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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for clearance the
following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Business Research and
Development and Innovation Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0912.
Form Number(s): BRDI–1, BRDI–1S,
and BRDI–M.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 245,000.
Average Hours Per Response: 43
minutes.
Burden Hours: 176,500.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau
requests a revision to the currently
cleared Business R&D and Innovation
Survey (BRDIS) information collection.
This revision adds a form type [BRDI–
M] to collect data on research and
development (R&D) and innovation
activities from small businesses with
fewer than 10 employees.
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In 2004, the National Academy of
Sciences’ Committee on National
Statistics (CNSTAT) reviewed the
National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics’ (NCSES)
portfolio of R&D surveys and
recommended that NCSES explore ways
to measure firm innovation and
investigate the incidence of R&D
activities in growing sectors, such as
small business enterprises not currently
covered by BRDIS. As a result, Census
plans to expand BRDIS to include very
small businesses or microbusinesses
through the use of the BRDI–M
questionnaire.
The National Science Foundation Act
of 1950 as amended authorizes and
directs the National Science Foundation
(NSF) through the National Center for
Science and Engineering Statistics
(NCSES) ‘‘. . . to provide a central
clearinghouse for the collection,
interpretation, and analysis of data on
scientific and engineering resources and
to provide a source of information for
policy formulation by other agencies of
the Federal government.’’ One of the
methods used by NCSES to fulfill this
mandate is the Business R&D and
Innovation Survey (BRDIS)—the
primary federal source of information
on R&D in the business sector.
BRDIS will continue to collect the
following types of information:
• R&D expense based on accounting
standards.
• Worldwide R&D of domestic
companies.
• Business segment detail.
• R&D related capital expenditures.
• Detailed data about the R&D
workforce.
• R&D strategy and data on the
potential impact of R&D on the market.
• R&D directed to application areas of
particular national interest.
• Data measuring innovation and
intellectual property protection
activities.
In addition to adding the BRDI–M
form, the following changes will be
made to the 2016–2017 BRDIS
compared to the 2015 BRDIS:
• Add item in type-of-cost questions
to collect Royalty and licensing
payments.
• Add questions collecting BasicApplied-Development split of Total
R&D paid for by the company and Total
R&D paid for by others.
• Delete question on intellectual
property protection.
• Add two Yes/No questions to help
separately identify intellectual property
transfer transactions with U.S. persons
and foreign persons.
• Discontinue the pre-survey letter.
This letter was planned to collect
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contact and company status information
(merger, acquisition, etc.) from
approximately 500 of the largest R&D
companies.
The forms used in the BRDIS are:
Form BRDI–M. This form will be
mailed to approximately 200,000 small
businesses with less than 10 employees.
In addition to general business
information—primary business activity
(NAICS code), year business was
formed, and number of employees—this
form would collect data on R&D,
innovation, employment, related
activities (such as sales of significantly
improved goods and services; operating
agreements and licensing activities;
technology transfer; patents and
intellectual property; and sources of
technical knowledge), measures of
entrepreneurial strategies, and
demographic characteristics of the
entrepreneur.
Form BRDI–1. This form will be
mailed to approximately 7,000
companies with a history of significant
R&D and contains the full complement
of BRDIS data items.
Form BRDI–1(S). This form will be
mailed to approximately 38,000
companies and contains only the most
high-level BRDIS data items.
Information from BRDIS will continue
to support the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 as well as
other R&D-related initiatives introduced
during the clearance period. Other
initiatives that have used BRDIS
statistics include: The Innovation
Measurement-Tracking the State of
Innovation in the American Economy
(U.S. Department of Commerce);
Science of Science and Innovation
Policy (NSF); and Rising Above the
Gathering Storm (National Research
Council).
Policy officials from many Federal
agencies rely on BRDIS statistics for
essential information. For example, the
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
now incorporates R&D as fixed
investment in the National Income and
Product Accounts (NIPAs). Businesses
and trade organizations also rely on
BRDIS data to benchmark their
industries’ performance against others.
Each BRDIS data item is intended to
address specific data user needs
identified by NCSES through research,
workshops, and regular interaction with
data users.
In previous years, BRDIS statistics
were limited to companies with five or
more U.S. employees. With the addition
of BRDI–M, all companies with U.S.
employees will be eligible for inclusion
in providing statistics on R&D and
innovation regardless of company size.
Expanding the coverage of the BRDIS
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will provide data users a more complete
picture of R&D and innovation in the
business sector and will allow policy
makers and researchers to investigate
questions about R&D, innovation, and
competiveness in small businesses.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 8(b), 131, and 182,
and Title 42, United States Code,
Sections 1861–76 (National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended).
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395–5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; Longitudinal
Employer-Household Dynamics
(LEHD)
U.S. Census Bureau,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: To ensure consideration, written
comments must be submitted on or
before February 6, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at jjessup@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
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instrument(s) and instructions should
be directed to Robert Sienkiewicz;
robert.sienkiewicz@census.gov; phone:
301–763–1234.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
A 21st century statistical system must
provide information about the dynamic
economy quickly, using data assets
efficiently while minimizing the burden
of collecting and providing data and
fully preserving confidentiality. The
Census Bureau’s Longitudinal
Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
program has demonstrated the power
and usefulness of linking multiple
business and employee data sets with
state-of-the-art confidentiality
protections to build a longitudinal
national frame of jobs.
This program supports the
Department of Commerce plan to
improve American competitiveness and
measures of innovation. It provides
federal, state, and local policymakers
and planners, businesses, private sector
decision makers, and Congress with
comprehensive and timely national,
state, and local information on the
dynamic nature of employers and
employees.
The LEHD program significantly
reduces the overall effort for the
generation of its quarterly data product
by:
• Leveraging exiting federal
administrative and state data
• Avoiding costs required to expand
existing surveys to collect the
information directly
• Reducing respondent burden by
limiting the number of required
resources to just the owners of the
required data
The LEHD program is a member of a
partnership between the US Census
Bureau and the Labor Market
Information (LMI) agencies from 49
states, the District of Columbia, and the
territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands. This partnership supports the
development, promotion, and
distribution of the following data
products:
• QWI Public Use—The flagship data
product of the LEHD program is the
QWI Public Use which provides 32
statistical indicators on employment,
job creation and destruction, accessions
(hires and recalls), and separations (e.g.
exits and layoffs). These statistics are
released for the following by-groups for
all quarters for which data are available
for each partner state:
Æ County, metropolitan, and
workforce investment area
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Æ Age, sex, race, and ethnicity
categories
Æ Detailed industry (i.e., type, firm
age, firm size)
• LEHD Origin Destination
Employment Statistics (LODES)—
LODES data provide detailed spatial
distributions of workers’ employment
and residential locations and the
relation between the two at the Census
Block level. LODES also provides
characteristic detail on age, earnings,
industry distributions, and local
workforce indicators.
• Job-to-Job Flows (J2J)—Job-to-Job
Flows (J2J) is a new set of statistics on
worker reallocation in the United States
constructed from the LEHD data. The
initial release of national data
distinguishes hires and separations
associated with job change from hires
and separations to non-employment.
Future releases will be published at
more detailed levels of aggregations, and
will tabulate the origin and destination
job characteristics of workers changing
jobs.
These data products highlight state
and local labor market dynamics that
cannot be learned from other statistical
sources and are therefore used in many
different arenas. For example, the QWI
can be used as local-labor-market
controls in regression analysis; to
identify long-term trends; to provide
local context in performance
evaluations, and a host of other
applications.
II. Method of Collection
The collection of data occurs in
accordance with the rules established by
interagency agreements with the
participating state partners or data
sharing agreements that have been
established within the Census Bureau.
For state partners, their data is
submitted directly to the Census secure
servers where Personally Identifiable
Information (PII) goes through a process
to replace it with Protected
Identification Keys (PIK). This ‘‘PIKing’’
process also applies to all other
administrative data that are used by the
LEHD program. For all other required
administration data, they are transferred
or referenced by the QWI production
system. Data collection and processing
also includes activities such as
validation of data quality.
The data products created by the
LEHD program are not generated by a
traditional survey. Rather, all input data
required is collected electronically as
follows:
• State Unemployment Insurance (UI)
and Quarterly Census of Employment
and Wages (QCEW) are provided via
secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0912.
Form Number(s): BRDI-1, BRDI-1S, and BRDI-M.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 245,000.
Average Hours Per Response: 43 minutes.
Burden Hours: 176,500.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests a revision to the
currently cleared Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS)
information collection. This revision adds a form type [BRDI-M] to
collect data on research and development (R&D) and innovation
activities from small businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
In 2004, the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on National
Statistics (CNSTAT) reviewed the National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics' (NCSES) portfolio of R&D surveys and
recommended that NCSES explore ways to measure firm innovation and
investigate the incidence of R&D activities in growing sectors, such as
small business enterprises not currently covered by BRDIS. As a result,
Census plans to expand BRDIS to include very small businesses or
microbusinesses through the use of the BRDI-M questionnaire.
The National Science Foundation Act of 1950 as amended authorizes
and directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the National
Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) ``. . . to
provide a central clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation, and
analysis of data on scientific and engineering resources and to provide
a source of information for policy formulation by other agencies of the
Federal government.'' One of the methods used by NCSES to fulfill this
mandate is the Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS)--the primary
federal source of information on R&D in the business sector.
BRDIS will continue to collect the following types of information:
R&D expense based on accounting standards.
Worldwide R&D of domestic companies.
Business segment detail.
R&D related capital expenditures.
Detailed data about the R&D workforce.
R&D strategy and data on the potential impact of R&D on
the market.
R&D directed to application areas of particular national
interest.
Data measuring innovation and intellectual property
protection activities.
In addition to adding the BRDI-M form, the following changes will
be made to the 2016-2017 BRDIS compared to the 2015 BRDIS:
Add item in type-of-cost questions to collect Royalty and
licensing payments.
Add questions collecting Basic-Applied-Development split
of Total R&D paid for by the company and Total R&D paid for by others.
Delete question on intellectual property protection.
Add two Yes/No questions to help separately identify
intellectual property transfer transactions with U.S. persons and
foreign persons.
Discontinue the pre-survey letter. This letter was planned
to collect contact and company status information (merger, acquisition,
etc.) from approximately 500 of the largest R&D companies.
The forms used in the BRDIS are:
Form BRDI-M. This form will be mailed to approximately 200,000
small businesses with less than 10 employees. In addition to general
business information--primary business activity (NAICS code), year
business was formed, and number of employees--this form would collect
data on R&D, innovation, employment, related activities (such as sales
of significantly improved goods and services; operating agreements and
licensing activities; technology transfer; patents and intellectual
property; and sources of technical knowledge), measures of
entrepreneurial strategies, and demographic characteristics of the
entrepreneur.
Form BRDI-1. This form will be mailed to approximately 7,000
companies with a history of significant R&D and contains the full
complement of BRDIS data items.
Form BRDI-1(S). This form will be mailed to approximately 38,000
companies and contains only the most high-level BRDIS data items.
Information from BRDIS will continue to support the America
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 as well as other R&D-related
initiatives introduced during the clearance period. Other initiatives
that have used BRDIS statistics include: The Innovation Measurement-
Tracking the State of Innovation in the American Economy (U.S.
Department of Commerce); Science of Science and Innovation Policy
(NSF); and Rising Above the Gathering Storm (National Research
Council).
Policy officials from many Federal agencies rely on BRDIS
statistics for essential information. For example, the Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA) now incorporates R&D as fixed investment in the
National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs). Businesses and trade
organizations also rely on BRDIS data to benchmark their industries'
performance against others. Each BRDIS data item is intended to address
specific data user needs identified by NCSES through research,
workshops, and regular interaction with data users.
In previous years, BRDIS statistics were limited to companies with
five or more U.S. employees. With the addition of BRDI-M, all companies
with U.S. employees will be eligible for inclusion in providing
statistics on R&D and innovation regardless of company size. Expanding
the coverage of the BRDIS
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will provide data users a more complete picture of R&D and innovation
in the business sector and will allow policy makers and researchers to
investigate questions about R&D, innovation, and competiveness in small
businesses.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 131,
and 182, and Title 42, United States Code, Sections 1861-76 (National
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended).
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce
collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax to (202)395-5806.
Sheleen Dumas,
PRA Departmental Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-29394 Filed 12-7-16; 8:45 am]
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