[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7834-7835]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02865]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2014-2016 Company Organization Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0444.
Form Number(s): NC-99001, NC-99007.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 47,000.
Average Hours per Response: 3 hours and 10 minutes.
Burden Hours: 148,566.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests an extension of the
currently approved Company Organization Survey (COS) data collection
for survey years 2014, 2015 and 2016.
The Census Bureau conducts the annual COS to update and maintain a
centralized, multipurpose Business Register (BR). In particular, the
COS supplies critical information on the organizational structure,
operating characteristics, and employment and payroll of multi-location
enterprises. The 2014-2016 COS collection will not differ from the
2013. The sample size will remain the same as in 2013 surveying 47,000
respondents.
Form NC-99001 is mailed to multi-location enterprises. We ask
questions on ownership or control by a domestic parent, ownership or
control by a foreign parent, and ownership of foreign affiliates;
research and development; company activities such as--employees from a
professional employer organization, operating revenue and net sales,
royalties and license fees for the use of intellectual property and
manufacturing activities. Establishment inquiries include questions on
operational status, mid-March employment, first-quarter payroll, and
annual payroll of establishments.
In 2011, we submitted a non-substantive change to the COS
questionnaire. This revision added three new inquiries as part of the
Enterprise Statistics Program (ESP). These three inquiries were: (1)
Operating Revenues and Net Sales; (2) Royalties and Licenses Fees for
the Use of Intellectual Property; and (3) Manufacturing Activities. In
2012 and 2013 we continued to ask these questions on Form NC-99001 and
it is our intention to continue to ask these additional questions for
2014-2016 on Form NC-99001. We also ask questions on ownership or
control by a foreign parent, and ownership of foreign affiliates;
research and development; royalties and license fees for the use of
intellectual property and manufacturing activities. In addition to the
mailing of multi-location enterprises, the Census Bureau will collect
data for single-location companies on Form NC-99007 to some large
single-location enterprises that may have added some locations.
The 2014-2016 COS will request company-level information from a
selection of multi-establishment enterprises, which comprises roughly
42,000 parent companies and more than 1.4 million establishments. COS
inquiries sent to each of the 42,000 multi-establishment enterprises
will include inquiries on ownership or control by a domestic parent,
ownership or control by a foreign parent, and ownership of foreign
affiliates; research and development; company activities, such as--
employees from a professional employer organization, operating revenue
and net sales, royalties and license fees for the use of intellectual
property, and manufacturing activities. Establishment inquiries include
questions on operational status, mid-March employment, first-quarter
payroll, and annual payroll of establishments.
In addition to the 42,000 multi-establishment enterprises, the
2014--2016 COS will include approximately 5,000 single-location
companies that may have added some locations. The NC-99007 Form will
collect data for the 5,000 single-location businesses.
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The information collected by the COS is used to maintain and update
the BR. The BR serves two fundamental purposes:
First and most important, it provides sampling populations
and enumeration lists for the Census Bureau's economic surveys and
censuses, and it serves as an integral part of the statistical
foundation underlying those programs. Essential for this purpose is the
BR's ability to identify all known United States business
establishments and their parent companies. Further, the BR must
accurately record basic business attributes needed to control sampling
and enumeration. These attributes include industry and geographic
classifications, measures of size and economic activity, ownership
characteristics, and contact information (for example, name and
address).
Second, it provides establishment data that serve as the
basis for the annual County Business Patterns (CBP) statistical series.
The CBP reports present data on number of establishments, first quarter
payroll, annual payroll, and mid-March employment summarized by
industry and employment size class for the United States, the District
of Columbia, island areas, counties, and county-equivalents. No other
annual or more frequent series of industry statistics provides
comparable detail, particularly for small geographic areas
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; Farms; State, local or tribal governments.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 United States Code, Sections 182, 195,
224, and 225.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce
collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202)395-5806.
Dated: February 6, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2015-02865 Filed 2-11-15; 8:45 am]
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