Instrument Development Testing

Attachment F 

Department of Commerce 
United States Census Bureau 
OMB Information Collection Request 
2020‐2022 Report of Organization 
OMB Control Number 0607‐0444 

Instrument Development and Design Research and Testing Highlights 

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Number Generic
of Cases Clearance
Date
91
6/11/2020

Component

Activity

Dates

Single Unit and
Multi-Unit
Businesses

Respondent
debriefings for
2017 Economic
Census electronic
reporting software

June October
2018

Respondent
debriefings for
2018 COS-ASM
and 2019 COSASM electronic
reporting software

February May 2020

24

02/21/2020

Research for 2022
Economic Census
electronic
reporting software

June September
2020

TBD

TBD/

Description, Selected
Results and/or
Recommendations
Respondents noted
difficulties with using the
electronic reporting
software, and we
implemented
improvements for 2018
COS-ASM and 2019
COS-ASM.
Respondents noted
difficulties with using the
electronic reporting
software, and we plan to
make improvements for
2020 COS-ASM, which
will also improve the
software for 2021 COSASM and the 2022
Economic Census.
Research will focus on
potential electronic
reporting software
improvements for the
2022 Economic Census.