[Federal Register: August 30, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 168)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
DOC 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: 2007 Company Organization Survey.
Form Number(s): NC-99001.
Agency Approval Number: 0607-0444.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Burden: 26,583 hours.
Number of Respondents: 80,000.
Avg. Hours per Response: 20 minutes.
Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests a revision of the
currently approved Company Organization Survey (COS) data collection
for the 2007 survey year. The Census Bureau will conduct the 2007 COS
in conjunction with the 2007 Economic Census and will coordinate these
collections so as to minimize response burden. We request an extension
of the current expiration date to November 2008 to complete the data
collection for the 2007 COS.
The Census Bureau conducts the annual COS in order to maintain and
update 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 2007 COS will request company-level information from 80,000
multi-establishment enterprises with 50 or more employees or with
industries out-of-scope of the 2007 Economic Census. The Census Bureau
will include questions on ownership or control by a domestic parent,
ownership or control by a foreign parent, ownership of foreign
affiliates, research and development, and employees from a professional
employer organization.
The 2007 COS will request additional information from 15,000 multi-
location establishments with industry classifications that are out-of-
scope of the Economic Census. For those out-of-scope establishments, we
will collect the following basic operating data for each listed
establishment: End-of-year operating status, mid-March employment,
first quarter payroll, and annual payroll. The Economic Census will
collect data for all other establishments of multi-establishment
enterprises, including those items above.
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 industrial 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, Puerto Rico, 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 government.
Frequency: Annually.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 131, 182, 224, and 225.
OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained
by calling or writing Diana Hynek, Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482-0266, Department of Commerce, room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk Officer either by fax (202-395-7245) or e-
mail (susan_schechter@omb.eop.gov).
Dated: August 24, 2006.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E6-14357 Filed 8-29-06; 8:45 am]
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