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cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Longitudinal EmployerHousehold Dynamics (LEHD) 

AGENCY: Census Bureau, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment on the proposed revision of 

the Longitudinal Employer-Household 

Dynamics data collection, prior to the 

submission of the information collection 

request to OMB for approval. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before January 16, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments by 

email to adrm.pra@census.gov. Please 

reference Longitudinal EmployerHousehold Dynamics (LEHD) in the 

subject line of your comments. You may 

also submit comments, identified by 

Docket Number USBC–2023–0012, to 

the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. All comments 

received are part of the public record. 

No comments will be posted to http:// 

www.regulations.gov for public viewing 

until after the comment period has 

closed. Comments will generally be 

posted without change. All Personally 

Identifiable Information (for example, 

name and address) voluntarily 

submitted by the commenter may be 

publicly accessible. Do not submit 

Confidential Business Information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. You may submit 

attachments to electronic comments in 

Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF 

file formats. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Keith 

Bailey, Assistant Center Chief, 301–763– 

2923, and keith.a.bailey@census.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

A 21st century statistical system must 

provide information about the dynamic 

economy quickly, using data assets 

efficiently while minimizing the burden 

of collecting and providing data and 

fully preserving confidentiality. The 

Census Bureau’s Longitudinal 

Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) 

data infrastructure has demonstrated the 

power and usefulness of linking 

multiple business and employee data 

sets with state-of-the-art confidentiality 

protections to build a longitudinal 

national frame of jobs. 

LEHD supports the Department of 

Commerce plan to improve American 

competitiveness and measures of 

innovation. It provides Federal, State, 

and local policymakers and planners, 

businesses, private sector decision 

makers, and Congress with 

comprehensive and timely national, 

State, and local information on the 

dynamic nature of employers and 

employees. 

LEHD significantly reduces the 

overall effort for the generation of its 

quarterly data product by: 

• Leveraging existing Federal 

administrative and State data 

• Avoiding costs required to expand 

existing surveys to collect the 

information directly 

• Reducing respondent burden by 

limiting the number of required 

resources to just the owners of the 

required data 

LEHD is a result of the Local 

Employment Dynamics (LED) 

Partnership. The LED Partnership is a 

partnership between the US Census 

Bureau and the Labor Market 

Information (LMI) agencies from 50 

States, the District of Columbia, and the 

territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and the 

U.S. Virgin Islands. This partnership 

supports the development, promotion, 

and distribution of the following publicuse data products: 

• Quarterly Workforce Indicators 

(QWI)—LEHD’s flagship data product is 

the Quarterly Workforce Indicators 

(QWI) which provides 32 statistical 

indicators on employment, job creation 

and destruction, accessions (hires and 

recalls), and separations (e.g., exits and 

layoffs). These statistics are released for 

the following by-groups for all quarters 

for which data are available for each 

partner State: 

Æ County, metropolitan, and workforce 

development area 

Æ Age, sex, race, and ethnicity 

categories 

Æ Business characteristics (i.e., detailed 

industry ownership type, firm age, 

firm size) 

• LEHD Origin Destination 

Employment Statistics (LODES)— 

LODES data provide detailed spatial 

distributions of workers’ employment 

and residential locations and the 

relation between the two at the Census 

Block level. LODES also provides 

characteristic detail on age, earnings, 

industry distributions, and other 

worker/business characteristics. 

• Job-to-Job Flows (J2J)—Job-to-Job 

Flows (J2J) is a set of statistics on job 

mobility in the United States 

constructed by the LEHD program. J2J 

include statistics on: (1) the job-to-job 

transition rate, (2) hires and separations 

to and from employment, (3) earnings 

changes due to job change, and (4) 

characteristics of origin and destination 

jobs for job-to-job transitions. These 

statistics are available at the national, 

State, and metropolitan area levels and 

by worker and firm characteristics. 

• Post-Secondary Employment 

Outcomes (PSEO)—Post-Secondary 

Employment Outcomes (PSEO) is an 

experimental set of statistics on the 

earnings and employment outcomes of 

graduates of select post-secondary 

institutions in the United States, and is 

constructed using data from LEHD. 

Earnings Outcomes reports earnings by 

institution, degree field, degree level 

and graduation cohort for 1, 5 and 10 

years after graduation. Employment 

Flows tabulations provide the 

destination industry and geography of 

employment for graduates of an 

institution by degree level, degree field, 

and graduation cohort, for one, five, and 

10 years after graduation. A limited 

number of institutions are available as 

part of the pilot release, but future 

updates will include additional postsecondary institutions. 

These data products highlight state 

and local labor market dynamics that 

cannot be learned from other statistical 

sources and are therefore used in many 

different arenas. For example, the QWI 

can be used as local-labor-market 

controls in regression analysis; to 

identify long-term trends; to provide 

local context in performance 

evaluations; and for a host of other 

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II. Method of Collection 

The collection of data occurs in 

accordance with the rules established by 

interagency agreements with the 

participating State partners or data 

sharing agreements that have been 

established within the Census Bureau. 

For State partners, their data is 

submitted directly to the Census secure 

servers where Personally Identifiable 

Information (PII) goes through a process 

to replace it with Protected 

Identification Keys (PIK). This PVS 

(Person Identification Validation 

System) process also applies to all other 

administrative data that are used in the 

LEHD infrastructure. For all other 

required administration data, they are 

transferred or referenced by the LEHD 

production system. Data collection and 

processing also includes activities such 

as validation of data quality. 

LEHD’s data products are not 

generated by a traditional survey. 

Rather, all input data required is 

collected electronically as follows: 

• State Unemployment Insurance (UI) 

and Quarterly Census of Employment 

and Wages (QCEW) are provided via 

encrypted File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 

through which each State LMI agency 

sends these data directly to the Census 

Bureau. This transfer of data is governed 

by Memorandum of Understandings 

(MOUs) with each State partner. 

• Federal and Census Administrative 

data are acquired from other directorates 

or divisions within the Census Bureau 

with which an internal agreement has 

been established for the use of the data. 

• Public Use data sets are acquired 

from publicly available websites or 

public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) 

servers. 

Data that is used in LEHD 

infrastructure are defined in the 

following table. 

TABLE III–1—INPUT DATA SETS FOR THE LEHD PROGRAM

File Source Delivery schedule 

Number of 

respondents 

American Housing Survey (AHS) ........................................................... Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) ...................................................... Census Bureau .............................. Annual ................ 1 

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) ........................ Bureau of Labor Statistics ............. Quarterly ............ 1 

Current Population Survey (CPS) .......................................................... Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

Federal Workers ..................................................................................... Office of Personnel Management .. Quarterly ............ 1 

Geographic Reference File ..................................................................... Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

Master Address File Extract ................................................................... Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

New Business Register .......................................................................... Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

Geographic Database ............................................................................. Pitney Bowes Corporation ............. Quarterly ............ 1 

Master Address File Auxiliary Reference File ........................................ Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

Residence Candidate File ...................................................................... Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

Survey of Income and Program Participation ........................................ Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing .......... Census Bureau .............................. Yearly ................. 1 

W2 Records ............................................................................................ Internal Revenue Service .............. Yearly ................. 1 

Unemployment Insurance Wage File ..................................................... State Partners ................................ Quarterly ............ 54 

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) ........................ State Partners ................................ Quarterly ............ 54 

WDB Definitions files .............................................................................. State Partners ................................ Acquired as 

needed.

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III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–1001. 

Form Number(s): Not applicable as 

survey forms are not required to collect 

this data. 

Type of Review: Regular submission, 

Request for a Revision of a Currently 

Approved Collection. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions; State, local, or Tribal 

government; Federal Government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

As defined in Table III–1 above. 

Estimated Time per Response: No 

more than 8 hours required to identify 

and send/post required data sets. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 1728 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $0. (This is not the cost of 

respondents’ time, but the indirect costs 

respondents may incur for such things 

as purchases of specialized software or 

hardware needed to report, or 

expenditures for accounting or records 

maintenance services required 

specifically by the collection.) 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary 

via a Memorandum of Understanding 

(MOU). 

Legal Authority: The authority to 

develop LEHD is 13 U.S.C. 6. Of course, 

confidentiality is assured by 13 U.S.C. 9. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this proposed collection, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) Minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include, or 

summarize, each comment in our 

request to OMB to approve this ICR. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you may ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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