Part A, Attachment B - Privacy Act/Paper Reduction Act Statement

Supporting Statement A, Attachment B

Household Pulse Survey Combined Privacy Act Statement & Paperwork Reduction Act Burden Statement

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. We are conducting this voluntary survey​ under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 182 and 196 to study the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Federal law protects your privacy and keeps your answers confidential (Title 13, United States Code, Section 9). Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, your data are protected from ​cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit your data.

We estimate that completing this survey will take XX minutes on average. Send comments regarding this estimate or any other aspect of this survey, including suggestions for reducing the time it takes to complete this survey to adrm.pra@census.gov. This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This eight-digit OMB approval number, xxxx-xxxx, confirms this approval and expires on XXXXXXXX. We are required to display this number to conduct this survey.

Your privacy is protected by the Privacy Act (Title 5, U.S. Code, Section 552a). Routine uses of these data are limited to those identified in the Privacy Act System of Record Notice titled, “SORN COMMERCE/Census-3, Demographic Survey Collection (Census Bureau Sampling Frame).” The Census Bureau can use your responses only to produce statistics, and is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could identify you.