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Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, sections 8(b), 182 and 193.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
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 Integrated Economic
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 November
21, 2022, during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: Annual Integrated Economic
Survey (AIES).
OMB Control Number: 0607–1024.
Form Number(s): This electronic
collection has no form number.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Revision of a currently approved
collection.
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Number of Respondents: Dress
Rehearsal—8,470 and 50 debriefing
interviews; Full AIES—384,940.
Average Hours per Response: Dress
Rehearsal—3 hours and 55 minutes,
Debriefing interviews—1 hour; Full
AIES—3 hours and 23 minutes.
Burden Hours: Dress Rehearsal—
33,206 hours, Debriefing interviews—50
hours; Full AIES—1,300,535 hours.
Needs and Uses: On June 21, 2023,
The Office of Management and Budget
granted approval of a Dress Rehearsal
for the AIES, with the stipulation that
the Census Bureau will submit a
revision request documenting any
changes to the forms or procedures prior
to implementing a full scale AIES. This
revision request documents the
modifications that transpired between
the U.S. Census Bureau obtaining that
OMB clearance and the present
moment.
The U.S. Census Bureau requests
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval to conduct the Annual
Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) on
an annual basis, beginning for survey
year 2023 (collected in calendar year
2024) and a preparatory Dress Rehearsal
for the AIES for survey year 2022
(collected in calendar year 2023). The
AIES is a new survey designed to
integrate and replace seven existing
annual business surveys into one
survey. The AIES will provide the only
comprehensive national and
subnational data on business revenues,
expenses, and assets on an annual basis.
The AIES is designed to combine
Cenlong-termu collections to reduce
respondent burden, increase data
quality, and allow the Census Bureau to
operate more efficiently to reduce long
term costs. The existing collections
integrated into the AIES are the Annual
Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), Annual
Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS),
Service Annual Survey (SAS), Annual
Survey of Manufactures (ASM), Annual
Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES),
Manufacturers’ Unfilled Orders Survey
(M3UFO), and the Report of
Organization.
The AIES will collect the following
information from employer businesses
in sample:
• Business characteristics, including
employment, operating status,
organizational change, ownership
information, and co-op status.
• Business classification, including
business activity, type of operation, and
tax status.
• Revenue, including sales,
shipments, and receipts, revenue by
class of customer, taxes, contributions,
gifts, and grants, products, and ecommerce activity.
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• Operating expenses, including
purchased services, payroll, benefits,
rental payments, utilities, interest,
resales, equipment, materials and
supplies, research and development,
and other detailed operating expenses.
• Assets, including capital
expenditures, inventories, and
depreciable assets.
• Robotic equipment expenditures
and usage.
Additional topics of collections in the
AIES include sources of revenue and/or
expense for providers (e.g., hospitals
and other businesses in the health
industry) of select services such as
inpatient days, outpatient visits to
hospitals, patient visits for other
selected health industries, revenue from
telemedicine services, and expenses for
electronic health records. Product data
will be collected from businesses
operating in manufacturing industries.
Merchandise lines data will be collected
from businesses operating in select
retail industries. Detailed inventories
will be collected for select businesses
operating in transportation services
industries (e.g., trucks, truck tractors,
and trailers).
The AIES may include new questions
each year based on relevant business
topics. Potential topics for such new
questions could include technological
advances, management and business
practices, export practices, and
globalization. Any new questions will
be submitted to OMB for review using
the appropriate clearance vehicle.
In September of 2023, the Census
Bureau began conducting a Dress
Rehearsal for the AIES with
approximately 8,470 companies. The
Dress Rehearsal will collect survey year
2022 information. The Dress Rehearsal
will be a large-scale test of the forms
and procedures planned for the AIES.
The burden estimate is 3 hours and 55
minutes per respondent. The Dress
rehearsal will allow us to examine
patterns of non-response and to
determine what additional support
respondents will need. Paradata
gathered from respondents’ interactions
with the online collection instrument
during the Dress Rehearsal will help
refine our burden estimate. We will also
compare the quality of responses
received to historical data collected in
the 7 surveys the AIES will replace. Up
to 50, 1-hour debriefing interviews with
respondents will also be conducted.
To minimize the burden imposed on
most respondents already in sample for
the seven annual surveys the AIES will
replace, we will use the AIES responses
from companies that participate in the
Dress Rehearsal to satisfy their reporting
requirement for the annual survey(s) for
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which they are in sample for the 2022
survey year. Given that the AIES Dress
Rehearsal will be conducted during the
same calendar year as we will be
conducting the 2022 Economic Census,
we may use the AIES Dress Rehearsal to
supplement Economic Census
responses, pursuant to Title 13 U.S.C.,
Section 193.
After conclusion of the Dress
Rehearsal, and based on refinements
made to forms and procedures, the
Census Bureau will begin conducting
the full-scale AIES in 2024, collecting
survey year 2023 information. The target
population of the AIES includes all
domestic, private sector, non-farm
employer businesses in the United
States (50 states and the District of
Columbia) as defined by the 2017 North
American Industry Classification
System (NAICS). Exclusions are foreign
operations of U.S. businesses
headquartered in the U.S. territories and
most government operations (including
the U.S. Postal Service), agricultural
production companies and private
households. Based on this target
population, the AIES will select a
stratified sequential random sample of
approximately 384,940 companies from
a frame of approximately 5.4 million
companies constructed from the BR,
which is the Census Bureau’s master
business list. Businesses which reported
business activity on Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) tax forms 941,
‘‘Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax
Return’’; 944, ‘‘Employer’s Annual
Federal Tax Return’’; 1065 ‘‘U.S. Return
of Partnership Income’’; or any one of
the 1120 corporate tax forms will be
eligible for selection.
The AIES will collect company,
industry, and establishment information
for all sampled enterprises with one or
more operating locations in the United
States and the District of Columbia (DC).
In an effort to provide a holistic
company view and replace the functions
of the Report of Organization Survey
with the AIES to maintain and update
the BR as a master list of businesses, the
AIES will also collect limited company,
industry, and establishment information
for select enterprises with one or more
operating locations in associated
offshore areas (referred to, collectively,
as ‘‘Stateside’’) as well as in the U.S.
territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and
American Samoa (referred to,
collectively, as ‘‘Island Areas’’). In
addition, any international locations of
select enterprises are included if they
have U.S. employees.
The public administration sector
(NAICS 92), agriculture production
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activities (NAICS 111, 112), the postal
service (NAICS 491), funds and trusts
(NAICS 525), offices of notaries (NAICS
54112), and private households (NAICS
814) are considered to be out-of-scope to
the AIES program. Activities for
establishments in these industries
belonging to sampled enterprises will
also be collected. Enterprises that are
exclusively engaged in these industries
will not be selected.
Non-employer businesses are also not
within the scope of this new AIES. The
Census Bureau will submit a separate
request for approval to collect data from
non-employer businesses, if it is
determined that a collection is needed
to produce those estimates.
Respondents will receive an email
and/or letter notifying them of their
requirement to respond and how to
access the survey. Responses will be
due approximately 30 days from receipt.
Select businesses will receive a due date
reminder via a letter or email prior to
the due date. Additionally, email
follow-ups and up to three mail followups to nonrespondents will be
conducted at approximately one-month
intervals. Selected nonrespondents will
receive a priority class mailing for the
third follow-up if needed. Selected
nonrespondents will also receive
follow-up telephone calls.
The AIES will replace the ARTS,
AWTS, SAS, ASM, ACES, M3UFO, and
the Report of Organization for survey
year 2023, at which time the Census
Bureau will officially sunset these
programs. The ASM and the Report of
Organization completed their final year
of data collection in survey year 2021.
ACES, ARTS, AWTS, SAS, and M3UFO
will complete their final year of data
collection in survey year 2022.
Estimates currently published in
ARTS, AWTS, SAS, ASM, and ACES
will be produced as part of the AIES and
expanded to include subnational data
across the economy. Previously, the
ASM (manufacturing) was the only
annual survey being integrated into the
AIES that produced subnational data.
The AIES will produce subnational data
for manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and
service sectors if quality standards are
met. The AIES information previously
collected on the Report of Organization
will continue to be used to update the
Census Bureau’s BR, and the AIES data
previously collected on the M3UFO will
continue to be used for the
Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories,
and Orders (M3) Survey benchmarking
purposes. Data users will be able to
access the AIES estimates through the
use of visualizations, CSV files,
data.census.gov, and the Federal
Reserve Economic Data (FRED), which
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is an online database maintained by the
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Private businesses, organizations,
industry analysts, educators and
students, and economic researchers
have used the data and estimates
provided by the ARTS, AWTS, SAS,
ASM, and ACES collections for
analyzing and conducting impact
evaluations on past and current
economic performance, short-term
economic forecasts, productivity, longterm economic growth, market analysis,
tax policy, capacity utilization, business
fixed capital stocks and capital
formation, domestic and international
competitiveness trade policy, product
development, market research, and
financial analysis. Trade and
professional organizations have used the
estimates to analyze industry trends and
benchmark their own statistical
programs, develop forecasts, and
evaluate regulatory requirements.
Government program officials and
agencies have used the data for research,
economic policy making, and
forecasting.
Based on the use of the data of the
existing collections, estimates produced
from the AIES will serve as a benchmark
for Census Bureau indicator programs,
such as the Advance Monthly Sales for
Retail and Food Services (MARTS), the
Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS),
Manufacturers’ Shipments Inventories &
Orders (M3), Monthly Wholesale Trade
Survey (MWTS), and the Quarterly
Services Survey (QSS). Like the
previous collections, the AIES will
provide updates to the Longitudinal
Research Database (LRD), and Census
Bureau staff and academic researchers
with special sworn status will continue
to use the LRD for micro data analysis.
The Census Bureau will also continue to
use information collected in the AIES to
update and maintain the centralized,
multipurpose BR that provides sampling
populations and enumeration lists for
the Census Bureau’s economic surveys
and censuses.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis
(BEA) will continue to use the estimates
to derive industry output for the inputoutput accounts and for the gross
domestic product (GDP). The Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) will continue to
use the data as input to its Producer
Price Index (PPI) and in developing
productivity measurements; the Federal
Reserve Board (FRB) will continue to
use the data to prepare the Index of
Industrial Production, to improve
estimates of investment indicators for
monetary policy, and in monitoring
retail credit lending; the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
will continue to use the data to estimate
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expenditures for the National Health
Accounts and for monitoring and
evaluating healthcare industries; and
the Department of the Treasury will
continue to use the data to analyze
depreciation and to research economic
trends.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: The AIES collection
is authorized by title 13 U.S.C. 131, 182,
and 193. Response to the AIES is
mandatory per sections 224 and 225 of
title 13, U.S.C.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
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; Survey of Income and
Program Participation
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 July 20,
2023, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
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Agency: U.S. Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce.
Title: Survey of Income and Program
Participation.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1000.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Revision of a Currently Approved
Collection.
Number of Respondents: 40,000.
Average Hours per Response: 50
minutes.
Burden Hours: 33,330.
Needs and Uses: The SIPP collects
information about a variety of topics
including demographics, household
composition, education, nativity and
citizenship, health insurance coverage,
Medicaid, Medicare, employment and
earnings, unemployment insurance,
assets, child support, disability, housing
subsidies, migration, Old-Age Survivors
and Disability Insurance (OASDI),
poverty, and participation in various
government programs like
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP), Supplemental Security
Income (SSI), and Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families (TANF).
The SIPP sample is nationally
representative, with an oversample of
low-income areas, in order to increase
the ability to measure participation in
government programs.
The SIPP program provides critical
information necessary to understand
patterns and relationships in income
and program participation. It will fulfill
its objectives to keep respondent burden
and costs low, maintain high data
quality and timeliness, and use a refined
and vetted instrument and processing
system. The SIPP data collection
instrument maintains the improved data
collection experience for respondents
and interviewers and focuses on
improvements in data quality and better
topic integration.
The SIPP instrument is currently
written in Blaise and C#. It incorporates
an Event History Calendar (EHC) design
to help ensure that the SIPP will collect
intra-year dynamics of income, program
participation, and other activities with
at least the same data quality as earlier
panels. The EHC is intended to help
respondents recall information in a
more natural ‘‘autobiographical’’
manner by using life events as triggers
to recall other economic events. For
example, a residence change may often
occur contemporaneously with a change
in employment. The entire process of
compiling the calendar focuses, by its
nature, on consistency and sequential
order of events, and attempts to correct
for otherwise missing data.
Since the SIPP EHC collects
information using this
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‘‘autobiographical’’ manner for the prior
year, due to the coronavirus pandemic,
select questions were modified to
include answer options related to the
pandemic as well as adding new
questions pertaining to the pandemic.
For instance, we adjusted the question
regarding being away from work parttime to include being possibly
furloughed due to coronavirus
pandemic business closures. We also
added new questions to collect
information on whether the respondent
received any stimulus payments.
Affected Public: Individual or
households.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 141, 182.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0607–1000.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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Request; Services Surveys: BE–140,
Benchmark Survey of Insurance
Transactions by U.S. Insurance
Companies With Foreign Persons
(Extended Public Comment Period)
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
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publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal
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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 Integrated Economic 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 November 21, 2022, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
Title: Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES).
OMB Control Number: 0607-1024.
Form Number(s): This electronic collection has no form number.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Revision of a currently
approved collection.
Number of Respondents: Dress Rehearsal--8,470 and 50 debriefing
interviews; Full AIES--384,940.
Average Hours per Response: Dress Rehearsal--3 hours and 55
minutes, Debriefing interviews--1 hour; Full AIES--3 hours and 23
minutes.
Burden Hours: Dress Rehearsal--33,206 hours, Debriefing
interviews--50 hours; Full AIES--1,300,535 hours.
Needs and Uses: On June 21, 2023, The Office of Management and
Budget granted approval of a Dress Rehearsal for the AIES, with the
stipulation that the Census Bureau will submit a revision request
documenting any changes to the forms or procedures prior to
implementing a full scale AIES. This revision request documents the
modifications that transpired between the U.S. Census Bureau obtaining
that OMB clearance and the present moment.
The U.S. Census Bureau requests Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval to conduct the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES)
on an annual basis, beginning for survey year 2023 (collected in
calendar year 2024) and a preparatory Dress Rehearsal for the AIES for
survey year 2022 (collected in calendar year 2023). The AIES is a new
survey designed to integrate and replace seven existing annual business
surveys into one survey. The AIES will provide the only comprehensive
national and subnational data on business revenues, expenses, and
assets on an annual basis. The AIES is designed to combine Cenlong-
termu collections to reduce respondent burden, increase data quality,
and allow the Census Bureau to operate more efficiently to reduce long
term costs. The existing collections integrated into the AIES are the
Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), Annual Wholesale Trade Survey
(AWTS), Service Annual Survey (SAS), Annual Survey of Manufactures
(ASM), Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES), Manufacturers'
Unfilled Orders Survey (M3UFO), and the Report of Organization.
The AIES will collect the following information from employer
businesses in sample:
Business characteristics, including employment, operating
status, organizational change, ownership information, and co-op status.
Business classification, including business activity, type
of operation, and tax status.
Revenue, including sales, shipments, and receipts, revenue
by class of customer, taxes, contributions, gifts, and grants,
products, and e-commerce activity.
Operating expenses, including purchased services, payroll,
benefits, rental payments, utilities, interest, resales, equipment,
materials and supplies, research and development, and other detailed
operating expenses.
Assets, including capital expenditures, inventories, and
depreciable assets.
Robotic equipment expenditures and usage.
Additional topics of collections in the AIES include sources of
revenue and/or expense for providers (e.g., hospitals and other
businesses in the health industry) of select services such as inpatient
days, outpatient visits to hospitals, patient visits for other selected
health industries, revenue from telemedicine services, and expenses for
electronic health records. Product data will be collected from
businesses operating in manufacturing industries. Merchandise lines
data will be collected from businesses operating in select retail
industries. Detailed inventories will be collected for select
businesses operating in transportation services industries (e.g.,
trucks, truck tractors, and trailers).
The AIES may include new questions each year based on relevant
business topics. Potential topics for such new questions could include
technological advances, management and business practices, export
practices, and globalization. Any new questions will be submitted to
OMB for review using the appropriate clearance vehicle.
In September of 2023, the Census Bureau began conducting a Dress
Rehearsal for the AIES with approximately 8,470 companies. The Dress
Rehearsal will collect survey year 2022 information. The Dress
Rehearsal will be a large-scale test of the forms and procedures
planned for the AIES. The burden estimate is 3 hours and 55 minutes per
respondent. The Dress rehearsal will allow us to examine patterns of
non-response and to determine what additional support respondents will
need. Paradata gathered from respondents' interactions with the online
collection instrument during the Dress Rehearsal will help refine our
burden estimate. We will also compare the quality of responses received
to historical data collected in the 7 surveys the AIES will replace. Up
to 50, 1-hour debriefing interviews with respondents will also be
conducted.
To minimize the burden imposed on most respondents already in
sample for the seven annual surveys the AIES will replace, we will use
the AIES responses from companies that participate in the Dress
Rehearsal to satisfy their reporting requirement for the annual
survey(s) for
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which they are in sample for the 2022 survey year. Given that the AIES
Dress Rehearsal will be conducted during the same calendar year as we
will be conducting the 2022 Economic Census, we may use the AIES Dress
Rehearsal to supplement Economic Census responses, pursuant to Title 13
U.S.C., Section 193.
After conclusion of the Dress Rehearsal, and based on refinements
made to forms and procedures, the Census Bureau will begin conducting
the full-scale AIES in 2024, collecting survey year 2023 information.
The target population of the AIES includes all domestic, private
sector, non-farm employer businesses in the United States (50 states
and the District of Columbia) as defined by the 2017 North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS). Exclusions are foreign
operations of U.S. businesses headquartered in the U.S. territories and
most government operations (including the U.S. Postal Service),
agricultural production companies and private households. Based on this
target population, the AIES will select a stratified sequential random
sample of approximately 384,940 companies from a frame of approximately
5.4 million companies constructed from the BR, which is the Census
Bureau's master business list. Businesses which reported business
activity on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax forms 941, ``Employer's
Quarterly Federal Tax Return''; 944, ``Employer's Annual Federal Tax
Return''; 1065 ``U.S. Return of Partnership Income''; or any one of the
1120 corporate tax forms will be eligible for selection.
The AIES will collect company, industry, and establishment
information for all sampled enterprises with one or more operating
locations in the United States and the District of Columbia (DC).
In an effort to provide a holistic company view and replace the
functions of the Report of Organization Survey with the AIES to
maintain and update the BR as a master list of businesses, the AIES
will also collect limited company, industry, and establishment
information for select enterprises with one or more operating locations
in associated offshore areas (referred to, collectively, as
``Stateside'') as well as in the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam,
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin
Islands, and American Samoa (referred to, collectively, as ``Island
Areas''). In addition, any international locations of select
enterprises are included if they have U.S. employees.
The public administration sector (NAICS 92), agriculture production
activities (NAICS 111, 112), the postal service (NAICS 491), funds and
trusts (NAICS 525), offices of notaries (NAICS 54112), and private
households (NAICS 814) are considered to be out-of-scope to the AIES
program. Activities for establishments in these industries belonging to
sampled enterprises will also be collected. Enterprises that are
exclusively engaged in these industries will not be selected.
Non-employer businesses are also not within the scope of this new
AIES. The Census Bureau will submit a separate request for approval to
collect data from non-employer businesses, if it is determined that a
collection is needed to produce those estimates.
Respondents will receive an email and/or letter notifying them of
their requirement to respond and how to access the survey. Responses
will be due approximately 30 days from receipt. Select businesses will
receive a due date reminder via a letter or email prior to the due
date. Additionally, email follow-ups and up to three mail follow-ups to
nonrespondents will be conducted at approximately one-month intervals.
Selected nonrespondents will receive a priority class mailing for the
third follow-up if needed. Selected nonrespondents will also receive
follow-up telephone calls.
The AIES will replace the ARTS, AWTS, SAS, ASM, ACES, M3UFO, and
the Report of Organization for survey year 2023, at which time the
Census Bureau will officially sunset these programs. The ASM and the
Report of Organization completed their final year of data collection in
survey year 2021. ACES, ARTS, AWTS, SAS, and M3UFO will complete their
final year of data collection in survey year 2022.
Estimates currently published in ARTS, AWTS, SAS, ASM, and ACES
will be produced as part of the AIES and expanded to include
subnational data across the economy. Previously, the ASM
(manufacturing) was the only annual survey being integrated into the
AIES that produced subnational data. The AIES will produce subnational
data for manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and service sectors if
quality standards are met. The AIES information previously collected on
the Report of Organization will continue to be used to update the
Census Bureau's BR, and the AIES data previously collected on the M3UFO
will continue to be used for the Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories,
and Orders (M3) Survey benchmarking purposes. Data users will be able
to access the AIES estimates through the use of visualizations, CSV
files, data.census.gov, and the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED),
which is an online database maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis.
Private businesses, organizations, industry analysts, educators and
students, and economic researchers have used the data and estimates
provided by the ARTS, AWTS, SAS, ASM, and ACES collections for
analyzing and conducting impact evaluations on past and current
economic performance, short-term economic forecasts, productivity,
long-term economic growth, market analysis, tax policy, capacity
utilization, business fixed capital stocks and capital formation,
domestic and international competitiveness trade policy, product
development, market research, and financial analysis. Trade and
professional organizations have used the estimates to analyze industry
trends and benchmark their own statistical programs, develop forecasts,
and evaluate regulatory requirements. Government program officials and
agencies have used the data for research, economic policy making, and
forecasting.
Based on the use of the data of the existing collections, estimates
produced from the AIES will serve as a benchmark for Census Bureau
indicator programs, such as the Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and
Food Services (MARTS), the Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS),
Manufacturers' Shipments Inventories & Orders (M3), Monthly Wholesale
Trade Survey (MWTS), and the Quarterly Services Survey (QSS). Like the
previous collections, the AIES will provide updates to the Longitudinal
Research Database (LRD), and Census Bureau staff and academic
researchers with special sworn status will continue to use the LRD for
micro data analysis. The Census Bureau will also continue to use
information collected in the AIES to update and maintain the
centralized, multipurpose BR that provides sampling populations and
enumeration lists for the Census Bureau's economic surveys and
censuses.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will continue to use the
estimates to derive industry output for the input-output accounts and
for the gross domestic product (GDP). The Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) will continue to use the data as input to its Producer Price
Index (PPI) and in developing productivity measurements; the Federal
Reserve Board (FRB) will continue to use the data to prepare the Index
of Industrial Production, to improve estimates of investment indicators
for monetary policy, and in monitoring retail credit lending; the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will continue to use
the data to estimate
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expenditures for the National Health Accounts and for monitoring and
evaluating healthcare industries; and the Department of the Treasury
will continue to use the data to analyze depreciation and to research
economic trends.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: The AIES collection is authorized by title 13
U.S.C. 131, 182, and 193. Response to the AIES is mandatory per
sections 224 and 225 of title 13, U.S.C.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering the title of the collection.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-23908 Filed 10-27-23; 8:45 am]
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