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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35). 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau. 

Title: 2015 Census Test. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–xxxx. 

Form Number(s): 

Questionnaire 

DD–1 

DD–1A(E/S) 

Instruction Card 

DD–33A 

DD–33 

DD–33(U) 

Advance Letter for BYOD 

DD–5(L)(2015b) 

Questionnaire Cover Letters 

DD–16(L)(1) 

DD–16(L)(1)(E/S) 

DD–16(L)(2) 

DD–17(L)(1) 

DD–17(L)(1)(E/S) 

DD–17(L)(3) 

Postcards 

DD–9(REG) 

DD–9(U) 

DD–9 

DD–9(E/S) 

DD–9(2A) 

DD–9(2A)(E/S) 

DD–9(2D) 

Envelopes 

BC–1325 

DD–6A(IN) 

DD–6A(IN)(E/S) 

DD–6A(1)(IN) 

DD–6A(1)(IN)(E/S) 

DD–8A 

DD–8A(E/S) 

Field Items 

DD–26A Notice of Visit 

DD–26B Notice of Visit 

DD–26B(C) Notice of Visit—English/ 

Chinese 

DD–26B(K) Notice of Visit—English/ 

Korean 

DD–26B(V) Notice of Visit—English/ 

Vietnamese 

DD–31 Confidentiality Notice 

DD–3309 Language ID flashcard 

NRFU Instrument Spec 

Internet Instrument Spec 

EFU Instrument Spec 

EFU Letter/Flyer 

Wording for Emails and Text Messages 

Type of Request: New Collection. 

Number of Respondents: 470,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 0.2. 

Burden Hours: 98,086. 

ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS FOR 2015 CENSUS TEST SAVANNAH SITE

[Savannah, GA and adjacent areas in South Carolina] 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Estimated time per response 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

hours 

Savannah Sample = 90,000 households plus respondents from awareness campaign 

Self-Response Enumeration ...................................................................... 305,000 12 minutes ....................................... 61,000 

Subset of Savannah Sample (Not counted toward total respondents but included in burden hours) 

‘‘Notify Me’’ ................................................................................................ 100,000 3 minutes ......................................... 5,000 

Focus Groups Selection ............................................................................ 144 3 minutes ......................................... 8 

Focus Groups ............................................................................................ 80 2 hours ............................................ 160 

Totals 

Total Respondents ..................................................................................... 305,000 Total Burden Hours ......................... 66,168 

ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS FOR 2015 CENSUS TEST MARICOPA SITE

[Maricopa County, AZ] 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Estimated time per response 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

hours 

Maricopa County Sample = 160,000 households 

Self Response ........................................................................................... 90,000 12 minutes ....................................... 18,000 

Non Response Follow-up (NRFU) ............................................................. 70,000 10 minutes ....................................... 11,667 

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ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS FOR 2015 CENSUS TEST MARICOPA SITE—Continued 

[Maricopa County, AZ] 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Estimated time per response 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

hours 

Evaluation Follow-up ................................................................................. 5,000 15 minutes ....................................... 1,250 

Focus Groups Selection ............................................................................ 144 3 minutes ......................................... 8 

Focus Groups ............................................................................................ 80 2 hours ............................................ 160 

Additional Bring Your Own Device Sample (Maricopa County) = 5,000 households 

BYOD Follow-up ........................................................................................ 5,000 10 minutes ....................................... 833 

Totals 

Total Respondents ..................................................................................... 165,000 Total Burden Hours ......................... 31,918 

Needs and Uses: During the years 

preceding the 2020 Census, the Census 

Bureau will pursue its commitment to 

reduce the cost of conducting the next 

decennial census while still providing 

the highest data quality possible. A 

primary decennial census cost driver is 

the collection of data in person from 

addresses for which the Census Bureau 

received no reply via initially offered 

response options. We refer to these as 

nonresponse cases, and to the in-person 

visits to them as Nonresponse Followup, or NRFU. Increasing the number of 

people who take advantage of selfresponse options (such as completing 

Internet alternatives, or responding via 

telephone, or a paper questionnaire and 

mailing it back to the Census Bureau 

can contribute to a less costly census. 

The Census Bureau is committed to 

using the Internet as a primary response 

option in the 2020 Census, so we need 

to study ways to offer and promote the 

Internet as a self-response option for the 

2020 Census. 

In addition to increasing and 

optimizing self-response through the 

Internet, the Census Bureau plans to 

incorporate the use of new technologies, 

such as advertising via social media, 

encouraging the use of the Internet as 

the primary response mode and 

allowing respondents to submit a paper 

or electronic questionnaire without a 

unique identification code. We are 

focusing on studying these outreach and 

self-response approaches in a 2015 

Census Test in the Savannah, GA area. 

Another 2015 Census Test will be in 

the Maricopa County, AZ area, and will 

study alternative methods that are 

designed to increase efficiency and 

reduce costs while conducting NRFU 

operations. The test objectives in this 

site also include studying the use of 

administrative records to reduce field 

visits and costs. 

2015 Census Test—Savannah Site 

[Optimizing Self-Response (OSR) 

Testing] 

The 2015 Census Test in selected 

counties in and surrounding Savannah, 

GA, and adjacent counties in South 

Carolina, will allow the Census Bureau 

to study a variety of new methods and 

advanced technologies that are under 

consideration for the 2020 Census. The 

Census Bureau will conduct this test in 

the Savannah Media Market, which 

includes 20 counties, 17 in Georgia and 

3 in South Carolina. This media market 

has diversity in demographics, address 

types, and Internet penetration and 

usage. We primarily selected this market 

because we consider it fairly selfcontained, which will limit bleed-over 

of advertising efforts into neighboring 

media markets, while conducting a full 

outreach and advertising effort for all 

households in the test area. 

Additionally, it is cost effective for the 

Census Bureau to advertise in this 

medium-sized market area. 

To improve Internet self-response, the 

Census Bureau plans to continue testing 

multiple contact and notification 

strategies that we studied in the 2014 

Census Test. For example, we will 

implement an Internet-push strategy, 

which proved to be an effective strategy 

in the 2014 Census Test. We will also 

include a ‘‘Notify Me’’ campaign, which 

allows respondents to register their 

email address or cell phone number 

through a Web site and to provide their 

mode preference for future contacts, by 

email or text message. In the 2014 

Census Test, the participation rate for 

‘‘Notify Me’’ was very low, so we are 

investigating methods for improving the 

understanding of and participation in 

this opportunity for early engagement. 

As mentioned above, this test will 

include a communications component 

to increase awareness and encourage 

Internet participation by potential 

respondents, including the ‘‘Notify Me’’ 

component of the test. Traditional 

advertising and outreach efforts used for 

the decennial census will be 

supplemented with targeted digital 

marketing for groups that we know to be 

hard-to-count from past censuses and 

surveys. We will use our planning 

database to identify hard-to-count 

groups at the block or tract level, and 

place advertisements with targeted 

messaging on digital sites frequented by 

these groups. In addition to the Internet, 

respondents will have an opportunity to 

respond via paper questionnaires or 

telephone interviews. Because the focus 

of this test is optimizing self-response, 

we will not conduct a NRFU operation 

in this test site. 

The 2015 Census Test in the 

Savannah site also will continue Census 

Bureau efforts to make it easier for 

respondents to respond by allowing 

them to do so without providing a preassigned User Identification (ID) number 

associated with their address. This 

‘‘non-ID’’ option was successfully 

implemented in the 2014 Census Test, 

but the response rates were lower for the 

non-ID panels in that test. However, the 

response rates for non-ID cases were 

determined not only by the respondent 

participation, but also on our ability to 

match the respondent-provided address 

information to the sample address from 

the Master Address File (MAF). In the 

Savannah site, building on the work 

from the 2014 Census Test, we will test 

our ability to improve the non-ID 

process by conducting real-time 

processing of responses lacking a preassigned User ID. In the 2014 Census 

Test, this was done via back-end 

processing; not while respondents were 

on-line. In the 2015 Census Test, for 

respondents who do not have an ID or 

do not use a pre-assigned User ID to 

complete their census form online, we 

will attempt to search for their address 

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an existing MAF record. If the initial 

attempt to match the respondentprovided address is unsuccessful, but 

we are able to determine that further 

respondent input might be able to assist 

us, the Internet response instrument 

will prompt the respondent for 

additional information. In all instances 

where a MAF match is not found, we 

will attempt to assign the respondent 

address to a census block, and then the 

respondent will be asked to confirm or 

correct that location via an integrated 

map interface with the Census 

questionnaire. This real-time processing 

methodology should increase our 

matching rates, thereby helping us to 

realize higher self-response rates for the 

non-ID universe. In addition, if we are 

able to match a respondent’s provided 

address information to our MAF in real 

time, it will permit us to remove the 

address from the NRFU universe 

immediately, thereby reducing the field 

workload and cost. 

The Test in the Savannah site is 

comprised of four phases: 

Communication, ‘‘Notify Me,’’ Selfresponse, and Focus groups. 

Communication—In the 2015 Census 

Test in the Savannah area, 

communication strategies will include 

broadcast and cable/satellite television, 

radio ads, print ads, influencer phone 

calls to remind households to 

participate, earned media, and social 

media. Additionally this test will also 

explore the use of digital (an online ad 

for the general population) and targeted 

digital (an online ad placed and catered 

to harder-to-count audiences) 

advertising. The first phase of 

advertising will run through the 

duration of ‘‘Notify Me,’’ and messaging 

will educate residents about the test and 

the option to pre register. The second 

phase of advertising runs through the 

duration of OSR data collection and will 

include additional test information 

while motivating self-response with call 

to action messaging. 

‘‘Notify Me’’—Similar to the what we 

studied in the 2014 Census Test, this 

early engagement provides an 

opportunity to make people aware of the 

Test and to provide them the 

opportunity to voluntarily select their 

preferred mode for future invitations 

and reminders (i.e., how to ‘‘Notify Me’’ 

when it is time to complete the Census 

form—email or text message). The 

communications campaign in the 

Savannah site will seek to educate the 

public on the benefits of the ‘‘Notify 

Me’’ opportunity and to encourage them 

to participate. 

Self-response—For the 2015 Census 

Test in the Savannah site, we will 

implement our current standard 

‘‘Internet Push’’ contact strategy, which 

involves a letter inviting people to 

respond via the Internet with up to two 

postcard reminders, and ultimately a 

paper questionnaire. The Census Bureau 

will directly contact up to 90,000 

housing units to notify them of the 

survey. A subsample of these 

notifications will provide a User ID for 

the respondent to use for their Internet 

response, and the remaining sample will 

not provide an ID, so we can test 

processing these non-ID cases. 

Additionally, respondents that have not 

been directly contacted but have 

become aware of the Test (and the 

Internet site) via some of the planned 

outreach and advertising, can also selfrespond via the Internet without the 

need for a User ID. These two sets of 

non-ID respondents will allow us to 

study real-time non-ID processing, as 

described above. Additionally, we will 

test a mechanism (using an independent 

source) for validating all non-ID 

respondents in order to identify 

duplicate or potentially fraudulent 

responses. This validation testing will 

not involve additional contact with 

respondents, so that there will be no 

further respondent burden. 

For people responding via the Internet 

or on paper, we will offer telephone 

questionnaire assistance. On-line 

respondents will be able to do this 

directly through the Internet instrument, 

or by phoning the telephone 

questionnaire assistance number. People 

who prefer not to respond via a paper 

form or on the Internet also can call this 

number and complete the questionnaire 

for their household with a telephone 

agent. 

Focus Groups—To evaluate the 

‘‘Notify Me’’ strategy being tested in the 

2015 Census Test Savannah site, the 

Census Bureau will conduct four focus 

groups, comprised of various categories 

of respondents and non-respondents. 

These focus groups are intended to 

gather information about respondent 

perspectives regarding this notification; 

whether they thought that the ‘‘Notify 

Me’’ component was the actual 

participation or response to the Census 

Test; and whether they had a preference 

to wait for Census Day without 

registering a contact preference. 

In these focus groups, participants 

will be asked about their experiences 

with the 2015 Census Test, including: 

Their reactions and thoughts about 

being contacted by the Census Bureau 

by email and text messages, the 

perceived legitimacy of these contacts; 

their opinions on the use of 

administrative records by the Census 

Bureau; and the use of targeted Internet 

advertisements. Participants will also be 

asked about their general concerns with 

government collection and protection of 

confidential data. We will try to 

ascertain and discuss the outreach, 

promotion, media/mode or method that 

informed the respondent about the 

‘‘Notify Me’’ option and/or the Census 

Test. We also will ask if the ability to 

respond without having to provide a 

pre-assigned User ID made the 

respondent more likely to participate. 

At the end of the focus groups, we may 

be asking participants for whom we 

have acquired additional data from a 

commercial third party to verify 

whether this information is accurate. 

The Census Bureau Phone Center will 

recruit for these focus groups using 

existing phone number information we 

have for a sample of addresses in the 

2015 Census Test. Phone Center staff 

will use screener questions that include 

the following requirements: (1) Focus 

group participants are required to have 

personally responded to the 2015 

Census Test, (2) to be employed outside 

the Federal Government, and (3) to 

speak English. 

The focus groups will be conducted in 

person, and all interviews will be taperecorded to facilitate later analyses of 

the results. Participants will be asked to 

sign consent forms and give permission 

to be recorded. All participants will be 

informed that their response is 

voluntary and that the information they 

provide is confidential. Respondents 

will receive a $75 stipend after the 

group concludes. 

2015 Census Test—Maricopa County 

Site 

(Nonresponse Follow-up (NRFU) 

Operation Testing) 

The 2015 Census Test to be conducted 

in portions of Maricopa County, AZ will 

test alternative methods for conducting 

NRFU operations that are designed to 

increase efficiency and reduce costs. 

Rapid changes in technology over the 

past decade now provide the Census 

Bureau with an opportunity to use 

automation to conduct NRFU field 

operations during the 2020 Census. The 

Census Bureau is researching and 

testing the best contact strategies and 

methods for field data collection, case 

assignment management, and field staff 

administrative functions. In addition, 

the research in utilizing administrative 

records, including government and third 

party sources, seeks to test and 

determine the best methodologies for 

using administrative records in support 

of NRFU, adaptive design, and 

enumeration. 

Self-response—For the 2015 Census 

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implement our current standard 

‘‘Internet Push’’ contact strategy, which 

involves a letter inviting people to 

respond via the Internet; up to two 

postcard reminders; and ultimately, a 

paper questionnaire. Because the test 

area is not a self-contained media 

market, and because not all households 

in the test area will be requested to 

respond, we will not be conducting the 

same types of outreach and promotion 

efforts being used in the Savannah site. 

The estimated sample size for the 

Maricopa site will be 165,000 housing 

units, and we estimate 70,000 of these 

will be fall into the NRFU operation. 

Nonresponse Follow-up (NRFU)—As 

part of the 2015 Census Test in 

Maricopa, data will be collected on 

automated enumeration devices (or 

smart phones). We will use an 

automated questionnaire similar to the 

one used in the 2014 Census Test NRFU 

operations. This data collection will be 

conducted using government-owned, 

commercially provided mobile devices. 

As in the 2014 Census Test, the ‘‘notice 

of visit’’ letters left at the door when a 

respondent is not home will contain 

information on how a respondent can 

self-respond via the Internet or by 

calling the Census Bureau’s telephone 

questionnaire assistance line. For the 

2015 Census Test, the notice of visit will 

be translated into four non-English 

languages which is a change from 

previous years where the notice was 

only provided in English and Spanish. 

The intent is to reduce the number of inperson enumerator return visits by 

encouraging respondents to complete 

their questionnaire online or by 

telephone. 

We also will be studying rules for 

determining which non-responding 

units will be visited, and how to collect 

information from households that do 

not self-respond. For instance, the 

Census Bureau will vary the approach to 

visiting households that have 

administrative records to determine the 

housing unit status (i.e., whether it is 

vacant or occupied) or to enumerate the 

people living at the address once we 

know the status for cases that do not 

respond. In both panels, units identified 

as vacant based on administrative 

record information will be identified 

and no NRFU visits will be conducted. 

For units identified as occupied with a 

determined population based on 

administrative records, they will be 

handled differently in each of the 

experimental panels. In one panel, they 

will be identified before NRFU starts 

and no NRFU visits will be conducted. 

In the second panel, they will be 

identified but we will attempt one 

interview at the unit before utilizing 

administrative records information. 

Also, to study adaptive design 

principles, the Census Bureau will vary 

the number of personal visit attempts to 

in different geographic areas based on 

hard-to-count criteria like response 

rates. We also will study when it is 

feasible to discontinue attempts to 

collect information from each nonresponding household and instead move 

to attempting to collect information 

from a householder’s neighbor or 

another knowledgeable source. 

NRFU Evaluation Follow-up (EFU)— 

The goal of the Evaluation Follow-up is 

to obtain the most accurate Census Day 

status of each housing unit in this study 

by revisiting addresses where we find 

discrepancies between the NRFU results 

and administrative records information 

for the address. This mostly will include 

those addresses where information 

collected during NRFU conflicts with 

information we have from 

administrative records for that address. 

We also will include some addresses in 

this study where information from 

governmental administrative record 

and/or third party sources have had 

possible changes in household 

composition over a two-year period. 

Content Testing—The 2015 Census 

Test questionnaire for both sites will 

include questions on housing tenure, 

household roster, age, date of birth, race 

and Hispanic origin, and relationship. 

The 2015 Census Test will include a 

combined race and Hispanic origin 

question that is similar to one used in 

the 2014 Census Test. This combined 

question provides examples and writein areas for each major response 

category. Respondents will be asked to 

self-identify by selecting one or more 

checkboxes, and reporting a specific 

origin for each checkbox selected. The 

inclusion of the combined question will 

allow the Census Bureau to conduct 

imputation research using this 

combined format in a setting when there 

are self-responses, administrative 

records and NRFU enumerator 

responses (Maricopa site only). This 

will allow the Census Bureau to learn 

how imputation approaches for the 

combined question might need to be 

different than approaches used in the 

past when the questions were asked 

separately. For the relationship 

question, the 2015 Census Test will 

include new response categories 

recommended by OMB for opposite-sex 

and same-sex husband/wife/spouse 

households, and for the category for 

unmarried partner. The Census Bureau 

is currently considering the inclusion of 

new categories for same-sex couples on 

the decennial census questionnaire. In 

August 2009, the Secretary of Commerce 

requested that the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) establish the 

interagency task force [Measuring 

Relationship in Federal Household 

Surveys] to research issues related to 

improving the collection and tabulation 

of marriage and relationship data. One 

focus of the research was family 

relationships, particularly with respect 

to same-sex couples who report being 

married. The first phase of research 

involved focus groups conducted 

primarily with persons cohabiting in 

same-sex relationships. The focus 

groups explored the meaning and 

interpretation of the current decennial 

Census and American Community 

Survey (ACS) relationship and marital 

status items. The second phase of 

qualitative research was conducted by 

the Census Bureau under the auspices of 

the OMB working group. As a result of 

the focus groups and expert panel 

review, two alternatives were developed 

for recommended wording to be further 

tested in larger-scale quantitative 

content tests. The 2015 Census Test 

includes testing the new relationship 

question that used these new same-sex 

response categories. In addition, the 

2015 Census Test will include a 

question on the internet instrument that 

will allow respondents to report that a 

housing unit they own is vacant as of 

Census Day, and to provide the reason 

for the vacancy status (e.g., a seasonal or 

rental unit). This new question will 

enable the Census Bureau to identify 

some vacant housing units during selfresponse so they can be removed from 

NRFU operations. 

The materials mailed to the 

respondents will inform them that the 

survey is mandatory in accordance with 

Title 13, United States Code, Sections 

141 and 193. This information also will 

be available via a hyperlink from within 

the Internet instrument. 

The results of the 2015 Census Test 

from both sites will help guide the 

design of additional 2020 Decennial 

Census testing later this decade. Testing 

in 2015 is necessary to build on the 

findings from the 2014 Census Test and 

to establish recommendations for 

contact strategies, response options, and 

field operation efficiencies that can be 

further refined and tested in later 

studies. At this point in the decade, the 

Census Bureau needs to acquire 

evidence showing whether the strategies 

being tested can reduce the cost per 

housing unit during a decennial census, 

while still providing high quality and 

accuracy of the census data. 

Along with other results, the response 

rates to paper and Internet collection 

will be used to help inform 2020 

Decennial program planning and 


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metrics determination. Several 

demographic questions and coverage 

probes are included in this test to 

combine with results from other recent 

testing opportunities to achieve optimal 

coverage for decennial censuses and 

surveys. 

The specific goal for the Non-ID 

Processing research is to continue 

evaluating enhancements to the Census 

Bureau’s process to collect address 

information needed for real-time 

matching and geocoding of Non-ID 

responses. Testing enhancements to 

Non-ID processing will inform planning 

for the 2020 Census design, as well as 

the infrastructure required to support 

large scale, real-time processing of 

electronic Non-ID response data 

submitted via the Internet or a Censusprovided questionnaire application 

designed for mobile devices. 

The goal of the advertising and 

outreach component of the Savannah 

site Test is twofold; first, we are 

supporting the entire OSR test by 

educating respondents and motivating 

self-response in an effort increase 

response rates. Secondarily, this is our 

first opportunity to evaluate the effects 

of new advertising media on response 

rates. Specifically we are interested in 

assessing digital and targeted digital 

advertising, mediums the Census 

Bureau did not employ in the 2010 

Census but that are now available due 

to the evolution of technology. Results 

of this test will inform additional tests 

and will help the Census Bureau begin 

planning for the 2020 Census 

communications campaign. 

The data collected from households 

and individuals during the 2015 Census 

Test will be used to research and 

evaluate new methodologies and 

systems to plan the 2020 Census. The 

Census Bureau will not publish any 

tabulations or population estimates 

using the results from this test. 

However, methodological papers may be 

written that include summary tallies of 

response characteristics or problems 

identified, and responses may be used 

to inform future research studies 

building upon the results of these tests. 

The Census Bureau plans to make the 

evaluation results of this study available 

to the general public. 

In the Maricopa County site, where 

the Census Bureau will conduct NRFU, 

the 2015 Census Test is designed to 

collect information to: 

• Research the cost and quality 

impacts of differing approaches to 

removing workload from the NRFU 

universe through the use of 

administrative records information. 

• Research the cost and quality 

impacts of new NRFU contact strategies 

that make use of adaptive design and a 

re-engineered management structure 

employing an Area Operations Support 

Center housed at the Regional Office, 

automated payroll, automated training, 

and minimal face-to-face contact 

between enumerators and supervisors. 

For these experimental panels 

enumerators also provide work-time 

availability in advance, and the system 

assigns them the optimal number of 

cases to attempt each day, as well as the 

routing they should employ. 

We are continuing our research on 

differing approaches to removing 

workload from the NRFU universe. In 

one approach we will remove all cases 

(both occupied and vacant) from the 

NRFU workload when we have 

administrative records data for the 

address. In a second approach we will 

make one contact attempt (for those 

cases considered occupied based on 

administrative records) before removing 

them from NRFU. The goal is to 

determine how these approaches vary 

regarding costs and quality measures. 

Results from both of these alternative 

strategies will be compared to a control 

panel that will conduct NRFU 

operations similar to how it was done in 

the 2010 Census. The testing will also 

obtain detailed data on when and how 

enumerators use proxy respondents. 

The Census Bureau will conduct an 

additional NRFU data collection activity 

in the Maricopa site with enumeratorowned commercially provided mobile 

devices. The use of employee owned 

equipment/services is commonly 

referred to as ‘‘Bring Your Own Device’’ 

or BYOD. After selecting enumerators 

for this study, a sample of up to 5,000 

households will be contacted at the end 

of the NRFU field operation using this 

methodology. These will be additional 

households not included in the other 

test activities (e.g., the self-response 

phase). The objectives of this 

component of the test are to: 

• Design, develop, deploy, and 

support secure software solutions that 

can be installed on employee’s 

personally owned commercially 

available mobile devices; 

• Conduct interviews of respondents 

using these employee owned mobile 

devices; and 

• Capture lessons learned for future 

operations, including: focus groups with 

a sub-set of the respondents, 

questionnaires for the enumerators, and 

collecting feedback from the local 

census office. 

Focus groups also will be conducted 

in the Maricopa site to ask respondents 

about their experiences with the 2015 

Census Test. Respondents will be 

recruited into groups with regard to 

their treatment and demographic 

characteristics (e.g., age, education). For 

example, respondents will be recruited 

into one of the groups of 8–12 

participants by age and education as 

well as whether they were NRFU 

respondents or non-respondents. 

Participants also will be asked about 

their general concerns with government 

collection and protection of confidential 

data. For the Nonresponse Follow-up 

groups only, we will ask participants 

their reactions to enumerators using 

personal devices when conducting 

Census interviews. At the end of the 

focus groups, we will be asking 

participants for whom we have acquired 

additional data to verify whether this 

information is accurate. 

All focus groups will be tape-recorded 

to facilitate a summary of the results. 

Participants will be asked to sign 

consent forms and give permission to be 

recorded. All participants will be 

informed that their response is 

voluntary and that the information they 

provide is confidential. Respondents 

will receive a $75 stipend after the focus 

group concludes. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: One time. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Sections 141 and 193. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806. 

Dated: January 8, 2015. 

Glenna Mickelson, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–P–2014–0064] 

Extension of the Extended Missing 

Parts Pilot Program 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) 

implemented a pilot program (Extended 


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