UE & ETL Expansion Nonsubstantive Change Request

The Census Bureau requests a non-substantive change to the 2010 Census Information Collection (OMB control number 0607-0919). We plan to clarify and expand the data collections for the Update Enumerate (U/E) and the Enumeration at Transitory Location (ETL) operations to include Update Enumerate Reinterview and Enumeration at Transitory Location Reinterview. The U/E and ETL operations are already approved under the 2010 Census Information Collection. This nonsubstantive change request formalizes our intention to include a reinterview as part of these already planned activities.

The purpose for conducting reinterviews is to incorporate quality control mechanisms to validate and verify the status of housing units and address completion, make certain enumerators correctly follow procedures, and identify those enumerators who unintentionally and intentionally produce data errors.

The following explains the procedures for collecting the reinterview information and provides the estimated burden hours for each:

Procedures for data collection

• Update Enumerate Reinterview:
  The QC enumerator will conduct a second interview and will use the same questionnaire as the Nonresponse Followup Reinterview, Form-D1(E)RI (previously approved). An algorithm will be used to randomly select eligible cases for reinterview from each UE production enumerator’s assignment workload. The UE RI workload will be approximately 5 percent of the eligible UE workload.
  

• Enumeration at Transitory Location Reinterview:
  The ETL RI will be the quality assurance component of the ETL production operations. It is conducted concurrently with the ETL production operation and designed to ensure enumerators have correctly followed field procedures and to identify enumerators who intentionally or unintentionally produced data errors. ETL RI has two components: 1) the Transitory Location Reinterview, and 2) the Housing Unit Reinterview. During the ETL RI, a sample of TL’s and households will be contacted again by an independent staff of Census enumerators. The TL RI workload is approximately 10 percent of the eligible TL workload, and the HU RI workload is approximately 10 percent of the eligible HU workload.

1. Transitory Location Reinterview:
   The QC clerks make three telephone attempts to contact the TL respondent to complete the reinterview to verify that an enumerator has visited the site. After the third unsuccessful attempt, the assistant manager for field operations sends a crew leader to visit the location and verify that an enumerator did visit the site. The QC clerk will use the attached Reinterview Form for Transitory Locations, D-941, ETLRI-TL (Attachment 1), to collect the data. If it is determined that the TL (i.e., a circus or carnival) cannot be contacted, then the TL RI is coded as “unable to contact.”

2. Housing Unit Reinterview:
   The QC clerks make three telephone attempts to contact the household to verify that the respondent do not have a usual home elsewhere. The QC clerk will use the attached Reinterview Form for Enumerator Questionnaires, D-941, ETLRI-EQ (Attachment 2), to collect the data. If the clerk is unable to reach the household respondent after three attempts, the clerk codes the case as “unable to contact.”

Estimates of Burden Hours

Entity	Responses	Estimated Time for Response	Total Burden Hours
U/E RI (5 percent of U/E Workload)	32,410	10 minutes	5,402
ETL RI Workload (10 percent of ETLs and 10 percent of housing units)	40,566	2 minutes	1,352

If you need additional information, contact Annetta Clark Smith, Assistant Division Chief for Field Data Collection, at (301) 763-1348.