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The economic census is the primary
source of facts about the structure and
functioning of the Nation’s economy
and features unique industry and
geographic detail. Economic census
Dated: May 9, 2006.
statistics serve as part of the framework
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for the national accounts and provide
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essential information for government,
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business, and the general public. The
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Federal Government uses information
from the economic census as an
important part of the framework for the
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
national income and product accounts,
input-output tables, economic indexes,
Submission for OMB Review;
and other composite measures that serve
Comment Request
as the factual basis for economic policymaking, planning, and program
DOC has submitted to the Office of
administration. Further, the census
Management and Budget (OMB) for
provides sampling frames and
clearance the following proposal for
benchmarks for current surveys of
collection of information under the
business which track short-term
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
economic trends, serve as economic
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
indicators, and contribute critical source
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2007 Economic Census Covering data for current estimates of gross
domestic product. State and local
the Retail Trade and Accommodation
governments rely on the economic
and Food Services Sectors.
Form Number(s): Too numerous to list census as a unique source of
here.
comprehensive economic statistics for
Agency Approval Number: None.
small geographic areas for use in policyType of Request: New collection.
making, planning, and program
Burden: 1,165,100 hours.
administration. Finally, industry,
Number of Respondents: 1,418,690.
business, academe, and the general
Avg Hours Per Response: 48 minutes.
public use information from the
Needs and Uses: The 2007 Economic
economic census for evaluating markets,
Census Covering the Retail Trade and
preparing business plans, making
Accommodation and Food Services
business decisions, developing
Sectors will use a mail canvass,
economic models and forecasts,
supplemented by data from Federal
conducting economic research, and
administrative records, to measure the
establishing benchmarks for their own
economic activity of more than 1.7
sample surveys.
million establishments classified in the
If the economic census was not
North American Industry Classification
conducted, the Federal Government
System (NAICS). The retail trade sector
would lose vital source data and
comprises establishments primarily
benchmarks for the national accounts,
engaged in selling merchandise,
input-output tables, and other
generally without transformation, and
composite measures of economic
rendering services incidental to the sale
activity, causing a substantial
of merchandise. The accommodation
degradation in the quality of these
and food services sector comprises
important statistics. Further, the
establishments providing customers
government would lose critical
with lodging and/or preparing meals,
benchmarks for current sample-based
snacks, and beverages for immediate
economic surveys and an essential
consumption. The information collected
source of detailed, comprehensive
will produce basic statistics by kind of
economic information for use in policybusiness on number of establishments,
making, planning, and program
sales, payroll, and employment. It will
administration.
also yield a variety of subject statistics,
Affected Public: Business or other forincluding sales by product line, sales by profit; Individuals or households; Notclass of customer, and other industryfor-profit institutions; State, local or
specific measures, such as number of
Tribal governments.
prescriptions filled by drug stores and
Frequency: One-time.
number of guestrooms provided by
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
hotels. Basic statistics will be
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.
summarized for the United States,
Sections 131 and 224.
states, metropolitan areas, counties,
OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter,
places, and ZIP code areas. Tabulations
(202) 395–5103.
Copies of the above information
of subject statistics also will present
collection proposal can be obtained by
data for the United States and, in some
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
cases, for states.
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those sessions. Agenda items to be
covered include: (1) Call for new
projects process; (2) Review of funded
projects and (3) Public comment.
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Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, Room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk
Officer either by fax (202–395–7245) or
e-mail (susan_schechter@omb.eop.gov).
Dated: May 11, 2006.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
DOC has submitted 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: Census Coverage Measurement,
Person Followup Interview and Person
Followup Reinterview Operations.
Form Number(s): DD–1301, DD–
1302.2(PFU–RI).
Agency Approval Number: None.
Type of Request: New collection.
Burden: 807 hours.
Number of Respondents: 2,420.
Avg Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
Needs and Uses: In preparation for
the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census
Bureau requests authorization from the
Office of Management and Budget to
conduct the Person Followup (PFU)
Interview and the Person Followup
Reinterview (PFURI) as part of the 2006
Census Coverage Measurement (CCM)
test. The CCM test, which includes the
CCM Person Interview (PI), PI
Reinterview, person matching, PFU and
PFURI operations, is to occur during the
2006 Census Test to evaluate new
approaches that would improve
measures of coverage error for persons.
The 2006 CCM test will occur in Travis
County, Texas; and on the Cheyenne
River Reservation in South Dakota.
The 2006 CCM test will be comprised
of two overlapping samples, a
population sample (P sample) and a
sample of census records. The P sample
will be obtained by independently
rostering persons in housing units
within the CCM sampled block clusters.
The independent roster is obtained
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during the CCM PI, the results of which
will be matched to census enumerations
in the sample blocks, in surrounding
blocks and across the entire site. A
separate OMB package was previously
prepared for the PI operations. After the
CCM PI and matching operations have
taken place, some cases will receive the
CCM PFU interview. Generally, these
will be cases where additional
information is needed to determine
residence status or where
inconsistencies were observed during
the matching operations. We also will
conduct a quality control operation of
the PFU called the Person Followup
Reinterview (PFURI).
The purpose of the 2006 CCM test is
not to measure the coverage of the 2006
Census Test per se, but rather to test
ways of improving previous coverage
measurement methods. In particular, the
focus of the 2006 CCM test is to test
improved matching operations and data
collection efforts designed to obtain
more accurate information about where
a person should have been enumerated
according to Census residence rules.
This focus is motivated by: (1) Problems
encountered with coverage
measurement in 2000 in determining a
person’s residence (relative to Census
residence rules), (2) the significant
number of duplicate enumerations in
Census 2000, and (3) expanded goals for
coverage measurement in 2010. The
latter refers to our objective of
producing, for the first time, separate
estimates of coverage error
components—omissions and erroneous
enumerations including duplicates. The
data collection and matching
methodologies for previous coverage
measurement programs were designed
primarily to measure net coverage error,
which reflects the difference between
omissions and erroneous enumerations
(see Definition of Terms). In order to
produce separate estimates of these
coverage error components, we need to
develop and test changes to our data
collection and matching methods. In
particular, the 2006 CCM efforts will
focus on ways to obtain better
information about addresses where
people should have, and could have,
been enumerated during the census.
An additional objective for the 2006
Census Test is to determine if we can
conduct coverage measurement
interviews before all census data
collection is complete, and do so
without contaminating the census and
adversely affecting coverage
measurement. There are several
operational and data quality advantages
of conducting coverage measurement
interviews as close to census day as
possible, but we do not want to do this
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if it will seriously affect measurement of
coverage error.
A main goal of the 2006 CCM test is
to test our underlying assumption that
our enhanced data collection
procedures adequately determine a
person’s residence status. In order to
move towards attaining this goal in
2010, we must learn more about the
usefulness of changes made to the PFU
questionnaire since 2000. Since the
2006 CCM test will feature many new
matching procedures, we also hope to
gain a better understanding of how the
new matching operations affect the PFU
universe.
As part of the 2006 CCM PFU
operations, we will also conduct the
quality control operation PFURI. For
this operation a sample of the CCM PFU
cases will be selected for a reinterview.
The purpose of the reinterview is to
determine if the source of the CCM PFU
data (e.g., a household member; a
specific proxy respondent) can be
confirmed.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 141 and
193.
OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter,
(202) 395–5103.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk
Officer either by fax (202–395–7245) or
e-mail (susan_schechter@omb.eop.gov).
Dated: May 11, 2006.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
DOC has submitted 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).
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Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2007 Economic Census Covering
the Wholesale Trade Sector.
Form Number(s): WH–42301 through
WH–42503 (42 report forms in total).
Agency Approval Number: None.
Type of Request: New collection.
Burden: 675,000 hours.
Number of Respondents: 450,000.
Avg Hours per Response: 1.5 hours.
Needs and Uses: The 2007 Economic
Census covering the Wholesale Trade
sector will use a mail canvass,
supplemented by data from Federal
administrative records, to measure the
economic activity of more than 450,000
wholesale establishments classified in
the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS).
The Wholesale Trade sector
comprises establishments primarily
engaged in the selling or arranging the
purchase or sale of durable
nonconsumer goods, selling goods for
resale, and the sale of other goods from
establishments that operate from a
warehouse or office and do not normally
advertise directly to the general public.
The economic census will produce basic
statistics by kind of business on number
of establishments, sales, payroll,
employment, inventories, and operating
expenses. It also will yield a variety of
subject statistics, including sales by
product line; sales by class of customer;
employment by primary function;
measures of gross margin and gross
profit; and other industry-specific
measures, such as bulk storage capacity
by type of facility for petroleum bulk
stations and terminals. Basic statistics
will be summarized for the United
States, states, metropolitan areas,
counties, and places. Tabulations of
subject statistics also will present data
for the United States and, in some cases,
for states.
The economic census is the primary
source of facts about the structure and
functioning of the Nation’s economy
and features unique industry and
geographic detail. Economic census
statistics serve as part of the framework
for the national accounts and provide
essential information for government,
business, and the general public. The
Federal Government uses information
from the economic census as an
important part of the framework for the
national income and product accounts,
input-output tables, economic indexes,
and other composite measures that serve
as the factual basis for economic policymaking, planning, and program
administration. Further, the census
provides sampling frames and
benchmarks for current surveys of
business which track short-term
economic trends, serve as economic
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
DOC has submitted 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: Census Coverage Measurement, Person Followup Interview and
Person Followup Reinterview Operations.
Form Number(s): DD-1301, DD-1302.2(PFU-RI).
Agency Approval Number: None.
Type of Request: New collection.
Burden: 807 hours.
Number of Respondents: 2,420.
Avg Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
Needs and Uses: In preparation for the 2010 Census, the U.S. Census
Bureau requests authorization from the Office of Management and Budget
to conduct the Person Followup (PFU) Interview and the Person Followup
Reinterview (PFURI) as part of the 2006 Census Coverage Measurement
(CCM) test. The CCM test, which includes the CCM Person Interview (PI),
PI Reinterview, person matching, PFU and PFURI operations, is to occur
during the 2006 Census Test to evaluate new approaches that would
improve measures of coverage error for persons. The 2006 CCM test will
occur in Travis County, Texas; and on the Cheyenne River Reservation in
South Dakota.
The 2006 CCM test will be comprised of two overlapping samples, a
population sample (P sample) and a sample of census records. The P
sample will be obtained by independently rostering persons in housing
units within the CCM sampled block clusters. The independent roster is
obtained
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during the CCM PI, the results of which will be matched to census
enumerations in the sample blocks, in surrounding blocks and across the
entire site. A separate OMB package was previously prepared for the PI
operations. After the CCM PI and matching operations have taken place,
some cases will receive the CCM PFU interview. Generally, these will be
cases where additional information is needed to determine residence
status or where inconsistencies were observed during the matching
operations. We also will conduct a quality control operation of the PFU
called the Person Followup Reinterview (PFURI).
The purpose of the 2006 CCM test is not to measure the coverage of
the 2006 Census Test per se, but rather to test ways of improving
previous coverage measurement methods. In particular, the focus of the
2006 CCM test is to test improved matching operations and data
collection efforts designed to obtain more accurate information about
where a person should have been enumerated according to Census
residence rules. This focus is motivated by: (1) Problems encountered
with coverage measurement in 2000 in determining a person's residence
(relative to Census residence rules), (2) the significant number of
duplicate enumerations in Census 2000, and (3) expanded goals for
coverage measurement in 2010. The latter refers to our objective of
producing, for the first time, separate estimates of coverage error
components--omissions and erroneous enumerations including duplicates.
The data collection and matching methodologies for previous coverage
measurement programs were designed primarily to measure net coverage
error, which reflects the difference between omissions and erroneous
enumerations (see Definition of Terms). In order to produce separate
estimates of these coverage error components, we need to develop and
test changes to our data collection and matching methods. In
particular, the 2006 CCM efforts will focus on ways to obtain better
information about addresses where people should have, and could have,
been enumerated during the census.
An additional objective for the 2006 Census Test is to determine if
we can conduct coverage measurement interviews before all census data
collection is complete, and do so without contaminating the census and
adversely affecting coverage measurement. There are several operational
and data quality advantages of conducting coverage measurement
interviews as close to census day as possible, but we do not want to do
this if it will seriously affect measurement of coverage error.
A main goal of the 2006 CCM test is to test our underlying
assumption that our enhanced data collection procedures adequately
determine a person's residence status. In order to move towards
attaining this goal in 2010, we must learn more about the usefulness of
changes made to the PFU questionnaire since 2000. Since the 2006 CCM
test will feature many new matching procedures, we also hope to gain a
better understanding of how the new matching operations affect the PFU
universe.
As part of the 2006 CCM PFU operations, we will also conduct the
quality control operation PFURI. For this operation a sample of the CCM
PFU cases will be selected for a reinterview. The purpose of the
reinterview is to determine if the source of the CCM PFU data (e.g., a
household member; a specific proxy respondent) can be confirmed.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 141 and 193.
OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) or e-
mail (susan_schechter@omb.eop.gov).
Dated: May 11, 2006.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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