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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: 2012 Survey of Business
Owners.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0943.
Form Number(s): SBO–1, SBO–1S,
SBO–2, SBO–2S.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with
change, of an expired collection.
Burden Hours: 149,167.
Number of Respondents: 875,000.
Average Hours per Response: SBO–1
= 12 minutes, SBO–2 = 8 minutes.
Needs and Uses: The 2012 Survey of
Business Owners and Self-Employed
Persons (SBO) will provide the only
comprehensive, regularly collected
source of information on selected
economic and demographic
characteristics for businesses and
business owners by gender, ethnicity,
race, and veteran status. It is conducted
as part of the economic census program,
which is required by law to be taken
every five years.
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The survey was initiated following an
Executive Order signed March 5, 1969,
by President Richard Nixon, which
directed the Secretary of Commerce to
‘‘Establish a center for the development,
collection, summarization, and
dissemination of information that will
be helpful to persons and organizations
throughout the nation in undertaking or
promoting the establishment and
successful operation of minority
business enterprise.’’ This project was
later incorporated into the 1972
Economic Census and has been
conducted on a quinquennial basis as
part of the economic census ever since.
Government program officials,
industry organization leaders, economic
and social analysts, and business
entrepreneurs routinely use the SBO
statistics. Examples of data use include
those by:
• The Small Business Administration
(SBA) and the Minority Business
Development Agency (MBDA) to assess
business assistance needs and allocate
available program resources.
• Local government commissions on
small and disadvantaged businesses to
establish and evaluate contract
procurement practices.
• Federal, state and local government
agencies as a framework for planning,
directing and assessing programs that
promote the activities of disadvantaged
groups.
• A national women-owned business
trade association to assess womenowned businesses by industry and area,
and educate other industry associations,
corporations and government entities.
• Consultants and researchers to
analyze long-term economic and
demographic shifts, and differences in
ownership and performance among
geographic areas.
• Individual business owners to
analyze their operations in comparison
to similar firms, compute their market
share, and assess their growth and
future prospects.
Businesses which reported any
business activity on any one of the
following Internal Revenue Service
(IRS) tax forms will be eligible for
survey selection: 1040 (Schedule C),
‘‘Profit or Loss from Business’’ (Sole
Proprietorship); 1065, ‘‘U.S. Return of
Partnership Income’’; 941, ‘‘Employer’s
Quarterly Federal Tax Return’’; 944
‘‘Employer’s Annual Federal Tax
Return’’, or any one of the 1120
corporate tax forms.
The 2012 SBO–1 and SBO–2
questionnaires will be mailed in two
phases from our processing
headquarters in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Approximately 850,000 questionnaires
for partnerships and corporations,
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which were in business in 2011, will be
mailed out in the first phase scheduled
to begin June 2013, with two follow-up
mailings at six-week intervals. Closeout
of this phase of the mailout operations
is scheduled for October 2013. The
second phase mailout of approximately
900,000 questionnaires to sole
proprietorships and new partnerships
and corporations operating in 2012 is
scheduled to begin in May 2014, with
two follow-ups at six-week intervals.
Closeout of mailout operations is
scheduled for August 2014. Upon
closeout of the survey, the response data
will be edited and reviewed.
For the 2012 SBO, significant changes
have been made to the program. These
changes include the following:
• To reduce the SBO sample size,
mailing and processing costs, and
respondent burden, the Census Bureau
is expanding its use of direct data
substitution from existing sources, such
as the American Community Survey
(ACS) and the Decennial Census.
• Select businesses will be mailed the
new 2012 SBO–2 short form with 39
fewer questions to answer than the 2012
SBO–1 long form.
• Spanish-language paper versions of
the SBO–1 and SBO–2 forms,
respectively designated as the SBO–1S
and SBO–2S forms, will be available
upon request.
• The first eight questions on the
2007 SBO–1 form have been reorganized
into three questions on the 2012 SBO–
1 and SBO–2 forms to improve
navigation through these forms.
• To eliminate confusion for business
owners born to American citizens
overseas, the foreign-born question that
asked if the owner was born in the
United States has been replaced by a
new question that asks if the owner was
born a citizen of the United States.
• The veteran question has been
revised and expanded to collect
information on whether the veteran was
service-disabled, served on active duty
or as a reservist during the survey year,
served on active duty at any time, and
served on active duty after September
11, 2001. The revised and expanded
wording for the veteran categories and
the collection of the additional service
characteristics reflects input received
during consultations with many leaders
in the veteran community. Input was
received from, among others, the
Department of Defense, the Veterans
Administration, the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Veterans’
Affairs, the Senate Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs, the Small Business
Administration, the American Legion,
the Veterans Entrepreneurship Task
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Force (VET-Force), and the American
Veterans (AMVETS).
• Interest from researchers on the
possible correlation between intellectual
property rights and business success led
to the addition of a question on whether
the business owned a copyright,
trademark, granted patent, or a pending
patent.
Using principles of questionnaire
design and methodological research,
cognitive interviews were completed
with eighty-three respondents in three
rounds of interviews. Upon completion
of each round of interviews, the
interview team met, decided on the
changes to the form, and made revisions
based on the findings and
recommendations.
The survey collects data on the
gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran
status for up to four persons owning the
majority of rights, equity, or interest in
the business. These data are needed to
evaluate the extent and growth of
business ownership by women,
minorities, and veterans in order to
provide a framework for assessing and
directing federal, state, and local
government programs designed to
promote the activities of disadvantaged
groups.
The SBA and the MBDA use the SBO
data when allocating resources for their
business assistance programs.
The Census Bureau merged its 2007
SBO data product with its 2007 Profile
of U.S. Exporting Companies data
product to create a first-ever report that
provides the ownership characteristics
of classifiable U.S. exporters by gender,
ethnicity, race, and veteran status, and
their export values by country. This
report is planned again for the 2012
data.
The data are also widely used by
private firms and individuals to
evaluate their own businesses and
markets and to write business plans and
loan application letters, by the media for
news stories, by researchers and
academia for determining firm
characteristics, and by the legal
profession in evaluating the
concentration of minority businesses in
particular industries and/or geographic
areas.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Not-for-profit institutions; State,
local or Tribal governments.
Frequency: Every 5 years.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 of the United
States Code (USC), Sections 131, 193,
and 224.
OMB Desk Officer: Brian HarrisKojetin, (202) 395–7314.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
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calling or writing Jennifer Jessup,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of
Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
jjessup@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB
Desk Officer either by fax (202–395–
7245) or email (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).
Dated: August 31, 2012.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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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: 2013 Survey of Income and
Program Participation, Event History
Calendar Field Test.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0957.
Form Number(s): SIPP–EHC
105(L)2013–Director’s Letter; SIPP–
EHC–105(L)(SP) 2013—Director’s Letter
Spanish; SIPP–EHC 4006A Brochure;
SIPP/CAPI Automated Instrument.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Burden Hours: 6,300.
Number of Respondents: 6,300.
Average Hours per Response: 1 hour.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census
Bureau requests authorization from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to conduct the 2013 Survey of
Income and Program Participation Event
History Calendar (SIPP–EHC) Field Test.
The Census Bureau’s SIPP–EHC
computer-assisted personal interviewing
(CAPI) will use an Event History
Calendar (EHC) interviewing method
and a 12-month, calendar-year reference
period in place of the current SIPP
questionnaire approach that uses a
sliding 4-month reference period. The
Census Bureau also plans to use
Computer Assisted Recorded Interview
(CARI) technology for a sample of the
respondents during the 2013 SIPP–EHC.
The Census Bureau is re-engineering the
SIPP to accomplish several goals
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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: 2012 Survey of Business Owners.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0943.
Form Number(s): SBO-1, SBO-1S, SBO-2, SBO-2S.
Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of an expired
collection.
Burden Hours: 149,167.
Number of Respondents: 875,000.
Average Hours per Response: SBO-1 = 12 minutes, SBO-2 = 8 minutes.
Needs and Uses: The 2012 Survey of Business Owners and Self-
Employed Persons (SBO) will provide the only comprehensive, regularly
collected source of information on selected economic and demographic
characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender,
ethnicity, race, and veteran status. It is conducted as part of the
economic census program, which is required by law to be taken every
five years.
The survey was initiated following an Executive Order signed March
5, 1969, by President Richard Nixon, which directed the Secretary of
Commerce to ``Establish a center for the development, collection,
summarization, and dissemination of information that will be helpful to
persons and organizations throughout the nation in undertaking or
promoting the establishment and successful operation of minority
business enterprise.'' This project was later incorporated into the
1972 Economic Census and has been conducted on a quinquennial basis as
part of the economic census ever since.
Government program officials, industry organization leaders,
economic and social analysts, and business entrepreneurs routinely use
the SBO statistics. Examples of data use include those by:
The Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Minority
Business Development Agency (MBDA) to assess business assistance needs
and allocate available program resources.
Local government commissions on small and disadvantaged
businesses to establish and evaluate contract procurement practices.
Federal, state and local government agencies as a
framework for planning, directing and assessing programs that promote
the activities of disadvantaged groups.
A national women-owned business trade association to
assess women-owned businesses by industry and area, and educate other
industry associations, corporations and government entities.
Consultants and researchers to analyze long-term economic
and demographic shifts, and differences in ownership and performance
among geographic areas.
Individual business owners to analyze their operations in
comparison to similar firms, compute their market share, and assess
their growth and future prospects.
Businesses which reported any business activity on any one of the
following Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax forms will be eligible for
survey selection: 1040 (Schedule C), ``Profit or Loss from Business''
(Sole Proprietorship); 1065, ``U.S. Return of Partnership Income'';
941, ``Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return''; 944 ``Employer's
Annual Federal Tax Return'', or any one of the 1120 corporate tax
forms.
The 2012 SBO-1 and SBO-2 questionnaires will be mailed in two
phases from our processing headquarters in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Approximately 850,000 questionnaires for partnerships and corporations,
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which were in business in 2011, will be mailed out in the first phase
scheduled to begin June 2013, with two follow-up mailings at six-week
intervals. Closeout of this phase of the mailout operations is
scheduled for October 2013. The second phase mailout of approximately
900,000 questionnaires to sole proprietorships and new partnerships and
corporations operating in 2012 is scheduled to begin in May 2014, with
two follow-ups at six-week intervals. Closeout of mailout operations is
scheduled for August 2014. Upon closeout of the survey, the response
data will be edited and reviewed.
For the 2012 SBO, significant changes have been made to the
program. These changes include the following:
To reduce the SBO sample size, mailing and processing
costs, and respondent burden, the Census Bureau is expanding its use of
direct data substitution from existing sources, such as the American
Community Survey (ACS) and the Decennial Census.
Select businesses will be mailed the new 2012 SBO-2 short
form with 39 fewer questions to answer than the 2012 SBO-1 long form.
Spanish-language paper versions of the SBO-1 and SBO-2
forms, respectively designated as the SBO-1S and SBO-2S forms, will be
available upon request.
The first eight questions on the 2007 SBO-1 form have been
reorganized into three questions on the 2012 SBO-1 and SBO-2 forms to
improve navigation through these forms.
To eliminate confusion for business owners born to
American citizens overseas, the foreign-born question that asked if the
owner was born in the United States has been replaced by a new question
that asks if the owner was born a citizen of the United States.
The veteran question has been revised and expanded to
collect information on whether the veteran was service-disabled, served
on active duty or as a reservist during the survey year, served on
active duty at any time, and served on active duty after September 11,
2001. The revised and expanded wording for the veteran categories and
the collection of the additional service characteristics reflects input
received during consultations with many leaders in the veteran
community. Input was received from, among others, the Department of
Defense, the Veterans Administration, the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, the Small Business
Administration, the American Legion, the Veterans Entrepreneurship Task
Force (VET-Force), and the American Veterans (AMVETS).
Interest from researchers on the possible correlation
between intellectual property rights and business success led to the
addition of a question on whether the business owned a copyright,
trademark, granted patent, or a pending patent.
Using principles of questionnaire design and methodological
research, cognitive interviews were completed with eighty-three
respondents in three rounds of interviews. Upon completion of each
round of interviews, the interview team met, decided on the changes to
the form, and made revisions based on the findings and recommendations.
The survey collects data on the gender, ethnicity, race, and
veteran status for up to four persons owning the majority of rights,
equity, or interest in the business. These data are needed to evaluate
the extent and growth of business ownership by women, minorities, and
veterans in order to provide a framework for assessing and directing
federal, state, and local government programs designed to promote the
activities of disadvantaged groups.
The SBA and the MBDA use the SBO data when allocating resources for
their business assistance programs.
The Census Bureau merged its 2007 SBO data product with its 2007
Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies data product to create a first-ever
report that provides the ownership characteristics of classifiable U.S.
exporters by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status, and their
export values by country. This report is planned again for the 2012
data.
The data are also widely used by private firms and individuals to
evaluate their own businesses and markets and to write business plans
and loan application letters, by the media for news stories, by
researchers and academia for determining firm characteristics, and by
the legal profession in evaluating the concentration of minority
businesses in particular industries and/or geographic areas.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, local or Tribal governments.
Frequency: Every 5 years.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 of the United States Code (USC), Sections
131, 193, and 224.
OMB Desk Officer: Brian Harris-Kojetin, (202) 395-7314.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482-0336, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
jjessup@doc.gov).
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to Brian Harris-Kojetin, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245)
or email (bharrisk@omb.eop.gov).
Dated: August 31, 2012.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-21932 Filed 9-5-12; 8:45 am]
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