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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; American Community Survey
Methods Panel Tests
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
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the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on November
17, 2017 (Vol. 82, No. 221, p. 54317–
54320) during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: American Community Survey
Methods Panel Tests: Regional Office
internet Letter Test and Initial Mailing
Pressure Seal Test.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0936.
Form Number(s): ACS–1, ACS
internet, ACS CAPI.
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Request for a Nonsubstantive Change of
a Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 182,400.
Average Hours per Response: 40
minutes.
Burden Hours: No additional burden
hours are requested under this
submission.
Needs and Uses: The American
Community Survey (ACS) collects
detailed socioeconomic data from about
3.5 million housing units in the United
States and 36,000 in Puerto Rico each
year. The ACS also collects detailed
socioeconomic data from about 195,000
residents living in group quarters.
Residents of sampled housing units are
invited to self-respond to the ACS
through a series of up to five mailings,
sent over a period of approximately six
and a half weeks. The Census Bureau
selects a subsample of the housing units
that do not respond by internet, mail, or
through the Telephone Questionnaire
Assistance (TQA). This subsample of
housing units is assigned to the
Computer-Assisted Personal Interview
(CAPI) nonresponse follow-up data
collection mode. During CAPI, field
representatives call or visit these
subsampled addresses to attempt to
complete an interview.
An ongoing data collection effort with
an annual sample of this magnitude
requires that the ACS continue research,
testing, and evaluations aimed at
reducing respondent burden, improving
data quality, reducing data collection
costs, and improving the ACS
questionnaire content and related data
collection materials. The ACS Methods
Panel is a research program designed to
address and respond to issues and
survey needs. This request documents
two Methods Panel tests: The Initial
Mailing Pressure Seal Test and the
Regional Office internet Letter Test.
The Initial Mailing Pressure Seal Test
is designed to test the use of a pressure
seal mailer in the first mailing sent to
sampled housing units. The purpose of
the test is to understand the effect on
self-response of sending a pressure seal

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mailer instead of the initial mail
package that is currently sent. Evidence
from mailings sent in 2020 suggest that
the pressure seal mailer may be more
effective at soliciting an internet
response than a mail package containing
a letter, brochure, and instruction card.
However, several confounding factors
could have caused an increase in selfresponse other than the mail type. First,
the 2020 Census was conducting the
nonresponse follow-up operation and
advertising about the importance of
responding to the 2020 Census, which
some respondents confuse with the
ACS. Second, the initial mail package
lets respondents know that if they are
unable to complete the survey online,
then we will send a paper questionnaire
in a few weeks. This message was
omitted from the pressure seal mailer.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic,
we were unable to mail paper ACS
questionnaires to all nonresponding
households. We theorize that telling
respondents that they will have another
opportunity to respond later delays
response. Finally, the internet User ID
in the initial mail package is included
on the instruction card, not in the letter.
In the pressure seal mailer, the User ID
is included very clearly in a call-out
box. We theorize that making the log-in
instructions clear and easy to find
increases internet response.
The proposed test will include four
experimental treatments and a control:
An initial mail package (control), a
modified initial mail package, and three
variations of the pressure seal mailer.
Addresses not part of the test will
receive the initial mail package. The
experimental design of this test allows
the Census Bureau to assess the impact
of using a pressure seal mailer instead
of an initial mail package and how
information about a paper questionnaire
being mailed impacts response rates.
To field this test, the Census Bureau
plans to use the ACS production sample
(clearance number: 0607–0810). Thus,
there is no increase in burden from this
test since each treatment will include
the same number of mailings and result
in the same burden estimate per
interview (40 minutes). The Census
Bureau proposes this test to be
conducted in late spring or summer of
2021 (pending operational constraints)
and adhere to the same data collection
protocols as production ACS.
The ACS sample design randomly
assigns housing units in each monthly
sample panel to one of 24 groups of
approximately 12,000 addresses each.
Each group, called a methods panel
group, is representative of the full
monthly sample. Each monthly sample
is a representative subsample of the

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entire annual sample and is
representative of the sampling frame.
The Census Bureau proposes to use two
randomly selected methods panel
groups for each treatment. Hence, each
treatment will have a sample size of
approximately 24,000 addresses. In
total, approximately 96,000 addresses
will be used for the four experimental
treatments and 24,000 for the control.
The remaining ACS sample will receive
production materials.
The Census Bureau proposes to
evaluate the experimental treatments by
comparing self-response rates overall
and by mode. For each comparison, a
two-tailed t-test will be used to measure
the impact on the evaluation measure in
either direction with 80 percent power
at the a = 0.1 level. The sample size will
be able to detect differences of
approximately 1.74 percentage points
between the self-response return rates
between two experimental treatments.
To assess the costs of implementing any
of the experimental treatments, we will
also conduct a cost analysis.
The Regional Office internet Letter
Test is designed to test content changes
to a letter used to encourage online selfresponse during CAPI. This letter is sent
as a pressure-seal mailer from the
Census Bureau’s National Processing
Center to all mailable sampled
addresses in the CAPI universe.
The changes to the pressure seal letter
proposed for this test are (1) the message
on the outside of the pressure seal
mailer (options include either a ‘‘Past
Due’’ message or ‘‘Required by Law’’)
and (2) whether to include information
about TQA as a response option, or only
mention the internet. The experimental
design isolates each of the content
factors being studied. There is one
control, which uses production
materials, and three experimental
treatments.
To field this test, the Census Bureau
plans to use the ACS production sample
(clearance number: 0607–0810). There is
no increase in burden from this test
because each treatment will include the
same number of mailings and result in
the same burden estimate per interview
(40 minutes). The Census Bureau
proposes that this test be conducted in
the summer of 2021 (pending
operational constraints) and adhere to
the same data collection protocols as
production ACS.
The Census Bureau proposes to use
six randomly selected methods panel
groups for each treatment. Each
treatment will have a sample size of
approximately 15,600 addresses. In
total, approximately 46,800 addresses
will be used for the three experimental
treatments and 15,600 for the control.

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All mailable CAPI cases are included in
the experiment.
The Census Bureau proposes to
evaluate the experimental treatments by
comparing self-response rates during
CAPI and overall CAPI response rates,
as well as refusal rates and other
interview outcomes. The TQA call
volume will also be monitored. For each
comparison, a two-tailed test will be
used so that the Census Bureau can
measure the impact on the evaluation
measure in either direction with 80
percent power at the a = 0.1 level. The
sample size will be able to detect
differences of approximately 1.74
percentage points between the selfresponse return rates between two
experimental treatments. A cost analysis
will also be conducted.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: One-time tests as part of
the monthly American Community
Survey.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 141, 193, and 221.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–0936.

ACTION:

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Notice; correction.

The International Trade
Administration published a document
in the Federal Register of November 6,
2020, concerning the final results of the
administrative review of circular
welded non-alloy steel pipe (CWP) from
the Republic of Korea (Korea) for the
period of review of November 1, 2017
through October 31, 2018. The
document contained an incorrect
spelling.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andre Gziryan, AD/CVD Operations,
Office I, Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,
DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–2201.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Correction
In the Federal Register of November
6, 2020, in FR Doc 2020–24722, on page
71057, in the second column, correct
Appendix II (List of Companies Not
Individually Examined), number 22, to
read ‘‘Ycp Co.’’ 1
This correction to the Final Results is
published in accordance with sections
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff Act
of 1930, as amended.
Dated: November 19, 2020.
Jeffrey I. Kessler,
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Compliance.
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Laminated Woven Sacks From the
People’s Republic of China: Final
Results of the Administrative Review
of the Antidumping Duty Order; 2018–
2019

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AGENCY:

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.

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Circular Welded Non-Alloy Steel Pipe
From the Republic of Korea: Final
Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2017–2018;
Correction
Enforcement and Compliance,
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.

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Enforcement and Compliance
International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce
(Commerce) finds that the 20 companies
subject to the administrative review of
the antidumping duty (AD) order on
laminated woven sacks (LWS) from the
1 Id. This respondent’s name was similarly
misspelled in the initiation notice and preliminary
results. See Initiation of Antidumping and
Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 84 FR
2159 (February 6, 2019); see also Circular Welded
Non-Alloy Steel Pipe from the Republic of Korea:
Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty
Administrative Review; 2017–2018, 85 FR 2719
(January 16, 2020).

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