[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 73 (Wednesday, April 16, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 18585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9718]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request

    DOC has submitted 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: Bureau of the Census.
    Title: National Employers Survey-III.
    Form Number(s): Automated survey instrument.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0787.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of a previously 
approved collection.
    Burden: 3,250 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 6,500.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 30 minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau plans to conduct the National 
Employers Survey (NES)-III. This survey is an extension and expansion 
of two previous NES surveys that were conducted in 1994 and 1996. As 
with the previous surveys, the NES-III will be conducted on a 
reimbursable basis for the National Center on the Employment Quality of 
the Workforce (EQW) administered through the Institute for Research in 
Higher Education of the University of Pennsylvania. The EQW is a group 
of professors, social scientists, and researchers from universities 
around the country studying the workplace in America. The EQW will 
incorporate the results of this survey into a larger five-year 
examination of the American workplace and will coordinate their efforts 
with similar studies and groups in other countries and with the World 
Bank.
    The NES-III will provide unique information on employers' hiring 
and human resources practices and policies. In addition to adding to 
the base of information from the previous NES surveys, this survey will 
provide several new and important data products, such as hiring and 
workforce characteristics, expanded analysis and estimation of return 
on human and physical capital, new data on partnerships between 
business and schools, measurements of technological change, and an 
employee survey.
    This project is designed to provide planners and policymakers, in 
government and the private sector, with sophisticated information on 
how our workforce compares and competes with other countries in South 
America and the Far East.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit.
    Frequency: One time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Sections 8 and 9.
    OMB Desk Officer: Jerry Coffey, (202) 395-7314.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5312, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Jerry Coffey, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: April 10, 1997.
Linda Engelmeier,
Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office of Management and 
Organization.
[FR Doc. 97-9718 Filed 4-15-97; 8:45 am]
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