OMB Letter

Addendum:

Generic Information Collection Request: Focus groups with Group Quarters Administrators to Inform Plans for an Internet Self-Response Instrument for Group Quarters residents in the 2030 Census.

Request: This is an addendum to the request for “Focus groups with Group Quarters Administrators to Inform Plans for an Internet Self-Response instrument for Group Quarters residents in the 2030 Census” that was approved on June 16, 2023. The Census Bureau plans to conduct two additional focus groups with administrators of group quarters under the pretesting clearance (OMB number 0607-0725). We plan to conduct a focus group with administrators of military group quarters residences and an additional focus group with administrators of Workers’ Group Living Quarters and Job Corps Centers. Only one individual from a Workers’ Group Living Quarters participated last round. The other three participants who had agreed did not join the MS Teams call.

Purpose: No change

Population of Interest: The population of interest is GQ administrators.

• Workers’ Group Living Quarters and Job Corps Centers

• Military Group Quarter

Timeline: We plan to conduct the focus groups in the fall of 2023.

Language: No change. The focus group will be in English only.

Focus Group Administration: No change. The protocol and administration is the same.

Sample: We will conduct two focus groups with eight to 10 GQ administrators in each focus group. This is an opt-in sample.

The possible in-scope GQ types and number of participants are listed in Table 1 below.

Table 1: GQ types and participant numbers for the focus groups

GQ focus group types	Number of participants
Workers’ Group Living Quarters and Job Corps Centers	8
Military Group Quarter	10
Total	18

Recruitment: We will recruit participants through contacts the Census Bureau staff have made with Job Corp groups and military groups. Initial calls will be made to gauge interest and then a save the date email will be sent with the consent form.

Incentive: No change. Participants will not be provided an incentive for their participation in the focus group.

Burden hours: We estimate that recruiting telephone calls and email to schedule participants will take up to 3 minutes each. We estimate that the focus group will take 90 minutes.

The burden associated with specific tasks is summarized in Table 2. We estimate the total burden for this study to be 28.8 hours.

Table 2: Description of burden hours by task

	Number of participants	Participation time	Total burden hours
Recruiting calls /emails for focus groups	36	3	108 minutes
Focus group	18	90	1,620 min
Total burden			1,728 min or 28.8 hours

The materials to be used in the current study are listed below:

Enclosure 1: Save the date email (new)

Enclosure 2: Consent form (no change)

Enclosure 3: Focus group moderator’s guide (no change)

Enclosure 4: Screens to share during focus group (no change)

The contact person for questions regarding data collection and statistical aspects of the design of this research is listed below:

Elizabeth Nichols

Center for Behavioral Science Methods

U.S. Census Bureau

Washington, D.C. 20233

(301) 763-1724

elizabeth.may.nichols@census.gov

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