57440 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 182 / Tuesday, September 21, 2010 / Notices 

1 (88,267 × .5 hr × 3 waves + 3,100 × .167 hr × 

3 waves) 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Performance Review Board 

Membership 

AGENCY: Economics and Statistics 

Administration, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Below is a listing of 

individuals who are eligible to serve on 

the Performance Review Board in 

accordance with the Economics and 

Statistics Administration’s Senior 

Executive Service and Senior 

Professional Performance Management 

Systems: 

William G. Bostic, Jr., 

Brian Callahan, 

Nancy M. Gordon, 

Howard R. Hogan, 

Arnold A. Jackson, 

Theodore A. Johnson, 

Steven J. Jost, 

J. Steven Landefeld, 

Jennifer Madans, 

Marilia Matos, 

Brian E. McGrath, 

Thomas L. Mesenbourg, 

Brent R. Moulton, 

Brian C. Moyer, 

Joel D. Platt, 

Nancy A. Potok, 

Obie G. Whichard, 

James K. White. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Latasha Ellis, 301–763–3727. 

Dated: September 9, 2010. 

James K. White, 

Associate Under Secretary for Management, 

Chair, Performance Review Board. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23433 Filed 9–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–BS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Survey of Income 

and Program Participation (SIPP) Wave 

9 of the 2008 Panel 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau. 

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, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before November 22, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Patrick J. Benton, Census 

Bureau, Room HQ–6H045, Washington, 

DC 20233–8400, (301) 763–4618. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The Census Bureau conducts the 

SIPP, which is a household-based 

survey designed as a continuous series 

of national panels. New panels are 

introduced every few years with each 

panel usually having durations of one to 

four years. Respondents are interviewed 

at 4-month intervals or ‘‘waves’’ over the 

life of the panel. The survey is molded 

around a central ‘‘core’’ of labor force 

and income questions that remain fixed 

throughout the life of the panel. The 

core is supplemented with questions 

designed to address specific needs, such 

as obtaining information on household 

members’ participation in government 

programs as well as prior labor force 

patterns of household members. These 

supplemental questions are included 

with the core and are referred to as 

‘‘topical modules.’’ 

The SIPP represents a source of 

information for a wide variety of topics 

and allows information for separate 

topics to be integrated to form a single, 

unified database so that the interaction 

between tax, transfer, and other 

government and private policies can be 

examined. Government domestic-policy 

formulators depend heavily upon the 

SIPP information concerning the 

distribution of income received directly 

as money or indirectly as in-kind 

benefits and the effect of tax and 

transfer programs on this distribution. 

They also need improved and expanded 

data on the income and general 

economic and financial situation of the 

U.S. population. The SIPP has provided 

these kinds of data on a continuing basis 

since 1983 permitting levels of 

economic well-being and changes in 

these levels to be measured over time. 

The 2008 panel is currently scheduled 

for 4 years and will include 13 waves 

of interviewing beginning September 

2008. Approximately 65,300 households 

were selected for the 2008 panel, of 

which 42,032 households were 

interviewed. We estimate that each 

household contains 2.1 people, yielding 

88,267 person-level interviews in Wave 

1 and subsequent waves. Interviews take 

30 minutes on average. Three waves 

will occur in the 2008 SIPP Panel 

during FY 2011. The total annual 

burden for 2008 Panel SIPP interviews 

would be 132,400 hours in FY 2011. 

The topical modules for the 2008 

Panel Wave 9 collect information about: 

• Adult Well-being 

• Informal Care-giving 

Wave 8 interviews will be conducted 

from May 1, 2011 through August 31, 

2011. 

A 10-minute reinterview of 3,100 

people is conducted at each wave to 

ensure accuracy of responses. 

Reinterviews require an additional 

1,553 burden hours in FY 2011. 

II. Method of Collection 

The SIPP is designed as a continuing 

series of national panels of interviewed 

households that are introduced every 

few years with each panel having 

durations of 1 to 4 years. All household 

members 15 years old or over are 

interviewed using regular proxyrespondent rules. During the 2008 

panel, respondents are interviewed a 

total of 13 times (13 waves) at 4-month 

intervals making the SIPP a longitudinal 

survey. Sample people (all household 

members present at the time of the first 

interview) who move within the country 

and reasonably close to a SIPP primary 

sampling unit will be followed and 

interviewed at their new address. 

Individuals 15 years old or over who 

enter the household after Wave 1 will be 

interviewed; however, if these 

individuals move, they are not followed 

unless they happen to move along with 

a Wave 1 sample individual. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0944. 

Form Number: SIPP/CAPI Automated 

Instrument. 

Type of Review: Regular submission. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

88,267 people per wave. 

Estimated Time per Response: 30 

minutes per person on average. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 133,953.1

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The 

only cost to respondents is their time. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Section 182. 


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