Part A, Attachment B_CHP Topical 4, 5, 6 PA and PRA Statement_Standard ICR_v4

Supporting Statement A, Attachment B

This Privacy Act Statement

The authority for the collection of this information for the Census Household Panel Topicals 4, 5, and 6 (0607-1025) is provided under Title 13, Sections 141, 182, and 193.

The purpose of collecting information in Topicals 4 and 5 is to provide important methodological data to compare the Census Household Panel responses against national benchmarks and other similar survey designs. These data will be used for methodological assessment of the current panel members representativeness compared to national benchmarks and other similar data collection strategies and will be used to inform future directions for recruitment and replenishment. The purpose of Topical 6 is to support the development of content for a Census survey being redeveloped for a change in survey mode.

Disclosure of the information provided to us to other Census Bureau staff for work-related purposes is permitted under the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. § 552a). Disclosure of this information is also subject to all of the published routine uses as identified in the Privacy Act System of Records Notice COMMERCE/Census-3 Demographic Survey Collection (Census Bureau Sampling Frame).

Staff (employees and contractors) received training on privacy and confidentiality policies and practices; access to PII is restricted to authorized personnel only. Personally identifiable information collected includes name, address, telephone/cell phone number, DOB or age, email address, race or ethnicity.

FedRAMP-approved computer systems that maintain sensitive information are in compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act. Unsecured telecommunications to transmit individually identifiable information is prohibited. Information will only be shared with staff and contractors that are special sworn status and sponsors of reimbursable surveys.

Furnishing this information is voluntary. Failure to do so will result in no consequences to you.

We estimate that completing this voluntary survey will take 20 minutes on average. Send comments regarding this estimate or any other aspect of this survey to [email protected]. The U.S. Census Bureau is required by law to protect your information. The Census Bureau is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could identify you. Federal law protects your privacy and keeps your answers confidential (Title 13, United States Code, Section 9 and Title 5, U.S. Code, Section 552a). This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This eight-digit OMB approval number, 0607-1025, confirms this approval and expires on 6/30/2026. If this number were not displayed, we could not conduct this survey.

To learn more about this survey go to: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/census-household-panel.html.          ** U.S. Census Bureau Notice and Consent Warning **           

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You are accessing a United States Government computer network.  Use of this system indicates your consent to collection, monitoring, recording, and use of the information that you provide for any lawful government purpose. So that our website remains safe and available for its intended use, network traffic is monitored to identify unauthorized attempts to access, upload, change information, or otherwise cause damage to the web service. Use of the government computer network for unauthorized purposes is a violation of Federal law and can be punished with fines or imprisonment (PUBLIC LAW 99-474). If you want to know more about the use of this system, and how your privacy is protected, visit our online privacy webpage at

http://www.census.gov/about/policies/privacy/privacy-policy.html.