[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 9 (Thursday, January 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2113-2114]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-770]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of the Census
[Docket Number 000103002-0002-01]
RIN 0607-XX52
Service Annual Survey
AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Determination.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Census Bureau is conducting the 1999 Service Annual
Survey. The results of the service annual program were previously
published on a Standard Industrial Classification basis. Beginning with
the survey year 1999, we will publish data using the new North American
Industry Classification System (NAICS). With the NAICS implementation,
the Service Annual Survey incorporates the previous Transportation
Annual Survey, the Annual Survey of Communication Services, and the
publishing industry from the Annual Survey of Manufactures into one
service program. With NAICS, 149 new and emerging industries have been
added to the Service Annual Survey, including air couriers, publishing,
sound recording, waste management and remediation services, and
selected financial industries. A new Information Sector also has been
added to the survey that brings together industries that produce,
manipulate, and distribute information and cultural products; that
provide the means to transmit or distribute these products; and that
process data or communications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ruth A. Bramblett, Chief, Current
Services Branch, Service Sector Statistics Division, on (301) 457-2766.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background on the Service Annual Survey
Beginning with the survey year 1999, we will publish the Service
Annual Survey data using NAICS. The structure of NAICS was developed in
a series of meetings among the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the
early to mid-1990s. NAICS recognizes the rapid changes in both the U.S.
and world economies by providing a means to classify new and emerging
industries. The system was constructed on a production-oriented, or
supply-based, conceptual framework.
Effective with the 1999 survey, the Census Bureau changed the
Service Annual Survey questionnaires to reflect the many changes
brought by NAICS. We expanded the number of form types and developed
these forms to be more tailored to the industries they survey. The goal
was to maximize industry coverage within our available resources.
The revision to the Service Annual Survey has increased industry
coverage. Previously, a single summary report was produced for each of
the three surveys. We now will produce multiple data products and
reports by various sectors.
The Service Annual Survey provides dollar volume estimates for
specific industries in the following NAICS sectors:
Transportation and Warehousing (48-49)
Information (51)
Finance and Insurance (52)
Real Estate, Rental, and Leasing (53)
Professional, Scientific, and Technical (54)
Administrative and Support, Waste Management and
Remediation Services (56)
Health and Social Assistance (62)
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71)
Other Services (81)
The Service Annual Survey produces estimates of total receipts for
all industries covered and source of receipts and other expanded data
items for the following sectors:
Trucking (484)
Information (51)
Selected industries in Finance and Insurance (52)
Computer Systems Design and Related Services Industry
(5415)
Health and Social Assistance Sector (62), except subsector
624 (Social Assistance)
For the first time, this annual survey will collect e-commerce
receipts/revenue for all services industries. In addition, the survey
will collect exported services (receipts/revenue) for specified
industries in the Information Sector.
Response to Comments
The Notice of Consideration for the Service Annual Survey was
published in the Federal Register on September 24, 1999 (64 FR 51736).
No comments were received in response to that notice, and we made no
significant changes since then to the Service Annual Survey program.
Paperwork Reduction Act
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required
to respond
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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 United States Code (U.S.C.),
Chapter 35, the OMB approved the 1999 Service Annual Survey under OMB
Control Number 0607-0422. We will furnish report forms to organizations
included in the survey, and additional copies are available on written
request to the Director, U.S. Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233-0101.
Program Requirements
The Census Bureau conducts surveys necessary to furnish current
data on subjects covered by the major censuses authorized by Title 13,
U.S.C. The Service Annual Survey provides continuing and timely
national statistical data for a period between the economic censuses.
The next economic census is for the year 2002. Data collected in this
survey are within the general scope, type, and character of those
inquiries covered in the economic census.
In accordance with Title 13, U.S.C. 182, 224, and 225, the Census
Bureau has determined that 1999 data on total receipts, and total
revenue and expenses for selected service industries are needed to
provide a sound statistical basis for the formation of policy by
various governmental agencies, and that these data also apply to a
variety of public and business needs. Selected service industries
include health, telecommunications, publishing, waste management,
transportation, and finance industries. These data are not publicly
available from nongovernment or other governmental sources.
The Census Bureau needs reports only from a limited sample of
service sector firms in the United States. The probability of a firm's
selection is based on its revenue size (estimated from payroll). We are
mailing report forms to the firms covered by this survey and require
their submission within thirty days after receipt.
Based upon the foregoing, I have directed that the Service Annual
Survey be conducted for the purpose of collecting these data.
Dated: December 27, 1999.
Kenneth Prewitt,
Director, Bureau of the Census.
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