75522 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 232 / Friday, December 2, 2011 / Notices 

Dated: November 9, 2011. 

Mary Bohman, 

Acting Administrator, Economic Research 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–30969 Filed 12–1–11; 8:45 am] 

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Notice of a Public Meeting of the 

Wyoming Advisory Committee to the 

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) that a planning meeting of the 

Wyoming Advisory Committee to the 

Commission (Committee) will convene 

by conference call at 10 a.m. (MDT) on 

Monday, December 19, 2011. The 

purpose of the meeting is to discuss 

next steps after project selection. 

This meeting is available to the public 

through the following toll-free call-in 

number: (800) 516–9896, conference ID: 

8334. Any interested member of the 

public may call this number and listen 

to the meeting. Callers can expect to 

incur charges for calls they initiate over 

wireless lines, and the Commission will 

not refund any incurred charges. Callers 

will incur no charge for calls they 

initiate over land-line connections to 

the toll-free telephone number. Persons 

with hearing impairments may also 

follow the proceedings by dialing 711 

for relay services and 1-(800) 516–9896, 

followed by Conference ID: 8334. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments; the 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by January 19, 2012. 

Comments may be mailed to the Rocky 

Mountain Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 999 - 18th 

Street, Suite 1380 South, Denver, CO 

80202, faxed to (303) 866–1050, or 

emailed to ebohor@usccr.gov. Persons 

who desire additional information may 

contact the Rocky Mountain Regional 

Office by email at ebohor@usccr.gov or 

by phone at (303) 866–1040. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Rocky Mountain Regional Office, as 

they become available, both before and 

after the meeting. Persons interested in 

the work of the Committee are directed 

to the Commission’s Web site, http:// 

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Rocky Mountain Regional Office at the 

above email or street address. 

To ensure that the Commission 

secures an appropriate number of 

telephone lines for the public, persons 

are asked to contact the Rocky Mountain 

Regional Office 10 days before the 

meeting date either by email at 

ebohor@usccr.gov, or by phone at (303) 

866–1040. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the rules and regulations of 

the Commission and FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, November 28, 

2011. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2011–30979 Filed 12–1–11; 8:45 am] 

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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 (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: 2012 Survey of Income and 

Program Participation Computer Audio 

Recorded Interviewing Field Test. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Form Number(s): SIPP–CARI 2012 DR 

105(L)—Director’s Letter English; SIPP– 

CARI 2012 DR 105(L)(SP) 2012— 

Director’s Letter Spanish; SIPP–EHC 

4006A Brochure ‘‘SIPP You Represent 

Your Nation;’’ SIPP/CARI Automated 

Instrument. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Burden Hours: 1,890. 

Number of Respondents: 1,890. 

Average Hours per Response: 1 hour. 

Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census 

Bureau requests authorization from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) to conduct a Computer Audio 

Recorded Interviewing (CARI) 

technology field test using the 2012 

Survey of Income and Program 

Participation Event History Calendar 

(SIPP–EHC) Field Test questionnaire. 

Computer Audio Recorded 

Interviewing is a data collection method 

that captures audio along with response 

data during computer-assisted personal 

and telephone interviews (CAPI & 

CATI). A portion of each interview is 

recorded unobtrusively, with the 

respondent’s consent, and the sound file 

is returned with the response data to a 

central location. By reviewing the 

recorded portions of the interview, 

quality assurance (QA) analysts can 

evaluate the likelihood that the 

exchange between the field 

representative (FR) and respondent is 

authentic and follows critical survey 

protocol as defined by the sponsor and 

based on best practices. 

The Census Bureau will conduct the 

SIPP CARI test using the 2012 SIPP– 

EHC automated instrument and 

computer-assisted personal interviewing 

(CAPI) in 6 of the 12 Regional Offices. 

The SIPP CARI questionnaire will have 

the recording capability in use during 

the interview. The only content change 

to the instrument is the addition of a 

consent question which will record the 

respondent’s permission to audio record 

responses. Additionally, approximately 

25 specific questions are programmed 

for recording for each person’s 

interview. 

This is the second CARI field test 

conducted by the Census Bureau. The 

first CARI field test was used to conduct 

behavior coding for the 2010 American 

Community Survey Content Test in late 

2010. The Census Bureau is conducting 

this test to determine if the deployment 

of CARI will have any significant impact 

on response rates and item level 

responses. Previous tests for CARI have 

proven the capability of the technology. 

Other tests have also been conducted on 

non-voluntary surveys and proved 

promising. However, it is important for 

the Census Bureau to obtain information 

on the impact of this technology on data 

quality indicators for voluntary 

demographic surveys. If the test proves 

successful, this technology would be a 

major asset for all programs using 

computer assisted personal and 

telephone modes of data collection to 

assist in meeting quality objectives. 

The 2012 SIPP CARI test will be 

conducted between May and June 2012. 

We will implement the CARI technology 

on a portion of the 2012 SIPP–EHC data 

collection instrument. This test will be 

conducted on a separate sample than 

that of the 2012 SIPP–EHC field test. 

In addition to the actual recording 

capability, the CARI Interactive Data 

Access System has been developed as a 

monitoring system that allows for the 

analysis of audio and image files to be 

conducted immediately after 

completion and transmission of the 

interview. The system is an innovative, 

integrated, multifaceted monitoring 

system that features a configurable webbased interface for behavior-coding, 

quality assurance and coaching. The 

system assists in coding interviews for 

measuring question and interviewer 

performance and the interaction 

between interviewers and respondents. 

The 2012 SIPP CARI field test 

instrument will be evaluated in several 

domains including field implementation 

issues and data quality vis-a`-vis the 

SIPP 2011 and 2012 field test results. 


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