Person Followup

D-1709(L)P
Dear Household:
We recently conducted the 2020 Census in your community. An accurate census is needed for each
community to receive its fair share of the federal money provided to schools, roads, services for children and
the elderly, and many other programs and services. Now we need to determine how well the 2020 Census
counted the people in your community. We may have recently visited your household, but we have a few
additional questions to ask you. Your help is very important. The information you provide will help determine
the accuracy of the 2020 Census count.
The U.S. Census Bureau is required by law to protect your information (Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 9). The
Census Bureau is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could identify you or your
household. We are conducting the 2020 Census Post-Enumeration Survey as part of the 2020 Census under
the authority of Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 141, 193 and 221. By law, the Census Bureau can only use your
responses to produce statistics. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are
protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your data.
Title 13 of the U.S. Code protects the confidentiality of all your information. Violating the confidentiality of a
respondent is a federal crime with serious penalties, including a federal prison sentence of up to five years, a
fine of up to $250,000, or both. Only authorized individuals have access to the stored data, and the
information you provide to the Census Bureau may only be used by a restricted number of authorized
individuals who are sworn for life to protect the confidentiality of your individual responses. Your answers
cannot be used against you by any government agency or court. You are required by law to respond to the
census (Title 13, U.S. Code, Sections 141 and 193). This collection of information has been approved by the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The eight-digit OMB approval number XXXX-XXXX and expiration
date MM/DD/YYYY confirms this approval. If this number were not displayed, we could not conduct the
census.
We estimate that completing the interview will take 15 minutes on average. Send comments regarding this
burden estimate, or any other aspect of this information collection to: Paperwork Reduction Project XXXXXXXX, U.S. Census Bureau, DCMD-2H174, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233. You may email
comments to <[email protected]>. Please use "Paperwork Reduction Project XXXX-XXXX"
as the subject. Thank you for your help.
For more information about how we protect your information, please visit our website at census.gov and click on
"Data Protection and Privacy Policy" at the bottom of the home page. This page also includes information about
the collection, storage, and source, etc., of these records. Click on "System of Records Notices (SORN)" and look for
Privacy Act System of Records Notice COMMERCE/CENSUS-5, Decennial Census Programs.

Sincerely,

Steven D. Dillingham
Director

census.gov