Remote Alaska is a set of rural areas in Alaska that are difficult to access and for which all housing unit (HU) addresses are treated as unmailable. Due to the difficulties in field operations during specific months of the year, and the extremely seasonal population in these areas, data collection operations in Remote Alaska differ from the rest of the country.

All designated addresses are assigned to either January or September, and respondents receive a personal interview (no mail or telephone interview). The group quarter sample in Remote Alaska is assigned to January or September using the same procedure. Up to 4 months is allowed to complete the HU and GQ data collection for each of the two data collection periods. Learn more about the Remote Alaska sample in Chapter 4 of the Design and Methodology Report.