[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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8eefe0ebfaefa0ebfceae7ebceedebe0fdfbfda0e9e1f8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fe9f909b8a9fd09b8c9a979bbe9d9b908d8b8dd0999188">[email protected]</span></a>.

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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