

Proficiency populations in the United 

States using American Community 

Survey data and has established a 

program for providing non-English 

materials for the decennial census. 

Internet Self-Response and Census 

Questionnaire Assistance will be 

available in 12 non-English languages. 

Paper questionnaires, mailing materials, 

field data collection instruments, and 

field data collection materials will be 

available in English and Spanish. There 

will be additional support materials in 

59 non-English languages. 

(C) Address Canvassing 

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. 

Address canvassing 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. 

For the 2010 Census, the Address 

Canvassing field staff, referred to as 

listers, traversed almost every block in 

the nation to compare what they 

observed on the ground with the 

contents of the Census Bureau’s address 

list. Listers verified or corrected 

addresses that were on the list, added 

new addresses to the list, and deleted 

addresses that no longer existed. Listers 

also collected map spot locations (i.e., 

Global Positioning System coordinates) 

for each structure and added new 

streets. 

The Census Bureau has determined 

that for the 2020 Census there will be a 

full Address Canvassing 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 


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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 in the office 

become the universe of geographic areas 

worked during In-Field Address 

Canvassing. In the In-Field Address 

Canvassing, an extract of addresses from 

the MAF is created, and this address list 

is verified and updated, as needed. 

Listers will 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 20 percent of the housing 

unit workload. 

(D) Forms Printing and Distribution 

The Forms Printing and Distribution 

operation involves the printing and 

distribution of the following paper 

forms: 

• internet invitation letters. 

• Reminder cards and letters. 

• Questionnaire mailing packages. 

• Materials for other special 

operations, as required. 

Every address record will be identified 

by an ID, which will be printed on 

questionnaires and letters and used for 

tracking for 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 operation 

performs the following functions: 

• Maximize online response to the 

2020 Census through contact strategies 

and improved access for respondents. 

• Collect response data through 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. To that end, the 

Census Bureau will use an approach 

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

mailing includes an invitation to 

respond to the census online. 

In areas with low internet coverage or 

connectivity or other characteristics that 

may make it less likely that respondents 

will complete the census questionnaire 

online, the Census Bureau will employ 

an ‘‘internet Choice’’ contact strategy. In 

this approach, the first mailing includes 

both an invitation to complete the 

census online and a paper 

questionnaire. The Census Bureau 

anticipates about 20 percent of the 

households in TEA 1 will receive the 

internet Choice treatment. While all 

nonresponding households in the 

internet First areas will eventually 

receive a paper questionnaire—in the 

fourth mailing—households in internet 

Choice areas will receive a paper 

questionnaire in the first mailing, and 

again in the fourth mailing if they have 

not yet responded. Both mailing 

strategies have the objective of 

maximizing self-response to the 2020 

Census, thereby minimizing NRFU. 

The contact strategies for mailing 

materials in TEA 1 are outlined in table 

form: 

Mailing materials 

treatment Mailing 1 Mailing 2 Mailing 3 * Mailing 4 * Mailing 5 * 

Internet First ...... Letter with internet invitation Reminder letter Reminder postcard.Questionnaire with letter 

with internet option.

‘‘It’s Not Too Late’’ postcard. 

Internet Choice Questionnaire with letter 

with internet option.

Reminder letter Reminder postcard.Questionnaire with letter 

with internet option.

‘‘It’s Not Too Late’’ postcard. 

* Targeted only to nonrespondents. 

Internet Self-Response Instrument 

The internet self-response instrument 

and all related support systems will be 

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 will be 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 

operation has three primary functions: 

• Answer respondent 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 NRFU Reinterview and 

Coverage Improvement (discussed in the 

NRFU section below). 

Respondents using the internet 

instrument will have the ability to 

contact Census Questionnaire 

Assistance 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 are 

presented with a self-service Interactive 

Voice Response system, offering an 

assortment of automated responses to 

Frequently Asked Questions 

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 

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(G) Update Leave 

The Update Leave operation is 

designed to occur in 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. Update Leave 

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. 

These areas will not be included in 

the In-Field Address Canvassing but 

will be worked within the In-Office 

Address Canvassing. The purpose of the 

Update Leave 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 when they leave the 

questionnaire. 

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 Census Questionnaire 

Assistance, using the contact 

information provided in the package. 

The Update Leave operation includes 

mailing a reminder letter and a 

reminder postcard to addresses that are 

capable of receiving mail within the 

areas designated for Update Leave. 

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, 

any households that do not self-respond 

will be contacted during the NRFU 

operation. 

Finally, the Update Leave operation 

performs a check on the quality of the 

address listing work (quality control 

[QC]) on approximately 5 percent of the 

production workload. 

(H) Update Enumerate 

The Update Enumerate operation is 

designated to occur in 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. 

Update Enumerate can occur in the 

following geographic areas: 

• Remote Alaska. 

• Areas that were a part of the 2010 

Census Remote Update Enumerate 

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 Update Enumerate 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 Update Enumerate 

follow a specific contact strategy for the 

remote locations and conduct any 

needed follow-up. The Update 

Enumerate operation performs a check 

on the quality of the address work 

(listing QC) on approximately 10 

percent of the listing workload and a 

check on the quality of the enumeration 

data through a telephone reinterview on 

approximately 5 percent of the 

enumeration workload. 

All completed questionnaires, address 

registers, and maps are delivered or 

shipped back to the area census office 

and then sent to a processing center for 

data capture, keying, and digitizing. 

(I) Paper Data Capture 

The Paper Data Capture operation 

captures and converts data from 2020 

Census paper questionnaires. Core 

workloads for the Paper Data Capture 

operation include self-response 

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. 

(J) 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 

Census Questionnaire Assistance, it will 

be possible for respondents to submit 

the 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 internet SelfResponse 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 Non-ID 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. 

(K) Nonresponse Followup 

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: 

• 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. 

• Automation to facilitate data 

collection. 

The NRFU workload is comprised of 

addresses from a number of sources, 

including: 

• Nonresponding addresses in the 

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• Blank mail returns or mail returns 

otherwise deemed to be too incomplete. 

• Addresses considered to represent 

recently completed housing identified 

from the spring 2020 USPS Delivery 

Sequence File and other special efforts 

undertaken to identify new housing 

around the time of the census known as 

New Construction and Housing Unit 

Count Review; addresses upheld in the 

Local Update of Census Addresses 

appeals process; potentially other 

addresses determined to require followup after the initial enumeration universe 

is established. 

• Addresses with a vacant status 

reported from internet Self-Response. 

• Field Verification cases. 

• Coverage Improvement cases 

(described below). 

• Response Re-collect cases 

(described below). 

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. Once the 

households that did not respond 

through internet, telephone, or paper are 

known, administrative records will be 

used to identify vacant addresses and 

addresses that do not exist in order to 

reduce the workload of addresses that 

NRFU enumerators will visit. 

Undeliverable-as-Addressed 

information from the USPS will provide 

the primary administrative records 

source for the identification of vacant 

addresses and addresses that do not 

exist. 

During the NRFU operation, 

enumerators will visit each housing unit 

designated for follow-up, determine the 

occupancy status of the unit on April 1, 

2020, and complete an interview using 

an automated application on a 

smartphone. Various techniques will be 

used during NRFU to make the data 

collection as efficient as possible. The 

number of allowed attempts to contact 

is controlled within the automated 

instrument, and best-time-to-contact 

modeling is used in the creation of the 

daily assignments. Every case in the 

NRFU workload will have a maximum 

of six unique contact days and 12 proxy 

attempts. After a third attempt to 

contact a household does not yield a 

respondent, a case will become proxyeligible. 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. Addresses will 

also be removed from the workload 

throughout the course of the NRFU 

operation as self-responses are received. 

Administrative Records 

If the initial in-person contact attempt 

is unsuccessful, the Census Bureau will 

use administrative records as the 

household response data when it: (1) 

Believes that the address is occupied, 

and (2) has high-quality administrative 

records. These include records such as 

from the Internal Revenue Service, the 

Social Security Administration, and the 

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 

Services, as well as prior censuses and 

the American Community Survey. 

Addresses found to be 

‘‘administrative records vacant’’ or 

‘‘administrative records nonexistent’’ 

will be removed from the NRFU 

workload and will immediately be 

mailed a final postcard that encourages 

occupants to self-respond to the 2020 

Census. Addresses that are determined 

to be ‘‘administrative records occupied’’ 

and for which enumeration is 

incomplete after one in-person visit 

attempt will be mailed a final postcard 

encouraging self-response after seven 

days. 

NRFU Reinterview program 

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. 

All cases that are sampled for the 

program and have a valid phone number 

will initially be subject to a reinterview 

attempt by a Census Questionnaire 

Assistance customer service 

representative to verify that an 

enumerator conducted the interview 

and followed procedures. NRFU 

Reinterview cases that cannot be 

completed via telephone will be sent to 

the field for personal visit reinterviews. 

The customer service representative or 

enumerator working a NRFU 

Reinterview case always attempts to 

contact the respondent from the original 

interview, which may be a household 

member, neighbor, or some other proxy. 

If the original respondent confirms that 

he/she was contacted and an 

enumerator conducted the original 

interview, the customer service 

representative or 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 

customer service representative or 

enumerator conducts a full interview 

with the respondent. 

Manager Visit 

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 

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 

Manager Visit cases. The Manager Visit 

Reinterview program will check the 

quality of work done by enumerators 

during the Manager Visit and will target 

enumerators with high numbers of 

vacant and delete unit statuses. During 

this Manager Visit Reinterview check, 

the enumerator will ask to speak to the 

manager from the original Manager Visit 

interview. If the respondent confirms 

that he/she was contacted and an 

enumerator conducted the original 

interview, the Manager Visit 

Reinterview enumerator asks about a 

subset of the list checked during the 

Manager Visit. If the respondent was not 

contacted or does not know if an 

enumerator conducted the original 

interview, the enumerator conducts a 

full interview and review the entire list 

of nonresponding units within the 

multiunit structure. 

Field Verification 

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 

cases, where the enumerators attempt to 

locate the address in question and 

collect its Global Positioning System 

(GPS) coordinates. A sample of the Field 

Verification cases is selected for 

verification through Field Verification 

Quality Control. Since Field Verification 

cases only require an enumerator to 

determine the existence of an address 

and will not require an interview with 

a respondent, this Field Verification 

Quality Control program will consist of 

an independent check of the production 

enumerator’s work in the field. The 

Field Verification Quality Control 

enumerator will conduct the same 

procedures as the Field Verification 

enumerator. Field Verification cases, 

along with their quality control 

component, have a maximum of one 

field contact day. 

Coverage Improvement 

The Coverage Improvement operation 

improves the enumeration count by 

resolving categories of erroneous 

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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 identified from both 

self-response and NRFU questionnaires. 

The issues identified for the Coverage 

Improvement operation will be: 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. Both of these 

types of cases could result in either 

erroneous enumerations or omissions. 

Automation and the internet selfresponse option will use various edit 

checks when these inconsistencies arise, 

which should reduce the prevalence of 

these types of respondent errors 

compared to the 2010 Census, which 

was completed almost entirely on paper 

questionnaires. All cases that are 

selected for Coverage Improvement with 

a valid phone number will be subject to 

an interview attempt by a Census 

Questionnaire Assistance customer 

service representative. 

Response re-collect cases are 

generated as part of the quality 

assurance efforts for self-response and 

will be worked within NRFU. 

(L) Group Quarters 

The 2020 Census Group Quarters 

operation will enumerate people living 

or staying in group quarters and 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 Group Quarters 

operation consists of the following 

components: 

• In-Office Group Quarters Advance 

Contact. 

• Group Quarters Enumeration. 

• Service-Based Enumeration. 

• Military Enumeration. 

• Maritime Vessel (Shipboard) 

Enumeration. 

The In-Office Group Quarters 

Advance Contact is an in-office activity 

conducted in the area census offices in 

which the group quarters name, address, 

contact name, and phone number from 

the address list that results from 

Address Canvassing will be verified. 

Preferred dates, times, methods of 

enumeration, and expected population 

on Census Day will be collected as well. 

Special instructions or concerns related 

to privacy, confidentiality, and security 

will also be addressed. 

The Group Quarters enumeration will 

cover all 50 states, the District of 

Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This 

enumeration at group quarters occurs in 

approximately the same timeframe as 

the household enumeration operations. 

An additional late group quarters 

enumeration phase allows for the 

stakeholder identification and 

enumeration of group quarters that may 

have been missed during the earlier 

timeframe. 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. 

Group Quarters Enumeration— 

eResponse Data Transfer 

eResponse uses electronic data 

transfer from group quarter 

administrators to the Census Bureau. 

Client-level data from systems 

maintained by group quarter 

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 of 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, Service-Based 

Enumeration will be conducted over the 

three-day period that ends on April 1, 

2020, Census Day. Service providers for 

shelters, soup kitchens, and regularlyscheduled mobile food vans will be 

given the flexibility for their facility to 

be enumerated on any one of the three 

days. Targeted non-sheltered outdoor 

locations will be enumerated April 1, 

2020. 

Domestic Violence Shelters 

Domestic Violence Shelters are 

facilities for those seeking safety from 

domestic violence. As in previous 

censuses, the enumeration of 

individuals at Domestic Violence 

Shelters will be handled by personnel 

specially trained to protect the safety 

and security of respondents being 

enumerated at these locations. 

Military Enumeration 

Military Enumeration involves 

enumeration of people living in group 

quarters (or barracks) on domestic 

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. Privatized housing on 

military installations will be 

enumerated as part of the housing unit 

data collection operations rather than 

through Military Enumeration. 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. In order to support 

the military’s security requirements, 

military Group Quarters Enumeration 

will occur by means of electronic data 

transfer from the Defense Manpower 

Data Center to the Census Bureau. 

(M) Enumeration at Transitory 

Locations 

The 2020 Census Enumeration at 

Transitory Locations operation 

enumerates those individuals in 

occupied units at transitory locations 

who do not have a usual home 

elsewhere. This operation will: 

• Use automation, where possible, to 

facilitate data collection and streamline 

operations such as advance contact. 

However, data collection will be done 

using paper. 

• Use reengineered staffing and 

management of the field operation. 

• Use in-person enumeration as the 

primary mode of data collection. 

(N) 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 

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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. 

(O) Island Areas Censuses 

The Census Bureau will conduct the 

2020 Island Areas Censuses through 

partnerships with local government 

agencies in American Samoa, 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, Guam, and the United States 

Virgin Islands. The Census Bureau will 

provide the materials and guidance to 

the local government agencies that are 

then responsible for recruiting and 

hiring local staff to conduct the data 

collection phase through in-person 

enumeration. 

The Island Areas Censuses 

questionnaire leverages the American 

Community Survey questionnaire with 

minor wording changes. These changes 

include accommodating time reference 

differences and incorporating the final 

2020 Census questions while taking into 

account the Island Areas local 

governments’ concerns, where possible. 

All data collection activities 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 MAF does 

not include addresses for the Island 

Areas, so the address registers become 

the address list for the Island Areas 

Censuses. Once the addresses have been 

listed, enumerators will visit every 

living quarter to conduct interviews 

with household members and follow up 

as necessary. The Census Offices 

conduct two quality control operations: 

(1) Reinterview for a sample of 

questionnaires, and (2) independent 

address check. The Census Offices also 

conduct a clerical review of all 

completed questionnaires for 

completeness and data consistency. 

After the Island Areas Censuses 

collects the detailed demographic and 

housing data, the 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. 

II. Method of Collection 

Data collection operations result in 

respondent burden from: (1) Contacts 

during the address frame-building 

process, and (2) contacts during 

enumeration for the 2020 Census. 

The frame-building operation in the 

field that can result in respondent 

burden is In-Field Address Canvassing. 

In-Field Address Canvassing is the 

process of having listers visit specific 

geographic areas to identify every place 

where people could live or stay and 

compare what they see on the ground 

with the existing census address list and 

either verify or correct the address and 

location information. Listers will knock 

on doors at every structure in the 

assignment in an attempt to locate living 

quarters. The Census Bureau expects 

that listers will make contact with 

residents (i.e., someone is at home) 

approximately 25 percent of the time, 

based on previous address list 

development field operations. 

The second component of respondent 

burden is the census enumeration 

operations. This consists of multiple 

operations that in combination serve the 

purpose of reaching all residents for the 

purposes of the enumeration in the 

census. All attempts by the Census 

Bureau to make direct contact in TEAs 

1 and 6 with individual households by 

mail for enumeration are referred to as 

‘‘contact strategies for mailing 

materials.’’ Types of contact strategies 

for mailing materials include invitation 

letters, postcards, and questionnaires 

mailed to households. 

The ‘‘Internet First’’ approach was 

developed to encourage respondents to 

use the internet. Currently, this model 

includes the mailing of a letter inviting 

respondents to complete the 

questionnaire online, two follow-up 

reminders and, if necessary, a mailed 

paper questionnaire followed by a final 

reminder (or two reminders to certain 

Administrative Records cases). All 

correspondence will contain a 

telephone number that respondents may 

use to complete the questionnaire over 

the telephone. 

The ‘‘Internet Choice’’ contact strategy 

will be used for the estimated 20 

percent of households that have low 

internet coverage or connectivity or 

other characteristics that may make it 

less likely the respondents will 

complete the census questionnaire 

online. This strategy includes both an 

invitation to complete the census online 

and a paper questionnaire as part of the 

first mailing. 

For those housing unit addresses in 

TEAs 1 and 6 for which no self-response 

is received, the NRFU operation will be 

used to collect the household data. 

NRFU will use an automated instrument 

during data collection. Additional 

follow-up activities to improve and 

check quality will be included within 

the Census Questionnaire Assistance 

call center and NRFU workloads. All 

cases that are sampled for NRFU 

reinterview with a valid phone number 

will initially be subject to a reinterview 

attempt by a Census Questionnaire 

Assistance customer service 

representative. NRFU reinterview cases 

that cannot be completed via telephone 

will be sent to the field for personal visit 

reinterviews. 

The NRFU reinterview program will 

check the quality of the work done by 

enumerators in NRFU. The NRFU 

reinterview program involves 

conducting an independent reinterview 

for selected cases to verify that an 

enumerator conducted the interview 

and followed procedures, as described 

above. 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, as described above. 

The NRFU universe also includes cases 

from Non-ID Processing that were not 

able to be matched to the address frame. 

As discussed above, these are Field 

Verification cases, where the 

enumerators attempt to locate the 

address in question and collect its GPS 

coordinates. 

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 questionnaires. 

In summary, a census address list is 

the basis for the census enumeration. 

Some of the work to create the address 

list will occur in In-Field Address 

Canvassing, which will incur 

respondent burden. Using a postAddress Canvassing extract of the MAF, 

census materials will be provided to or 

for all living quarters according the TEA 

designated for the area and the 

operation designated for the living 

quarters type. Self-response modes for 

housing units include internet, paper 

questionnaires, and telephone. 

Response modes for group quarters 

include paper questionnaires and 

electronic file transfers. Special 

operations will be implemented to 

collect data at identified transitory units 

and service-based locations. The various 

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improvement operations will also incur 

respondent burden. In addition, the 

Island Areas Censuses and Federally 

Affiliated Count Overseas operations 

enumerate the populations covered by 

those definitions, through the processes 

described above. 

III. Data 

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D–CQ–UERA 

D–Q–TLRA 

D–CQ–TLRA 

D–Q–GERA 

D–Q–MV 

D–Q–PR(E/S) 

D–Q–GEPR(S) 

D–Q–ULPR(E/S) 

D–Q–TLPR(S) 

D–CQ–TLPR(S) 

D–Q–AS 

D–Q–MI 

D–Q–G 

D–Q–VI 

D–Q–VI(S) 

D–CQ–AS 

D–CQ–MI 

D–CQ–G 

D–CQ–VI 

D–CQ–VI(S) 

D–Q–GE–AS 

D–Q–GE–MI 

D–Q–GE–G 

D–Q–GE–VI 

D–Q–GE–VI(S) 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Households/ 

Individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

178,202,534. 

Estimated Time per Response: 6.77 

minutes. 

2020 CENSUS

Operation or category Estimated number 

of respondents 

Estimated time 

per response 

(minutes) 

Total burden 

hours 

Address Canvassing .................................................................................................. 12,210,150 5 1,017,513 

Address Canvassing Listing QC ................................................................................ 2,442,030 5 203,503 

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

Leave): 

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

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

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

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

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

Re-collect ............................................................................................................ 250,000 10 41,667 

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

Coverage Improvement ...................................................................................... 3,200,000 7 376,471 

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

Self-Response Areas Subtotal .................................................................... 148,060,000 .............................. 24,048,138 

Geographic Area Focused on Update Enumerate: 

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

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

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

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

Group Quarters (GQ): 

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

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

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

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

Group Quarters Subtotal ............................................................................. 8,319,800 .............................. 721,642 

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

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

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

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

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

Totals .................................................................................................................. 178,202,534 6.77 26,306,103 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 26,306,103 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0 (This is not the cost of 

respondents’ time, but the indirect costs 

respondents may incur for such things 

as purchases of specialized software or 

hardware needed to report, or 

expenditures for accounting or records 

maintenance services required 

specifically by the collection.) 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C. 

Section 141. 

IV. Request for Comments 

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 shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 


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(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (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 respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12365 Filed 6–7–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of the Census 

[Docket Number 180402335–8335–01] 

Annual Business Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of determination. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Bureau of the Census (Census 

Bureau) has determined that it is 

conducting the Annual Business Survey 

(ABS) of domestic nonfarm employer 

businesses in 2018. We have determined 

that data to be collected in this survey 

are needed to aid the efficient 

performance of essential governmental 

functions and have significant 

application to the needs of the public 

and industry. The ABS will provide the 

only comprehensive federal data on 

owner demographics and business 

characteristics, including financing 

research and development (for 

microbusinesses), and innovation. The 

data derived from this survey are not 

publicly available from 

nongovernmental or other governmental 

sources. 

ADDRESSES: The Census Bureau will 

make the reporting instructions 

available to the organizations included 

in the survey. Additional copies are 

available upon written request to the 

Director, 4600 Silver Hill Road, U.S. 

Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233– 

0101. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nick 

Orsini, Assistant Director for Economic 

Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, 5H160, 

Washington, DC 20233, Telephone: 

301–763–2558; Email: Nick.Orsini@

census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In an 

effort to improve the measurement of 

business dynamics in the United States, 

the Census Bureau, with support from 

the National Science Foundation (NSF), 

plans to conduct the Annual Business 

Survey (ABS). The ABS is a new survey 

designed to combine Census Bureau 

firm-level survey collections to reduce 

respondent burden and simultaneously 

increase data quality and operational 

efficiencies. The ABS replaces the 

following collections: The five-year 

Survey of Business Owners (SBO) 

(Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number 0607–0943) for 

employer businesses; the Annual 

Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE) (OMB 

control number 0607–0986); and the 

Business Research and Development 

and Innovation for Microbusinesses 

(BRDI–M) form, a component of the 

Business Research and Development 

and Innovation Survey, BRDI–S (OMB 

control number 0607–0912). The ABS 

also replaces the innovation questions, 

formerly asked in the BRDI–S. 

ABS estimates will include the 

number of employer firms and their 

sales/receipts, annual payroll, and 

employment by gender, ethnicity, race, 

and veteran status as well as research 

and development and innovation and 

various other relevant topics. The ABS 

will be conducted jointly by the Census 

Bureau and the National Center for 

Science and Engineering Statistics 

within the NSF. It is planned for five 

reference years (2017–2021). Title 13, 

United States Code (U.S.C.), Sections 

8(b), 131, and 182, Title 42, U.S.C, 

Sections 1861–1875 (National Science 

Foundation Act of 1950, as amended), 

and Section 505 of the America 

COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 

(42 U.S.C. 1862p) authorize this 

collection. Sections 224 and 225 of Title 

13, U.S.C., require responses from 

sampled firms. 

The ABS covers all domestic nonfarm 

employer businesses filing Internal 

Revenue Service tax forms as individual 

proprietorships, partnerships, or any 

type of corporation, and with receipts of 

$1,000 or more. The ABS will sample 

approximately 850,000 employer 

businesses for the benchmark survey 

year 2017, with data collection taking 

place in 2018. Annually for survey years 

2018 to 2021, the survey sample will be 

reduced to approximately 300,000 

employer businesses to reduce the 

burden on the respondents. The Census 

Bureau will use administrative data to 

estimate the owner demographics such 

that each firm is placed into one of nine 

frames for sampling: American Indian, 

Asian, Black or African American, 

Hispanic, Non-Hispanic White Men, 

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific 

Islander, Some Other Race, Publicly 

Owned Businesses, and Women Owned 

Businesses. The sample would be 

stratified by state, industry, and frame. 

The Census Bureau will select 

companies with certainty based on 

volume of sales, payroll, number of paid 

employees or industry classification. All 

certainty cases are sure to be selected 

and represent only themselves. 

The ABS will provide continuing and 

timely national statistical data for the 

period between economic censuses. The 

data collected will be within the general 

scope and nature of those inquiries 

covered in the economic census. The 

next economic census is being 

conducted currently for the reference 

year 2017. Government program 

officials, industry organization leaders, 

economic and social analysts, business 

entrepreneurs, and domestic and foreign 

researcher in academia, business, and 

government will use statistics from the 

new ABS. More details on expected uses 

of the statistics from the new ABS are 

found in the Notice of Consideration for 

the ABS published in the Federal 

Register on October 24, 2017 (82 FR 

49175). 

Public Comments 

The Census Bureau published a 

Notice of Consideration for the ABS in 

the Federal Register on October 24, 

2017 (82 FR 49175). We received one 

comment. The commenter suggested 

that the Census Bureau take the 

following actions: 

(1) Determine the cost and benefits of 

the survey and consider whether the 

benefits outweigh the costs; 

(2) If the benefits outweigh the cost, 

consider how to minimize the cost 

imposed on the businesses participating 

in the survey; 

(3) If, after conducting the cost-benefit 

analysis and examining the means for 

minimizing the cost imposed on survey 

participants, the Census Bureau 

nevertheless wishes to proceed with the 

survey, publish a revised notice that 

includes a cost-benefit analysis and an 

explanation of steps taken to minimize 

the costs on businesses forced to 

participate in the survey; and 

(4) Eliminate the survey 

discrimination based on gender, 

ethnicity, race, and age. 

Census Bureau Response to the Public 

Comment 

The Census Bureau agrees that costs 

and benefits should be analyzed and 

weighed, and has already carried out 


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