[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 200 (Monday, October 18, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63804-63805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26145]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 100921463-0460-01]
Annual Retail Trade Survey
AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of determination.
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SUMMARY: The United States Department of Commerce's Bureau of the
Census (Census Bureau) publishes this notice to announce that the
Director of the Census Bureau has determined the need to conduct the
2010 Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS). ARTS covers employer firms with
establishments located in the United States and classified in the
Retail Trade and/or Accommodation and Food Services sectors as defined
by the 2002 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Through this survey, the Census Bureau will collect data covering
annual sales, annual e-commerce sales, year-end inventories held inside
and outside the United States, total operating expenses, purchases,
accounts receivables, and, for selected industries, merchandise line
sales, percent of sales by class of customer, and percent of e-commerce
sales to customers located outside the United States. These data are
collected to provide a sound statistical basis for the formation of
policy by various government agencies. Results will be available for
use for a variety of public and business needs such as economic and
market analysis, company performance, and forecasting future demand.
ADDRESSES: The Census Bureau will provide report forms to businesses
included in the survey. Additional copies are available upon written
request to the Director, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233-0101.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aneta Erdie, Service Sector Statistics
Division, at (301) 763-4841 or by e-mail at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Sections 182, 224, and 225 of Title 13 of
the United States Code authorize the Census
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Bureau to take surveys that are necessary to produce current data on
the subjects covered by the major censuses. As part of this
authorization, the Census Bureau conducts the ARTS to provide
continuing and timely national statistical data on retail trade, and
accommodation and food services activity for the period between
economic censuses. ARTS is a continuation of similar retail trade
surveys conducted each year since 1951 (except 1954). ARTS covers
employer firms with establishments located in the United States and
classified in the Retail Trade and/or Accommodation and Food Services
sectors as defined by the 2002 North American Industry Classification
System (NAICS). ARTS provides, on a comparable classification basis,
annual sales, annual e-commerce sales, purchases, total operating
expenses, accounts receivables, and year-end inventories held inside
and outside the United States for 2010. The Census Bureau has
determined that the conduct of this survey is necessary because these
data are not available publicly on a timely basis from non-governmental
or other governmental sources.
The Census Bureau will request a sample of firms operating retail,
accommodation, and/or food services establishments in the United States
to respond to the 2010 ARTS. Firms are selected for this survey using a
stratified random sample based on industry groupings and annual sales
size. We will provide report forms to the firms covered by this survey
in January 2011, and will require their responses within 30 days after
receipt. Firms' responses to the ARTS survey are required by law (Title
13 U.S.C. 182, 224, and 225). The sample of firms selected will
provide, with measurable reliability, statistics on annual sales,
annual e-commerce sales, purchases, total operating expenses, accounts
receivables, and year-end inventories held both inside and outside the
United States for 2010.
The data collected in this survey will be similar to that collected
in the past and within the general scope and nature of those inquiries
covered in the economic census. These data are collected to provide a
sound statistical basis for the formation of policy by various
government agencies. Results will be available for use for a variety of
public and business needs such as economic and market analysis, company
performance, and forecasting future demand.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required
to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure
to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements
of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) unless that collection of
information displays a current valid Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) control number. In accordance with the PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521,
OMB has approved the Annual Retail Trade Survey under OMB Control
Number 0607-0013.
Based upon the foregoing, I have directed that an annual survey be
conducted for the purpose of collecting these data.
Dated: October 12, 2010.
Robert M. Groves,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
[FR Doc. 2010-26145 Filed 10-15-10; 8:45 am]
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