Part A, Attachment C_HTOPS March, April, May PA and PRA Statement_Standard ICR_rev (1)

Supporting Statement A, Attachment C

Privacy Act Statement

The authority for the collection of this information for the Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (0607-1029) is provided under Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141, 182, and 193.

The information collected in March will include labor force focused content to test a series of questions that are being designed for production use in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) labor force module. The April topical survey will include content from the Household Pulse Survey. The purpose of the May survey is to provide important methodological data to compare the HTOPS responses against a national benchmark and similar survey design, pulling questions from Pew's National Public Opinion Reference Survey. These will be used for methodological assessment of the current panel members representativeness compared to this national benchmark and other similar data collection strategies and will be used to inform directions for future recruitment and replenishment.

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 (Title 5, U.S. Code, Section 552a) and keeps your answers confidential (Title 13, United States Code, Section 9). Disclosure of the information provided to us with 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 the voluntary monthly surveys will take 20 minutes on average, and the baseline will take 24 minutes. Send comments regarding this estimate or any other aspect of this survey to [email protected]. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your data. This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This eight-digit OMB approval number, 0607-1029, confirms this approval and expires on 7/31/2027. 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.