Notice2021-16151
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) 2021
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July 29, 2021
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Commerce DepartmentCensus Bureau
Abstract
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 reinstatement, with change, of the Management and Organizational Practices Survey, prior to the submission of the information collection request (ICR) to OMB for approval.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 143 (Thursday, July 29, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40807-40808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16151]
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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; Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) 2021
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 reinstatement, with change, of the Management and
Organizational Practices Survey, 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 September 27,
2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by
email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3165595e5c50421f7b1f625c5845597152545f4244421f565e47"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e9bd818684889ac7a3c7ba84809d81a98a8c879a9c9ac78e869f">[email protected]</span></a>. Please reference Management and
Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) 2021 in the subject line of your
comments. You may also submit comments, identified by Docket Number
USBC-2021-0018, to the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. All comments received are part of the public
record. No comments will be posted to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> 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, Economy-Wide Statistics
Division, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1f727e6d73703171316b77706d716b70715f7c7a716c6a6c31787069"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="8ae7ebf8e6e5a4e4a4fee2e5f8e4fee5e4cae9efe4f9fff9a4ede5fc">[email protected]</span></a> or 301-763-7170.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Census Bureau plans to conduct the Management and
Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS) for survey year 2021; the survey
was previously conducted for survey years 2010 and 2015. The survey
will be conducted as a joint project by the Census Bureau, the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford School of
Humanities and Sciences, and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered
Artificial Intelligence. The MOPS will utilize the Annual Survey of
Manufactures (ASM) mail-out sample and will collect information on
management and organizational practices at the establishment level. The
Census Bureau has conducted the ASM since 1949 to provide key measures
of manufacturing activity during intercensal periods. In years that we
conduct the Economic Census, years ending in ``2'' and ``7'', we do not
mail the ASM but collect the data as part of the Economic Census
covering the Manufacturing Sector. The ASM is an integral part of the
Federal Government's statistical program, furnishing up-to date
estimates of employment and payroll, hours and wages of production
workers, value added by manufacture, cost of materials, value of
shipments, inventories, and expenditures for both plant and equipment
and structures. The data obtained from the MOPS will allow the Census
Bureau to estimate a firm's stock of management and organizational
assets, specifically the use of decentralized decision rights and
establishment performance data such as production targets in decision-
making. These data will provide information on investments in
management and organizational practices, which will lead to a better
understanding of the benefits from these investments when measured in
terms of firm productivity or firm market value. This survey on
management and organizational practices will provide information on the
dimensions of organizational capital for this sector not currently
available elsewhere. This clearance request will be for the survey year
2021. The Census Bureau plans to make the following changes to the 2015
MOPS content for the 2021 survey:
<bullet> Add a new purchased services module on the establishment's
use of its own employees, contractors, temporary staff, or leased
workers for select business expenses.
<bullet> Update the data and decision-making module by removing
five of the six questions, maintaining a question asking who decides
what data to collect for continuity, and adding nine questions focused
on the frontier uses of data to inform artificial intelligence.
<bullet> Add three questions to the background characteristics
module on the establishment's use of an external Certified Public
Accountant.
<bullet> Simplify questions on the location of decision-making in
multi-location firms in the organization module by combining them into
a single table and removing write-in responses.
<bullet> Remove four forecasting questions in the uncertainty
module.
<bullet> Remove two questions related to the establishment's
background characteristics.
<bullet> Remove all questions about a five-year recall period.
II. Method of Collection
The 2021 MOPS will be mailed separately from the 2021 ASM and will
utilize an entirely electronic collection. Unlike the ASM that mails to
the headquarters of companies with multiple locations, the MOPS will be
mailed directly to the individual establishments. Initial contact with
respondents will be a mailed letter directing them to report online.
Respondents will report electronically through the Census Bureau's
Centurion online reporting system. The sample for the 2021 MOPS will
consist of the approximately 50,000 establishments in the 2021 ASM
mail-out sample. The mail-out sample for the ASM is redesigned at 5-
year intervals beginning the second survey year after the Economic
Census. For the 2019 ASM, a new probability sample was selected from a
frame of approximately 100,000 manufacturing establishments in the 2017
Economic Census that had paid employees, were located in the United
States, and were associated with multi-
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location companies or were large single-establishment companies. On an
annual basis, the mail-out sample is supplemented with large, newly
active single-establishment companies identified from a list provided
by the Internal Revenue Service and new manufacturing establishments of
multi-location companies identified from the Census Bureau's Company
Organization Survey.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607-0963.
Electronic Path ID: MP-10002.
Type of Review: Regular submission, Request for a Reinstatement,
with Change, of a Previously Approved Collection.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 50,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 45 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 37,500.
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.)
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 131 and
182; Sections 224 and 225 make reporting for this survey mandatory.
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 cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2021-16151 Filed 7-28-21; 8:45 am]
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