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Generic Clearance for Questionnaire Pretesting Research

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Generic Information Collection Request Addendum


Request: There are several purposes of this letter. As indicated in the original OMB submission titled, “Web Survey Design Standards Online Research” and approved on February 21, 2020, we would share the questionnaires used post-hoc for the remaining data collection studies. We have included the online questionnaire used in the second study which ran June 8 through June 16, 2020 and which collected data from 520 participants. We are also notifying OMB of two future studies. The third study uses slightly modified questions from the original OMB package. The fourth study includes new tasks not in the original package. We seek approval for the questions in the fourth study. We also request additional burden hours for the remaining experimental online surveys.


Purpose: The purpose of this project remains the same. The results of these studies will inform future mobile and PC web designs used at the U.S. Census Bureau for household and economic surveys and censuses. The compilation of the results from these studies will be used to create a guidelines document that Census Bureau programmers will use to create future online surveys.


The survey used in Study 2 is enclosed. The purpose of the second study was to investigate PC designs for grids, specify write-in box placement, and optimal designs for month of the year and state dropdown entry. We also replicated one question from study 1, the predictive text entry for college and universities.


The survey planned for Study 3 is attached. The purpose of the third study is to investigate placement of instruction, none boxes, and write-ins with additional qualifiers.


The survey planned for Study 4 is attached. The purpose of the fourth study is to investigate optimal navigation button placement and color, to collect data on what different button labels mean to respondents, and to further the data collection on the optimal month dropdown designs.


Population of Interest: No change.


Timeline: No change


Language: No change.


Method: No change.



Sample: We request an additional sample of 1,129 completed surveys because differences in timing and accuracy have been very small in these experiments. The table below contains the original request, the date of the study, or expected data, and the revised sample request. The column on the far right is the additional sample requested.


Table 1: Sample request


Date of study

Estimated in Original OMB

Revised

Additional sample

Qualtrics sample Study 1

March 6-7, 2020

400

409

9

Qualtrics sample Study 2

June 8-16, 2020

400

520

120

Qualtrics sample Study 3

Est. August 2020

400

500

100

Qualtrics sample Study 4

Est. August 2020

400

400


Qualtrics sample Study 5

Est. October 2020

400

500

100

Qualtrics sample New study 6

January 2021


500

500

Affinity or contact frame sample

Study 1

January 2021

400

500

100

Affinity or contact frame sample

Study 2

2021

400

500

100

Affinity or contact frame sample

Study 3

2021

400

500

100

Total


3,200

4,329

1,129


Burden hours: We request an additional 188 hours of burden for an additional 1,129 completed responses to a 10 minute survey.

Table 2. Total Estimated Burden

Category of Respondent

No. of additional respondents

Participation Time

Burden

Online general population sample

1,129


10 minutes


188 hours




Length of interview: No change


Recruitment: No change.


Protocol: No change.


Use of Incentive: No change.


Below is a list the enclosures. Those include the original OMB request – approved February 21, 2020 and the three survey enclosures. Additional surveys will be sent post-hoc as indicated in the original OMB letter.


  1. OMB Original request (Previously approved by original OMB clearance – enclosure 1)

  2. Study 2 questions (Enclosure 2)

  3. Study 3 questions (Enclosure 3)

  4. Study 4 questions (Enclosure 4)



The contact person for questions regarding data collection and statistical aspects of the design of this research is listed below:


Elizabeth Nichols

Center for Behavioral Science Methods

U.S. Census Bureau

Washington, D.C. 20233

(301) 763-1724

[email protected]


Enclosures



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