2020 Census Post-Enumeration
Survey Initial and Final Housing Unit Follow-up Operations
No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
No
Regular
09/28/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
11/30/2022
11/30/2022
229,475
216,200
19,123
18,017
0
0
As in previous censuses, the
Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) for the 2020 Census will be conducted
to provide estimates of census net coverage and components of
census coverage [such as correct enumerations, omissions, erroneous
enumerations (including duplicates), and whole-person imputations]
for housing units and people living in housing units for the United
States and Puerto Rico, excluding remote Alaska. These coverage
estimates provide insight into the quality and coverage of census
results and operations. As in the past, the 2020 PES operations and
activities must be conducted separate from, and independent of, the
other 2020 Census operations .
The PES FHUFU attempts to
collect additional information to resolve match and status codes
for addresses in the PES address list and the final census address
list, and to resolve potential duplicates. The preliminary final
housing unit match results show a higher number of nonmatches than
expected based on the 2010 results and need to be sent to field
follow-up to confirm that the addresses existed as housing units on
Census Day, April 1,2020. These nonmatches are units added to the
final census address list after the initial housing unit matching
and follow-up operations. There is a higher number of potential
duplicate records that were not field confirmed during the Initial
Housing Unit Follow-up (IHUFU) operations because of the
coronavirus pandemic, which caused changes to PES procedures.
Reduced respondent contact during the early days of the pandemic
led to more potential duplicate records needing to be resolved
during FHUFU. See PES_NSC_FHUFU forms data collection
workload_092821 for more information.
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.