Notice2023-25021
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
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November 14, 2023
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Commerce DepartmentCensus Bureau
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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 Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data collection, prior to the submission of the information collection request to OMB for approval.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 14, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77950-77951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-25021]
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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; Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)
AGENCY: Census Bureau, Department of 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 Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data
collection, prior to the submission of the information collection
request to OMB for approval.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received on or before January 16, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by
email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#026366706f2c7270634261676c7177712c656d74"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6b0a0f1906451b190a2b080e05181e18450c041d">[email protected]</span></a>. Please reference Longitudinal Employer-
Household Dynamics (LEHD) in the subject line of your comments. You may
also submit comments, identified by Docket Number USBC-2023-0012, 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 Keith Bailey, Assistant Center Chief, 301-763-2923, and
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#38535d514c501659165a5951545d41785b5d564b4d4b165f574e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="88e3ede1fce0a6e9a6eae9e1e4edf1c8ebede6fbfdfba6efe7fe">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
A 21st century statistical system must provide information about
the dynamic economy quickly, using data assets efficiently while
minimizing the burden of collecting and providing data and fully
preserving confidentiality. The Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-
Household Dynamics (LEHD) data infrastructure has demonstrated the
power and usefulness of linking multiple business and employee data
sets with state-of-the-art confidentiality protections to build a
longitudinal national frame of jobs.
LEHD supports the Department of Commerce plan to improve American
competitiveness and measures of innovation. It provides Federal, State,
and local policymakers and planners, businesses, private sector
decision makers, and Congress with comprehensive and timely national,
State, and local information on the dynamic nature of employers and
employees.
LEHD significantly reduces the overall effort for the generation of
its quarterly data product by:
<bullet> Leveraging existing Federal administrative and State data
<bullet> Avoiding costs required to expand existing surveys to collect
the information directly
<bullet> Reducing respondent burden by limiting the number of required
resources to just the owners of the required data
LEHD is a result of the Local Employment Dynamics (LED)
Partnership. The LED Partnership is a partnership between the US Census
Bureau and the Labor Market Information (LMI) agencies from 50 States,
the District of Columbia, and the territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and
the U.S. Virgin Islands. This partnership supports the development,
promotion, and distribution of the following public-use data products:
<bullet> Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI)--LEHD's flagship data
product is the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) which provides 32
statistical indicators on employment, job creation and destruction,
accessions (hires and recalls), and separations (e.g., exits and
layoffs). These statistics are released for the following by-groups for
all quarters for which data are available for each partner State:
[cir] County, metropolitan, and workforce development area
[cir] Age, sex, race, and ethnicity categories
[cir] Business characteristics (i.e., detailed industry ownership type,
firm age, firm size)
<bullet> LEHD Origin Destination Employment Statistics (LODES)--
LODES data provide detailed spatial distributions of workers'
employment and residential locations and the relation between the two
at the Census Block level. LODES also provides characteristic detail on
age, earnings, industry distributions, and other worker/business
characteristics.
<bullet> Job-to-Job Flows (J2J)--Job-to-Job Flows (J2J) is a set of
statistics on job mobility in the United States constructed by the LEHD
program. J2J include statistics on: (1) the job-to-job transition rate,
(2) hires and separations to and from employment, (3) earnings changes
due to job change, and (4) characteristics of origin and destination
jobs for job-to-job transitions. These statistics are available at the
national, State, and metropolitan area levels and by worker and firm
characteristics.
<bullet> Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes (PSEO)--Post-Secondary
Employment Outcomes (PSEO) is an experimental set of statistics on the
earnings and employment outcomes of graduates of select post-secondary
institutions in the United States, and is constructed using data from
LEHD. Earnings Outcomes reports earnings by institution, degree field,
degree level and graduation cohort for 1, 5 and 10 years after
graduation. Employment Flows tabulations provide the destination
industry and geography of employment for graduates of an institution by
degree level, degree field, and graduation cohort, for one, five, and
10 years after graduation. A limited number of institutions are
available as part of the pilot release, but future updates will include
additional post-secondary institutions.
These data products highlight state and local labor market dynamics
that cannot be learned from other statistical sources and are therefore
used in many different arenas. For example, the QWI can be used as
local-labor-market controls in regression analysis; to identify long-
term trends; to provide local context in performance evaluations; and
for a host of other applications.
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II. Method of Collection
The collection of data occurs in accordance with the rules
established by interagency agreements with the participating State
partners or data sharing agreements that have been established within
the Census Bureau. For State partners, their data is submitted directly
to the Census secure servers where Personally Identifiable Information
(PII) goes through a process to replace it with Protected
Identification Keys (PIK). This PVS (Person Identification Validation
System) process also applies to all other administrative data that are
used in the LEHD infrastructure. For all other required administration
data, they are transferred or referenced by the LEHD production system.
Data collection and processing also includes activities such as
validation of data quality.
LEHD's data products are not generated by a traditional survey.
Rather, all input data required is collected electronically as follows:
<bullet> State Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Quarterly Census of
Employment and Wages (QCEW) are provided via encrypted File Transfer
Protocol (FTP) through which each State LMI agency sends these data
directly to the Census Bureau. This transfer of data is governed by
Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with each State partner.
<bullet> Federal and Census Administrative data are acquired from
other directorates or divisions within the Census Bureau with which an
internal agreement has been established for the use of the data.
<bullet> Public Use data sets are acquired from publicly available
websites or public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.
Data that is used in LEHD infrastructure are defined in the
following table.
Table III-1--Input Data Sets for the LEHD Program
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Number of
File Source Delivery schedule respondents
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American Housing Survey (AHS)........... Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)...... Census Bureau............. Annual.................... 1
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly................. 1
(QCEW).
Current Population Survey (CPS)......... Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
Federal Workers......................... Office of Personnel Quarterly................. 1
Management.
Geographic Reference File............... Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
Master Address File Extract............. Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
New Business Register................... Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
Geographic Database..................... Pitney Bowes Corporation.. Quarterly................. 1
Master Address File Auxiliary Reference Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
File.
Residence Candidate File................ Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
Survey of Income and Program Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
Participation.
Topologically Integrated Geographic Census Bureau............. Yearly.................... 1
Encoding and Referencing.
W2 Records.............................. Internal Revenue Service.. Yearly.................... 1
Unemployment Insurance Wage File........ State Partners............ Quarterly................. 54
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages State Partners............ Quarterly................. 54
(QCEW).
WDB Definitions files................... State Partners............ Acquired as needed........ 54
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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0607-1001.
Form Number(s): Not applicable as survey forms are not required to
collect this data.
Type of Review: Regular submission, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions; State, local, or
Tribal government; Federal Government.
Estimated Number of Respondents: As defined in Table III-1 above.
Estimated Time per Response: No more than 8 hours required to
identify and send/post required data sets.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1728 hours.
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: Voluntary via a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU).
Legal Authority: The authority to develop LEHD is 13 U.S.C. 6. Of
course, confidentiality is assured by 13 U.S.C. 9.
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 Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2023-25021 Filed 11-13-23; 8:45 am]
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