[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 21, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42252-42253]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18024]
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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.
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic
Supplement.
OMB Control Number: 0607-0354.
Form Number(s): There are no forms. We conduct all interviews on
computers.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 78,000.
Average Hours per Response: 0.41667.
Burden Hours: 32,500.
Needs and Uses: Information on work experience, personal income,
noncash benefits, current and previous year health insurance coverage,
employer-sponsored insurance take-up, and migration is collected
through the ASEC. The work experience items in the ASEC provide a
unique measure of the dynamic nature of the labor force as viewed over
a one-year period. These items produce statistics that show movements
in and out of the labor force by measuring the number of periods of
unemployment experienced by people, the number of different employers
worked for during the year, the principal reasons for unemployment, and
part-/full-time attachment to the labor force. We can make indirect
measurements of discouraged workers and others with a casual attachment
to the labor market.
The income data from the ASEC are used by social planners,
economists, government officials, and market researchers to gauge the
economic well-being of the country as a whole, and selected population
groups of interest. Government planners and researchers use these data
to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of various assistance
programs. Market researchers use these data to identify and isolate
potential customers. Social planners use these data to forecast
economic conditions and to identify special groups that seem to be
especially sensitive to economic fluctuations. Economists use ASEC data
to determine the effects of various economic forces, such as inflation,
recession, recovery, and so on, and their differential effects on
various population groups.
The ASEC is the official source of national poverty estimates
calculated in accordance with the Office of Management and Budget's
Statistical Policy Directive 14. Two other important national estimates
derived
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from the ASEC are real median household income and the number and
percent of individuals without health insurance coverage.
The ASEC also contains questions related to: (1) Medical
expenditures; (2) presence and cost of a mortgage on property; (3)
child support payments; and (4) amount of child care assistance
received. These questions enable analysts and policymakers to obtain
better estimates of family and household income, and more precisely
gauge poverty status.
Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141, 182;
and Title 29, United States Code, Sections 1-9.
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.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2018-18024 Filed 8-20-18; 8:45 am]
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