Request for Non-Substantive Change to the 2020 Census Local Update of Census Addresses Operation (LUCA)
OMB Control No. 0607-0994
U.S. Census Bureau
Purpose
The 2020 Census Local Update of Census Addresses operation (LUCA) is the only opportunity offered to tribal, state, and local governments to review and comment on the U.S. Census Bureau's residential address list for their jurisdiction prior to the 2020 Census. The Census Bureau relies on a complete and accurate address list to reach every living quarter and associated population for inclusion in the census. The Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-430) authorizes LUCA.
Background
The 2020 Census LUCA information collection was approved by the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on 12/15/2016. This
non-substantive change request is a request to add an email letter
for the following situation:
The affected partners are counties participating in LUCA using the Census Bureau’s Geographic Update Partnership Software (GUPS), rather than other geographic information systems (GIS) software or paper, with ungeocoded addresses (do not have the geographical coordinates corresponding to a census block) in their Census Bureau provided files. The proposed email provides this information, and how to get the updated information, to the affected participating counties.
The Census Bureau discovered that the ungeocoded address records are included in the county files the Census Bureau provided, but the files do not contain the necessary geographic identifiers to be displayed in GUPS. The additional email letter directs participants to the Frequently Asked Questions on the LUCA website where directions will be available for the participants to update the file or to call the Census Bureau for replacement files if they want to review the ungeocoded addresses.
This affects 1,155 counties. The number of ungeocoded addresses per county range from four (4) to 66,751 with an average of 1,285. Participants will receive an extra fourteen (14) days for their review.
There is no substantive change to the program resulting from this change.
Burden
The burden of the 2020 Census LUCA is unchanged by this update.
Attachments
D-2080 Email letter to county participants with ungeocoded addresses using the Geographic Update Partnership Software (GUPS).
| File Type | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document |
| File Title | LUCA NSC signature change |
| Author | Robin A Pennington (CENSUS/ADDC FED) |
| File Modified | 0000-00-00 |
| File Created | 2021-01-15 |