Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is charged with researching, analyzing, and reporting on topics relating to CFPB's mission, including consumer behavior, consumer awareness, and developments in markets for consumer financial products and services. In order to improve its understanding of how consumers engage with financial markets, the CFPB has used the Consumer Credit Panel (CCP), a proprietary sample dataset from one of the national credit reporting agencies, as a frame to survey people about their experiences in consumer credit markets. CFPB seeks to obtain approval for a generic information collection plan for these types of surveys. Surveys conducted under this generic information collection plan will support CFPB's mission to conduct research in areas related to consumer finance including research to monitor developments in consumersâ financial situations, related changes in their use of financial products, and the impacts that these decisions have on their balance sheets. All research under this plan will be for general, formative, and informational research on consumer financial markets and consumersâ use of financial products and will not directly provide the basis for specific policymaking at CFPB. The CFPB requests approval from the Office of Management and Budget for a generic information collection plan which will allow the Bureau to collect data by administering surveys which use the CCP as a survey frame.
This is a reinstatement of a previously approved collection; therefore, all burden is considered new burden for this submission. However, the Bureauâs prior experiences using this collection has led it to revise downward the burden estimates of this collection by 7,500 responses and 3,750 burden hours over the next three-year approval period.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.