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Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, sections 8(b), 182 and 193. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering the title of the collection. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Annual Integrated Economic 

Survey 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on November 

21, 2022, during a 60-day comment 

period. This notice allows for an 

additional 30 days for public comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Department of Commerce. 

Title: Annual Integrated Economic 

Survey (AIES). 

OMB Control Number: 0607–1024. 

Form Number(s): This electronic 

collection has no form number. 

Type of Request: Regular submission, 

Revision of a currently approved 

collection. 

Number of Respondents: Dress 

Rehearsal—8,470 and 50 debriefing 

interviews; Full AIES—384,940. 

Average Hours per Response: Dress 

Rehearsal—3 hours and 55 minutes, 

Debriefing interviews—1 hour; Full 

AIES—3 hours and 23 minutes. 

Burden Hours: Dress Rehearsal— 

33,206 hours, Debriefing interviews—50 

hours; Full AIES—1,300,535 hours. 

Needs and Uses: On June 21, 2023, 

The Office of Management and Budget 

granted approval of a Dress Rehearsal 

for the AIES, with the stipulation that 

the Census Bureau will submit a 

revision request documenting any 

changes to the forms or procedures prior 

to implementing a full scale AIES. This 

revision request documents the 

modifications that transpired between 

the U.S. Census Bureau obtaining that 

OMB clearance and the present 

moment. 

The U.S. Census Bureau requests 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval to conduct the Annual 

Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) on 

an annual basis, beginning for survey 

year 2023 (collected in calendar year 

2024) and a preparatory Dress Rehearsal 

for the AIES for survey year 2022 

(collected in calendar year 2023). The 

AIES is a new survey designed to 

integrate and replace seven existing 

annual business surveys into one 

survey. The AIES will provide the only 

comprehensive national and 

subnational data on business revenues, 

expenses, and assets on an annual basis. 

The AIES is designed to combine 

Cenlong-termu collections to reduce 

respondent burden, increase data 

quality, and allow the Census Bureau to 

operate more efficiently to reduce long 

term costs. The existing collections 

integrated into the AIES are the Annual 

Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), Annual 

Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS), 

Service Annual Survey (SAS), Annual 

Survey of Manufactures (ASM), Annual 

Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES), 

Manufacturers’ Unfilled Orders Survey 

(M3UFO), and the Report of 

Organization. 

The AIES will collect the following 

information from employer businesses 

in sample: 

• Business characteristics, including 

employment, operating status, 

organizational change, ownership 

information, and co-op status. 

• Business classification, including 

business activity, type of operation, and 

tax status. 

• Revenue, including sales, 

shipments, and receipts, revenue by 

class of customer, taxes, contributions, 

gifts, and grants, products, and ecommerce activity. 

• Operating expenses, including 

purchased services, payroll, benefits, 

rental payments, utilities, interest, 

resales, equipment, materials and 

supplies, research and development, 

and other detailed operating expenses. 

• Assets, including capital 

expenditures, inventories, and 

depreciable assets. 

• Robotic equipment expenditures 

and usage. 

Additional topics of collections in the 

AIES include sources of revenue and/or 

expense for providers (e.g., hospitals 

and other businesses in the health 

industry) of select services such as 

inpatient days, outpatient visits to 

hospitals, patient visits for other 

selected health industries, revenue from 

telemedicine services, and expenses for 

electronic health records. Product data 

will be collected from businesses 

operating in manufacturing industries. 

Merchandise lines data will be collected 

from businesses operating in select 

retail industries. Detailed inventories 

will be collected for select businesses 

operating in transportation services 

industries (e.g., trucks, truck tractors, 

and trailers). 

The AIES may include new questions 

each year based on relevant business 

topics. Potential topics for such new 

questions could include technological 

advances, management and business 

practices, export practices, and 

globalization. Any new questions will 

be submitted to OMB for review using 

the appropriate clearance vehicle. 

In September of 2023, the Census 

Bureau began conducting a Dress 

Rehearsal for the AIES with 

approximately 8,470 companies. The 

Dress Rehearsal will collect survey year 

2022 information. The Dress Rehearsal 

will be a large-scale test of the forms 

and procedures planned for the AIES. 

The burden estimate is 3 hours and 55 

minutes per respondent. The Dress 

rehearsal will allow us to examine 

patterns of non-response and to 

determine what additional support 

respondents will need. Paradata 

gathered from respondents’ interactions 

with the online collection instrument 

during the Dress Rehearsal will help 

refine our burden estimate. We will also 

compare the quality of responses 

received to historical data collected in 

the 7 surveys the AIES will replace. Up 

to 50, 1-hour debriefing interviews with 

respondents will also be conducted. 

To minimize the burden imposed on 

most respondents already in sample for 

the seven annual surveys the AIES will 

replace, we will use the AIES responses 

from companies that participate in the 

Dress Rehearsal to satisfy their reporting 

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which they are in sample for the 2022 

survey year. Given that the AIES Dress 

Rehearsal will be conducted during the 

same calendar year as we will be 

conducting the 2022 Economic Census, 

we may use the AIES Dress Rehearsal to 

supplement Economic Census 

responses, pursuant to Title 13 U.S.C., 

Section 193. 

After conclusion of the Dress 

Rehearsal, and based on refinements 

made to forms and procedures, the 

Census Bureau will begin conducting 

the full-scale AIES in 2024, collecting 

survey year 2023 information. The target 

population of the AIES includes all 

domestic, private sector, non-farm 

employer businesses in the United 

States (50 states and the District of 

Columbia) as defined by the 2017 North 

American Industry Classification 

System (NAICS). Exclusions are foreign 

operations of U.S. businesses 

headquartered in the U.S. territories and 

most government operations (including 

the U.S. Postal Service), agricultural 

production companies and private 

households. Based on this target 

population, the AIES will select a 

stratified sequential random sample of 

approximately 384,940 companies from 

a frame of approximately 5.4 million 

companies constructed from the BR, 

which is the Census Bureau’s master 

business list. Businesses which reported 

business activity on Internal Revenue 

Service (IRS) tax forms 941, 

‘‘Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax 

Return’’; 944, ‘‘Employer’s Annual 

Federal Tax Return’’; 1065 ‘‘U.S. Return 

of Partnership Income’’; or any one of 

the 1120 corporate tax forms will be 

eligible for selection. 

The AIES will collect company, 

industry, and establishment information 

for all sampled enterprises with one or 

more operating locations in the United 

States and the District of Columbia (DC). 

In an effort to provide a holistic 

company view and replace the functions 

of the Report of Organization Survey 

with the AIES to maintain and update 

the BR as a master list of businesses, the 

AIES will also collect limited company, 

industry, and establishment information 

for select enterprises with one or more 

operating locations in associated 

offshore areas (referred to, collectively, 

as ‘‘Stateside’’) as well as in the U.S. 

territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and 

American Samoa (referred to, 

collectively, as ‘‘Island Areas’’). In 

addition, any international locations of 

select enterprises are included if they 

have U.S. employees. 

The public administration sector 

(NAICS 92), agriculture production 

activities (NAICS 111, 112), the postal 

service (NAICS 491), funds and trusts 

(NAICS 525), offices of notaries (NAICS 

54112), and private households (NAICS 

814) are considered to be out-of-scope to 

the AIES program. Activities for 

establishments in these industries 

belonging to sampled enterprises will 

also be collected. Enterprises that are 

exclusively engaged in these industries 

will not be selected. 

Non-employer businesses are also not 

within the scope of this new AIES. The 

Census Bureau will submit a separate 

request for approval to collect data from 

non-employer businesses, if it is 

determined that a collection is needed 

to produce those estimates. 

Respondents will receive an email 

and/or letter notifying them of their 

requirement to respond and how to 

access the survey. Responses will be 

due approximately 30 days from receipt. 

Select businesses will receive a due date 

reminder via a letter or email prior to 

the due date. Additionally, email 

follow-ups and up to three mail followups to nonrespondents will be 

conducted at approximately one-month 

intervals. Selected nonrespondents will 

receive a priority class mailing for the 

third follow-up if needed. Selected 

nonrespondents will also receive 

follow-up telephone calls. 

The AIES will replace the ARTS, 

AWTS, SAS, ASM, ACES, M3UFO, and 

the Report of Organization for survey 

year 2023, at which time the Census 

Bureau will officially sunset these 

programs. The ASM and the Report of 

Organization completed their final year 

of data collection in survey year 2021. 

ACES, ARTS, AWTS, SAS, and M3UFO 

will complete their final year of data 

collection in survey year 2022. 

Estimates currently published in 

ARTS, AWTS, SAS, ASM, and ACES 

will be produced as part of the AIES and 

expanded to include subnational data 

across the economy. Previously, the 

ASM (manufacturing) was the only 

annual survey being integrated into the 

AIES that produced subnational data. 

The AIES will produce subnational data 

for manufacturing, retail, wholesale, and 

service sectors if quality standards are 

met. The AIES information previously 

collected on the Report of Organization 

will continue to be used to update the 

Census Bureau’s BR, and the AIES data 

previously collected on the M3UFO will 

continue to be used for the 

Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, 

and Orders (M3) Survey benchmarking 

purposes. Data users will be able to 

access the AIES estimates through the 

use of visualizations, CSV files, 

data.census.gov, and the Federal 

Reserve Economic Data (FRED), which 

is an online database maintained by the 

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 

Private businesses, organizations, 

industry analysts, educators and 

students, and economic researchers 

have used the data and estimates 

provided by the ARTS, AWTS, SAS, 

ASM, and ACES collections for 

analyzing and conducting impact 

evaluations on past and current 

economic performance, short-term 

economic forecasts, productivity, longterm economic growth, market analysis, 

tax policy, capacity utilization, business 

fixed capital stocks and capital 

formation, domestic and international 

competitiveness trade policy, product 

development, market research, and 

financial analysis. Trade and 

professional organizations have used the 

estimates to analyze industry trends and 

benchmark their own statistical 

programs, develop forecasts, and 

evaluate regulatory requirements. 

Government program officials and 

agencies have used the data for research, 

economic policy making, and 

forecasting. 

Based on the use of the data of the 

existing collections, estimates produced 

from the AIES will serve as a benchmark 

for Census Bureau indicator programs, 

such as the Advance Monthly Sales for 

Retail and Food Services (MARTS), the 

Monthly Retail Trade Survey (MRTS), 

Manufacturers’ Shipments Inventories & 

Orders (M3), Monthly Wholesale Trade 

Survey (MWTS), and the Quarterly 

Services Survey (QSS). Like the 

previous collections, the AIES will 

provide updates to the Longitudinal 

Research Database (LRD), and Census 

Bureau staff and academic researchers 

with special sworn status will continue 

to use the LRD for micro data analysis. 

The Census Bureau will also continue to 

use information collected in the AIES to 

update and maintain the centralized, 

multipurpose BR that provides sampling 

populations and enumeration lists for 

the Census Bureau’s economic surveys 

and censuses. 

The Bureau of Economic Analysis 

(BEA) will continue to use the estimates 

to derive industry output for the inputoutput accounts and for the gross 

domestic product (GDP). The Bureau of 

Labor Statistics (BLS) will continue to 

use the data as input to its Producer 

Price Index (PPI) and in developing 

productivity measurements; the Federal 

Reserve Board (FRB) will continue to 

use the data to prepare the Index of 

Industrial Production, to improve 

estimates of investment indicators for 

monetary policy, and in monitoring 

retail credit lending; the Centers for 

Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 

will continue to use the data to estimate 


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expenditures for the National Health 

Accounts and for monitoring and 

evaluating healthcare industries; and 

the Department of the Treasury will 

continue to use the data to analyze 

depreciation and to research economic 

trends. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: The AIES collection 

is authorized by title 13 U.S.C. 131, 182, 

and 193. Response to the AIES is 

mandatory per sections 224 and 225 of 

title 13, U.S.C. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering the title of the collection. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23908 Filed 10–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Survey of Income and 

Program Participation 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on July 20, 

2023, during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Department of Commerce. 

Title: Survey of Income and Program 

Participation. 

OMB Control Number: 0607–1000. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission, 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Collection. 

Number of Respondents: 40,000. 

Average Hours per Response: 50 

minutes. 

Burden Hours: 33,330. 

Needs and Uses: The SIPP collects 

information about a variety of topics 

including demographics, household 

composition, education, nativity and 

citizenship, health insurance coverage, 

Medicaid, Medicare, employment and 

earnings, unemployment insurance, 

assets, child support, disability, housing 

subsidies, migration, Old-Age Survivors 

and Disability Insurance (OASDI), 

poverty, and participation in various 

government programs like 

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance 

Program (SNAP), Supplemental Security 

Income (SSI), and Temporary Assistance 

for Needy Families (TANF). 

The SIPP sample is nationally 

representative, with an oversample of 

low-income areas, in order to increase 

the ability to measure participation in 

government programs. 

The SIPP program provides critical 

information necessary to understand 

patterns and relationships in income 

and program participation. It will fulfill 

its objectives to keep respondent burden 

and costs low, maintain high data 

quality and timeliness, and use a refined 

and vetted instrument and processing 

system. The SIPP data collection 

instrument maintains the improved data 

collection experience for respondents 

and interviewers and focuses on 

improvements in data quality and better 

topic integration. 

The SIPP instrument is currently 

written in Blaise and C#. It incorporates 

an Event History Calendar (EHC) design 

to help ensure that the SIPP will collect 

intra-year dynamics of income, program 

participation, and other activities with 

at least the same data quality as earlier 

panels. The EHC is intended to help 

respondents recall information in a 

more natural ‘‘autobiographical’’ 

manner by using life events as triggers 

to recall other economic events. For 

example, a residence change may often 

occur contemporaneously with a change 

in employment. The entire process of 

compiling the calendar focuses, by its 

nature, on consistency and sequential 

order of events, and attempts to correct 

for otherwise missing data. 

Since the SIPP EHC collects 

information using this 

‘‘autobiographical’’ manner for the prior 

year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, 

select questions were modified to 

include answer options related to the 

pandemic as well as adding new 

questions pertaining to the pandemic. 

For instance, we adjusted the question 

regarding being away from work parttime to include being possibly 

furloughed due to coronavirus 

pandemic business closures. We also 

added new questions to collect 

information on whether the respondent 

received any stimulus payments. 

Affected Public: Individual or 

households. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Sections 141, 182. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0607–1000. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2023–23905 Filed 10–27–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Economic Analysis 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Services Surveys: BE–140, 

Benchmark Survey of Insurance 

Transactions by U.S. Insurance 

Companies With Foreign Persons 

(Extended Public Comment Period) 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance, in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (PRA) on or after the date of 

publication of this notice. We invite the 

general public and other Federal 


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