[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 191 (Monday, October 4, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59186-59187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22216]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 040916269-4269-01]
Notice of Data Sharing Activity
AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of determination.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) will provide certain
business data from its Business Register and its 2002 Economic Census
to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for statistical purposes
exclusively. Through the use of these shared data, the BEA expects to
improve the quality of data collected by the Census Bureau
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under the authority of Title 13 of the United States Code (U.S.C.), and
collected by the BEA under the authority of the International
Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act by identifying data-quality
issues arising from reporting differences in the Census Bureau and BEA
surveys. The Census Bureau and BEA will publish nonconfidential
aggregate reports (public use) that have cleared the BEA and Census
Bureau disclosure review.
DATES: The Census Bureau will make certain business data collected from
the 2002 Economic Census, as discussed in this notice, available to BEA
on October 4, 2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information on
this proposed program should be directed to Mr. Julius Smith, Jr.,
Chief, Special Studies Branch, Manufacturing and Construction Division,
U.S. Census Bureau, 4700 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233-6900,
by phone at (301) 763-7662, by fax at (301) 457-1318 or by e-mail at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The CIPSEA (Pub. L. 107-347, Subtitle V; 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)
and the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (Pub.
L. 94-472 as amended; 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108) allow the BEA and the Census
Bureau to share certain business data for exclusively statistical
purposes. Section 524(d) of the CIPSEA requires a Federal Register
notice announcing the intent to share data (allowing 60 days for public
comment). On June 30, 2004 (69 FR 39408), the Census Bureau published
in the Federal Register a notice of this proposed data-sharing activity
and requested comments on the subject. The Census Bureau did not
receive any public comments.
Shared Data
The Census Bureau will provide the BEA with certain business data
from its Business Register and collected from the 2002 Economic Census.
The BEA also will share data from its 2002 Foreign Direct Investment in
the United States survey. The BEA issued a separate notice addressing
this issue.
The BEA will use these data for statistical purposes exclusively.
Through record linking, the BEA expects to improve the quality of data
collected under the authority of Title 13 of the U.S.C. and the
International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act by
identifying data-quality issues arising from reporting differences in
the Census Bureau and the BEA surveys.
Statistical Purposes for the Shared Data
The data from the Business Register and from the 2002 Economic
Census are used to estimate employment, payroll, and receipt data of
U.S. companies. Statistics from the census are published in separate
data publications. All data are collected under Sections 131 and 224 of
Title 13 of the U.S.C.
Data Access and Confidentiality
Title 13 of the U.S.C. protects the confidentiality of these data.
The data may be seen only by persons sworn to uphold the
confidentiality of the information. Access to the shared data will be
restricted to specifically authorized personnel and will be provided
for statistical purposes only. All BEA employees with access to these
data will become Census Bureau Special Sworn Status Employees-meaning
that they, under penalty of law, must uphold the data's
confidentiality. To further safeguard the confidentiality of the data,
the Census Bureau has conducted an Information Technology Security
Review of the BEA. The results of this project are subject to
disclosure review. Disclosure review is a process conducted to verify
that the data to be released do not reveal any confidential
information.
Dated: September 29, 2004.
Charles Louis Kincannon,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 04-22216 Filed 10-1-04; 8:45 am]
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