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DATA COLLECTION AUTHORITY EXTENDED -- July 2008
The Office of Management and Budget has extended the Department's authority to collect DV results under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 through July 31, 2011. Future editions of the DV handbooks will contain the July 31, 2011 date and the burden disclosure language contained in TEN 6-08. See the link to the formal announcement, TEN 6-08, in the "In this Section" portion of the Web page.
DV STATUS RESULTS AVAILABLE – JULY, 2008
Summary results for VY 2008 are now available. See "In This Section", Results Due and Submitted.
VERSION 1.2 OF DV SOFTWARE RELEASED – JUNE, 2008
During the week of June 9, version 1.2 of the DV software was downloaded to all Sun computers. This version adjusts column widths to ensure proper displays in samples, corrects some labels, and eliminates some pass-fail boxes on sample screens for calculations done by the software. See Release Notes in "In This Section".
REVISED DATA VALIDATION HANDBOOKS – MAY, 2008
In This Section contains links to interim versions of the DV handbooks that contain the latest Appendix A, Record Layouts, and LADT and ETA 586 validation instructions, and OMB paperwork clearance language. Other revisions to fully reflect recent policy guidance and software changes will be made shortly.
VERSION 1.1.1 OF DV SOFTWARE RELEASED – MARCH, 2008
On March 17, version 1.1.1 of the DV software was downloaded to all Sun computers. This version includes fixes to improve duplicate detection performance in Tax Populations 1 and 2, change audit ID from integer to character in Tax Population 5, change prior quarter edits and Group 3.01 calculation in Benefits Population 3, and correct step references in Tax population 1 and Benefits Population 5 sample screens. See Release Notes in "In This Section".
UIPL 22-05, Change 2, RELEASED – MARCH, 2008
UIPL 22-05, Change 2 was released on March 14, 2008. It provides updated validation guidance for VY 2008 and beyond, including effect of elimination of the ETA 9053 report, cessation of use of Workload Validation in lieu of DV, and change in submission of Benefits Populations. See link to the UIPL in "In This Section".
MODULE 4 SUBMISSIONS
Module 4 validations (reviews of BTQ and TPS sampling frames and randomness), are to be submitted in Word using the
Module 4 Results Template for Benefits and Tax in "In this Section" and sent to the National Office by
e-mail at dvrpts@uis.doleta.gov.
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