Notice2024-26270
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES)
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Published
November 13, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 89587-89588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-26270]
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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 (AIES)
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 August 26, 2024, 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, Request for a Revision of a
Currently Approved Collection.
Number of Respondents: 305,340.
Average Hours per Response: 2 hours, 34 minutes.
Burden Hours: 784,950.
Needs and Uses: The U.S. Census Bureau requests Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) approval to revise the Annual Integrated
Economic Survey (AIES). The AIES is a survey which has integrated and
replaced seven existing annual business surveys into one survey. The
AIES provides the only comprehensive national and subnational data on
business revenues, expenses, and assets on an annual basis. The AIES is
designed to combine several Census Bureau collections to reduce
respondent burden, increase data quality, and allow the Census Bureau
to operate more efficiently.
The AIES collects the following information from employer
businesses in sample:
<bullet> Business characteristics, including employment, operating
status, organizational change, ownership information, and co-op status
<bullet> Business classification, including business activity, type of
operation, and tax status
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<bullet> Revenue, including sales, shipments, and receipts, revenue by
class of customer, taxes, contributions, gifts, and grants, products,
and e-commerce activity
<bullet> Operating expenses, including purchased services, payroll,
benefits, rental payments, utilities, interest, resales, equipment,
materials and supplies, research and development, and other detailed
operating expenses
<bullet> Assets, including capital expenditures, and inventories
<bullet> 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. Merchandise lines data will be collected
from businesses operating in select retail industries. North American
Product Classification System (NAPCS) broadlines will be collected from
businesses in manufacturing.
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, exporting
practices, and globalization. Any new questions will be submitted to
OMB for review using the appropriate clearance vehicle.
To reduce respondent burden in the 2024 Annual Integrated Economic
Survey, the Census Bureau plans to implement several key changes to
streamline the data collection process. In the 2023 AIES, we collected
select data at both the company and establishment levels. For the 2024
AIES, we will collect this overlapping data exclusively at the
establishment-level, allowing the Census Bureau to derive necessary
company-level information without additional input from respondents. We
have also eliminated questions that frequently resulted in poor
reporting and significant data suppression, leading to a clearer and
more manageable survey experience. To further enhance efficiency, some
items will now be collected only in the first year of a new sample,
facilitating effective content rotation. Additionally, we have combined
specific content to minimize suppression rates and increase the
availability of usable data. The Census Bureau removed content that was
not disseminated to the public and/or was collected solely for a
federal stakeholder, which was deemed non-essential for their programs
following discussions with the stakeholders and gaining mutual
agreement.
Additionally, approximately 80,000 single-unit companies will be
removed from collection and will not receive a questionnaire. The
Census Bureau will obtain data for these non-mailed companies using
information from the administrative records of the IRS and the Social
Security Administration.
These changes are designed to create a more efficient survey
process while maintaining our commitment to high data quality
standards.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 131 and 182.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. 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 <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
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 0607-1024.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-26270 Filed 11-12-24; 8:45 am]
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