2021 Internet Use Survey -- NTIA invites comments on design (by 9/8)

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July 7 -- The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) plans to ask OMB for approval to conduct the Internet Use Survey in 2021 as a supplement to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS). NTIA has sponsored fifteen such surveys since 1994, the last in November 2019.  NTIA invites economists to comment on the proposed survey's value and design by September 8, 2020.  
 
NTIA Internet Use Survey Data Explorer (1998-2019):  https://www.ntia.doc.gov/data/digital-nation-data-explorer#sel=internetUser&disp=map
2021 survey instrument (same as 2017 and 2019):  https://www.ntia.gov/files/ntia/blogimages/november_2019_cps_supplement_-_final.pdf
2017 technical documentation: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsnov17.pdf
2017 supporting statement (2021 version will be an update of this): https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewDocument?ref_nbr=201708-0660-001
Federal Register notice inviting comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/07/07/2020-14545/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-for
 
Point of contact: Rafi Goldberg, Telecommunications Policy Analyst, NTIA  rgoldberg@ntia.gov   (202) 482-4375