Survey Forms

Attachment 2: Respondent Letter

2008 Survey of Compact of Free Association (COFA) Migrants

Dear Resident:

The U.S. Census Bureau is conducting a survey to determine the impact of the Compacts of Free Association (COFA). The survey will ask questions about characteristics of people in your household, including their age and place of birth.

This information will be used to create estimates of people from the Republic of Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau as defined by the COFA Amendments Act of 2003. The results of this survey will be used to disburse funds that will help defray the costs of increased demands on local health, educational, social or public safety resources.

The U.S. Census Bureau chose your address, not you personally, as part of a randomly selected sample. We want to emphasize that any information you give our representative will be kept confidential. By law, the Census Bureau cannot publish or release to anyone any information that can identify you or your household (Title 13, United States Code, Section 9). We may use this information only for statistical purposes.

We would appreciate your participation in this voluntary survey because the success of this survey depends on you.

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,

Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 17 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: Paperwork Project 0607-XXXX, U.S. Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Room 3K138, Washington, DC 20233. You may e-mail comments to Paperwork@census.gov ; use “Paperwork Project 0607-XXXX" as the subject. No agency may conduct and no person may be required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval number.  The OMB approval number for this information collection is 0607-XXXX. The approval for this information collection expires on xxxxx, xx, xxxx.