90 FR 39 pgs. 10879-10880 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; High-Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS)
Type: NOTICEVolume: 90Number: 39Pages: 10879 - 10880
Pages: 10879, 10880FR document: [FR Doc. 2025-03194 Filed 2-27-25; 8:45 am]
Agency: Commerce Department
Sub Agency: Census Bureau
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; High-Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS)
On July 22, 2024, the Department of Commerce received clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 to conduct Phase 4.2 of the Household Pulse Survey (OMB No. 0607-1029, Exp. 01/31/27) and on July 12, 2024, clearance was received to conduct the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth Census Household Panel topical operations (OMB No. 0607-1025, Exp. 6/30/26). Clearance for the Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) recruitment operation, January topical operation and February topical operation (0607-1029) were approved by OMB on January 15, 2025. The Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) is designed to ensure the availability of frequent data collection for nationwide estimates on a variety of topics for a variety of subgroups of the population. This notice serves to inform you of the Department's intent to request clearance from OMB to conduct HTOPS March, April, and May data collections.
The topical survey that will field 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 Household Pulse Survey will continue to serve as an experimental endeavor in cooperation with other federal agencies to produce near real-time data to understand the effects of current events, including natural disaster events or other social or economic events facing the nation or a significant portion of the nation.
Data collected in the Household Pulse Survey demonstrate the ability to quickly collect and disseminate high-frequency data products that inform the public in urgent circumstances. Data products will include public-use data files and detailed data tables, which can be used by federal, state, and local agencies; academic and non-government organizations; the media; and the public.
The May topical will 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 May topical also pilots a short series seeking to measure reasons for migration to be used in other surveys like the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
It is the Department's intention to commence data collection using the revised instrument on or about March 18, 2025, April 15, 2025, and May 20, 2025. 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 collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the Federal Register on December 9, 2024 (OMB No. 0607-1029) during a 30-day comment period. This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: High Frequency Surveys Program/Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1029.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: March: 10,000; April/May: 20,350 (244,200 annually).
Average Hours per Response: .333 (20 minutes).
Burden Hours: March: 3.330; April/May: 6,777 (81,399 annually).
Needs and Uses: The High-Frequency Surveys Program was established as a natural progression from the creation of the Household Pulse Survey. The Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) is a probability-based nationwide nationally-representative survey panel designed to test the methods to collect data on a variety of topics of interest, and for conducting experimentation on alternative question wording and methodological approaches. The goal of the HTOPS is to ensure availability of frequent data collection for nationwide estimates on a variety of topics and a variety of subgroups of the population, meeting standards for transparent quality reporting of the Federal Statistical Agencies and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Panelists and households selected for the HTOPS were recruited from the Census Bureau's gold standard Master Address File. This ensures that HTOPS is rooted in this rigorously developed and maintained frame and available for linkage to administrative records securely maintained and curated by the Census Bureau. Invitations to complete the monthly surveys will be sent via email and SMS messages. Questionnaires will be mainly internet self-response. The HTOPS will maintain representativeness by allowing respondents who do not use the internet to respond via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI). All panelists will receive an incentive for each complete questionnaire. Periodic replenishment samples will maintain representativeness and panelists will be replaced after a period of three years.
Affected Public: Households.
Frequency: Monthly.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141, 182 and 193.
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.
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Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
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