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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 Business 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
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via the Federal Register on September
22, 2023 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 Business Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607–1004.
Form Number(s): ABS–1.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
Request for a Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 338,000.
Average Hours per Response: 58
minutes.
Burden Hours: 325,200.
Needs and Uses: In an effort to
improve the measurement of business
dynamics in the United States, the
Census Bureau is conducting the 2024
Annual Business Survey (ABS),
covering reference year 2023. The ABS
combines Census Bureau firm-level
collections to reduce respondent
burden, increase data quality, reduce
operational costs, and operate more
efficiently. The ABS provides
information on selected economic and
demographic characteristics for
businesses and business owners by sex,
ethnicity, race, and veteran status.
Further, the survey measures research
and development for microbusinesses,
new business topics such as innovation
and technology, as well as other
business characteristics. The 2024 ABS
is co-sponsored by the National Center
for Science and Engineering Statistics
(NCSES) within the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and conducted by the
Census Bureau.
The ABS includes all nonfarm
employer businesses filing Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) tax forms as
individual proprietorships,
partnerships, or any other type of
corporation, with receipts of $1,000 or
more. While the 2023 ABS sampled
approximately 850,000 employer
businesses to produce detailed statistics
by owner demographics, the 2024 ABS
sample is reduced to approximately
330,000 employer businesses. Starting
with survey year 2024 (reference year
2023), the sample is reduced to
approximately 330,000 employer
businesses annually (survey years 2024–
2027) to reduce the burden on the
respondents. The reduced sample size
will yield summary-level estimates for
women-owned, minority-owned, and
veteran-owned businesses at the 4-digit
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NAICS, U.S., state metropolitan
statistical area (MSA), and county
levels. The Census Bureau uses
administrative data to estimate the
probability that a firm is minority- or
women-owned. Each firm is then placed
in one of eight frames for sampling. The
sampling frames are: American Indian
or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or
African American, Hispanic, Native
Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander,
Non-Hispanic White Men, Publicly
Owned, and Women. The sample is
stratified by state, industry, and frame.
The Census Bureau selects some
companies with certainty based on
volume of sales, payroll, and number of
paid employees or NAICS. All certainty
cases are sure to be selected and
represent only themselves.
The 2024 ABS (reference year 2023)
will also sample 8,000 nonprofit
organizations to collect their research
activities. Historically, nonprofit
organizations were in scope to the ABS,
however, they were not surveyed before
the 2021 ABS because the survey does
not expect nonprofit organizations to be
classifiable by sex, ethnicity, race, or
veteran status. To include the nonprofit
organizations, the total ABS sample size
is approximately 338,000 (330,000
employer businesses + 8,000 nonprofit
organizations) for the 2024 survey. Of
note, nonprofit organizations will only
see questions relating to research
activities and will not be asked any
questions relating to owner
demographics.
The ABS is designed to allow for
incorporating new content each survey
year based on topics of relevance. Each
year, new questions will be submitted to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for approval.
Employer businesses will be asked
questions about the sex, ethnicity, race,
and veteran status for up to four persons
owning the majority of rights, equity, or
interest in the business. Additionally,
businesses will be asked a question on
gender identify as part of the owner
section of the questionnaire.
Organizations sampled as nonprofits
and respondents with 1–9 employees
will be asked about research and
development (R&D) activities, R&D
costs, and R&D capital expenditures.
Further, employer businesses sampled
will be asked about the following topics:
Goods, Services, and Business
Processes; Technology Transfer and
Intellectual Property; Domestic and
Foreign Transactions; and Management
Practices. The 2024 ABS initial mailing
is scheduled for July 2024.
Statistics from the ABS will be used
by government program officials,
industry organization leaders, economic
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and social analysts, business
entrepreneurs, and domestic and foreign
researchers in academia, business, and
government. Estimates produced on
owner demographic data may be used to
assess business assistance needs,
allocate available program resources,
and create a framework for planning,
directing, and assessing programs that
promote the activities of disadvantaged
groups; to assess minority-owned
businesses by industry and area and to
educate industry associations,
corporations, and government entities;
to analyze business operations in
comparison to similar firms, compute
market share, and assess business
growth and future prospects. Estimates
produced on R&D and innovation may
be used to compare R&D costs across
industries, determine where R&D
activity is conducted geographically,
and identify the types of businesses
with R&D; to contribute to the Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA) system of
national accounts; to increase
investments in research and
development, strengthen education, and
encourage entrepreneurship; and to
compare business innovation in the
United States to other countries,
including those in the European Union.
Results of the research activities data
collected from nonprofit organizations
will be used to report updated, valid,
and reliable estimates of U.S. nonprofit
R&D in National Patterns of R&D
Resources and BEA’s system of national
accounts.
The data collected by ABS will also
be incorporated into the National
Science Board’s biennial report, Science
and Engineering Indicators (SEI). The
R&D data from the nonprofit module
will be reported in the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) periodic
publications and for international
comparisons of R&D efforts. NCSES also
anticipates professional associations
will use data from the nonprofit
module. Likely users in this category
include, but are not limited to, the
Science Philanthropy Alliance, the
Association of Independent Research
Institutes, and the Health Research
Alliance.
Additional examples of data use
include:
• 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.
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• Federal, state, and local government
agencies as a framework for planning,
directing and assessing programs that
promote the activities of disadvantaged
groups.
• The National Women’s Business
Council to assess the state of women’s
business ownership for policymakers,
researchers, and the public at large.
• 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.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United
States Code, Sections 8(b), 131, and 182;
Title 42, United States Code, Section
1861–76 (National Science Foundation
Act of 1950, as amended); and Section
505 within the America COMPETES
Reauthorization Act of 2010 authorize
this collection. Sections 224 and 225 of
Title 13, United States Code, require a
response from sampled firms.
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 0607–1004.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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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 Business 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 September 22, 2023 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 Business Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-1004.
Form Number(s): ABS-1.
Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 338,000.
Average Hours per Response: 58 minutes.
Burden Hours: 325,200.
Needs and Uses: In an effort to improve the measurement of business
dynamics in the United States, the Census Bureau is conducting the 2024
Annual Business Survey (ABS), covering reference year 2023. The ABS
combines Census Bureau firm-level collections to reduce respondent
burden, increase data quality, reduce operational costs, and operate
more efficiently. The ABS provides information on selected economic and
demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by sex,
ethnicity, race, and veteran status. Further, the survey measures
research and development for microbusinesses, new business topics such
as innovation and technology, as well as other business
characteristics. The 2024 ABS is co-sponsored by the National Center
for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted by the Census Bureau.
The ABS includes all nonfarm employer businesses filing Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) tax forms as individual proprietorships,
partnerships, or any other type of corporation, with receipts of $1,000
or more. While the 2023 ABS sampled approximately 850,000 employer
businesses to produce detailed statistics by owner demographics, the
2024 ABS sample is reduced to approximately 330,000 employer
businesses. Starting with survey year 2024 (reference year 2023), the
sample is reduced to approximately 330,000 employer businesses annually
(survey years 2024-2027) to reduce the burden on the respondents. The
reduced sample size will yield summary-level estimates for women-owned,
minority-owned, and veteran-owned businesses at the 4-digit
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NAICS, U.S., state metropolitan statistical area (MSA), and county
levels. The Census Bureau uses administrative data to estimate the
probability that a firm is minority- or women-owned. Each firm is then
placed in one of eight frames for sampling. The sampling frames are:
American Indian or Alaskan Native, Asian, Black or African American,
Hispanic, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, Non-Hispanic
White Men, Publicly Owned, and Women. The sample is stratified by
state, industry, and frame. The Census Bureau selects some companies
with certainty based on volume of sales, payroll, and number of paid
employees or NAICS. All certainty cases are sure to be selected and
represent only themselves.
The 2024 ABS (reference year 2023) will also sample 8,000 nonprofit
organizations to collect their research activities. Historically,
nonprofit organizations were in scope to the ABS, however, they were
not surveyed before the 2021 ABS because the survey does not expect
nonprofit organizations to be classifiable by sex, ethnicity, race, or
veteran status. To include the nonprofit organizations, the total ABS
sample size is approximately 338,000 (330,000 employer businesses +
8,000 nonprofit organizations) for the 2024 survey. Of note, nonprofit
organizations will only see questions relating to research activities
and will not be asked any questions relating to owner demographics.
The ABS is designed to allow for incorporating new content each
survey year based on topics of relevance. Each year, new questions will
be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval.
Employer businesses will be asked questions about the sex,
ethnicity, race, and veteran status for up to four persons owning the
majority of rights, equity, or interest in the business. Additionally,
businesses will be asked a question on gender identify as part of the
owner section of the questionnaire. Organizations sampled as nonprofits
and respondents with 1-9 employees will be asked about research and
development (R&D) activities, R&D costs, and R&D capital expenditures.
Further, employer businesses sampled will be asked about the following
topics: Goods, Services, and Business Processes; Technology Transfer
and Intellectual Property; Domestic and Foreign Transactions; and
Management Practices. The 2024 ABS initial mailing is scheduled for
July 2024.
Statistics from the ABS will be used by government program
officials, industry organization leaders, economic and social analysts,
business entrepreneurs, and domestic and foreign researchers in
academia, business, and government. Estimates produced on owner
demographic data may be used to assess business assistance needs,
allocate available program resources, and create a framework for
planning, directing, and assessing programs that promote the activities
of disadvantaged groups; to assess minority-owned businesses by
industry and area and to educate industry associations, corporations,
and government entities; to analyze business operations in comparison
to similar firms, compute market share, and assess business growth and
future prospects. Estimates produced on R&D and innovation may be used
to compare R&D costs across industries, determine where R&D activity is
conducted geographically, and identify the types of businesses with
R&D; to contribute to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) system of
national accounts; to increase investments in research and development,
strengthen education, and encourage entrepreneurship; and to compare
business innovation in the United States to other countries, including
those in the European Union. Results of the research activities data
collected from nonprofit organizations will be used to report updated,
valid, and reliable estimates of U.S. nonprofit R&D in National
Patterns of R&D Resources and BEA's system of national accounts.
The data collected by ABS will also be incorporated into the
National Science Board's biennial report, Science and Engineering
Indicators (SEI). The R&D data from the nonprofit module will be
reported in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) periodic publications and for international comparisons of R&D
efforts. NCSES also anticipates professional associations will use data
from the nonprofit module. Likely users in this category include, but
are not limited to, the Science Philanthropy Alliance, the Association
of Independent Research Institutes, and the Health Research Alliance.
Additional examples of data use include:
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.
The National Women's Business Council to assess the state
of women's business ownership for policymakers, researchers, and the
public at large.
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.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 8(b), 131,
and 182; Title 42, United States Code, Section 1861-76 (National
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended); and Section 505 within the
America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 authorize this collection.
Sections 224 and 225 of Title 13, United States Code, require a
response from sampled firms.
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 0607-1004.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
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