Notice2026-00924
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Annual Integrated Economic Survey
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Published
January 20, 2026
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Commerce DepartmentCensus Bureau
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2330-2331]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-00924]
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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 August 21, 2025 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Commerce.
Title: Annual Integrated Economic Survey.
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 and 15 minutes.
Burden Hours: 687,015.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval to make revisions to the Annual Integrated
Economic Survey (AIES). Since survey year 2023 (collected in calendar
year 2024), the Census Bureau has conducted the AIES on an annual
basis. The AIES was created to integrate seven annual business surveys
into one comprehensive survey. It was designed to combine Census Bureau
collections to reduce respondent burden and increase data quality. The
AIES provides the only comprehensive national and subnational data on
business revenues and expenses on an annual basis. The survey covers
domestic, nonfarm employer businesses with operations during the survey
year. In survey year 2025 (which will be collected in calendar year
2026), a new sample will be selected. Additionally, the AIES will begin
to use 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes
in its sampling, collection, and dissemination operations; implement a
modular and subsampled content strategy to reduce respondent burden
while still meeting data users' needs; collect North American Product
Classification System (NAPCS)-based data from retail, wholesale, and
services businesses; remove depreciable asset questions, select capital
expenditure details (finance leases and software), company-level
questions (leased employees and research and development spending), and
select revenue details; and collect capital expenditures by type
(structures and equipment).
Private businesses, organizations, industry analysts, educators and
students, and economic researchers will use the estimates 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
will use the estimates to analyze industry trends and benchmark their
own statistical programs, develop forecasts, and evaluate regulatory
requirements. Government program officials and agencies will use the
data for research, economic policymaking, and forecasting. Estimates
produced from the AIES will serve as a benchmark for Census Bureau
indicator programs, such as the Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS);
Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3); Monthly
Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS); and Quarterly Services Survey (QSS). The
Census Bureau will also continue to use information collected in the
AIES to update and maintain the centralized, multipurpose Business
Register 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. Additionally, 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 expenditures for the National Health Accounts and
for monitoring and evaluating healthcare industries. 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: 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
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entering either the title of the collection or the OMB Control Number
0607-1024.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026-00924 Filed 1-16-26; 8:45 am]
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