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activities should be directed to Marlo
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Manufacturing, Mining, and
Construction Sectors, Economy-Wide
Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau,
(301) 763–7170, or email
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Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Annual Survey of
Manufactures
Census Bureau, Commerce.
Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to comment on
proposed, and continuing information
collections, which helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment on the proposed revision of
the Annual Survey of Manufactures,
prior to the submission of the
information collection request (ICR) to
OMB for approval.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before November 9, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments by
email to Thomas.J.Smith@census.gov.
Please reference Annual Survey of
Manufactures in the subject line of your
comments. You may also submit
comments, identified by Docket Number
USBC–2020–0024, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. All comments
received are part of the public record.
No comments will be posted to https://
www.regulations.gov for public viewing
until after the comment period has
closed. Comments will generally be
posted without change. All Personally
Identifiable Information (for example,
name and address) voluntarily
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publicly accessible. Do not submit
Confidential Business Information or
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SUMMARY:
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I. Abstract
The Census Bureau has conducted the
Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)
since 1949 to provide key measures of
manufacturing activity during
intercensal periods. In economic census
years ending in ‘‘2’’ and ‘‘7’’, we do not
conduct the ASM. ASM estimates are
key inputs for multiple federal
statistical programs, including the
Bureau of Economic Analysis’ National
Income and Product Accounts. The
ASM furnishes up-to-date estimates of
employment and payroll, hours and
wages of production workers, value
added by manufacture, cost of materials,
value of shipments by the North
American Product Classification System
(NAPCS) product codes, inventories,
and expenditures for both plant
equipment and structures. The survey
provides data at the two-through sixdigit North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS) levels. It
also provides geographic data by state at
a more aggregated industry level.
ASM estimates are key inputs for
multiple federal statistical programs.
Federal agencies use the annual survey’s
input and output data as benchmarks for
their statistical programs, including the
Federal Reserve Board’s Index of
Industrial Production and BEA’s
National Income and Product Accounts.
The data also provide the Department of
Energy with primary information on the
use of energy by the manufacturing
sector to produce manufactured
products. These data also are used as
benchmark data for the Manufacturing
Energy Consumption Survey, which is
conducted for the Department of Energy
by the Census Bureau. Within the
Census Bureau, the ASM data are used
to benchmark and reconcile monthly
and quarterly data on manufacturing
production and inventories. The ASM is
the only source of complete
establishment statistics for the programs
mentioned above. The survey also
provides valuable information to private
companies, research organizations, and
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trade associations. Industry makes
extensive use of the annual figures on
product class shipments at the U.S.
level in market analyses, product
planning, and investment planning.
State development/planning agencies
rely on the survey as a major source of
comprehensive economic data for
policymaking, planning, and
administration. The Census Bureau
plans to request a revision of a currently
approved collection. We plan to make
the following changes:
MA–10000—Multiple Establishment
Companies and MA–10000—Single
Establishment Companies:
A. Content related to the Coronavirus
Pandemic:
1. Item 28—Special Inquiry:
Add a question asking respondents to
provide the number of days their
location was closed due to the
coronavirus pandemic. This question
will assist with measuring the impact on
plant operations due to the Coronavirus
Pandemic.
The primary objective of adding this
and other questions related to the
Coronavirus Pandemic described below
is to measure the impact of the
Coronavirus Pandemic on the
manufacturing sector and
manufacturing establishments, and meet
the needs of the data user community.
As we continue in these unprecedented
times, the Coronavirus Pandemic
content may shift, change or evolve and
require further modifications on the
ASM.
2. Item 5 and Item 28—Special
Inquiry:
Add a statement to Item 5 to specify/
clarify that donated products should be
included in the value.
Add a question asking respondents if
they donated products and the
associated value of the donated
products (breakout of Item 5, line A).
Attempt to gather information on the
value of shipments related to donated
products by industry.
3. Item 7:
Add questions asking respondents to
provide the payroll for production
workers at the establishment by quarter.
Collecting payroll information by range
of months, rather than a point in time
will reflect variability.
4. Item 22:
Add the following NAPCS to
electronic instrument for all
respondents:
a. 2017900000—Manufacturing of
nonelectric breathing devices (including
N95 and other respirators), incubators,
inhalators, and resuscitators, and other
surgical and medical apparatus and
instruments, excluding anesthetic
apparatus and parts.
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b. 2018000000—Manufacturing of
electromedical equipment (including
diagnostic, therapeutic, patient
monitoring equipment, and ventilators),
excluding ionizing radiation equipment.
c. 2050375000—Manufacturing of
personal safety equipment and clothing,
industrial and nonindustrial, including
respiratory protection, face shields,
masks, and protective clothing,
excluding footwear, gloves, and surgical
and medical respirators.
d. 2045875000—Manufacturing of
surgical appliances and supplies,
including surgical gloves, bandages,
gauze, cotton (sterile and non-sterile),
and other surgical dressings, excluding
orthopedic and prosthetic appliances.
e. 2010475000—Manufacturing of
bath, facial, and hand soaps, including
hand sanitizers.
f. 2007875000—Manufacturing of
other household specialty cleaning and
sanitation products, including
disinfectants.
Industries have shifted to produce
goods they normally do not produce.
Adding the proposed NAPCS questions
to all forms will assist with capturing a
shift in production lines.
B. Revisions related to integrating
annual surveys: The Census Bureau is
undertaking an initiative to integrate
and re-engineer select annual programs.
Programs include the Annual Survey of
Manufactures (ASM), Annual Retail
Trade Survey (ARTS), Annual
Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS),
Services Annual Survey (SAS), Annual
Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES),
Manufacturing Shipments Inventories
and Unfilled Orders (M3UFO), and
Company Organizational Survey (COS).
Efforts include coordinating collection
strategies/instruments/communication;
integrating, changing or revising
content; ensuring content is relevant;
coordinating samples; and improving
frame and coordinating status updates
across annual surveys. The initiative to
integrate and re-engineer select annual
programs is scheduled to begin
implementation in survey year 2023.
The goal is to shift select annual
programs from individual independent
surveys to a streamlined integrated
annual program. The new annual
program will move from industry
focused, individual surveys to
requesting a more holistic view of the
companies. Prior to survey year 2023,
we plan to begin to align our annual
programs and improve efficiencies
across programs in targeted areas related
to consistent content, processes, and
systems. The initiative is in response to
data user needs (timely, granular,
harmonized data), and declining
response rates.
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C. Item 7: Employment, Payroll, and
Fringe Benefits: Add content collecting
four quarters of payroll for production
workers to be consistent with
employment (Item 7A). Revisions and
adjustments will be made to the
presentation/layout/content of
employment and payroll questions to
streamline and improve the flow.
D. Item 5: Sales, Shipments, Receipts,
or Revenue: Remove Item 5B, market
value of products shipped to other
domestic plants of the company for
further assembly, fabrication, or
manufacture. This question is poorly
reported and not utilized by data users.
II. Method of Collection
The ASM statistics are based on a
survey of active manufacturing
establishments in the U.S. with one or
more paid employees. The frame and
sample are redesigned every 5 years and
are annually supplemented with new
manufacturing establishments. The
frame is created from the preceding
Economic Census—Manufacturing and
is divided into mail and nonmail
components. The mail portion of the
survey consists of a probability sample
that was redesigned for the 2019 ASM
using a methodology similar to the one
that was used for the 2014 ASM.
However, the industry strata for the
2019 ASM frame were based on the
2017 NAICS, which combines some of
the six-digit codes in the Manufacturing
Sector. The mail frame contained all
manufacturing establishments of
multiunit companies (companies with
operations at more than one location) in
the 2017 Economic Census plus the
largest single-location manufacturing
companies within each manufacturing
industry. For the 2019 ASM,
approximately 49,400 establishments
were selected from a mail frame of
approximately 102,500 manufacturing
establishments. The 2019 ASM nonmail
component contained the remaining
single-location companies,
approximately 186,700 establishments.
No data are collected from
establishments in the nonmail
component. Rather, data are imputed
based on models that incorporate the
administrative records of the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS), the Social
Security Administration (SSA), and the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Though the nonmail establishments
account for nearly two-thirds of the
universe, they account for less than 6
percent of the manufacturing output.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607–0449.
Form Number(s): MA–10000—
Multiple Establishment Companies;
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MA–10000—Single Establishment
Companies.
Type of Review: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Affected Public: Business or Other for
Profit, Non-profit Institutions, and State
or Local Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
MA–10000—Multiple Establishment Companies
MA–10000—Single Establishment Companies
Total ......................................
34,161
15,253
49,414
Estimated Time per Response:
MA–10000(L)—Multiple Establishment Companies
MA–10000(S)—Single Establishment Companies
3.5 hrs.
3.5 hrs.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 172,949.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0. (This is not the cost of
respondents’ time, but the indirect costs
respondents may incur for such things
as purchases of specialized software or
hardware needed to report, or
expenditures for accounting or records
maintenance services required
specifically by the collection.)
Respondents Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 131 and 182.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include, or
summarize, each comment in our
request to OMB to approve this ICR.
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
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do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Annual Wholesale Trade
Survey
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on June 3, 2020
during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days
for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Annual Wholesale Trade
Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–0195.
Form Number(s): SA–42A, SA–42A–
MSBO, SA–42A–AGBR.
Type of Request: Regular submission.
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 7,743.
Average Hours per Response: 1 hour
and 16 minutes.
Burden Hours: 9,846.
Needs and Uses: The Annual
Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS) covers
employer firms with establishments
located in the United States and
classified in the wholesale trade sector,
as defined by the North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS).
There are two main types of wholesalers
in the wholesale trade sector: (1)
Merchant wholesalers and (2) agents,
brokers, and electronic markets.
Merchant wholesalers sell goods on
their own account. This category
includes sales offices and sales branches
(except retail stores) maintained by
manufacturing, refining, or mining
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enterprises apart from their plants or
mines for the purpose of marketing their
products. Agents, brokers, and
electronic markets, on the other hand,
arrange sales and purchases for others
(generally for a commission or fee).
Respondents are further separated
into the following three type of
operation categories: Merchant
wholesalers, excluding manufacturers’
sales branches and offices;
manufacturers’ sales branches and
offices; and agents, brokers, and
electronic markets. The firms are
instructed to submit their information to
the Census Bureau via Centurion, the
Census Bureau’s online reporting
instrument. The AWTS requests data on
a variety of topics. A firm’s type of
operation classification dictates which
particular subset of data items it will
receive.
In response to a request from the
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the
AWTS will also collect annual detailed
operating expenses and annual sales tax
information during survey year 2022.
Respondents are only asked to provide
data for these two items in years ending
in ‘‘2’’ and ‘‘7’’, which coincide with the
Economic Census collection. Merchant
wholesalers, excluding manufacturers’
sales branches and offices, will receive
the detailed operating expenses and
sales tax questions. Conversely,
manufacturers’ sales branches and
offices will only see the sales tax
question. Companies that fall under the
agents, brokers, and electronic markets
category will not be asked to provide
detailed operating expenses or sales tax
information.
This survey provides an official,
continuous measure of wholesale
activity in the United States.
Government agencies, private
businesses, and researchers utilize the
estimates generated from the AWTS in
a variety of ways, including to conduct
market analysis and forecast future
demand.
From survey year 2016 through
survey year 2019, there were five
electronic form types (SA–42, SA–42A,
SA–42A–MSBO, SA–42–AGBR, and
SA–42A–AGBR). Starting with survey
year 2020 (which will be collected in
2021), there will only be three electronic
form types (SA–42A, SA–42A–MSBO,
and SA–42A–AGBR). SA–42 and SA–
42–AGBR are being removed to
streamline data collection operations
and reduce respondent burden.
Each year, estimates generated from
the AWTS are released to the public
approximately 14 months after the
reference period has concluded. These
national-level estimates are published
(for the various items collected) by
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NAICS code and type of operation. (The
current sample was selected on a 2012
NAICS basis, so the estimates are also
released on a 2012 NAICS basis. Data
will not be published on a 2017 NAICS
basis until the next sample revision
occurs, which will not take place during
this three-year clearance window.) The
data are currently disseminated through
the AWTS website. In the future,
however, the data will be released via
the Census Bureau’s dissemination
platform, data.census.gov. The survey
year 2020 data products are scheduled
to be released through data.census.gov.
The Census Bureau issued a presubmission notice that was published in
the Federal Register on Wednesday,
June 3, 2020 (Vol. 85, No. 107). The
notice, which was located on pages
34174 and 34175, stated that the AWTS
was considering the addition of
questions related to the impact
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19)
had on firms for survey year 2020. After
internal discussions, the Census Bureau
decided it will not include COVID–19
questions on the AWTS.
The AWTS serves as a benchmark for
the estimates produced from the Census
Bureau’s Monthly Wholesale Trade
Survey (MWTS) [OMB No. 0607–0190].
Externally, the BEA uses the data to
estimate the change in the private
inventories component of gross
domestic product (GDP) and output in
both the benchmark and annual inputoutput (I–O) accounts and the GDP by
industry statistics. This agency also
utilizes the sales tax information to
prepare estimates of GDP by industry
and to derive industry output for the
I–O accounts. The data on detailed
operating expenses are used to produce
national estimates of value added, gross
output, and intermediate inputs and
serve as a benchmark for the annual
industry accounts, which provide the
control totals for the GDP by state
accounts.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
utilizes the data as an input to its
producer price indices and in
developing productivity measurements.
Other government agencies,
researchers, and businesses also use the
data for a variety of reasons. For
example, private businesses utilize the
estimates in computing business activity
indices. Additionally, the AWTS data
are used to conduct economic market
analysis, forecast future demand, and
evaluate company performance.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: The Census Bureau
conducts this survey under the
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Annual Survey of Manufactures
AGENCY: Census Bureau, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection, request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, invites the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information
collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting burden. The
purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment on the
proposed revision of the Annual Survey of Manufactures, prior to the
submission of the information collection request (ICR) to OMB for
approval.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received on or before November 9, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by
email to [email protected]. Please reference Annual Survey of
Manufactures in the subject line of your comments. You may also submit
comments, identified by Docket Number USBC-2020-0024, to the Federal e-
Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. All comments received
are part of the public record. No comments will be posted to https://www.regulations.gov for public viewing until after the comment period
has closed. Comments will generally be posted without change. All
Personally Identifiable Information (for example, name and address)
voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do
not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information. You may submit attachments to electronic
comments in Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF file formats.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection activities should be directed
to Marlo Thornton, Assistant Division Chief, Manufacturing, Mining, and
Construction Sectors, Economy-Wide Statistics Division, U.S. Census
Bureau, (301) 763-7170, or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Census Bureau has conducted the Annual Survey of Manufactures
(ASM) since 1949 to provide key measures of manufacturing activity
during intercensal periods. In economic census years ending in ``2''
and ``7'', we do not conduct the ASM. ASM estimates are key inputs for
multiple federal statistical programs, including the Bureau of Economic
Analysis' National Income and Product Accounts. The ASM furnishes up-
to-date estimates of employment and payroll, hours and wages of
production workers, value added by manufacture, cost of materials,
value of shipments by the North American Product Classification System
(NAPCS) product codes, inventories, and expenditures for both plant
equipment and structures. The survey provides data at the two-through
six-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) levels.
It also provides geographic data by state at a more aggregated industry
level.
ASM estimates are key inputs for multiple federal statistical
programs. Federal agencies use the annual survey's input and output
data as benchmarks for their statistical programs, including the
Federal Reserve Board's Index of Industrial Production and BEA's
National Income and Product Accounts. The data also provide the
Department of Energy with primary information on the use of energy by
the manufacturing sector to produce manufactured products. These data
also are used as benchmark data for the Manufacturing Energy
Consumption Survey, which is conducted for the Department of Energy by
the Census Bureau. Within the Census Bureau, the ASM data are used to
benchmark and reconcile monthly and quarterly data on manufacturing
production and inventories. The ASM is the only source of complete
establishment statistics for the programs mentioned above. The survey
also provides valuable information to private companies, research
organizations, and trade associations. Industry makes extensive use of
the annual figures on product class shipments at the U.S. level in
market analyses, product planning, and investment planning. State
development/planning agencies rely on the survey as a major source of
comprehensive economic data for policymaking, planning, and
administration. The Census Bureau plans to request a revision of a
currently approved collection. We plan to make the following changes:
MA-10000--Multiple Establishment Companies and MA-10000--Single
Establishment Companies:
A. Content related to the Coronavirus Pandemic:
1. Item 28--Special Inquiry:
Add a question asking respondents to provide the number of days
their location was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. This
question will assist with measuring the impact on plant operations due
to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The primary objective of adding this and other questions related to
the Coronavirus Pandemic described below is to measure the impact of
the Coronavirus Pandemic on the manufacturing sector and manufacturing
establishments, and meet the needs of the data user community. As we
continue in these unprecedented times, the Coronavirus Pandemic content
may shift, change or evolve and require further modifications on the
ASM.
2. Item 5 and Item 28--Special Inquiry:
Add a statement to Item 5 to specify/clarify that donated products
should be included in the value.
Add a question asking respondents if they donated products and the
associated value of the donated products (breakout of Item 5, line A).
Attempt to gather information on the value of shipments related to
donated products by industry.
3. Item 7:
Add questions asking respondents to provide the payroll for
production workers at the establishment by quarter. Collecting payroll
information by range of months, rather than a point in time will
reflect variability.
4. Item 22:
Add the following NAPCS to electronic instrument for all
respondents:
a. 2017900000--Manufacturing of nonelectric breathing devices
(including N95 and other respirators), incubators, inhalators, and
resuscitators, and other surgical and medical apparatus and
instruments, excluding anesthetic apparatus and parts.
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b. 2018000000--Manufacturing of electromedical equipment (including
diagnostic, therapeutic, patient monitoring equipment, and
ventilators), excluding ionizing radiation equipment.
c. 2050375000--Manufacturing of personal safety equipment and
clothing, industrial and nonindustrial, including respiratory
protection, face shields, masks, and protective clothing, excluding
footwear, gloves, and surgical and medical respirators.
d. 2045875000--Manufacturing of surgical appliances and supplies,
including surgical gloves, bandages, gauze, cotton (sterile and non-
sterile), and other surgical dressings, excluding orthopedic and
prosthetic appliances.
e. 2010475000--Manufacturing of bath, facial, and hand soaps,
including hand sanitizers.
f. 2007875000--Manufacturing of other household specialty cleaning
and sanitation products, including disinfectants.
Industries have shifted to produce goods they normally do not
produce. Adding the proposed NAPCS questions to all forms will assist
with capturing a shift in production lines.
B. Revisions related to integrating annual surveys: The Census
Bureau is undertaking an initiative to integrate and re-engineer select
annual programs. Programs include the Annual Survey of Manufactures
(ASM), Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), Annual Wholesale Trade Survey
(AWTS), Services Annual Survey (SAS), Annual Capital Expenditures
Survey (ACES), Manufacturing Shipments Inventories and Unfilled Orders
(M3UFO), and Company Organizational Survey (COS). Efforts include
coordinating collection strategies/instruments/communication;
integrating, changing or revising content; ensuring content is
relevant; coordinating samples; and improving frame and coordinating
status updates across annual surveys. The initiative to integrate and
re-engineer select annual programs is scheduled to begin implementation
in survey year 2023. The goal is to shift select annual programs from
individual independent surveys to a streamlined integrated annual
program. The new annual program will move from industry focused,
individual surveys to requesting a more holistic view of the companies.
Prior to survey year 2023, we plan to begin to align our annual
programs and improve efficiencies across programs in targeted areas
related to consistent content, processes, and systems. The initiative
is in response to data user needs (timely, granular, harmonized data),
and declining response rates.
C. Item 7: Employment, Payroll, and Fringe Benefits: Add content
collecting four quarters of payroll for production workers to be
consistent with employment (Item 7A). Revisions and adjustments will be
made to the presentation/layout/content of employment and payroll
questions to streamline and improve the flow.
D. Item 5: Sales, Shipments, Receipts, or Revenue: Remove Item 5B,
market value of products shipped to other domestic plants of the
company for further assembly, fabrication, or manufacture. This
question is poorly reported and not utilized by data users.
II. Method of Collection
The ASM statistics are based on a survey of active manufacturing
establishments in the U.S. with one or more paid employees. The frame
and sample are redesigned every 5 years and are annually supplemented
with new manufacturing establishments. The frame is created from the
preceding Economic Census--Manufacturing and is divided into mail and
nonmail components. The mail portion of the survey consists of a
probability sample that was redesigned for the 2019 ASM using a
methodology similar to the one that was used for the 2014 ASM. However,
the industry strata for the 2019 ASM frame were based on the 2017
NAICS, which combines some of the six-digit codes in the Manufacturing
Sector. The mail frame contained all manufacturing establishments of
multiunit companies (companies with operations at more than one
location) in the 2017 Economic Census plus the largest single-location
manufacturing companies within each manufacturing industry. For the
2019 ASM, approximately 49,400 establishments were selected from a mail
frame of approximately 102,500 manufacturing establishments. The 2019
ASM nonmail component contained the remaining single-location
companies, approximately 186,700 establishments. No data are collected
from establishments in the nonmail component. Rather, data are imputed
based on models that incorporate the administrative records of the
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Social Security Administration
(SSA), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Though the nonmail
establishments account for nearly two-thirds of the universe, they
account for less than 6 percent of the manufacturing output.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607-0449.
Form Number(s): MA-10000--Multiple Establishment Companies; MA-
10000--Single Establishment Companies.
Type of Review: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Affected Public: Business or Other for Profit, Non-profit
Institutions, and State or Local Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
MA-10000--Multiple Establishment Companies 34,161
MA-10000--Single Establishment Companies 15,253
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Total.................................................... 49,414
Estimated Time per Response:
MA-10000(L)--Multiple Establishment 3.5 hrs.
Companies
MA-10000(S)--Single Establishment Companies 3.5 hrs.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 172,949.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to Public: $0. (This is not the cost of
respondents' time, but the indirect costs respondents may incur for
such things as purchases of specialized software or hardware needed to
report, or expenditures for accounting or records maintenance services
required specifically by the collection.)
Respondents Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 131 and
182.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to permit the Department/Bureau
to: (a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is
necessary for the proper functions of the Department, including whether
the information will have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the accuracy
of our estimate of the time and cost burden for this proposed
collection, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (c) Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and (d) Minimize the reporting burden
on those who are to respond, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
Comments that you submit in response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include, or summarize, each comment in our
request to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address,
phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information
in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--
including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly
available at any time. While you may ask us in your comment to withhold
your personal identifying information from public review, we
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cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
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