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address one or more of the following
four points:
—Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
—Evaluate the accuracy of the agencies
estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
—Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
—Minimize the burden of the collection
of information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Overview of This Information
Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection:
New collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
Supplemental Fraud Survey (SFS) to the
National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS) 2017.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department sponsoring the collection:
The form number for the questionnaire
is SFS–1. The applicable component
within the Department of Justice is the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, in the Office
of Justice Programs.
(4) Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Respondents will be persons
age 18 or older living in households
located throughout the United States
sampled for the National Crime
Victimization Survey (NCVS). The SFS
will be conducted as a supplement to
the NCVS in all sampled households for
a three (3) month period. The SFS is an
effort to measure the prevalence of
financial fraud victimization among
persons 18 or older, characteristics of
fraud victims, and patterns of reporting
fraud victimization to the police and
other agencies. BJS plans to publish this
information in reports and reference it
when responding to queries from the
U.S. Congress, Executive Office of the
President, the U.S. Supreme Court, state
officials, international organizations,
researchers, students, the media, and
others interested in criminal justice
statistics.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
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respond/reply: An estimate of the total
number of respondents is 79,832. About
88% (70,252) will have no fraud
victimization and will complete the
short interview with an average burden
of five (5) minutes. Among the 12% of
respondents (9,580) who experience
fraud victimization, the time to ask the
detailed questions regarding the aspects
of their fraud victimization is estimated
to take an additional 10 minutes.
Respondents will be asked to respond to
this survey only once during the three
month period.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: There are an estimated 8,015
total burden hours associated with this
collection.
If additional information is required
contact: Melody Braswell, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Two Constitution
Square, 145 N Street NE., Suite 3E.405B,
Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: July 5, 2017.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection, Comment
Request
AGENCY:
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Labor.
ACTION:
Notice.
The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95). This program helps to ensure
that requested data can be provided in
the desired format, reporting burden
(time and financial resources) is
minimized, collection instruments are
clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents
can be properly assessed. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed new
collection of the ‘‘Quick Business
Survey Operations Test.’’ A copy of the
proposed information collection request
SUMMARY:
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(ICR) can be obtained by contacting the
individual listed below in the Addresses
section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or
before September 8, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Carol
Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
of Management Systems, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2
Massachusetts Avenue NE.,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll
free number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
intends to conduct an operations test of
a Quick Business Survey (QBS). The
BLS will conduct the test to evaluate
QBS survey processes and operations in
a possible production environment. If
successful, a QBS would permit BLS to
collect information about the U.S.
economy more efficiently than is
currently possible. This would allow
data users to be able to understand the
impact of specific events on the
economy in a timely manner. Relevancy
is one of BLS’s main missions, and a
QBS would allow BLS to provide
information to the public in a more
timely way that would be far more
relevant to data users.
Each year, the Quarterly Census of
Employment and Wages (QCEW)
Program conducts the Annual Refiling
Survey (ARS) by reaching out to
approximately 1.2 million
establishments requesting verification of
their main business activity, and their
mailing and physical location addresses.
The fully web-based ARS provides a
low-cost platform for conducting the
QBS. The QBSs accompanying the ARS
would have little data collection
overhead, leveraging the address
refinement, printing, and mailing efforts
that are undertaken as part of the
production ARS. Respondents already
logged into the ARS secure Web site
could be directed to a QBS and asked
to answer a limited number of
additional survey questions after
completing the ARS.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for the Quick
Business Survey (QBS) Operations Test.
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Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
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A QBS would allow BLS to leverage
the multitude of information already
known about the sample units to allow
for targeted sampling. Samples could be
selected based on different
characteristics such as monthly
employment, quarterly wages, industry
codes, non-profit vs for profit status, etc.
A QBS would permit BLS to target only
the units meeting the specific set of
characteristics desired allowing BLS to
delve into specific areas of economic
interest without burdening
establishments which do not meet the
specific targeted features. The QBS is
designed to encourage a fast response
and minimize respondent burden. In
this manner, BLS can provide
information that is needed quickly and
is not collected elsewhere.
The goals of the test are to develop
and evaluate a QBS system, to
understand the extent to which ARS
respondents have access to different
types of information in order to provide
parameters for future QBS, and to
estimate response rates.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of
July 2017.
Kimberley Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility.
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: Quick Business Survey
Operations Test.
OMB Number: 1220—NEW.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit institutions, not-for-profit
institutions, and farms.
Total Respondents: 10,520.
Frequency: One time.
Total Responses: 10,520.
Average Time per Response: Five
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 877
hours.
The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95). This program helps to ensure
that requested data can be provided in
the desired format, reporting burden
(time and financial resources) is
minimized, collection instruments are
clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents
can be properly assessed. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
extension of the ‘‘Leave Supplement to
the American Time Use Survey.’’ A
copy of the proposed information
collection request (ICR) can be obtained
by contacting the individual listed
below in the ADDRESSES section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or
before September 8, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin
Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
of Management Systems, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2
Massachusetts Avenue NE.,
Washington, DC 20212. Written
comments also may be transmitted by
fax to 202–691–5111 (this is not a toll
free number).
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ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
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Erin
Good, BLS Clearance Officer, at 202–
691–7763 (this is not a toll free number).
(See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
I. Background
The American Time Use Survey
(ATUS) is the Nation’s first federally
administered, continuous survey on
time use in the United States. It
measures, for example, time spent
providing childcare, working, sleeping,
or doing leisure activities. In the United
States, several existing Federal surveys
collect income and wage data for
individuals and families, and analysts
often use such measures of material
prosperity as proxies for quality of life.
Time-use data substantially augment
these quality-of-life measures. The data
also can be used in conjunction with
wage data to evaluate the contribution
of non-market work to national
economies. This enables comparisons of
production between nations that have
different mixes of market and nonmarket activities.
The ATUS is used to develop
nationally representative estimates of
how people spend their time. This is
done by collecting a time diary about
the activities survey respondents did
over a 24-hour period ‘‘yesterday,’’ from
4 a.m. on the day before the interview
until 4 a.m. on the day of the interview.
In the one-time interview, respondents
also report who was with them during
the activities, where they were, how
long each activity lasted, and if they
were paid. All of this information has
numerous practical applications for
sociologists, economists, educators,
government policymakers,
businesspersons, health researchers, and
others.
The Leave Supplement supports the
mission of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
by providing relevant information on
economic and social issues. The data
from the Leave Supplement can be used
for research on the relationships
between work schedules, job
flexibilities, access to leave, and time
use. These data enhance the
understanding of people’s overall wellbeing. The supplement surveys
employed wage and salary workers,
except those who are self-employed,
aged 15 and up, from a nationally
representative sample of approximately
2,060 sample households each month.
The Leave Supplement collects data
about workers’ access to and use of paid
and unpaid leave, job flexibility, and
their work schedules. The Leave
Supplement also includes questions
about shift work, advance notice of
work schedules, workers’ control over
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[FR Doc No: 2017-14358]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Collection, Comment Request
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA95). This program helps to ensure that requested data
can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents
can be properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is
soliciting comments concerning the proposed new collection of the
``Quick Business Survey Operations Test.'' A copy of the proposed
information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the
individual listed below in the Addresses section of this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or before September 8, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080,
2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, DC 20212. Written comments also
may be transmitted by fax to 202-691-5111 (this is not a toll free
number).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202-691-7628 (this is not a toll free number). (See Addresses section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) intends to conduct an
operations test of a Quick Business Survey (QBS). The BLS will conduct
the test to evaluate QBS survey processes and operations in a possible
production environment. If successful, a QBS would permit BLS to
collect information about the U.S. economy more efficiently than is
currently possible. This would allow data users to be able to
understand the impact of specific events on the economy in a timely
manner. Relevancy is one of BLS's main missions, and a QBS would allow
BLS to provide information to the public in a more timely way that
would be far more relevant to data users.
Each year, the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW)
Program conducts the Annual Refiling Survey (ARS) by reaching out to
approximately 1.2 million establishments requesting verification of
their main business activity, and their mailing and physical location
addresses. The fully web-based ARS provides a low-cost platform for
conducting the QBS. The QBSs accompanying the ARS would have little
data collection overhead, leveraging the address refinement, printing,
and mailing efforts that are undertaken as part of the production ARS.
Respondents already logged into the ARS secure Web site could be
directed to a QBS and asked to answer a limited number of additional
survey questions after completing the ARS.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget clearance is being sought for the
Quick Business Survey (QBS) Operations Test.
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A QBS would allow BLS to leverage the multitude of information
already known about the sample units to allow for targeted sampling.
Samples could be selected based on different characteristics such as
monthly employment, quarterly wages, industry codes, non-profit vs for
profit status, etc. A QBS would permit BLS to target only the units
meeting the specific set of characteristics desired allowing BLS to
delve into specific areas of economic interest without burdening
establishments which do not meet the specific targeted features. The
QBS is designed to encourage a fast response and minimize respondent
burden. In this manner, BLS can provide information that is needed
quickly and is not collected elsewhere.
The goals of the test are to develop and evaluate a QBS system, to
understand the extent to which ARS respondents have access to different
types of information in order to provide parameters for future QBS, and
to estimate response rates.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is particularly interested in
comments that:
Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility.
Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used.
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected.
Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses.
Type of Review: New Collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: Quick Business Survey Operations Test.
OMB Number: 1220--NEW.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit institutions, not-
for-profit institutions, and farms.
Total Respondents: 10,520.
Frequency: One time.
Total Responses: 10,520.
Average Time per Response: Five minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 877 hours.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $0.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they also will become a
matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 3rd day of July 2017.
Kimberley Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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