U.S. Census Bureau’s Budget Estimates As Presented to Congress February 2015 Fiscal Year 2016
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U.S. Census Bureau’s Budget Estimates
As Presented to Congress February 2015
Fiscal Year 2016
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2 Organization Chart CEN - 13 Executive Summary CEN - 318/19 Activity/Subactivity Change Crosswalk - CY/FY CEN - 15
Current Surveys & Programs5 Summary of Resource Requirements (Discretionary) CEN - 175 Summary of Resource Requirements (Mandatory) CEN - 187 Summary of Financing CEN - 199 Justification of Adjustments to Base CEN - 20
Current Surveys and Statistics10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 2412-15 Program Justification
Current Economic Statistics CEN - 26 Current Demographic Statistics CEN - 36
Survey of Program Dynamics10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 4412-15 Program Justification CEN - 45
State Children's Health Insurance Program10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 4612-15 Program Justification CEN - 47
Current Surveys & Programs Summary Exhibits16 Summary of Requirements by Object Class (Discretionary) CEN - 4916 Summary of Requirements by Object Class (Mandatory) CEN - 5133 Appropriation Language and Code Citations CEN - 53
Periodic Censuses & Programs5 Summary of Resource Requirements (Discretionary) CEN - 557 Summary of Financing CEN - 579 Justification of Adjustments to Base CEN - 58
Department of Commerce
U.S. Census BureauBUDGET ESTIMATES, FISCAL YEAR 2016
CONGRESSIONAL SUBMISSION
Table of Contents
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Periodic Economic Statistics10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 6212-15 Program Justification
Economic Census CEN - 63 Census of Governments CEN - 75
Decennial Census10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 8312-15 Program Justification
2020 Census CEN - 84 American Community Survey CEN - 104
Geographic Support 10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 11112-15 Program Justification CEN - 112
Enterprise Data Collection and Dissemination Systems10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 12012-15 Program Justification
Administrative Records Clearinghouse CEN - 123 Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing System (CEDCaP) CEN - 127
Intercensal Demographic Estimates10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 137
Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign10 Program and Performance: Direct Obligations CEN - 138
Periodic Censuses & Programs Summary Exhibits16 Summary of Requirements by Object Class CEN - 13933 Appropriation Language and Code Citations CEN - 141
Working Capital Fund5 Summary of Resource Requirements CEN - 1436 Summary of Reimbursable Obligations CEN - 1457A Summary of financing – Reimbursable CEN - 1467B Summary of Financing – Appropriated CEN - 14712-15 Program Justification CEN - 148
Bureau Exhibits32 Justification of Proposed Language Changes CEN - 15134 Consulting and Related Services CEN - 15535 Periodicals, Pamphlets, and Audiovisual Products CEN - 15636 Average Grade and Salary CEN - 157
Annual Performance Plan3A Summary of Goals, Objectives and Performance Measures CEN - 159
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Exhibit 3 US Census Bureau Executive Summary
The Census Bureau’s mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. The Census Bureau will honor privacy, protect confidentiality, share its expertise globally, and conduct its work openly. The Census Bureau is guided on this mission by scientific objectivity, its strong and capable workforce, its devotion to research-based innovation, and its abiding commitment to its customers.
One of the key initiatives in the FY 2016 budget is the 2020 Census. The 2020 Census is designed to cost less per housing unit than the 2010 Census (when adjusted for inflation), while continuing to maintain high quality. The Census Bureau plans to achieve this by conducting the most automated, modern, and dynamic decennial census in history. The 2020 Census includes sweeping design changes in four key areas, including new methodologies to conduct address canvassing, innovative ways of optimizing self-response, the use of administrative records to reduce the nonresponse follow up workload, and the use of technology to replace tasks traditionally conducted by humans during field operations. Said otherwise, the goal is to achieve dramatic cost savings by: adding new addresses to the Census Bureau’s address frame using geographic information systems and aerial imagery instead of sending Census employees to walk and physically check 11 million census blocks; encouraging the population to respond to the 2020 Census using the Internet; using data the public has already provided to the government to enumerate the most difficult to reach households; and using sophisticated operational control systems to send Census employees to follow up with non-responding housing units and to track daily progress. The Census Bureau estimates that conducting a 2020 Census that includes these major cost-saving innovations has the potential to save more than $5 billion compared to repeating the 2010 design in the 2020 Census. In keeping with the Federal Digital Strategy, the Census Bureau has set a goal to unlock the potential of our data and products to better meet the needs of our users. This budget request includes funding across the enterprise that would create new products enabling users such as businesses, policy makers, and the American public to make better data-driven decisions based on credible statistics, easy-to-use tools, and standardized data elements. Broad dissemination of our economic, demographic, and housing data, and the analysis that comes with those releases, fuels the world's largest economy; helps local planners project future needs for public services; measures and helps assess the performance of government programs; and empowers individuals to innovate, create jobs, and launch new enterprises. Keeping pace with increasing customer demands driven by technological innovation is important to our mission of disseminating data that helps measure our county's progress, maintains oversight of government, and enables innovation that strengthens our economy. To accomplish these goals, the Census Bureau has embarked upon a multiyear, innovative effort to transform and expand the dissemination of Census content. It empowers data users to find, to access, to connect, and to use data in ways that better their lives and communities, and it stimulates economic invention and growth. Such a comprehensive transformation requires leadership and insight to achieve an efficient yet impactful outcome. The changes touch nearly every office and branch across headquarters and in the regions. To manage this effort, we are forming a new, collaborative Center of Dissemination Services and Consumer Innovation (CEDSCI) with representation from multiple directorates.
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Almost all Federal agencies could make greater use of their own or other agencies' administrative data to make evidence-based decisions. Many agencies hold data that would be useful to other agencies, other levels of government, or outside researchers for these same purposes. At the same time, not all agencies have the technological infrastructure or the expertise needed to utilize, share, or link data themselves, nor does it make sense to fully duplicate these capacities at every agency.
Federal statistical agencies already play a lead role in bringing together data from multiple sources, protecting privacy and confidentiality and ensuring data security, using data to create a wide variety of statistical products, and providing secure access to researchers inside and outside of government to conduct a broad array of policy- and program-relevant analyses. The Census Bureau in particular already has much of the infrastructure and capacity needed to serve as a leader for this often highly technical work.
The Budget requests $10 million in additional funding for the Census Bureau to build on its existing strengths and start developing a more comprehensive infrastructure for linking, sharing, and analyzing key datasets. These funds would allow the Census Bureau to accelerate the process of acquiring and processing additional data sets, expand and improve infrastructure for processing and linking data and to improve the infrastructure for providing data to non-Census researchers.
The Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 budget request reflects the resources needed for the U.S. Census Bureau to support the Department of Commerce’s Trade & Investment, Innovation, Environment, and Data goals. The U.S. Census Bureau currently supports the following Department of Commerce Strategic Objectives: Increase U.S. exports by broadening and deepening the U.S. exporter base (1.2); Accelerate the development of industry-led skills strategies that result in a productive workforce for employers and high- quality jobs for workers (2.4); Improve preparedness, response, and recovery from weather and water events by building a Weather-Ready Nation (3.2); Transform the Department’s data capacity to enhance the value, accessibility and usability of Commerce data for government, business and the public (4.1); Improve data-based services, decision-making, and data sharing within the Department and with other parts of the federal government (4.2); and Foster the private sector’s development of new data-based businesses, products and services (4.3).
Budget and Financial Management
Discretionary Domestic Spending: The Census Bureau requests appropriations for domestic discretionary spending totaling $1,500.0 million, as well as a transfer to the Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General of $1.6 million.
Mandatory Domestic Spending: The Census Bureau expects to receive a total of $30.0 million in mandatory budget authority in FY 2016 for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Survey of Program Dynamics.
Reimbursable Program Funding: The Census Bureau anticipates that it will receive $267.7 million in reimbursable funding from other Federal and non-Federal organizations to perform work for those entities.
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Noteworthy Accomplishments:
2020 Census: Important research and testing conducted from FY 2012 through FY 2015 has and will continue to contribute to the design of the 2020 Census. For example, the 2014 Census Test demonstrated that mailing introductory materials to respondents and encouraging them to respond via the Internet (“Internet push”) is a successful strategy for driving response to the Internet. Three 2015 field tests, including an Address Validation Test, an Optimizing Self-Response Test, and a 2015 Census Test – plus a Human in the Loop Simulation Exercise – will inform design decisions that the Census Bureau will make by the end of FY 2015. Using proof-of-concept and prototype systems, these tests will demonstrate that automating field operations is feasible, including managing the case load with a sophisticated operational control system, collecting address and spatial data on an electronic tablet, communicating with enumerators using smartphone messaging and texts, and using an enumeration instrument “app” to collect data from non-respondents on a smartphone. These design decisions will be enshrined in the 2020 Census Operational Plan, which will be completed at the end of FY 2015. The Operational Plan will contain the concept of operations for the 2020 Census, supporting documentation (e.g., a description of the 34 census operations, IT capabilities, and cost estimates), and tools to support communications with internal and external stakeholders.
Economic Census: In November 2013, tabulation and macro data analysis for the 2012 Economic Census began. The first product from the 2012 Economic Census, the Advance Report, which provides national level data on the nation’s economy, was released March 26, 2014. Releases began in May 2014 for the 2012 Economic Census Industry Series reports. As of September 30, 2014, 406 of the anticipated 538 Industry Reports (covering 954 NAICS industries) were issued. This exceeded the target. Releases for the 2012 Economic Census will continue in FY 2015. In addition, the demand-based hierarchical structure of the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) was finalized. This work greatly expands the usefulness of product statistics for market analysis, business planning, and demand oriented studies. A check-in rate of 73.2 percent for the SBO employer component was achieved, with electronic response accounting for 90 percent of total responses. Lessons learned from the 2012 SBO will be applied as we move to 100 percent electronic reporting in the 2017 Economic Census.
Geographic Support: The program conducted a pilot project to test new methodologies for updating the Master Address File (MAF) using in-office imagery coupled with comparison and data analysis techniques to identify areas in which the residential housing units are stable, and areas in which residential housing unit change is occurring. Based on the positive results of the pilot project, in which 82 percent of blocks were identified stable, the program is building a national implementation of the project, under the rebranded name TIGER and MAF Assessment and Classification (TRMAC). The use of such imagery has the potential to inform decisions about areas of the country where in-field address canvassing operations need to occur and the FY 2016 request supports continued research in this area.
Economic Statistics: The Census Bureau is implementing enhancements to its Longitudinal Business Database. These improvements will enable the database to provide more information about business innovation and entrepreneurship. Greater access to new data products will increase our understanding of the dynamics of innovation in the U.S. economy.
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FY 2016 Program Changes
The requested funding reflects the resources needed to drive innovations and implement program enhancements, and cyclical changes in operational requirements between FY 2015 and FY 2016 for the Census Bureau’s Programs.
• 2020 Census (Base Funding 1,180 FTE and $345.7 million; Program Change 732 FTE and $316.8 million): The Reengineered 2020 Census includes sweeping design changes, including new methodologies to conduct in-field address canvassing, innovative ways of optimizing self-response, the use of administrative records to reduce the non-response follow up workload, and the use of technology to replace tasks previously accomplished manually. We currently estimate that these design changes could save $5 billion from the cost of repeating the 2010 Census design and methods.
The FY 2016 budget request supports implementation of major 2020 Census design decisions that will be made by the end of FY 2015. Funding supports the development of production systems and operational implementation needed to conduct a successful Census in 2020. Development of interoperable production systems must be largely completed in FY 2016 and FY 2017 to be ready for a 2018 Operational Readiness Test. If the Census Bureau does not receive the funding requested for operational design, implementation, and systems development and testing in FY 2016, it will not be able to implement a properly planned 2018 Operational Readiness Test. Without the appropriate preparation, the Census Bureau will be unable to mitigate the risk associated with the significant design changes planned for the 2020 Census, especially those related to using technology to reengineer field operations. In order to minimize the risk, the Census Bureau will have to institute a more conservative approach to the Census that would erode forecasted savings.
Work in FY 2016 supports the production implementation of the major design innovations that the Census Bureau expects for the 2020 Census. Work will begin in earnest to put the plans for reengineering the 2020 Census into action by building these operations and systems – in tandem – and testing and refining them using lessons learned along the way. The Census Bureau will continue to refine the design of the reengineered 2020 Census, as well as implement some early 2020 operations and legally mandated programs that must begin in FY 2016.
Innovations and improvements are necessary to control the cost of undertaking the 2020 Census. However, it is equally imperative that the 2020 Census produces high quality data. Each subsequent test allows for further development of systems that are moving from the prototype phase to the production phase. These tests serve to reduce overall risk through continual design and development of the business capabilities and technical requirements necessary to integrate 2020 Census operations with enterprise-wide CEDCaP systems.
For these reasons, investments are required in FY 2016 to ensure that operations and systems required for the 2020 Census continue to develop as scheduled. If this work is not funded at the requested level, work will be curtailed in some areas, and scaled back in others, placing the census at risk and driving up costs. This would significantly impact the Census Bureau’s ability to achieve this high priority goal and the expectations of Congress.
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Use the Internet to increase self-response.
staff and offices.
to reflect changes rather than walking every block in every neighborhood in America.
Increased Follow-Up Workload Reduced Follow-Up Workload
550,000 Staff on the Ground
506 Census Offices
More Than 750,000Staff on the Ground
More Than 500 Census Offices
200,000 Staff on the Ground
As Few as150 Census Offices
More Expensive 2020 Census
2010 Census in Review
America gets one chance each decade to count its population accurately. The Census Bureau must start making major decisions next year about the methods it will use to get the job done in 2020.
n FY15, the risks and costs will be Why Now?
Elements of a Cost-Effective
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Develop and award major contracts for the
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330 million people in more than 140 million housing units. To get an accurate count, the Census Bureau must build an accurate address list of every housing unit, maximize self-response to the census, and follow- up with those who do not respond. It is the largest
and development of methods and infrastructure to ensure an accurate and complete count.
Q: What is the Census Bureau doing differently?A: The Census Bureau is researching and developing
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and Address Lists
What are we talking about?• An accurate address list is the cornerstone
of a high-quality census. In the past, we have walked every street in every block to get every housing unit. In 2020, we want to visit and check only areas of change.
What are we researching and developing?• Identifying the neighborhoods with
significant change, usually about 20 percent of all addresses change between decades.
• Using alternative sources of information,including tribal, state, and local governments.
What are the intended outcomes?• Ensure we have an accurate address list.• Fewer staff walking through America’s
neighborhoods to check addresses. • Stronger partnerships with tribal, state, and
local governments.
in Workforce Management
What are we talking about?• Using technology, data, and GPS to collect
interviews efficiently.
What are we researching and developing?• Streamlining data using smart
phones and tablets to lower costs.• Managing through technology, not brick-
and-mortar offices. • Automating logistics to increase workforce
efficiency.
What are the intended outcomes?• Fewer census offices.• Fewer staff.• Increased productivity. • Leveraging off-the-shelf technology.• More staff redirected to hard-to-count populations.
Given the Government to Answer
What are we talking about?• Using government data instead of
conducting in-person interviews, so we can reduce the number of knocking on doors.
What are we researching and developing?• Using existing government data (HUD, VA,
HHS, SSA, IRS) to reduce the number of in- person follow-up interviews.
• Learning how to apply the data in a Censusenvironment.
• Assessing the quality of the resulting data.
What are the intended outcomes?• Supplement 2020 Census self-responses
with other existing governmental data. • More convenient, less burdensome.• Conduct fewer interviews—making fewer
phone calls and knocking on fewer doors.• More resources to focus on areas with
hard-to-count populations.
Increasing Self-Response With the Internet
What are we talking about?• Giving people more options to respond to
the census, so we do not have to knock on their doors.
What are we researching and developing?• Testing ideas to measure how much we can
increase self-response. Finalizing estimates to know how large to build response collection systems.
• Researching new techniques such as e-mail,text, social media, and leveraging the Internet to give the respondent options.
• Testing language support.
What are the intended outcomes?• Encourage self-response via Internet
(Internet is cheaper than paper).• Fewer offices to manage staff.• Fewer staff knocking on doors.• More response options.• More attention on
hard-to-count populations.
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• Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing (Base Funding 65 FTE and $39.9 million; Program Change 39 FTE and $7.4 million): Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 is the second year of the Census Enterprise Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) initiative that will deliver an integrated and standardized system of systems. CEDCaP will enable shared data collection and processing across all operations. This initiative will save costs by retiring unique, survey-specific systems and redundant capabilities and bring a much greater portion of the Census Bureau’s total IT expenditures under a single, integrated and centrally managed program. We will also halt the creation of program- specific systems and put in place an enterprise solution that will be mature and proven for the 2020 Census, reducing cost and risk that arise from building large scale, unique systems for that operation.
In Fiscal Year 2016, the Census Bureau will deliver several systems into production in support of the of the 2020 Census programs. In addition, the Control and Adaptive Design capability will be ready for production, and the Enterprise Paradata Repository will be in development. All other CEDCaP projects will continue to follow the enterprise system development lifecycle (eSDLC) and develop functionality to address the next major release, which is specific to capability needs of the 2017 Economic Census. The CEDCaP program will continue development and testing efforts for all other systems within its scope.
• Administrative Records Clearinghouse (45 FTE and $10.0 million): The strategic reuse of
administrative data collected by government programs can provide powerful new insights and evidence for sound decision-making to program administrators and policy makers. The FY 2016 request includes a proposal to create an Administrative Records Clearinghouse that will expedite the acquisition of federal and federally-sponsored administrative data sources, improve data documentation and linkage techniques, and leverage and extend existing systems for governance, privacy protection, and secure access to these data. These activities will create an infrastructure that permits timely and high quality program evaluation via the Census Bureau’s Research Data Centers (RDCs) and potentially via other secure protocols approved by agencies contributing source data. The resulting data resources will promote the Federal Statistical System’s mission of providing quality, unbiased data to support reasoned, disciplined decisions. Funding also supports the cost of administering a potential commission of experts responsible for making recommendations about data inventory, data infrastructure, outcomes measurement protocols, data linkages, legal and administrative barriers, data sharing, funding, researcher access, confidentiality, privacy, and strategies to increase program effectiveness.
• Geographic Support (Base Funding 330 FTE and $59.7 million; Program Change 88 FTE
and $21.4 million): The Census Bureau requests an increase of $21.4 million for the Geographic Support program. The request builds on early successes of the Geographic Support Systems Initiative (GSS- I) such as acquiring address and road data from government partners. It will also increase capacity to evaluate, process, and ingest the data into the MAF/TIGER System. At the base funding level, the workload outstrips capacity. Based on lessons learned from early research and initial production activities, the request supports continued work on applying quality indicators that will lead to a current address list for use in the 2020 Census as well as the ACS and current surveys. The quality and coverage of the current address list supports a reengineered approach to address canvassing for the 2020 Census. Under this new methodology, all addresses will be
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canvassed through a combination of in-office and in-field techniques. Knowing the quality of each address aids in identifying specific areas where addresses are deficient and that will require in-field address canvassing. Conversely, areas with acceptable address quality will avoid costly fieldwork in validating the address list for the 2020 Census. Information acquired as part of this request contributes to the estimated cost savings that will be achieved by the 2020 Census through the use of a Reengineered Address Canvassing Operation that uses geographic information systems and aerial imagery instead of sending Census employees to walk and physically check 11 million census blocks.
• American Community Survey (Base Funding 2,394 FTE and $241.6 million; Program Change 227 FTE and $15.2 million): The ACS releases over 11 billion estimates each year. This tremendous amount of information is used by Federal and non-Federal data users. Data from the ACS, in conjunction with other Census data, are used to distribute more than $400 billion of Federal dollars each year. State, tribal and local governments use ACS estimates to inform a variety of planning decisions, including where to build new schools and hospitals, and where to focus emergency planning and public transportation efforts. Business and non-profit organizations use ACS estimates to determine where to locate and to predict the types of products or services that may be needed in a given geographic area.
The FY 2016 request includes an increase of $15.2 million for the American Community Survey to reduce current and emerging program risk by (1) strengthening production activities with the program, (2) conducting research focused on reduced respondent burden and increased program efficiency, including continuing research as part of the ACS Content Review that could result in reducing the number of questions through both the use of alternative data sources, and rewording of the questions aimed at reducing the level of respondent difficulty in answering the questions, and (3) improving external communication activities.
• Economic Census (Base Funding 613 FTE and $122.1 million; Program Change -13 FTE
and $12.8 million): The economic census represents the primary source of facts about the structure and function of the U.S. economy, providing essential information to government and business to help guide sound decisions. It furnishes an important part of the framework for composite measures, such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ (BEA) input - output analyses and National Income and Product Accounts that provide important information about market sectors, such as manufacturing. Fiscal Year 2016 is the second year of the six-year 2017 Economic Census funding cycle. The focus of activity for FY 2016 is the completion of publication and dissemination of the 2012 Survey of Business Owners products; the continuation of planning for the 2017 Economic Census; and the completion of 2017 Economic Census content, reporting methods, data processing, data products, and dissemination methods. As part of the bureau’s focus on innovation, the Census Bureau plans to conduct a 2017 Economic Census that controls the life cycle cost of the operation through the use of 100 percent electronic response methods, as well as leveraging the CEDCaP technologies, thus allowing the program to improve the quality and usefulness of Economic Census data by incorporating the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS) into the 2017 Census.
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• Census of Governments (Base Funding 61 FTE and $9.2 million; Program Change -5 FTE and -$0.3 million): Since 1957, the census of governments has been compiled every 5 years in conjunction with the economic census. Funding for the census of governments is cyclical in nature due to the fact that Title 13, Section 161 authorizes a quinquennial census. Therefore, a decrease of funds from FY 2015 to FY 2016 reflects the lower field workload associated with startup activities of the 2017 Census of Governments, when activities are focused less on completing data processing, developing data products, and disseminating information from the census, and more on the direction, planning, and preparation of the 2017 Census of Governments.
• Current Economic Statistics (Base Funding 1,203 FTE and $189.9 million; Program
Change 21 FTE and $1.7 million): An increase of $1.7 million is requested to restore the Information and Communications Technology Survey, which was suspended in FY 2015. The Information and Communication Technology Survey (ICTS) provides data on capitalized and non-capitalized spending for information and communication technology (ICT) equipment and computer software. The ICTS collects data on two categories of expenses (purchases; and operating leases and rental payments), and communication technology equipment and software.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Federal Reserve Board, Bureau of Labor Statistics and industry analysts use ICT data to evaluate future productivity and economic growth prospects. In addition, the survey provides improved source data for the investment component of gross domestic product, estimates of capital stock and capital flow, and permits the reconciliation of important differences between reported production and consumption of technology. Finally, industry analysts and businesses use the ICT data for market analysis, economic forecasting, product development, and business planning.
• Current Demographic Statistics (Base Funding 620 FTE and $88.0 million; Program
Change -6 FTE and -$1.7 million): This decrease reflects the completion of data collection for questions covering topics related to health insurance that were historically part of the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey in FY 2015. Data were collected for these additional questions to provide a comparison between the previously asked questions on these topics and a revised set of questions for which data are currently being collected.
Proposed Restructuring of the Census Bureau’s Budget. The FY 2016 request contains a proposal to restructure the Census Bureau’s budget. The primary focus of the new structure is to redefine the Salaries and Expense account to the Current Surveys and Programs account, realign PPA’s from the Periodic Census fund to the Current Surveys and Programs account and to establish a PPA for the Enterprise Data Collections and Processing Systems. This structure more closely aligns the appropriations accounts with the Census Bureau’s programmatic structure. Particularly with the Demographic programs, this new structure would place programs that are now conducted on an annual (as opposed to a cyclical) basis into the Current Surveys account. In addition, base funding previously within the Data Processing Systems (DPS) PPA, which supports enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure required for daily Census Bureau operations, will be consolidated within the centralized IT budget in the Working Capital Fund and apportioned to each program based on current overhead charges for those services This
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restructuring is budget neutral in terms of aggregate discretionary funding, but the totals for the two accounts would change.
In summary, the Census Bureau believes that this proposal better aligns programmatic activities, simplifies the appropriations structure, leads to greater transparency in the Census Bureau’s budget, and will lead to improved execution of resources. Exhibits 18 and 19, included with this submission, contain crosswalks between the old and new PPA structure. The Census Bureau’s FY 2016 Budget Submission is presented in the proposed new structure.
Proposal for Reorganization
The Census Bureau proposes a reorganization of one of its component units. This proposal will abolish the Technologies Management Office (TMO), a division within the Census Bureau’s Field Directorate, and distribute the TMO staff, budget, and functions to existing divisions within the Census Bureau’s Information Technology Directorate (ITD). The purpose of the re-organization is to realign the IT functions under the Associate Director for Field Operations (ADFO) into the Information Technology Directorate. This realignment consolidates like functions under a single organization where significant operational efficiencies, better oversight, and standardization can be realized.
The proposed re-organization also aligns application development areas (the data collection systems of CEDCaP) under one organization structure. This is a resource neutral proposal; that is, no new management positions will be created despite the addition of significant new development efforts.
Overall, the realignment of the TMO within the ITD affects five divisions. The table below summarizes the realignment. This realignment will be staff and funding neutral. The organization chart on the next page shows the realigned structure in the context of the Census Bureau organization.
Current Organization Inheriting Organization Technologies Management Office (TMO)
The Information Technology Directorate (ITD)
-- Application Services Division (ASD) -- LAN Technology & Support Office
(LTSO) -- Office of Information Security (OIS) -- Information Systems and Review Office
(ISSRO)
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SUMMARY OF RESOURCES The following summary provides a comparison between the FY 2015 Enacted and the
FY 2016 Budget1
(Budget Authority in thousands)
FY 2015 Enacted FY 2016 Estimate Difference
FTE Amount FTE Amount FTE Amount
Current Surveys & Programs 1,818 268,642 1,838 277,873 20 9,231 Periodic Censuses & Programs 4,706 817,807 5,836 1,220,550 1,130 402,743
Total Discretionary Budget Authority 6,524 1,086,449 7,674 1,498,423 1,150 411,974
Mandatory Appropriations 315 27,810 315 30,000 0 2,190
Total Budget Authority 6,839 1,114,259 7,989 1,528,423 1,150 414,164
Working Capital Fund2 3,415 331,694 2,997 267,699 -418 -63,995 Total Available 10,254 1,445,953 10,986 1,796,122 732 350,169
1FY 2015 and FY 2016 estimates reflect budget restructuring proposed in FY 2016. 2Reflects estimated level of reimbursable work for Census Bureau services to other government agencies and other customers.
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FY 2014 Direct
FY 2015 Direct
FY 2016 Direct
Activ
ity/Sub
activity
Obligations
Obligations
Obligations
Prop
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Salarie
s & Expen
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cono
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178,702
182,000
189,426
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70,523
63,400
64,649
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PPA
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2,136
2,600
2,600
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251,36
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10,268
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459,076
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919,286
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9,908
9,813
9,869
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55,194
56,613
78,472
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939,426
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d to
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s fin
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ber o
f com
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s in
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5……
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SR
S w
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crea
se fr
om 5
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in F
Y 2
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to 2
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in F
Y 2
016.
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ag
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con
tribu
tion
rate
will
rem
ain
7.0%
in F
Y 2
016.
Fede
ral E
mpl
oyee
s' R
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men
t Sys
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(FE
RS
)……
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f one
mor
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le d
ay in
FY
201
6 co
mpa
red
to F
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015
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late
d by
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g th
e FY
201
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timat
ed
pers
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l com
pens
atio
n an
d be
nefit
s by
261
day
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lyin
g by
the
one
mor
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y.
FY 2
015
estim
ated
per
sonn
el c
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nsat
ion…
..……
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……
FY 2
015
estim
ated
ben
efits
……
……
……
……
..……
……
..……
……
……
..……
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….
2016
$1
29,6
00,0
00 x
2.9
% x
7.0
%…
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com
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will
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of:
Reg
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em
ploy
ees:
Reg
ular
em
ploy
ees:
Tota
l, ad
just
men
t-to-
base
……
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estim
ated
per
cent
age
of p
ayro
ll fo
r em
ploy
ees
cove
red
by F
ER
S w
ill in
crea
se to
97.
1% in
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201
6. T
he a
genc
y co
ntrib
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n ra
te w
ill in
crea
se fr
om 1
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015
to 1
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sult
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n in
crea
se o
f:
CEN - 21
Oth
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oblig
atio
ns to
the
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016.
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ive
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perc
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as a
pplie
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of $
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age …
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rate
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n w
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crea
se fr
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016.
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RS
pa
rtici
patio
n ra
tes
will
incr
ease
from
94.
4% in
FY
201
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97.
1% in
FY
201
6.Th
is w
ill re
sult
in a
dec
reas
e of
:
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ular
em
ploy
ees:
2016
$
129,
600,
000
x 97
.1%
x 3
.8%
……
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15
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9,60
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0 x
94.4
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ral I
nsur
ance
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tions
Act
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will
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lt in
an
incr
ease
of:
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ular
em
ploy
ees:
2016
$
129,
600,
000
x 97
.1%
x 9
8.7%
x 6
.2%
……
….…
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.……
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…
The
perc
enta
ge o
f pay
roll
cove
red
by F
ER
S in
crea
sed
from
94.
4% in
FY
201
5 to
97.
1% in
FY
201
6. T
he o
vera
ll pe
rcen
tage
of s
alar
ies
cove
red
by
OA
SD
I will
incr
ease
to 9
8.7%
in F
Y 2
016
from
98.
6% in
FY
201
5. T
he O
AS
DI t
ax ra
te w
ill re
mai
n 6.
2% in
FY
201
6.
2015
$
129,
600,
000
x 94
.4%
x 9
8.6%
x 6
.2%
……
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tota
l……
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er s
alar
ies:
2016
$4
,734
,000
x 9
7.1%
x 9
8.7%
x 6
.2%
….…
.……
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2015
$4
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,000
x 9
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x 9
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ctiv
e Ja
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16, t
he C
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s B
urea
u's
cont
ribut
ion
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eder
al e
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oyee
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CEN - 24
Dep
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ase
2016
Estim
ate
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APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Current Surveys & Programs BUDGET PROGRAM: Current Surveys and Statistics For FY 2016, the Census Bureau requests a net program change of $0 and 15 FTE from the FY 2016 base for a total of $277,873,000 and 1,838 FTE for Current Surveys and Statistics. BASE JUSTIFICATION: Current Surveys and Statistics Overview The Current Surveys and Statistics ($277.9 million and 1,838 FTE) budget is organized into two subactivities under the Current Surveys & Programs account.
• The Current Economic Statistics subactivity ($191.6 million and 1,224 FTE) includes economic statistics programs that provide public and private sector data users with relevant, accurate, and timely national statistical profiles of every sector of the U.S. economy.
• The Current Demographic Statistics subactivity ($86.2 million and 614 FTE) contains programs that provide social and economic information on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis to inform effective public and private decision-making.
The Current Surveys and Statistics Programs support the Department of Commerce’s Trade & Investment, Innovation, Environment, and Data goals. They specifically support objectives: Increase U.S. exports by broadening and deepening the U.S. exporter base (1.2); Accelerate the development of industry-led skills strategies that result in a productive workforce for employers and high-quality jobs for workers (2.4); Improve preparedness, response, and recovery from weather and water events by building a Weather-Ready Nation (3.2); Improve data based services, decision-making and data sharing within the Department and with other parts of the Federal Government (4.2); and Collaborate with the business community to provide more timely, accurate, and relevant data products and services for customers (4.3). Furthermore, the Census Bureau will partner with other agencies and use outreach efforts focused on increasing the number of new small and medium size exporting companies in the U.S.; expand and enhance the Local Employment Dynamics program’s data integration and measurement methods to provide more insight into innovation and entrepreneurial activity; increase awareness and utility of the OntheMap for Emergency Management (OTM-EM) tool through the use of webinars and trainings for emergency and city planners and enhancements to the data; work with ITA and MBDA to improve the operation of some of their programs and the methods used to evaluate the value of these programs; and expand outreach to key industry and business stakeholders. SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENTS-TO-BASE: The Census Bureau requests a net increase of $9.2 million to fund adjustments to current programs for Current Surveys and Statistics activities.
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SUB-PROGRAM: Current Economic Statistics The objectives of the Current Economic Statistics sub-program are to provide public and private data users with relevant, accurate, and timely national industry profiles for every sector of the U.S. economy. The current economic statistics program supports the Department of Commerce Strategic Plan’s Science and Information goal of generating and communicating new, cutting-edge scientific understanding of technical, economic, social, and environmental systems. This supports objective 14, to “enable informed decision-making through an expanded understanding of the U.S. economy, society, and environment by providing timely, relevant, trusted, and accurate data, standards, and services.” Business Statistics The business statistics programs measure the economic activity of the distribution and service trade sectors in the United States. These data provide principal economic performance indicators on an annual, quarterly and monthly basis. The business statistics programs are the primary source of up-to-date facts on the structure and functioning of the distributive trades and service sectors of the economy and provide more timely updates from the economic census for these sectors. These data include the principal economic indicator series, which are closely followed and widely used by policymakers, businesses, and other organizations that closely follow financial markets. These data, in conjunction with other economic data collected by the Census Bureau, are vital to effective economic policy decisions by business and government. The business statistics are important inputs to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ (BEA) estimation of GDO, and to the Federal Reserve Board and Council of Economic Advisers for the formulation of monetary and fiscal policies and analysis of economic policies. Business Statistics includes the following activities: Current retail trade reports - This program provides monthly and annual estimates of retail, accommodation, and food services sales; e-commerce sales; selected merchandise lines data, inventories, and purchases. The advance monthly retail program is a principal economic indicator. The annual retail trade program provides key measures of retail and accommodations and food services activity for intercensal years and is the basis for benchmarking monthly estimates of sales and inventories and provides measurements of purchases, e-commerce sales, accounts receivable, inventories held outside the United States, operating expenses, and selected merchandise lines. The economic outlook depends greatly on the strength of retail and accommodation and food services sales and retail inventories. Current wholesale trade reports - This program provides monthly and annual estimates of wholesale sales, inventories, inventory/sales ratios, purchases, e-commerce sales, Electronic Data Interchange sales, inventories held outside the United States, operating expenses, and commissions received (agents and brokers only). The monthly wholesale trade program is a principal economic indicator, and covers merchant wholesalers (except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices). The annual wholesale trade program covers merchant wholesalers, as well as manufacturers’ sales offices and branches, electronic markets, agents, and brokers. Current service trade reports - This program provides quarterly and annual estimates of service industries revenue, purchased services, e-commerce sales, and export revenue. The quarterly service trade program is a economic indicator, and covers key information, telecommunications, and technology-sensitive industries and other industries sensitive to changes in the business cycle. The
CEN - 27
annual service trade program includes all service sectors, comprising many of the fastest growing divisions of the economy. Services dominate the U.S. economy and these data serve as key inputs to the measurement of economic performance. The BEA uses services data in developing the national income and product accounts and in compiling benchmark and annual input-output tables. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses these Census Bureau source data as input to its productivity and price measurements. The Department of Transportation uses transportation data from these surveys for general planning, policy development, program management, and evaluation. And, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services use the health data in developing the annual estimates of National Health Expenditures. Statistical sample improvements - This program provides research, development, and implementation of sample improvements for the current retail, wholesale, and service surveys. This includes selection of the new business sample, based on the results from the most current economic census and updating samples on a quarterly and annual basis, necessary to redistribute respondent burden, minimize sampling error and ensure accurate representation of firms in the samples. Construction Statistics The construction statistics programs provide national performance indicators for the construction sector of the economy. The programs cover activities such as residential building permit authorizations, housing starts, characteristics and prices of new housing, and value of construction put in place. Since construction activities are particularly sensitive to the interest rate levels, these data are an important indicator of how changes in interest rates are affecting the economy. The data are vital to understanding the economic and social aspects of construction activity in the U.S., are pertinent to the national economic and social needs of the U.S. population, and provide a basis for effective policy making at all levels of government and in the private sector. The programs supplement the data collected in the economic census. Construction Statistics includes the following activities: Building permits data - This program provides monthly and annual statistics on privately-owned residential construction authorized by building permits. The monthly data include national, regional, and state estimates, and selected metropolitan areas, counties, and individual places. The monthly series data are a component of the index of leading economic indicators. The annual data cover permit-issuing places that are not in the monthly sample; the annual data in combination with the sample data are used as benchmarks to revise the monthly series. Building permit data are used to estimate housing starts and new home sales data, and improve samples for the Survey of Construction and the Current Population Survey. Other data users include the Federal Reserve Board and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Financial institutions use these data to estimate mortgage demand. Private firms use the sub-national data for market planning, material demand, and investment analysis. Housing starts data - This program provides national and regional statistics on the number of housing units started and the number authorized but not yet started. This program is a principal economic indicator. In conjunction with HUD, this program also collects information on the completion and sale of new housing units, as well as characteristics of these units, such as floor area, number of stories, etc. Additionally, this program provides data for the development of price indices of new single-family houses sold and under construction. The data are closely followed by the home-building industry. Housing starts data are used as direct input to estimate the value of construction put in place for
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single-family houses and are used to generate the sample to measure the value of construction put in place for multifamily residential projects. Construction put in place data - This program provides estimates of the total dollar value of all construction work done in the nation each month, and is a principal economic indicator. Construction put in place data are provided to the BEA for direct input to the national income and product accounts. Other data users include the Council of Economic Advisers, the Federal Reserve Board, construction firms, and trade associations. Manufacturing Statistics The manufacturing statistics programs measure the overall performance of the U.S. manufacturing sector, and the investment behavior of all U.S. businesses. The manufacturing sector supplies the export markets, which have become increasingly important to the overall health of our nation’s economy. These programs, which supplement data collected in the economic census, provide monthly, quarterly, and annual data that are vital to policymakers in both the public and private sectors for analysis of the business cycle and domestic production. Surveys on manufacturing capacity utilization and energy use are conducted on a cost reimbursable basis for other federal agencies. Manufacturing Statistics includes the following activities: Annual survey of manufactures - This program provides annual estimates of employment, payroll, fringe benefits, cost of materials, capital expenditures, fuels consumed, shipments, e-commerce sales, and inventories by stage of fabrication at the national level for selected industry groups and product classes, and selected data at the state level. The BEA, the BLS, the Federal Reserve Board, the International Trade Administration and manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms are all users of the data. Industrial indicators and business investment - This program provides monthly estimates on the dollar volume of shipments, new and unfilled orders, and total inventories; annual estimates of investment in new and used buildings and other structures, machinery, and equipment; and capitalized and non-capitalized spending for information and communication technology equipment and computer software. The monthly Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories and Orders (M3 is designated as an economic indicator. The BEA uses the data as a component of GDP estimates, and, the Federal Reserve Board, the Conference Board, and the Council of Economic Advisers use these data to assess business cycles and indicators of change. The Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) covers capital investments of private nonfarm businesses with employees and business without employees in the United States. Program data are supplemented on a 5-year cycle with detail on investment by types of structures and types of equipment for companies with employees. The Information and Communication Technology Survey (ICTS) covers private non-farm businesses with employees. Investment is a key component to the BEA in the production of GDP, to the Federal Reserve Board for indicators of investment, and to the Council of Economic Advisors. General Economic Statistics The general economic statistics programs provide information that is essential to understanding the changing economic structure of the United States. In addition, the Business Register (BR) and
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parallel classification activities provide the infrastructure for the current and periodic economic programs that produce national statistical profiles of all sectors of the economy. General Economic Statistics includes the following activities: Business register - This program identifies the business populations covered by economic censuses and surveys; maintains information about company affiliation and organizational structure; provides consistent industrial, geographic, and size classifications to construct efficient, representative samples and enumeration lists; serves as a consolidated source for name, address, and other contact information needed for cost-effective data collection methods; and supports census and survey processing operations. The business register (BR) comprises more than 31 million active establishments, and includes 1.8 million establishments belonging to over 168,000 multi-establishment firms, 6.0 million single-establishment firms with paid employees, and over 23 million single-establishment firms without paid employees. A significant portion of the BR information originates from the administrative records of other Federal agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration and the BLS. The Census Bureau supplements these administrative data with results from the economic census, the annual Company Organization Survey (COS), the Annual Survey of Manufacturers (ASM), and other current surveys, which provide information on the composition, organizational structure, and operating characteristics of multi-establishment enterprises. Accurate information about these larger companies is important because these firms account for a disproportionate share of the nation’s production and employment. The BR is the source of statistical frames for internal Census Bureau programs. The annual County Business Patterns (CBP) report is based on tabulations from the BR and provides basic operating statistics for establishments with paid employees by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Island Areas, and counties. These data are used by Federal agencies, including the BEA. However, the heaviest use is by private businesses and organizations and by local governments. The annual Non-employers Statistics (NES) report is based on BR tabulations and provides revenue data for sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations without paid employees. The data are a primary sampling source for the U.S. Small Business Administration surveys and are available to the public as an annual data release. Industry and commodity classification - This program ensures that Census Bureau industry and classification operations are complete, consistent, and comparable with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other agency standards. This program is also responsible for preparing concordances between the classification systems used in other countries and the United States as official classifications requested by OMB. The NAICS was developed cooperatively with Canada and Mexico and implemented in 1997, and every five years, revisions are incorporated into statistical programs throughout the Census Bureau. This program coordinates and supports the continued maintenance and revision of the NAICS structure every five years. Accurate and timely industrial classifications are essential to structuring efficient samples that provide high-quality estimates for industrial statistics, and serve as the foundation for all sample work of economic programs, as well as ensuring a quality mail frame for the Economic Census.. The program is also responsible for the continued development of the North American Product Classification System (NAPCS), including the development subcommittees, documenting results of cooperative North American product development decisions and maintaining a repository of United States products.
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Economic studies - This program provides for the Center for Economic Studies (CES) research important economic issues; evaluate economic, decennial, and demographic data programs; and develop new and improved economic measures. The CES also integrates, creates, maintains, and provides micro data from the Census Bureau's data collection programs to approved researchers. The CES develops and maintains the Research Data Center (RDC) network, which provides access to Census Bureau micro data to external researchers with special sworn status on approved projects. The research results from CES and the RDCs have generated substantial new insights into the quality of census and survey data, led to new public use data products, identified gaps in existing programs, and suggested areas where new programs are needed. The program has produced research with direct relevance to numerous existing Census Bureau programs, identified new economic measures, contributed to developing measurement approaches in evolving areas of the economy, and supported the classification of historical economic census data to a NAICS basis. The CES undertakes work to improve the utility of Federal data for studying business behavior. One undertaking is to extend the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) by linking the existing files with additional data on small and young businesses, which are often the progenitors of larger, publicly traded, companies. Projects include linking microdata that describe the trading activities of firms (volume of imports and exports) as well as the innovative activities of firms and their financial position. These projects will feed into the expansion and improvement of the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), which is the publicly available dataset derived from the LBD. In addition, the CES is extending the features available on the Synthetic Longitudinal Business Database, which allows users to track business dynamics in detailed industries. The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) program leverages existing data sources to create new information about the economy. The program has data sharing agreements with state agencies from all 50 states (through the Local Employment Dynamics data sharing partnership) and other Federal agencies. These data are linked with other Census data to create new linked employer-employee microdata data covering over 90 percent of U.S. jobs. From the linked LEHD microdata, the program produces two public-use data products, the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) and OnTheMap, that highlight businesses and workers by characteristics and geography. These tools are essential for local area users and those involved in disaster recovery activities. Quarterly financial report - This program provides quarterly statistics on corporate financial conditions, including sales, profits, assets, liabilities and stockholders' equity. The Quarterly Financial Report (QFR) program is a principal economic indicator, provides industry and asset size data for small, medium, and large manufacturing corporations in the mining, wholesale trade, retail trade, information, and professional and technical). The data are used by BEA in constructing the national income accounts, and by the Federal Reserve Board in the flow of funds accounts. The data are also used in the public and private sectors to analyze corporate profits and financial conditions by industry and asset size. Measuring electronic business – This program provides for quarterly measures of retail e-commerce sales and detailed annual measures of e-commerce activity for manufacturing, wholesalers, selected service industries, and retail trade. The extraordinary growth of the Internet has changed the way businesses communicate, seek and access information, purchase and sell goods, and interact. Foreign Trade Statistics The foreign trade statistics programs provide official monthly statistics on imports, exports, and balance of trade for all types of merchandise moving between the United States and its international
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trading partners. The trade data are a principal economic indicator, compiled from information filed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection for shipments valued over $2,000, except for selected commodities valued over $250. Shipments valued under these levels are developed for individual countries through a statistical estimation procedure. Export statistics also include data on U.S. exports provided by Statistics Canada under a program of import data exchange between U.S. and Canadian statistical agencies. Foreign trade data are essential to understanding our economy, as well as our economic relationships with the rest of the world. Foreign Trade Statistics includes the following activities: Import statistics - This program provides monthly and cumulative import statistics that summarize merchandise imports using the commodity classifications of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, Annotated (HTSUSA) by country of origin and by customs district of entry, although various other commodity classification systems and statistics are also readily available. Trade legislation requires compilation of information on imports for special trade agreements including the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the Caribbean Basin Initiative, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and approximately 15 other trade agreements. The BEA, Council of Economic Advisers, Federal Reserve Board and Department of the Treasury use import trade statistics to develop the import components for the GDP accounts and to monitor the impact of imports on the general economy. Other users of import statistics are the U.S. Trade Representative, Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation, Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and many other public and private sector organizations. These groups use the information to negotiate trade agreements, and implement and monitor international trade agreements, such as NAFTA, and other special bilateral agreements on quotas, textiles, steel, automotive vehicles and parts, etc. In addition, this information is widely used by the business community in market research, trade promotional activities, and analysis of water transportation infrastructure requirements. Export statistics - This program provides monthly and cumulative export statistics that summarize merchandise exports for the commodity classifications using the Schedule B, by country of destination and by customs district of exportation. Schedule B, based on the Harmonized System, is the official schedule of export commodity classifications that can be used by shippers in reporting export shipments from the United States and in compiling the official statistics on exports of merchandise from the U.S. The BEA, Council of Economic Advisers, Federal Reserve Board, and the Department of the Treasury use export trade statistics to develop the export component for the balance of payments and GDP accounts. Other users of these statistics are the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, the U.S. Trade Representative, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and many other public and private sector organizations. These groups use the export information to implement and monitor international trade agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement; to promote exports through export promotion programs; to enforce export control and national security laws; to conduct trade negotiations; and to conduct market research to determine export market potential and vessel and air movement requirements. Trade monitoring - This program covers the Census Bureau’s responsibilities for trade monitoring under the Trade Act of 1974. This includes Section 608 (Uniform Statistical Data on Imports, Exports and Production), Title V (Generalized System of Preferences) and Section 282 (Trade Monitoring System). Section 608 requires data on imports, exports and domestic production on a comparable basis. The NAICS classification system is used for this purpose and a correlation between the international Harmonized System classification system and the domestic production-based NAICS classification system has been developed. The commodity classification systems are revised on a regular basis, updated to reflect changing statistical needs and to improve comparability of trade and
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domestic production data. They also allow comparability of data between the United States and other countries. Government Statistics The government statistics programs provide statistical information on revenues, expenditures, debt, and financial assets for state and local governments. The programs provide data in the areas of state and local government financial activity and public employment and payroll. The data are vital to measuring the government sector of the national economy, understanding the flow of public funds throughout the country, and administering public programs. Government Statistics includes the following activities: Surveys of government finance operations - This program provides quarterly and annual statistics on the various aspects of state and local government financial activity; quarterly surveys on state and local government tax revenues, and on the finances of selected public pension systems; and annual surveys on the entire range of state and local government financial activity, including information on general statistics on revenues, expenditures, indebtedness, cash and securities, and public pension systems with defined benefit plans. The BEA uses the estimates to develop the state and local government component of the quarterly and annual revisions to the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA). The Federal Reserve Board uses the estimates in the flow of funds accounts as source information for several key measures of the credit markets. Congress and state officials use the tax and intergovernmental revenue database to prepare analyses of fiscal policy, tax burdens, and comparative studies on governmental finance. Local officials use the detail by types of government to understand the relative activity of counties, municipalities, townships, special districts, and school districts. Survey of government employment - This program provides annual statistics on Federal, state, and local governments employees, their pay and hours for the month of March of a given year. This program provides the annual update of government employment and payroll data by level of government and function, and is the only intercensal source of public employment and pay roll data at the sub-national level. The BEA uses the estimates for deriving price-level changes in the NIPA series. Governors use these data for comparison of governmental efficiency among states.
PROGRAM CHANGES: Restoration of the information and communications technology survey ($1,727,000, 21 FTE): This increase restores the Information and Communications Technology Survey, which was suspended in FY 2015 to provide for a supplemental data collection for the Current Population Survey (see page CEN – 68). The Information and Communication Technology Survey (ICTS) provides data on capitalized and non-capitalized spending for information and communication technology (ICT) equipment and computer software. The ICTS collects data on two categories of non-capitalized expenses (purchases; and operating leases and rental payments), for four types of information and communication technology equipment and software (computers and peripheral equipment; ICT equipment, excluding computers and peripherals; electromedical and electrotherapeutic apparatus; and computer software, including payroll associated with software development). The survey also collects capital expenditures data on the four types of ICT equipment and software cited above.
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Federal Reserve Board, Bureau of Labor Statistics and industry analysts use ICT data to evaluate future productivity and economic growth prospects. In addition, the survey provides improved source data for the investment component of gross domestic product, estimates of capital stock and capital flow, and permits the reconciliation of important differences between reported production and consumption of technology. Finally, industry analysts and businesses use the ICT data for market analysis, economic forecasting, product development, and business planning.
PROGRAM CHANGE PERSONNEL DETAIL (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Current surveys and statistics Sub-program: Current economic statistics Program Change: Restoration of information and communications technology survey
Number Annual TotalLocation Grade of Positions Salary Salaries
Mathematical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-13 1 $90,823 $90,823Mathematical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-12 2 76,378 152,756Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-11 6 63,722 382,332Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-9 4 57,360 229,440Program Assistant Suitland, MD GS-7 2 39,179 78,358Statistical Assistant Suitland, MD GS-5 2 34,759 69,518 Subtotal 17 1,003,227
Distributed share of staff for centralized services 4 315,120 Subtotal 21 1,318,347
Less Lapse 0% 0 0Total Full-time permanent: 21 1,318,347
1.300% 17,139Subtotal 21 1,335,486
Personnel Data NumberFull-time Equivalent Employment
Full-time permanent 21Other than full-time permanent 0Total 21
Authorized Positions:Full-time permanent 21Other than full-time permanent 0Total 21
2015 Pay Adjustment
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Current surveys and statistics Sub-program: Current economic statistics Program Change: Restoration of information and communications technology survey
FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Increase Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $1,335 $91,395 11.3 Other than full-time permanent 15 3,519 11.5 Other personnel compensation 5 1,565 11.8 Special personnel services payments 0 0 11.9 Total personnel compensation 1,355 96,479 12 Civilian personnel benefits 347 31,987 13 Benefits for former personnel 0 833 21 Travel and transportation of persons 8 2,627 22 Transportation of things 0 133 23.1 Rental payments to GSA 0 6,813 23.2 Rental Payments to others 0 5 23.3 Communications, utilities and miscellaneous charges 12 3,050 24 Printing and reproduction 0 277 25.1 Advisory and assistance services 0 17,688 25.2 Other services from non-Federal sources 5 3,546 25.3 Purchases of goods & services from Gov't accounts 0 9,896 25.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities 0 2,089 25.5 Research and development contracts 0 2,200 25.6 Medical care 0 0 25.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 0 10,330 25.8 Subsistence and support of persons 0 129 26 Supplies and materials 0 1,341 31 Equipment 0 2,212 32 Lands and structures 0 0 33 Investments and loans 0 0 41 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 0 42 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 0 43 Interest and dividends 0 0 44 Refunds 0 0 99 Total obligations 1,727 191,635
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SUB-PROGRAM: Current Demographic Statistics
The objective of the Current Demographic Statistics sub-program is to provide elected officials and government managers with the reliable social and economic data needed to make effective policy and program decisions. The components of this program have generated a lengthy time series of monthly, quarterly, and annual measures that provide historical perspective to many current issues. These programs include household surveys, population and housing analyses, intercensal demographic estimates and demographic surveys sample redesign. The monthly, quarterly, and annual surveys, and the value-added data analyses funded through the Census Bureau’s current demographic statistics program are the primary source of accurate and timely information decision makers depend on to make informed and cost-effective decisions. Data from these programs are used to create the United States’ official measures of employment, unemployment, poverty, and widely used measures of income and health insurance coverage. Additionally, these surveys and analyses are the source of significant insight for decision-makers on topics, such as immigration, families and children, and the geographic patterns of change in population and characteristics, and for participation of various individuals and households in federal, state, and local assistance programs. Household Surveys The household surveys line item includes the full array of operations and services associated with large scale data collection, including:
preparation of the sample and survey materials, collection of the data by field representatives, data processing and estimation, production and quality control of monthly, quarterly, and annual data products, and data dissemination of tabulations and public-use micro-data via the Internet and other
media. These programs are continually assessed by monitoring survey response rates, individual and macro-level reporting of data, coverage of the population, and comparisons of projected costs and actual expenditures. The assessments are obtained on a monthly basis through survey-specific data processing and the Census Bureau’s financial management reports. The surveys and assessments efficiently leverage capabilities of the field infrastructure and workforce. The household surveys line item includes the four distinct programs described below. Current Population Survey (CPS) The CPS is a monthly survey of about 58,000 households that has been conducted by the Census Bureau for the BLS for more than 50 years, with the BLS providing about two thirds of the total funding for the program. Although the primary purpose of the CPS is to provide detailed labor force characteristics of the civilian non-institutional population and the monthly unemployment rate, a leading economic indicator, the Census Bureau’s funding supports the collection and processing as well as the oversampling of Hispanic households for the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) in March of each year. In addition, Census Bureau funding supports the collection and processing of the CPS Fertility supplement, conducted every other June; the CPS School Enrollment supplement, conducted every October; and the Voting and Registration supplement, conducted every other
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November. Census Bureau funding for these CPS supplements produce annual data on work experience, income, poverty, migration, and school enrollment, and biennial data on voting. The CPS program also receives separate mandatory funding from the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to supplement the sample to obtain annual estimates of health insurance coverage of children. This additional sample increases the basic monthly CPS sample by about 20% and the sample for the ASEC by about 25%. The CPS sample provides direct estimates for the nation as a whole and serves as part of a model for individual states and other geographic areas. In addition to the regular appropriations, other agencies sponsor supplements to the CPS in other months which cover such topics as child support and alimony, tobacco use, volunteers, and food security. Sample cases that are found to be vacant in the CPS are also eligible for the Housing Vacancy Survey, which produces the quarterly housing vacancy rates, another leading economic indicator. The CPS program also includes funding for the development of a Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to complement the current official measure. The funding for the SPM allows us to upgrade all of our production processes to convert this measure from a research measure to a production-grade series that is released alongside the official poverty measure. This fully implemented measure will have more acceptance in the user community, and there will be more transparency and understanding of the differences between the official measure and the SPM. In addition, the funding allows us to ensure that our estimation procedures are the most accurate and make improvements as needed. Survey Methods Development The Census Bureau continually investigates ways of providing more accurate survey data faster and at a lower cost. This program tests and develops alternative survey methodologies and concepts for improving demographic surveys. Improvements apply to the CPS, Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), and other demographic surveys that are done on a reimbursable basis for other federal agencies. The research strategy involves consultations with external and internal customers (for example, BLS, the OMB, and the National Center for Health Statistics), and includes research and analysis of interviewing methods, response bias, quality control procedures, questionnaire design, and documentation. General Research The program supports general research on problems related to the Census Bureau’s data collection efforts in censuses and sample surveys. These problems continually occur because we are measuring an increasingly complex population and economy. The challenges encompass maintaining adequate response rates, reducing burden of response to census and survey data collection, meeting complex data needs, and improving data quality. We look for solutions using tools from three disciplines: mathematical statistics, social and behavioral sciences, and computation sciences. Research topics include: disclosure avoidance, small area estimation, seasonal adjustment, sampling and estimation, survey design, record linkage, editing, imputation, usability testing, questionnaire pre-testing, cognitive testing, language and sociolinguistics, questionnaire design, interviewer behavior, and ethnography. Survey of Income and Program Participation The SIPP is the major source of information on the economic well-being of Americans over time. The SIPP allows policy makers and program managers to look at situations of specific families and households over three to four years providing perspective on demographic and economic changes. The SIPP collects sources and amounts of income, labor force information, program participation and eligibility data, and general demographic characteristics in order to measure the effectiveness of existing federal, state, and local programs. The data are also used to estimate future costs and coverage for
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government programs, such as food stamps, and to provide improved statistics on the distribution of income in the country. The SIPP content is built around a “core” of labor force, program participation, and income questions designed to measure the economic situation of households in the United States. The survey was designed also to provide a broader context for analysis by adding questions on a variety of topics not covered in the core section such as child care, wealth, program eligibility, child support, utilization and cost of health care, disability, school enrollment, taxes, and annual income. In February 2014, a new panel of the SIPP began collecting data with the new data collection instrument that integrates an Event History Calendar to facilitate our transition from thrice yearly to annual interviewing. During FY 2016, we will process and release data from the second interview (Wave 2) of the respondents in the 2014 Panel, and will collect data from the third interview (Wave 3) of the 2014 SIPP Panel respondents. We will continue refining the reengineered data processing system through FY 2015 and into FY 2016, significant improvements may lead to follow-up releases of Wave 1 data files. The initial Wave 1 release is planned as a preliminary version of the edited file. The data collected by the 2014 SIPP Wave 1 interview cover calendar year 2013. The Wave 2 reference period covers calendar year 2014, and Wave 3 interviewing will collect information about calendar year 2015. The evaluation of these data as well as continued evaluation of data collected from the fielding of prototypes of the new SIPP automated instruments, will be conducted during FY 2015, and extend into FY 2016 as we begin to be able to evaluate the implementation of locating procedures and longitudinal data characteristics. These evaluations will serve to inform the users and stakeholders for SIPP data of the characteristics of the change in methodology, and the effectiveness of the new Event History Calendar as a data collection tool. In addition, SIPP data quality will continue to be evaluated by comparisons to administrative records data. Population and Housing Analyses The Population and Housing Analyses program uses a variety of approaches to create value-added information for policy makers and program managers, refining the statistical data collected in surveys into insightful and useful information. This program increases the knowledge base with varied sources of information, adds context and perspective to survey data, and maintains the statistical infrastructure through compilation of records and development and maintenance of standards. The Population and Housing Analyses program has three major components: Population characteristics The Population Characteristics program produces a wide variety of population analyses and reports based on data collected by the CPS and other surveys. The recurring Current Population Reports are used by federal, state, and local agencies to design, implement, and evaluate programmatic activities and by a wide variety of organizations in the private sector as the official baseline estimates of various social, demographic, and economic phenomena and trends. These reports present both statistical tables and analytical texts. In addition, the Census Bureau produces special reports on a variety of topics as they become important to Federal interests. The program also provides a wide variety of data and research products relating to the distribution of income, wealth, and poverty in the United States. Recurring reports from the CPS and other data sources are the official source of the United States’ poverty and income statistics. The Population Characteristics program ensures continuous improvement and consistency of critical measures relating to federal standards and classifications. The OMB uses Census Bureau reports as a key component of the analyses needed to monitor and improve federal standards and
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classifications on race and ethnicity, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, occupation, high school dropout rates, and other standard measures. Over time, the work on standards reduces duplication of effort, facilitates the integration of independent outputs of the information from these data systems, and provides a common definition structure for all users of these data, both public and private. Population projections The Population Projections program provides information on the future U.S. population by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Policy analysis and application of statistical and government programs frequently depend on accurate, detailed information on the future characteristics of the population. The Population Projections program projects the future U.S. population by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. The program monitors changes in administrative and vital statistics, evaluates population trends, and then projects those trends into the future. These projections help to identify and describe major changes in the U.S. population in terms of size and also in terms of age, sex, race and Hispanic origin - information that is essential to enable policy makers, government agencies, and businesses to respond to rapid population changes. Housing statistics This program conducts the Housing Vacancy Survey, which produces basic information on the current housing market. The survey collects and provides information on vacancy rates for rental and homeowner units, and on home ownership rates. The rental vacancy rate from the survey is a component of the index of leading economic indicators used by the HUD, BEA, National Association of Home Builders, Federal Reserve Board, OMB, Department of Treasury, and the Council of Economic Advisers. The housing statistics program also produces quarterly and annual vacancy rates and home ownership rates for the country as a whole, for four major geographic regions, for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, and for principal cities and suburbs. Both public and private organizations use the data to evaluate housing markets and to determine the number and characteristics of available units and the level of home ownership. The White House, HUD, private businesses, nonprofit organizations, and academic researchers use these data to measure progress toward the goal of increasing home ownership among American families. Intercensal Demographic Estimates The Intercensal Demographic Estimates program assists elected officials and government program managers in allocating hundreds of billions of dollars each year by giving them updated estimates of the United States population for the country, states, counties, cities, and townships. Through this legislatively required program, policymakers and program managers are able to better understand their population’s size, as well as its basic characteristics such as age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin; and estimates of the number of housing units, in the years between the decennial censuses. Since the United States population grows and changes between decennial censuses – and governments base many of their funding decisions on the size and basic characteristics of the population – effective and efficient government requires these updated estimates. Title 13, Section 181 of the U.S. Code requires the Census Bureau to produce annual data on the population size and certain population characteristics (age, race, ethnicity, and sex) for the Nation, states, counties, and local units of government with a population of 50,000 or more. This law also requires the Census Bureau to produce biennial estimates of total population for
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all local units of general-purpose government, regardless of their size. Further, the law specifies the use of such estimates by Federal agencies when allocating Federal benefits to states, counties, and local units of government when they are based on population size. Among the Federal programs that use these intercensal estimates to allocate funds are the Department of Health and Human Services’ Medical Assistance Program (Medicaid), Social Service Block Grants/Entitlement Grants Program, and State Children’s Health Insurance Program; the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant Program; and the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration – Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Workers Program. Hundreds of billions of dollars in Federal funds are distributed to states and other areas based in some part on intercensal estimates. The Congressional Budget Office uses the intercensal estimates throughout their reports and analysis. These estimates of the geographic distribution of the population are also used for making decisions about state and local government services, planning utility services, redefining metropolitan areas, and locating retail outlets and manufacturing establishments. Federal time-series that are produced on a per capita basis, such as per capita income, births per capita, and cancer incidence rates per capita, also rely on these estimates for their denominators. The intercensal population estimates are used as the controls for all household surveys conducted by the Census Bureau. These surveys have a major impact on the accuracy of the country’s key measures such as unemployment, inflation, income, poverty, and health insurance coverage. Intercensal estimates are essential to controlling variability in the surveys that provide these measures. The Census Bureau is responsible for developing and implementing the technical methods that produce the estimates. Recent experience in the acquisition, processing, and integration of the various administrative and survey data related to international migration have led to improvements in the accuracy and reliability of the national population estimates. To produce the sub-national estimates, population-modeling techniques are applied to a wide variety of administrative data, which must be processed and integrated. The Census Bureau’s Intercensal Demographic Estimates Program has a cooperative program with the states, the Federal State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates (FSCPE). The Census Bureau established this partnership with the states in 1967 to foster cooperation in the annual production of population and housing estimates for states, counties, and subcounty areas. State members of the FSCPE provide input data for their respective state’s estimates and review the results prior to public release of the data. The state representatives also provide advice and guidance on technical issues involved in the production of estimates. This cooperative and collaborative process is essential in making the population estimates a reliable and useful indicator of how the United States changes between censuses. There are several metrics that are used to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the program. The first of these is the yearly release of the population estimates. Under Title 26, population totals for the Nation and states must be released by December 31 of the estimates’ year. The program has met this deadline each year of this decade. Under Title 2, state estimates for the population aged 18 and over must be released to the Federal Election Committee the first week of January after the estimates’ year. This deadline has been met each year since 2006.
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In addition, the Intercensal Demographic Estimates program releases on an annual basis population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin for the Nation, states, and counties. It releases population totals for sub-county areas and metro areas as well as population estimates by age and sex for Puerto Rico and the municipios. The program also provides estimates of housing units for states and counties. The goal is to release these estimates within 15 months of the estimate dates. The program has met this goal each year since 2006. For the Vintage 2012 estimates, all of the products were released by June 30, 2013. Another metric used to measure the performance of the program is the delivery of survey controls. The population estimates are used as survey controls for all major surveys including the Current Population Survey which produces the official unemployment and poverty rates. The population estimates are delivered each month to this survey for use as controls. The program has met each of these monthly deadlines since 2006. The program also delivers population and housing units to the ACS each year in May. This deadline has been met since 2006. In addition to the above releases and deliverables, the program delivers population estimates to over 350 internal and external customers. The majority of the external customers consist of other Federal agencies, state agencies, and researchers. Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign The Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign program is essential to maintain the relevance, accuracy, and quality of major federal surveys of families and households by providing improved sampling methodologies, sample designs, and automated data processing systems. Only by selecting new, updated samples for the major household surveys – based on the most recent information about the population – will the Congress and the public be able to maintain confidence in critical socioeconomic indicators such as the monthly unemployment rate, the monthly consumer price index and annual measures of health insurance coverage and fair market rent, which are vital to the effective management of the United States’ economy and government programs. The Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign program takes updated information on the location and characteristics of the American population and uses that up-to-date snapshot to select representative samples of the population. These new, representative samples then become the basis for major household surveys sponsored by federal agencies until the next sample redesign. Traditionally, following each decennial census, the Census Bureau works with other agencies to perform a redesign of the following major demographic surveys:
• Current Population Survey, sponsored jointly by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Consumer Expenditure Survey – Quarterly and Diary, sponsored by the BLS • Survey of Income and Program Participation, sponsored by the Census Bureau • National Crime Victimization Survey, sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics • American Housing Survey, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development • State Children’s Health Insurance Program Survey, jointly sponsored by the Census Bureau
and the BLS • National Health Interview Survey, sponsored by the National Center for Health Statistics
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Future sample redesigns will not be locked into a once-a-decade cycle because of the continued availability of updated MAF and American Community Survey (ACS) data. We will have the flexibility to produce up-to-date, efficient samples for the federal household surveys when needed. The redesign surveys generally use similar methods and processes; therefore, significant resources are saved by integrating their redesign into one program rather than seven separate programs. Funding supports the redesign research and development activities common to all surveys. The program is funded by an annual congressional appropriation and by reimbursable agreements that are specifically for redesign work. The sponsoring agencies have separate reimbursable agreements with the Census Bureau to fund annual survey production work, such as listing, interviewing, and processing. Upcoming years are key to the transition of redesign from a program tied to the decennial cycle to an ongoing program that facilitates continuous improvement in the statistical methods or operational processes of the surveys. Because of the infrequency of past redesigns, the redesign often incorporated a large number of changes in the sample design or operations. Because there were so many changes, it was often difficult or impossible to evaluate the effectiveness of any single change on the survey. It was also difficult to make methodological or operational changes between redesigns. A continuous and flexible redesign program will enable more measured, incremental and frequent changes, which can be especially valuable when unforeseen changes occur, such as budget cuts, natural disasters, or legislative mandates. PROGRAM CHANGES: Current Population Survey (-$1,727,000, -6 FTE): This decrease reflects the completion of data collection for questions covering topics related to health insurance that were historically part of the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey in FY 2015. Data were collected for these additional questions to provide a comparison between the previously asked questions on these topic and a revised set of questions for which data are currently being collected.
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Current surveys and statistics Sub-program: Current demographic statistics Program Change: Current Population Survey
FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Decrease Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $0 $32,94211.3 Other than full-time permanent -376 9,62811.5 Other personnel compensation -7 39011.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation -383 42,96012.1 Civilian personnel benefits -229 14,99313 Benefits for former personnel -6 37921 Travel and transportation of persons -92 3,03822 Transportation of things -11 33823.1 Rental payments to GSA -51 4,45923.2 Rental payments to others 0 323.3 Commun., util., misc. charges -25 1,07624 Printing and reproduction -6 35725.1 Advisory and assistance services -18 2,54825.2 Other services from non-Federal sources -561 3,42525.3 Purchases of goods and services from gov't accts. -122 5,53425.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities -26 1,02325.5 Research and development contracts -48 77325.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment -130 4,45025.8 Subsistence and support of persons -8 19326 Supplies and materials -7 50231 Equipment -4 18732 Lands and structures 0 033 Investments and loans 0 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 043 Interest and dividends 0 044 Refunds 0 099 Total obligations -1,727 86,238
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APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Current Surveys and Programs - Mandatory BUDGET PROGRAM: Survey of Program Dynamics
For FY 2016, the Census Bureau requests an increase of $0 and 0 FTE from the FY 2016 base for a total of $10,000,000 and 61 FTE for Survey of Program Dynamics. BASE JUSTIFICATION: Survey of Program Dynamics Overview The Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD) program budget consists of one sub-program with the same name under the Mandatory Current Surveys and Programs account. This sub-program contains one line item with the same name ($10.0 million and 61 FTE). SUB-PROGRAM: Survey of Program Dynamics The SPD program provides data necessary to determine the impact of welfare provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 as revised by the 109th Congress. Baseline characteristics come from data already collected by the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). In 2015, the program is supported by a transfer of funding from the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs established under Section 403(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(b). This transfer is re-proposed in 2016 as a general provision of the Department of Health and Human Services (section 220). The goal of SPD is to provide policymakers with relevant, accurate, timely, and cost-effective socio-economic data and information, which can be used by federal and state public policymakers to evaluate the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 that established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, (P.L. 104-193). The SPD mandatory funding is used to improve the ability of the SIPP program to provide a source of detailed socioeconomic data from a national sample of households with a focus on the low-income population, which is more likely to receive benefits or assistance from welfare programs. The SPD mandatory funding contributes to the ability of the SIPP program to provide state reliable estimates for the poverty population in 20 states. In FY 2016 the Census Bureau plans to use the mandatory funds to continue to support the SIPP sample and to process and disseminate data from the initial waves of the 2014 SIPP Panel in support of measuring the impact of the welfare provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act mentioned above. The SPD program has received the same level of annual funding with each extension of the 1996 law. PROGRAM CHANGES:
As noted above, a transfer from the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs established under Section 403(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(b) is proposed as a general provision of the Department of Health and Human Services (section 220) to provide $10 million to this program in FY 2016.
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APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Current Surveys and Programs - Mandatory BUDGET PROGRAM: State Children’s Health Insurance Program
For FY 2016, the Census Bureau requests an increase of $0 and 0 FTE from the FY 2016 base for a total of $20,000,000 and 254 FTE for State Children’s Health Insurance Program. BASE JUSTIFICATION: State Children’s Health Insurance Program Overview The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) budget consists of one sub-program with the same name under the Mandatory Current Surveys and Programs account. This sub-program contains one line item with the same name ($20.0 million and 254 FTE). The funds for SCHIP were authorized until September 30, 2015 by 42 USC 1397ii(b)(1)(4). This budget assumes that the program will be reauthorized through FY 2016. SUB-PROGRAM: State Children’s Health Insurance Program Under the SCHIP, Census Bureau survey data are used to allocate funds to states based on the number of children without health insurance living in low-income families. Allocations are based on statistics from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The Census Bureau will make improvements in the reliability of the state-level data used to estimate changes from one year to the next in the number of low-income children without health insurance coverage. These improvements potentially include making a transition from the CPS to the American Community Survey (ACS) as a basis for SCHIP allocations. Health insurance questions were added to the ACS in 2008. The goal of this mandatory program is to produce statistically reliable annual data for each state on the number of low-income children who do not have health insurance coverage. This program was established and funded through a mandatory appropriation by the Medicare, Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program Bill (P.L. 106-113). The program uses adjustments to the CPS to increase the reliability of state-level estimates of the number of uninsured low-income children. The adjustments include, where appropriate, expanding the number of households included in the survey, collecting data in additional months, and exploring alternative methods to enhance state-level estimates by incorporating data from other sources. The SCHIP program was reauthorized in 2009 (P.L.111-3) and provided an additional $10.0 million to the Census Bureau to cover rising data collection costs and to improve state estimates of children’s health insurance coverage. The monthly CPS sample was expanded by about 10,000 eligible households. This expansion allowed the Census Bureau to meet the requirement of the SCHIP legislation to improve state estimates of children who live in low-income families and lack health insurance, which are produced from the Census Bureau’s Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) supplement to the CPS. The expansion also allowed the Census Bureau to conduct an ASEC interview in February and April of each year with about 18,000 households that had completed their eighth month in sample interview in August, September, and October. Including another 5,000 Hispanic households that are selected
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from the prior November CPS sample in order to increase the accuracy of these estimates, these changes effectively increased the number of sample cases on which the ASEC generates annual estimates to 83,000. PROGRAM CHANGES: No program change is requested for FY 2016.
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l fin
ance
d fro
m d
irect
obl
igat
ions
2014
Actu
al20
15En
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d20
16B
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2016
Estim
ate
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1,53
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501
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527
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er th
an fu
ll-tim
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426
317
317
311
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1,95
81,
818
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31,
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15
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ull-t
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anen
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586
1,73
41,
734
1,75
521
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than
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time
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anen
t80
075
975
974
7(1
2)
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l2,
386
2,49
32,
493
2,50
29
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artm
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f Com
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veys
and
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gram
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tory
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BY
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20
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262
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er p
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nnel
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n55
113
513
513
50
11.8
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nnel
ser
vice
s pa
ymen
ts0
00
00
11.9
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l per
sonn
el c
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ion
16,1
4617
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0
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ilian
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onne
l ben
efits
4,87
84,
242
4,24
24,
242
013
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fits
for f
orm
er p
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nnel
5871
7171
021
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el a
nd tr
ansp
orta
tion
of p
erso
ns1,
706
1,57
51,
575
1,57
50
22Tr
ansp
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tion
of th
ings
104
160
160
160
023
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l pay
men
ts to
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938
956
956
956
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l pay
men
ts to
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274
33
30
23.3
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mun
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ities
, mis
c. c
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837
137
137
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24Pr
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n52
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612
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m n
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352
794
794
794
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from
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eral
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990
474
474
474
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& m
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enan
ce o
f fac
ilitie
s37
515
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688
60
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deve
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ent c
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cts
110
1010
025
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00
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f equ
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1,32
188
52,
345
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172
172
172
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lies
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eria
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162
6262
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00
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99Su
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al, D
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ior y
ear r
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nobl
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ed b
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ce, s
tart
of y
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97)
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blig
ated
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ance
, exp
iring
173
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of y
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und
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CEN - 51
Dep
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f Com
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2016
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ted
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108
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t13
121
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239
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315
315
0
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ed P
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ons:
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ime
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t11
110
210
210
20
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ther
than
full-
time
perm
anen
t24
741
341
341
30
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l35
851
551
551
50
CEN - 52
Exhibit 33
Department of Commerce U.S. Census Bureau
Current Surveys and Statistics Appropriation Language and Code Citations:
1. For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, analyzing, preparing, and publishing
statistics, provided for by law, $277,873,000, provided, that from amounts provided herein, funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities.
13 U.S.C. §§4, 6, 8(b), 12, 61-63, 181, 182, 301-307, 401; 15 U.S.C. §§1516, 4901 et seq.; 19 U.S.C. §§1484(e), 2354, 2393; 44 U.S.C. §1343.
13 U.S.C. §4 authorizes the Secretary to "perform the functions and duties imposed upon him by this title," or he may delegate any of them "to such officers and employees of the Department of Commerce as he may designate."
13 U.S.C. §§6, 8(b), 12, 61-63, 182, 301-307 provide for (1) acquisition of information from other organizations, public and private; (2) conducting joint statistical projects with nonprofit organizations or agencies; (3) conducting mechanical and electronic developmental work as needed; (4) collection and publication of statistics on fats and oils; (5) collection and publication of statistics relating to the domestic apparel and textile industries; (6) collection and publication of quarterly financial statistics of business operations; (7) conducting current surveys on statistical subjects covered by periodic censuses; and (8) compilation and publication of information on imports, exports, and mode of transportation.
13 U.S.C. §181 provides that "The Secretary...shall annually produce and publish for each state, county, and local unit of general purpose government which has a population of fifty thousand or more, current data on total population and population characteristics and...shall biennially produce and publish for other local units of general purpose government current data on total population."
13 U.S.C. §401 provides that "The Bureau of the Census shall exchange with the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce information collected under this title, and under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act, that pertains to any business enterprise that is operating in the United States, if the Secretary of Commerce determines such information is appropriate to augment and improve the quality of data collected under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act."
15 U.S.C. §1516 provides that "The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department...He shall also have authority to call upon other departments of the government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise."
15 U.S.C. §4901 et seq. provides that "The Secretary [of Commerce] shall establish the [National Trade] Data Bank. The Secretary shall manage the Data Bank."
19 U.S.C. §1484(e) provides that "The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the United States International Trade Commission are authorized and directed to establish...an enumeration of articles...comprehending all merchandise imported into the United States and exported
CEN - 53
from the United States, and shall seek, in conjunction with statistical programs for domestic production and programs for achieving international harmonization of trade statistics, to establish the comparability thereof with such enumeration of articles."
19 U.S.C. §2354 provides that "Whenever the [International Trade] Commission begins an investigation...with respect to an industry, the Commission shall immediately notify the Secretary [of Commerce] of such investigation, and the Secretary shall immediately begin a study of:
(1) the number of firms in the domestic industry producing the like or directly competitive
article which have been or are likely to be certified as eligible for adjustment assistance, and
(2) the extent to which the orderly adjustment of such firms to the import competition may be
facilitated through the use of existing programs."
19 U.S.C. §2393 provides that "The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor shall establish and maintain a program to monitor imports of articles into the United States which will reflect changes in the volume of such imports, the relation of such imports to changes in domestic production, changes in employment within domestic industries producing articles like or directly competitive with such imports, and the extent to which such changes in production and employment are concentrated in specific geographic regions of the United States." 44 U.S.C. §1343 provides that “In addition to the usual number of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, twelve thousand copies shall be printed: three thousand for the Senate, six thousand for the House of Representatives, and three thousand for distribution by the Secretary of Commerce.” [Included in appropriations language for the Department of Health and Human Services] Sec. 220. (a) The amount appropriated for the Contingency Fund for State Welfare Programs established under section 403(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(b)) shall be $608,000,000 for fiscal year 2017. (b) Of the amount made available by Public Law 113-235 for section 403(b) for fiscal year 2016—
$15,000,000 is hereby transferred to the Children’s Research and Technical Assistance account in the Administration for Children and Families of the Department of Health and Human Services and made available to carry out section 413(h) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 613(h)) ; and
$10,000,000 is hereby transferred to the Current Surveys and Programs account in the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce and made available to the Bureau of the Census to conduct activities using the Survey of Income and Program Participation to obtain information to enable interested parties to evaluate the impact of the amendments made by title I of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-193).
CEN - 54
Exhi
bit 5
Page
No.
Posi
tions
Budg
et
Auth
ority
FTE
Dire
ct
Obl
igat
ions
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cted
2,61
3$8
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706
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ss:
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blig
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Bal
ance
s fro
m p
rior y
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57)
CEN
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plus
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246
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CEN - 55
TH
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l, pe
rson
nel c
ompe
nsat
ion…
……
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djus
tmen
t for
FY
201
6 pa
y ra
ise
for 3
/4 o
f yea
r……
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Am
ount
requ
ired
for p
erso
nnel
com
pens
atio
n……
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men
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Wor
king
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ital F
und…
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l, ad
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men
t for
FY
201
6 pa
y ra
ise…
..……
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...…
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……
.
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l cos
t in
FY 2
016
of th
e FY
201
5 pa
y ra
ise…
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ss a
mou
nt fu
nded
in F
Y 2
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t for
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201
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y ra
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per
sonn
el c
ompe
nsat
ion
in F
Y 2
015…
..……
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ual s
alar
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ition
s in
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201
5……
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puta
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s fo
llow
s:
Ben
efits
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Tota
l, ad
just
men
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umed
pay
rais
e, to
be
effe
ctiv
e Ja
nuar
y 1,
201
6……
...…
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.……
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tal c
ost i
n FY
201
6 of
the
FY 2
016
pay
rais
e …
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...…
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is re
quire
d to
fund
the
full-
year
cos
ts in
FY
201
6 of
pos
ition
s fin
ance
d fo
r par
t-yea
r in
FY 2
015
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se…
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year
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t of p
erso
nnel
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pens
atio
n……
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sus
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er C
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CEN - 58
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er C
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ount
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31
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652,
000
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ber o
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le d
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il S
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ce R
etire
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t Sys
tem
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ease
d co
st o
f one
mor
e co
mpe
nsab
le d
ay in
FY
201
6 co
mpa
red
to F
Y 2
015
is c
alcu
late
d by
div
idin
g th
e FY
201
5 es
timat
ed p
erso
nnel
com
pens
atio
n an
d be
nefit
s by
261
day
s an
d m
ultip
lyin
g by
the
one
mor
e da
y.
FY 2
015
estim
ated
per
sonn
el c
ompe
nsat
ion…
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FY 2
015
estim
ated
ben
efits
……
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……
.…..…
……
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...…
.
The
estim
ated
per
cent
age
of p
ayro
ll fo
r em
ploy
ees
cove
red
by F
ER
S w
ill in
crea
se to
97.
1% in
FY
201
6. T
he a
genc
y co
ntrib
utio
n ra
te w
ill in
crea
se fr
om 1
3.2%
in F
Y 2
015
to 1
3.7%
in F
Y 2
016.
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t inc
reas
e of
one
com
pens
able
day
……
…...
……
……
…...
……
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…...
……
…
This
will
resu
lt in
a d
ecre
ase
of:
Reg
ular
em
ploy
ees:
2016
$1
70,8
36,0
00 x
97.
1% x
13.
7%…
……
…..…
……
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…..…
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……
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…20
15
$170
,836
,000
x 9
4.4%
x 1
3.2%
……
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..……
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..……
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Tota
l, ad
just
men
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base
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.……
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..……
Fede
ral E
mpl
oyee
s' R
etire
men
t Sys
tem
(FE
RS
) ……
……
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…...
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.……
Tota
l, ad
just
men
t-to-
base
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.……
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…..
2015
$1
70,8
36,0
00 x
5.6
% x
7.0
%…
……
…..…
……
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…20
16
$170
,836
,000
x 2
.9%
x 7
.0%
……
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ular
em
ploy
ees:
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e co
mpe
nsab
le d
ay…
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The
estim
ated
per
cent
age
of p
ayro
ll fo
r em
ploy
ees
cove
red
by C
SR
S w
ill d
ecre
ase
from
5.6
% in
FY
201
5 to
2.9
% in
FY
20
16.
The
agen
cy c
ontri
butio
n ra
te w
ill re
mai
n 7.
0% in
FY
201
6.
CEN - 59
Oth
er C
hang
es:
FTE
Am
ount
0$1
4
This
will
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lt in
a d
ecre
ase
of:
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6,30
3,50
7
6,
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14
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lt in
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ease
of:
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ploy
ees'
Com
pens
atio
n Fu
nd…
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ral I
nsur
ance
Con
tribu
tions
Act
(FIC
A)…
……
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...…
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2016
$1
70,8
36,0
00 x
97.
1% x
98.
7% x
6.2
%…
……
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……
..……
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egul
ar e
mpl
oyee
s:
Reg
ular
em
ploy
ees:
2016
$1
70,8
36,0
00 x
97.
1% x
3.8
%…
……
…..…
……
……
…..…
……
……
……
…20
15
$170
,836
,000
x 9
4.4%
x 3
.9%
……
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l, ad
just
men
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base
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est
imat
ed a
genc
y c
ontri
butio
n ra
te fo
r th
e T
hrift
Sav
ings
Pla
n w
ill d
ecre
ase
from
3.9
% i
n FY
201
5 to
3.8
% in
FY
201
6.
FER
S p
artic
ipat
ion
rate
s w
ill in
crea
se fr
om 9
4.4%
in F
Y 2
015
to 9
7.1%
in F
Y 2
016.
The
perc
enta
ge o
f pay
roll
cove
red
by F
ER
S in
crea
sed
from
94.
4% in
FY
201
5 to
97.
1% in
FY
201
6. T
he o
vera
ll pe
rcen
tage
of
sal
arie
s co
vere
d by
OA
SD
I will
incr
ease
to 9
8.7%
in F
Y 2
016
from
98.
6% in
FY
201
5. T
he O
AS
DI t
ax ra
te w
ill re
mai
n 6.
2% in
FY
201
6.
Effe
ctiv
e Ja
nuar
y 20
16, t
he C
ensu
s B
urea
u's
cont
ribut
ion
to F
eder
al e
mpl
oyee
's h
ealth
insu
ranc
e pr
emiu
ms
will
incr
ease
by
3.5
8%.
App
lied
agai
nst t
he F
Y 2
015
estim
ate
of $
12,6
54,0
00 th
e in
crea
se w
ill b
e $4
53,0
13.
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lth In
sura
nce …
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…
2015
$1
70,8
36,0
00 x
94.
4% x
98.
6% x
6.2
%…
……
….…
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..……
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…
Sub
tota
l……
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..
Oth
er s
alar
ies:
2015
$2
6,88
6,00
0 x
94.4
% x
98.
6% x
6.2
%…
……
….…
……
..……
……
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…20
16
$26,
886,
000
x 97
.1%
x 9
8.7%
x 6
.2%
……
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.……
…..…
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……
The
dec
reas
e of
$68
8,52
2 w
ill m
eet t
he C
ensu
s B
urea
u's
oblig
atio
ns to
the
Em
ploy
ee C
ompe
nsat
ion
Fund
for F
Y 2
013.
Th
e C
ensu
s B
urea
u w
ill re
imbu
rse
the
Dep
artm
ent o
f Lab
or p
ursu
ant t
o 5
U.S
.C. §
814
7.
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ubto
tal…
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tal,
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stm
ent-t
o-ba
se…
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Exp
ansi
on o
f Fed
eral
Em
ploy
ee H
ealth
Ben
efit
(FE
HB
) Elig
ibili
ty…
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ansi
on o
f FE
HB
cov
erag
e to
cer
tain
tem
pora
ry, s
easo
nal,
and/
or in
term
itten
t em
ploy
ees
who
are
iden
tifie
d a
s fu
ll-tim
e em
ploy
ees.
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t Sav
ings
Pla
n (T
SP
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.
CEN - 60
Oth
er C
hang
es:
FTE
Am
ount
0$1
01
0(3
07)
029
3
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tage
Rat
e In
crea
se…
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tota
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just
men
ts to
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e …
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ts to
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king
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ital F
und …
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The
am
ount
of $
3,03
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0 to
fund
infla
tiona
ry c
osts
with
in th
e D
epar
tmen
tal W
orki
ng C
apita
l Fun
d.
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age…
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The
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eral
Ser
vice
s A
dmin
istra
tion
per d
iem
rate
s ch
ange
d ef
fect
ive
Oct
ober
1, 2
013.
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s re
sulte
d in
a 3
.6%
incr
ease
. Th
is p
erce
ntag
e w
as a
pplie
d to
the
FY 2
015
estim
ate
of $
2,79
2,00
0 to
arr
ive
at a
n in
crea
se o
f $10
0,51
2.
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ipm
ent…
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A ra
tes
are
proj
ecte
d to
incr
ease
1.5
% o
ver t
he F
Y 2
015
estim
ate
of $
19,5
11,0
00 fo
r cur
rent
ly o
ccup
ied
spac
e. T
his
resu
lts in
an
incr
ease
of $
292,
665.
Sup
plie
s an
d m
ater
ials
……
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Com
mun
icat
ions
, util
ities
, and
mis
cella
neou
s ch
arge
s (e
xclu
ding
pos
tage
)..…
...…
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O h
as p
rovi
ded
an e
stim
ated
rate
incr
ease
of 1
.6%
. Th
is p
erce
ntag
e w
as a
pplie
d to
the
FY 2
015
estim
ate
of
$3,9
39,0
00 to
arr
ive
at a
n in
crea
se o
f $63
,024
.
Effe
ctiv
e Ja
nuar
y 26
, 201
4, th
e U
.S. P
osta
l Ser
vice
impl
emen
ted
a ra
te in
crea
se o
f 5.3
% fo
r dom
estic
shi
ppin
g. T
his
resu
lted
in a
n in
crea
se o
f $57
5,58
0.
Oth
er s
ervi
ces…
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requ
est a
pplie
s O
MB
eco
nom
ic a
ssum
ptio
ns o
f 1.6
% fo
r FY
201
6 w
here
the
pric
es th
at th
e G
over
nmen
t pay
s ar
e es
tabl
ishe
d th
roug
h th
e m
arke
t sys
tem
. Fa
ctor
s ar
e ap
plie
d to
sub
-obj
ect c
lass
es th
at re
sult
in th
e fo
llow
ing
adju
stm
ents
to b
ase:
Ren
tal P
aym
ents
to G
SA …
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spor
atio
n of
thin
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The
mile
age
reim
burs
emen
t rat
e fo
r priv
atel
y-ow
ned
auto
mob
iles
decr
ease
d to
56
cent
s ef
fect
ive
Janu
ary
1, 2
014.
Thi
s re
sulte
d in
a d
ecre
ase
of $
307,
108.
Ren
tal p
aym
ent t
o ot
hers
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CEN - 61
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ceU
.S. C
ensu
s Bu
reau
Perio
dic
Cen
suse
s an
d Pr
ogra
ms
PRO
GR
AM A
ND
PER
FOR
MAN
CE:
DIR
ECT
OBL
IGAT
ION
S(D
olla
r am
ount
s in
thou
sand
s)
Exhi
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APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Periodic Censuses and Programs BUDGET PROGRAM: Economic Statistics Programs For FY 2016, Census Bureau requests an increase of $12,477,000 and a decrease of 18 FTE from the FY 2016 base for a total of $143,822,000 and 656 FTE for Economic Statistics Programs. BASE JUSTIFICATION: Economic Statistics Programs Overview The Census Bureau’s mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation’s people and economy. The Economic Statistics Programs activity furthers this mission by providing key benchmark measures about the U.S. economy and governments. The Economic Statistics Program ($143.8 million and 656 FTE) budget is organized into one sub-program:
• The Periodic Economic Statistics sub-program ($143.8 million and 656 FTE) is organized into two line items, the Economic Census and the Census of Governments.
The Economic Statistics Programs support the Department of Commerce’s Data goal to “Improve government, business, and community decisions and knowledge by transforming Department data capabilities and supporting a data-enabled economy." They specifically support objective 4.3 to “Collaborate with the business community to provide more timely, accurate, and relevant data products and services that are fueled by these efforts.”
Furthermore, the Economic Statistics Programs will expand outreach to key industry and business stakeholders and build upon success of economic census contracts that convened small and medium-sized enterprises with greater emphasis on business needs. The Economic Statistics Program will continue to investigate opportunities to re-engineer the Economic Census processing systems by improving program efficiencies and reducing cycle costs, including a focus on the use of electronic reporting as a means of filing response data. SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENTS-TO-BASE: The Census Bureau requests a net increase of $3.1 million to fund adjustments to the economic statistics programs activities. SUB-PROGRAM: Periodic Economic Programs The Periodic Economic Program subactivity contains the Census Bureau’s major quinquennial censuses, the Economic Census and the Census of Governments. Together, these censuses cover nearly all of the Gross Domestic Product and provide baseline data for the Census Bureau’s Current Economic Statistics Programs.
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Line Item: Economic Census Fiscal Year 2016 is the second year of the six-year 2017 Economic Census funding cycle. The focus of activity for FY 2016 is the completion of publication and dissemination of the 2012 Survey of Business Owners products; the continuation of planning for the 2017 Economic Census; and the completion of 2017 Economic Census content, reporting methods, data processing, data products, and dissemination methods. The economic census represents the primary source of facts about the structure and function of the U.S. economy, providing essential information to government and business to help guide sound decisions. It furnishes an important part of the framework for composite measures, such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ (BEA) input-output analyses and National Income and Product Accounts that provide important information about market sectors, such as manufacturing. The National Accounts and practically all major government economic statistical series are directly or indirectly dependent on the economic census. Statistics, analyses, and economic research produced by BEA, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Reserve Board, Department of Energy, and the Census Bureau are all dependent on the economic census results. The economic census not only provides BEA with vital source data for the National Accounts, it also provides weights and benchmarks for indices of industrial production, productivity, and prices. Moreover, the census furnishes benchmarks and sampling lists for the Census Bureau’s current economic programs and for many data series at other federal agencies. Business enterprises, trade associations, banks, investors, economic development agencies, research groups, educational institutions, and unions use data from the census for the purpose of planning expansion programs, selecting locations for new establishments, forecasting sales trends, determining market potential, forecasting sales and advertising performance, and performing other analyses. For example, the data are used to decide where to locate a plant, where to build a shopping center, or figure out what the market demand is for a product. In forecasting and planning, economic census results are the primary source of information about the changing structure of the U.S. economy. The census identifies industries and geographic areas that are experiencing rapid growth, as well as those that are declining. The information is also used to revise the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and to update the Business Register. FY 2016 Key Program Activities Fiscal Year 2016 represents the second year of the 2017 Economic Census cycle but is actually the first year of major activity for the 2017 census. Activity switches away from the data processing activities for the 2012 Census to the completion of the final data releases of Survey of Business Owners data and, more significantly, planning and content determination for the 2017 Economic Census. We also have to update systems used for collection and processing of the data to further build on the successes over the last two census cycles in keeping total cycle cost-growth as low as possible through switching from paper to an electronic-only response infrastructure. We must plan operations, build relationships with respondent stakeholders, and design systems early in the cycle to save money on intensive data collection operations. The Economic Census is in the portion of its cycle where these activities are taking place early in the cycle, in preparation for the data collection operations in FY 2018. The data collection component of the 2017 Economic Census will cost less than these same components cost in the 2012 Economic Census, a savings of approximately $12-15 million in FY 2018.
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The use of Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) keeps us from having to build Economic Census-specific systems for data collection. While we used some CEDCap-like functions in prior censuses, for 2017 we must invest in migrating to the new corporate systems. For example, we will be migrating from the Economic Metadata Repository to the new Census Metadata Repository (COMET), a key component of CEDCaP, which will require adjustments to existing systems and processes specific to the Economic Census so that they work with CEDCaP systems. As noted above, the Economic Census is investing in an electronic-only mode of collection, which will require designing the Centurion system, another CEDCaP component, to accommodate the nation’s largest companies with spreadsheet reporting, as well as a user-friendly self-response instrument to accommodate small business reporting needs. This involves doing extensive cognitive research with businesses, lots of prototyping of business scenarios, and development of requirements and specifications activities of which occur outside of the CEDCaP funding and are the responsibility of each of the programs. The complexity comes from the fact that the requirements need to account for 1,000 different industries and 8,000 possible product lines, as well as the new North American Product Classification System (NAPCS). In the end, the use of the Centurion, COMET and e-Correspondence systems being developed as part of the CEDCaP initiative will contribute to the $12-15 million in savings in FY 2018, as noted above. PROGRAM CHANGES FOR FY 2016:
1. Economic Census (+$12,795,000, -13 FTE): The FY 2016 funding is critical to the completion of publication and dissemination of the 2012 Survey of Business Owners products; the continuation of planning for the 2017 Economic Census; and the completion of 2017 Economic Census content, reporting methods, data processing, data products, and dissemination methods. While salaries decrease slightly from FY 2015, the vast majority of this decrease is associated with temporary staff needed for processing and dissemination of data in FY 2015 – activities that are largely complete by FY 2016. Over 80% of the staff decrease is associated with other than full time permanent staff working on these activities. The decrease in temporary staff is more than offset by increases in requirements for contract support to assist with systems development needed for FY 2016 as we prepare for the 2017 census. These activities cover the adjustment to post-collection (non-CEDCap) systems to accommodate changes for the North American Product Classification System, as well as other changes to replace outdated software and develop better tools for the analysts. Page CEN-127 has additional information on the CEDCaP initiative. Direction ($9,708,000 and 33 FTE, +$2,376,000 and -12 FTE) Direction includes planning and support activities required to conduct the census. Specific activities include providing overall direction and coordination of census planning, design, collection, processing, and dissemination operations. This includes development and monitoring of the program plan, schedule, quality plan, and risk plan. In FY 2016, the focus will be on completing planning for the 2017 Economic Census, and investigating opportunities to re-engineer the Economic Census processing systems by improving program efficiencies and reducing cycle costs, including a focus on the use of electronic reporting as a means of filing response data. Initial planning to identify improvement opportunities and high-level requirements was conducted in FY 2015 and scope and priorities for Census improvements were identified. For FY 2016, efforts to plan implementation of these improvements throughout the census life cycle fully began. This included developing detailed schedules of the components of the census. Specific activities include preliminary research for options for electronic reporting instruments for both single units and multi-units. In addition, a major initiative for the 2017 Census is the production of an economy-wide NAPCS-based product lines system. Planning is
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required in FY16 for developing collection strategies, including researching business recordkeeping practices and collection options in collection instruments. Content Determination and Design ($46,684,000 and 263 FTE, +$46,684,000 and +263 FTE) Content determination and design includes a review of census program components and content, including the Survey of Business Owners and other census-related surveys, with business and government analysts, data providers, and other data users, as well as the design of electronic collection instruments. In FY 2016, we will develop the 2017 Economic Census content in close cooperation with industry and government analysts, respondents, and other key data users. We will further develop a system for companies to report using a variety of techniques, including an expanded use of electronic reporting. Further, we will develop an economy-wide NAPCS-based product lines collection system for implementation on electronic instruments. In combination with new electronic reporting capabilities, we will develop targeted industry-by-industry content that will allow us to collect major product lines data as well as obtain secondary product revenue for producing overall product lines totals. Additional efforts will focus on innovative, new inquiries that will help to measure our changing economy. A key part of 2017 content determination involves review of published 2012 Census data. Most census data are released by the end of calendar year 2015, with all released by June 2016. This labor-intensive review helps to identify trends and new developments that aid in updating content for 2017. Mail List Development and Mailout ($0 and 0 FTE, -$2,208,000 and -15 FTE) Activities include assembling and preparing the census mail list for over 29 million business locations. Specific activities include sample selection and mailout specifications and procedures, correspondence specifications and procedures, procurements and processing of administrative records, programming activities, and labeling and assembly of mail packages. Postage costs are included in this line item. No funds are allocated to this activity In FY 2016. These activities will be conducted in FY 2017. Collection and Processing ($51,561,000 and 237 FTE, +$18,968,000 and +37 FTE). Includes all collection and clerical operations conducted in Jeffersonville, Indiana at the Census Bureau National Processing Center. Activities include check-in of electronic responses and capturing responses, customer support associated with handling incoming telephone calls and correspondence, re-mailing of forms and telephone follow-ups to delinquent businesses, computer edits of reported data, and the correction of erroneous data. This line item also includes the development, testing, and maintenance of processing systems and computer programs that support data collection and processing, including an electronic reporting infrastructure to support the electronic reporting option offered to all businesses. While many systems used in the 2012 Census may be usable, the move to electronic collection, standardizing processing and economy-wide NAPCS product lines collection requires major changes. In FY 2016, activities will focus on the design of overall processing systems and related computer programs needed for data collection and response data processing. This includes activities for the use CEDCaP systems for storing content metadata (CoMET) and producing instruments working in the Centurion platform. In addition, activities include developing user-friendly support tools such as an Internet help site and customer-assistance phone systems to assist respondents reporting in the census. This planning, development, and implementation work, based on the identified high level improvements, is critical to the census to ensure collection and processing systems must be production ready in FY 2017. Because of the extensive software development activities for producing two completely new electronic instruments using the new CEDCaP platforms being developed simultaneously, along with other essential IT improvements, significant IT contractor support is needed to provide expertise that
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current staff do not have. Additional contact support is needed to plan response improvement, such as media strategies to encourage both large and small companies to report in the census. We will also begin procuring the necessary hardware and equipment needed to support 2017 census processing activities at the National Processing Center. Publication and Dissemination ($26,972,000 and 67 FTE, -$53,025,000 and -286 FTE) Activities include all operations related to data tabulations, final table review of tabulated census data, the development of census products, review of disclosure avoidance patterns, and the dissemination of census results. More than 1,700 census products will be developed and delivered in electronic media supported by metadata, which describes the data to users, and support tools that let users access information across subject-related topics. Products will profile industries, geographic areas, and special subjects. In FY 2016, the resources with this line item decrease significantly, reflecting the completion of the 2012 Economic Census core programs, completion of the 2012 Survey of Business Owners product releases, and the shift to the initial design of the 2017 Economic Census products. All 2012 Census publication releases will be completed in FY 2016. A major focus for the 2017 Census is in the development of the capability for the first time to publish economy-wide product lines data based on the complete NAPCS system. In addition, planning efforts will address opportunities to develop other economy-wide products as well as innovative ways to leverage both new and legacy data inquiries to provide the public with a better picture of the nation’s economy. In addition, a new dissemination system (CEDSCI) is planned to replace the American FactFinder system in FY 2016. Planning efforts to migrate historic census data, and for releasing published 2017 Census data to the new system, must begin. Statement of Need and Economic Benefits – Cost Benefit Analysis The economic census provides detailed data by industry and geographic area that are essential to both government and businesses to make sound decisions. It provides key data that are required to produce measures of GDP and the BEA’s input-output analyses. The economic census also provides business enterprises, trade associations, banks, investors, economic development agencies, research groups, educational institutions, and unions data needed to plan expansion programs, select locations for new establishments, forecast sales trends, determine market potential, and perform other analyses. The 2017 Economic Census will continue to provide new products that are essential to understanding the modern economy. And, necessary revisions will be made to the NAICS to primarily address changes and measurement issues associated with the economy. FY 2016 is the first year for major activities for planning the 2017 Economic Census. While high-level planning efforts started in FY 2015, FY 2016 is especially critical to the success of the census. All census collection content must be finalized in this year. OMB Packages are developed and submitted for approval. Content metadata is entered into COMET in this period. Along with the content, electronic instruments are researched, developed, and tested in an iterative manner, with a complete, fully functional available early in FY 2017. Collection strategies (mailout, follow-up, response improvement, and customer assistance) are all initiated in order to prepare for the 2017 Census mailout.
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Base Resources Assessment Base Resource Amount: $122,130,000 Base FTE: 613
The economic census provides the Nation with comprehensive, detailed, and authoritative facts about the structure of the U.S. economy. Every five years, the economic census profiles the U.S. economy from the national to the local level. It provides official measures of output for industries and geographic areas. Economic policy makers in federal, state, and local governments use economic census data to project trends, guide economic development, and assess the impact of economic policy. The data help build the foundation for GDP and other indicators of economic performance. Title 13 U.S.C. §131 requires the censuses of manufactures, mineral industries, construction industries, retail and wholesale trade, service industries, transportation, and other businesses every five years, covering the years ending in “2” and “7.” The 2017 Economic Census will collect data on over 29 million establishments. The Census Bureau will minimize respondent burden by offering an expanded use of electronic reporting businesses to file response data. Administrative records are used to obtain information for the remaining establishments, which include smaller businesses. For the 2017 Economic Census, all respondents will be encouraged to report electronically. The economic census also includes several related programs that provide statistics on the characteristics of businesses, business expenses, and other items of national interest. The economic census includes the census of the island areas (Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) and surveys of businesses owned by women and minorities. The results of the census will be summarized and presented for various classifications, such as kind-of-business, geographic locations at various levels of aggregation, sales size, employment size, legal form of organization, and degree of specialization. The 2017 Economic Census consists of eight core program components and several related data collections. The core components are separately tailored for each major domestic business sector, provide comprehensive and detailed information on the structure of the U.S. non-farm economy, and are the cornerstone of our nation’s economic statistics programs. The related data collections are more specialized and provide supplementary information on businesses owned by women, minorities, supplementary information on expenditures and expenses for non-goods producing businesses, transportation information on the movement of goods, and periodic census information on the economies of Puerto Rico and island areas. In addition to expanded and improved internet reporting the Census Bureau is continuing to make other infrastructure improvements that result in more efficient data collection and reduced costs. Efficiencies realized have resulted in a significant decrease in the projected growth of the 2017 Economic Census budget compared to prior cycles. Schedule and Milestones: Fiscal Year 2016
• Complete 100% of the data releases for the 2012 SBO by December 30, 2015 (six months earlier than in the previous survey cycle).
• Complete comprehensive internal review of 2012 Economic Census content, reporting methods, data processing, data products, and dissemination methods
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Fiscal Year 2017 • Mail and process the 2017 Economic Census classification survey. • Complete development of all 2017 questionnaires including electronic reporting
instruments. • Deploy 2017 Business Help Site for respondents
Fiscal Year 2018
• Complete census mail-out by December 31, 2017. • Achieve more electronic response compared to FY 2013
Fiscal Year 2019
• Begin tabulation and macro-data analysis by October 31, 2018. • Release the Advance Report by December, 2018 • Complete Industry Series releases for 70 percent of covered NAICS industries by
September 30, 2019 Fiscal Year 2020
• Complete Industry Series releases for 100 percent of covered NAICS industries by December 31, 2019.
• Complete the Geographic Area Series by September 30, 2020. • Complete the 2022 Economic Census Program Management Plan by June 30, 2020. • Complete 100 percent of the data releases for the 2017 Economic Census of Puerto Rico
and the Island Areas by September 30, 2020.
Deliverables: The Economic Census supports the economic foundations of the United States by producing benchmark measures of the economy. It accomplishes this by providing more than 1,700 census products delivered in electronic media supported by metadata and support tools that let users access information across subject-related topics. Products profile industries, geographic areas, and specific subjects. A key innovation for the 2012 Economic Census was a new system that allowed single unit businesses to report in a web-based software package that would better meet their needs. In 2012, multiunit establishments reported electronically 73 percent of the time while single units achieved a rate of 39 percent compared to only 3 percent in 2007. For the 2017 Economic Census we expect even more businesses to file electronically. Risk Assessment:
Fiscal Year 2016 is a critical year in the life cycle of the 2017 Economic Census. Content determination and design, collection and processing, and publication and dissemination are the primary activities conducted. The economic census is the primary source of facts about the structure and functioning of the U.S. economy. It provides comprehensive, detailed, high-quality, and authoritative statistics that are critical for meeting the needs of government, businesses, and the American public. The program’s data products inform policies and programs that promote business vitality, job creation, and sustainable economic growth. If the Economic Census is not funded at the
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requested program level, the Census Bureau will not be able to meet its performance objective of providing critical benchmark measures of nation’s economy. Without these benchmarks, composite measures such as GDP and National Income and Product Accounts produced by the BEA would be impacted significantly. In addition, the reduction in quality of current economic statistics produced between economic census cycles would be significant. Without this critical data, Government policy makers and the private sector would not be able to target opportunities for growth that supports increasing jobs, which is a top priority of the Secretary of Commerce.
Performance Goals and Measurement Data:
This program supports the Department of Commerce’s Data goal to “Improve government, business, and community decisions and knowledge by transforming Department data capabilities and supporting a data-enabled economy." They specifically support objective 4.3 to “Collaborate with the business community to provide more timely, accurate, and relevant data products and services that are fueled by these efforts.”
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Performance Measure:
FY 2015
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FY 2016
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FY 2017
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FY 2018
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FY 2019
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FY 2020
Target With Change 1) Complete
Industry Series releases for 100% of the NAICS industries covered by December 2014. 2) Complete Geographic Series releases for 100% of the areas covered by September 2015. 3) Prepare a detailed project plan for all phases of the 2017 Economic Census by June 2015.
1) Finalize electronic collection instrument content for 2017 Economic Census core programs. 2) Complete electronic collection metadata for 60% of the 2017 Economic Census core programs.
1) Complete design of the 2017 Economic Census electronic collection instruments by September 2017. 2) Complete mailing and processing of the classification electronic collection instruments in preparation for the Economic Census mailing by September 30, 2017. 3) Complete Centurion electronic collection instruments by September 30, 2017.
1) Complete the mailout of question-naires for the 2017 Economic Census by December 31, 2017. 2) Achieve more electronic responses compared to the 2012 Economic Census.
1) Begin tabulation and macro data analysis for the 2017 Economic Census by October 31, 2018. 2) Release the 2017 Economic Census Advance Report in December 2019. 3) Complete Industry Series releases for 70% of the NAICS industries covered by August 2019.
1) Complete Industry Series releases for 100% of the NAICS industries covered by December 2019. 2) Complete Geographic Series releases for 100% of the areas covered by September 2020. 3) Prepare a detailed project plan for all phases of the 2022 Economic Census by June 2020.
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(Continued from previous page)
FY 2015
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FY 2018
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FY 2020
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1) Complete Industry Series releases for 100% of the NAICS industries covered by December 2014. 2) Complete Geographic Series releases for 100% of the areas covered by September 2015. 3) Prepare a detailed project plan for all phases of the 2017 Economic Census by June 2015.
1) Finalize electronic collection instrument content for 2017 Economic Census core programs. 2) Complete electronic collection metadata for 60% of the 2017 Economic Census core programs.
1) Complete design of the 2017 Economic Census electronic collection instruments by September 2017. 2) Complete mailing and processing of the classification electronic collection instruments in preparation for the Economic Census mailing by September 30, 2017. 3) Complete Centurion electronic collection instruments by September 30, 2017.
1) Complete the mailout of question-naires for the 2017 Economic Census by December 31, 2017. 2) Achieve more electronic responses compared to the 2012 Economic Census.
1) Begin tabulation and macro data analysis for the 2017 Economic Census by October 31, 2018. 2) Release the 2017 Economic Census Advance Report in December 2019. 3) Complete Industry Series releases for 70% of the NAICS industries covered by August 2019.
1) Complete Industry Series releases for 100% of the NAICS industries covered by December 2019. 2) Complete Geographic Series releases for 100% of the areas covered by September 2020. 3) Prepare a detailed project plan for all phases of the 2022 Economic Census by June 2020.
Description: This supports the Census Bureau’s performance measure to “complete key activities for cyclical census programs on time to support effective decision-making by policymakers, businesses, and the public.”
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PROGRAM CHANGE PERSONNEL DETAIL
Budget Program: Economic statistics programs Sub-program: Periodic economic statistics Program Change: Economic census
Number Annual TotalLocation Grade of Positions Salary Salaries
Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-13 7 $105,960 $741,720Mathmatical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-13 7 99,905 $699,335Mathmatical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-12 7 81,471 570,297IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-12 3 84,017 252,051Mathmatical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-09 3 54,423 163,269 Subtotal 27 2,426,672
Distributed share of staff for centralized services 3 174,632 Subtotal 30 2,601,304
Less Lapse 23% -7 -598,300Total Full-time permanent: 23 2,003,004
1.300% 26,039Total 23 2,029,043
Personnel Data NumberFull-time Equivalent Employment
Full-time permanent 23Other than full-time permanent -36Total -13
Authorized Positions:Full-time permanent 30Other than full-time permanent -44Total -14
Title:
2016 Pay Adjustment
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS
(Dollars in thousands) Budget Program: Economic statistics programs Sub-program: Periodic economic statistics Program Change: Economic census
FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Increase Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $2,029 $49,81911.3 Other than full-time permanent -2,105 63211.5 Other personnel compensation -118 55111.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation -194 51,00212 Civilian personnel benefits -653 17,08613 Benefits for former personnel 105 14321 Travel and transportation of persons 483 1,36322 Transportation of things -21 1323.1 Rental payments to GSA -1,833 4,21523.2 Rental Payments to others -39 323.3 Communications, utilities and miscellaneous charges -316 90124 Printing and reproduction -16 8725.1 Advisory and assistance services -7,062 4,22025.2 Other services from non-Federal sources 20,707 24,53125.3 Purchases of goods & services from Gov't accounts 453 6,72425.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities -820 1,19125.5 Research and development contracts 13 8625.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 1,996 21,35225.8 Subsistence and support of persons 4 3426 Supplies and materials -474 72531 Equipment 462 1,24932 Lands and structures 033 Investments and loans 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 043 Interest and dividends 044 Refunds 099 Total obligations 12,795 134,925
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Line Item: Census of Governments Since 1957, the census of governments has been compiled every 5 years in conjunction with the economic census. Funding for the census of governments is cyclical in nature due to the fact that Title 13, Section 161 authorizes a quinquennial census. Therefore, a decrease of funds from FY 2015 to FY 2016 reflects the startup of the 2017 Census of Governments when activities are focused less on completing data processing, developing data products, and disseminating information from the census, and more on the direction, planning, and preparation of the 2017 Census of Governments. The census of governments is related to the current government statistics program. The census of governments is conducted every five years (years ending in '2' and '7'), whereas the government statistics programs are conducted in the intervening years when a sample of state and local governments is used to collect data. The census of governments is a long-standing program, and as such, various survey methods and approaches have been employed over time. Based on lessons learned, the 2017 Census of Governments will utilize the best mix of survey methods and administrative record practices to conduct an accurate census. Historically, the census of governments programs have utilized field enumeration for data collection methods. Lessons learned have demonstrated that the use of administrative records and central collection methods among the states is the most cost effective way to collect the data. As such, the Census Bureau has taken strides to improve these methods and techniques, which will be employed in the 2017 Census of Governments. These methods will be used to the greatest extent possible in lieu of field data collection to reduce the reporting burden of governments as well as to reduce costs. The complex and ever-changing state and local government universe is a major economic force, totaling about 12 percent of the GDP and 15 percent of the civilian labor force population. The census of governments represents the primary source of facts about the structure and function of the public sector of the U.S. economy. It provides essential information to Congress and federal agencies, such as the Departments of Education, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services, for planning and evaluating programs involving intergovernmental relationships. The census contributes an important element for constructing composite national economic measures, such as the GDP quantifying economic output, the BEA’s input-output tables that measure market sectors, and the Federal Reserve Board’s Flow of Funds accounts that provide time-series data of financial flows in the economy. Without these state and local government economic statistics, important benchmarking and comparative analyses of state and local governments cannot be done. Many different groups of analysts—including, most prominently, the state and local governments themselves, public interest groups, the academic community, and the policy research community—make extensive use of the data. In 2007, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) issued a “clean-slate” report on the state of government statistics. The report identified Census Bureau data on state and local governments as the only comprehensive source on the fiscal welfare of state and local governments. In the report, CNSTAT charged the Census Bureau to improve, build, and enhance its programs. The report laid out 21 strategic recommendations for improving data on governments. Over the 2012 Census of Governments cycle, the Census Bureau made strides in addressing the recommendations and making needed improvements to its programs and will continue these critical efforts for the 2017 Census of Governments.
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Following the CNSTAT’s recommendations, the Census Bureau engaged data users and stakeholders through workshops and conferences to discuss improvements to the census of governments and related programs. The outcome of the workshops was improvements in content, methodology, and data products for the 2012 Census of Governments. Additional workshops focused on making further improvements for the 2017 Census of Governments will be conducted. Further strides are being made to modernize and reengineer the infrastructure and processing systems used to collect and disseminate the data. The proposed FY 2016 activities allow the Census Bureau to continue these efforts. PROGRAM CHANGES FOR FY 2016:
1. Census of Governments (- $318,000, - 5 FTE): Fiscal Year 2016 is the second year in the five-year cycle of the 2017 Census of Governments. Direction ($2,202,000 and 11 FTE, +$1,125,000 and +6 FTE) Direction includes overall planning, design, and support activities. Activities in FY 2016 will focus on overall coordination of activities through a project management plan. Content Determination/Design ($1,728,000 and 13 FTE, -$1,883,000 and -14 FTE) Activities include evaluation of the data content for each component of the census and the coordination of these data needs with data providers and data users. For FY 2016 these activities include outreach to state and local government officials and data users regarding program content, initial work and research into survey design options, and initial design of collection instruments. Mail List Development and Mail-out ($1,943,000 and 12 FTE, -$585,000 and -5 FTE) The primary activity for FY 2016 will be key preparation activities for the mailout of the 2016 Government Units Survey of the organization component and ongoing research into state government legislation, searching for appropriate secondary sources that contain information on newly created governments and government types, and discussions with state experts. This work is vital to maintaining an updated universe to provide the framework for all intercensal surveys and to establish the universe for each component of the 2017 Census of Governments. Activities will also include continuing efforts to migrate surveys into the Governments Master Address File (GMAF). Collection and Processing ($2,789,000 and 18 FTE, +$1,295,000 and +9 FTE) This activity includes all data collection and processing operations for each of the census of governments traditional mail canvass survey operations, expanding Internet data collection options, field and office enumeration and compilation activities, and electronic data collection. In FY 2016, activities include efforts to modernize and reengineer the infrastructure and processing systems used to collect and process the data and key preparation activities for the collection of data for the 2016 Government Units Survey of the organization component. For the 2017 Census of Governments, we have committed to developing and implementing a modern and unified data processing system. In order to achieve that, we must transition the remaining portions of the data processing into the new data processing system by the end of FY 2016 (one portion has been migrated, leaving three portions to be migrated in FY 2016). As well, we will be preparing for the 2016 Governments Units Survey which is also done quinquennially to update the frame that supports the Census of Governments.
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Publication and Dissemination ($235,000 and 2 FTE, -$270,000 and -1 FTE) This activity includes all operations related to the final review of data for public release, tabulation, and publication of census findings and dissemination of information to data users. Activities during FY 2016 will include outreach to state and local government officials and data users regarding data products and dissemination for the 2017 Census of Governments. Statement of Need and Economic Benefits – Cost Benefit Analysis The census of governments provides economic information used to develop the state and local government portion of the GDP, which accounts for about 12 percent of the total. This Census covers over 90,000 state and local government units and sub-agencies and collects data on more than 19 million state and local government employees, 15 percent of the U.S. civilian workforce. Detailed information on approximately $3.0 trillion in public pension system assets, one of the largest pools of funding for market investments, is collected, disseminated, and published. The 2017 Census of Governments consists of three components: government organization, public employment, and government finances. Fiscal Year 2016 funding is requested for activities necessary for these three components. For the government organization component, funding is requested primarily for completion of the development of the questionnaires, key preparation activities for the mailout and collection of data for the 2016 Government Units Survey of the organization component, and to conduct ongoing research into state government legislation, searching for appropriate secondary sources that contain information on newly created governments and government types, and discussions with state experts. In the employment component, funds will be used to conduct outreach to state and local government officials and data users regarding program content and to finalize report form content. In the finance component, funds will be used to conduct outreach to state and local government officials and data users regarding program content and to finalize report form content. The 2017 Census of Governments will demonstrate efficiencies in both data collection procedures and editing methods. The 2017 Census of Governments will have expanded use of state level electronic data collection. Additionally, improvements to macro and micro edit methods will maximize editing efficiency and lead to savings in cost and time. These operational efficiencies will allow staff to devote necessary time to developing analytic reports and data dissemination interfaces. Base Resources Assessment
Base Resource Amount: $9,215,000 Base FTE: 61 The goals of the census of governments are to identify the scope and nature of the nation’s state and local government sector; provide authoritative benchmark figures in the areas of public finance and public employment; classify local government organization, powers and activities; and measure federal, state, and local fiscal relationships. The census of governments is the only source of comprehensive and uniformly classified data on the economic activities of state and local governments. The census of governments programs are divided into three components: organization, employment, and finance.
• The Organization component establishes the universe of state and local government entities and identifies the disparate nature of intergovernmental relationships within each
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state-area. It is within this component that the definition, structure, and number of governmental entities are determined.
• The Employment component provides data on the number of full-time and part-time employees with corresponding full-time and part-time pay by governmental function.
• The Finance component data describes government revenues and expenditures, and quantifies debt and asset characteristics. The Finance data consist of various deliverables on taxes, assets of public pension systems, and comprehensive statistics on state and local government finances. These data cover revenues by type, expenditures by character and function, indebtedness by term, and cash and securities holdings.
Schedule and Milestones: FY 2016
• Complete a review of program components and content with data users • Finalize report form content for the 2017 Census of Governments • Complete development of the organization component questionnaires for the 2017
Census of Governments FY 2017
• Mail and collect data for the 2016 Government Units Survey • Complete development of the employment and finance component questionnaires for
the 2017 Census of Governments • Mail the 2017 Census of Governments: Employment survey • Prepare for the mail-out of the 2017 Census of Governments: Finance surveys
FY 2018
• Evaluate the universe frame from the Governments Master Address File • Prepare and deliver data files for the BEA for the employment component • Mail the 2017 Census of Governments: Finance surveys
FY 2019
• Complete the employment component processing and dissemination • Complete processing of central collections, compilations, editing, and research of
secondary sources for nonrespondents for the finance component • Release data on retirement systems from the finance component • Release data on school district finances from the finance component • Prepare and deliver data files for the BEA for the finance component
FY 2020
• Complete the finance component processing and dissemination • Conduct lessons learned on the 2017 Census of Governments • Complete an evaluation of the content, processing, and dissemination of the 2017
Census of Governments • Complete the 2022 Census of Governments project plan
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Deliverables: Key objectives of the FY 2016 work include a review of program components and content based on workshops and conferences with key stakeholders to discuss improvements to the census of governments and related programs; finalization of report form content for the 2017 Census of Governments; and key preparation activities for the mailout and collection of data for the 2016 Government Units Survey of the organization component. Risk Assessment: Fiscal 2016 is the second year of the Census of Governments life cycle. If the Census of Governments is not funded at the requested level, key planning activities, review of program components and content, research into improvements necessary to maintain data relevance and timeliness, including content determination discussions with stakeholders and data users, and key preparation activities for the mailout and collection of data for the 2016 Government Units Survey of the organization component may be delayed. These delays could potentially result in further delays to data collection and dissemination activities in the future. As these data are critical inputs into important economic measures, including GDP and the National Income and Product Accounts produced by BEA, and the Flow of Funds Accounts released by the Federal Reserve Board, the delays will have an impact on the quality of key statistics driving fiscal policy. Performance Goals and Measurement Data: This program supports the Department of Commerce’s Data goal to “Improve government, business, and community decisions and knowledge by transforming Department data capabilities and supporting a data-enabled economy." They specifically support objective 4.3 to “Collaborate with the business community to provide more timely, accurate, and relevant data products and services that are fueled by these efforts.”
Performance Measure:
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With Change 1) Complete an evaluation of the content, processing, and dissemination components of the 2012 Census of Governments. 2) Prepare a detailed project plan for all components of the 2017 Census of Governments.
1) Finalize report form content for the 2017 Census of Governments. 2) Complete forms design for the organization component for the 2017 Census of Governments.
1) Mail Census of Governments: Organization survey forms by November 2016. 2) Mail Census of Governments Employment: survey forms by March 2017.
1) Mail Census of Governments: Finance survey forms by January 2018. 2) Release Census of Governments preliminary counts of local governments by March 2018.
1) Release 2012 Census of Governments: Organization data by March 2019. 2) Release Census of Governments: Employment data by May 2019.
1) Release Census of Governments: Finance data by April 2020. 2) Complete an evaluation of the content, processing, and dissemination components of the 2017 Census of Governments. 3) Prepare a detailed project plan for all components of the 2022 Census of Governments.
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Performance Measure: (Continued)
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1) Complete an evaluation of the content, processing, and dissemination components of the 2012 Census of Governments. 2) Prepare a detailed project plan for all components of the 2017 Census of Governments.
1) Finalize report form content for the 2017 Census of Governments. 2) Complete forms design for the organization component for the 2017 Census of Governments.
1) Mail Census of Governments: Organization survey forms by November 2016. 2) Mail Census of Governments: Employment survey forms by March 2017.
1) Mail Census of Governments: Finance survey forms by January 2018. 2) Release Census of Governments preliminary counts of local governments by March 2018.
1) Release 2012 Census of Governments: Organization data by March 2019. 2) Release Census of Governments: Employment data by May 2019.
1) Release Census of Governments: Finance data by April 2020. 2) Complete an evaluation of the content, processing, and dissemination components of the 2017 Census of Governments. 3) Prepare a detailed project plan for all components of the 2022 Census of Governments.
Description: This supports the Census Bureau’s performance measure to “complete key activities for cyclical census programs on time to support effective decision-making by policymakers, businesses, and the public.”
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PROGRAM CHANGE PERSONNEL DETAIL
Budget Program: Economic statistics programs Sub-program: Periodic economic statistics Program Change: Census of governments
Number Annual TotalLocation Grade of Positions Salary Salaries
Clerk Jeffersonville, IN GS-05 -4 $31,944 -$127,776 Subtotal -4 -127,776
Distributed share of staff for centralized services -1 -47,885 Subtotal -5 -175,661
Less Lapse 0% 0 0Total Full-time permanent: -5 -175,661
1.000% -1,7570.0% 0
Total -5 -177,418
Personnel Data NumberFull-time Equivalent Employment
Full-time permanent -5Other than full-time permanent 0Total -5
Authorized Positions:Full-time permanent -5Other than full-time permanent -1Total -6
Title:
2015 Pay Adjustment2016 Pay Adjustment
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Economic statistics programs Sub-program: Periodic economic statistics Program Change: Census of governments
FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Decrease Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent -$177 $4,73911.3 Other than full-time permanent -15 6311.5 Other personnel compensation -57 5011.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation -249 4,85212 Civilian personnel benefits -68 1,62313 Benefits for former personnel 11 1321 Travel and transportation of persons -35 12122 Transportation of things -4 023.1 Rental payments to GSA -170 40623.2 Rental Payments to others -5 123.3 Communications, utilities and miscellaneous charges -15 9924 Printing and reproduction 0 3325.1 Advisory and assistance services -21 56525.2 Other services from non-Federal sources 158 39025.3 Purchases of goods & services from Gov't accounts 50 46025.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities -3 9925.5 Research and development contracts 0 525.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 66 17725.8 Subsistence and support of persons 0 426 Supplies and materials -24 3831 Equipment -9 1132 Lands and structures 0 033 Investments and loans 0 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 043 Interest and dividends 0 044 Refunds 0 099 Total obligations -318 8,897
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APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Periodic Censuses and Programs BUDGET PROGRAM: Demographic Statistics Programs For FY 2016, the Census Bureau requests an increase of $332,030,000 and 959 FTE from the FY 2016 base for a total of $919,348,000 and 4,533 FTE for Demographic Statistics Programs. BASE JUSTIFICATION: Demographic Statistics Programs Overview The Census Bureau’s mission is to serve as the leading source of quality data about the Nation’s people and economy. The Demographic Statistics Programs activity furthers this mission by providing key benchmark measures about the U.S. population. The Demographic Statistics Programs ($919.3 million and 4,533 FTE) budget is organized into one subactivity under the Periodic Censuses and Programs account. • The Decennial Census sub-activity is organized into two line items, the American Community
Survey (ACS) ($256.8 million and 2,621 FTE) and the 2020 Census ($662.6 million and 1,912 FTE).
The Demographic Statistics Programs support the Department of Commerce’s Data goal to “Improve government, business, and community decisions and knowledge by transforming Department data capabilities and supporting a data-enabled economy." They specifically support objective 4.2 to "Improve data-based services, decision-making, and data sharing within the Department and with other parts of the Federal Government." The Demographic Statistics Programs will help conduct a more efficient 2020 Census by researching, testing, and developing a new design of the 2020 Census that maximizes the use of technology and other tools to reduce the cost while maintaining quality. Implications of alternate roles and uses of the American Community Survey (ACS) program infrastructure will be evaluated within the broader Federal statistical system and a comprehensive review of ACS carried out with the intent of reducing respondent burden. Access to the National Directory of New Hires Database The Budget proposes to narrowly expand access to the National Directory of New Hires Database. This proposal enables the Census Bureau access to these data in time to incorporate the data in its efforts to reduce the need to conduct in-person follow up interviews with non-responding households. This proposal would also allow several agencies a more reliable and affordable way obtain data essential for research, evaluation, and statistical purposes while maintaining necessary security, privacy, and confidentiality standards. The Census Bureau is researching two key cost-saving strategies related to nonresponse: 1) using government records as an alternative to visiting the homes of non-respondents and 2) using government records to identify vacant units and remove them from the non-response follow-up universe.
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To maximize cost savings and maintain data quality, we would like access to additional components of the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH). While the Census Bureau has agreements with each of the states to acquire the Unemployment Insurance of the NDNH, these state-level agreements were written for the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program and do not permit other uses, including the decennial census. Achieving these savings requires an extremely accurate set of administrative records. For example, record data used in the decennial to fill in missing data for a non-responding household must be composite, as the Census Bureau cannot depend on any single record source for a particular housing unit. One of the most important sources of cross-validation is the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH). NDNH is a national database of wage and employment information used for child support enforcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that not only includes this quarterly wage/unemployment insurance (UI) data, but also includes data on new hires and UI beneficiaries. The NDNH data would corroborate other federal and state datasets, such as federal tax data, making it possible to maximize the use of these data to obtain the savings above. Adding NDNH to our composite of administrative records supports the Census Bureau’s estimate of $1.2 billion in savings. Expanded access to the National Directory of New Hires Database will also enable government agencies to assess the effectiveness of federal policies and programs in achieving positive labor market outcomes and to provide demographic or economic statistics, including for the Census 2020 program. Both the Administration and the Congress have an interest in learning whether Federal policies and programs are succeeding or failing – for example, whether participants are getting and retaining jobs, and whether those who find jobs are earning good wages. Access to data on employment outcomes is critical to effectively analyzing policy and program results, and the current methods for gathering these data (surveys and separate agreements with states) are inefficient, time consuming, and increasingly cost prohibitive. SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENTS-TO-BASE (ATBs): The Census Bureau requests a net increase of $11.9 million to fund adjustments to base for the demographic statistics programs activities. SUB-PROGRAM: Decennial Census The Decennial Census has been conducted since the birth of the Nation. It provides the official population counts for determining the allocation to states of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Census Bureau also provides block level data necessary for each state to determine congressional, state, and local legislative district boundaries. The provision of these data is mandated in the U.S. Constitution, Title 13 of the U.S. Code, and P.L. 94-171. The Decennial Census and the American Community Survey provide demographic information about the people living in the United States. This information is not only used to determine federal allocations to states and local governments but also is critical to America’s economic growth because it is the fundamental building block of data that businesses use (along with their own data) to decide where to locate manufacturing, open their next location, find the right workforce, and chose the products to put on store shelves.
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Line Item: 2020 Census
PROGRAM CHANGES:
1. 2020 Census ($316,817,000, 732 FTE): The 2020 Census is designed to cost less per housing unit than the 2010 Census (when adjusted for inflation), while continuing to maintain high quality. The Census Bureau plans to achieve this by conducting the most automated, modern, and dynamic decennial census in history. The 2020 Census includes sweeping design changes in four key areas, including new methodologies to conduct address canvassing, innovative ways of optimizing self-response, the use of administrative records to reduce the nonresponse follow up workload, and the use of technology to replace tasks traditionally conducted by humans during field operations. Said otherwise, the goal is to achieve dramatic cost savings by: adding new addresses to the Census Bureau’s address frame using geographic information systems and aerial imagery instead of sending Census employees to walk and physically check 11 million census blocks; encouraging the population to respond to the 2020 Census using the Internet; using data the public has already provided to the government to enumerate the most difficult to reach households; and using sophisticated operational control systems to send Census employees to follow up with non-responding housing units and to track daily progress. The Census Bureau estimates that conducting a 2020 Census that includes these major cost-saving innovations has the potential to save more than $5 billion compared to repeating the 2010 design in the 2020 Census. Begun in 2012, the 2020 Census Research and Testing Program’s research on cost-saving design changes will be largely completed by the end of FY 2015. Work in FY 2015 will continue to focus on identifying the best methodologies to support the four key design areas and testing those methodologies in the office and in the field culminating in the completion of the major design decisions in September 2015. Following the finalization of the design decision, the Census Bureau will quickly pivot in FY 2016 to a focus on operational design, development, and systems testing for the actual 2020 Census. The FY 2016 budget also requests funds to complete operational development and testing including activity supporting content, quality, and communications to ensure we are reaching all sectors of our diverse communities. Important research and testing conducted through FY 2015 defined the major 2020 Census design decisions based on early research and testing activities. For example, the 2014 Census Test demonstrated that mailing introductory material to respondents and encouraging them to respond via the Internet (“Internet push”) is a successful strategy. More than fifty-eight percent of the test universe responded via the Intenet. Three FY 2015 field tests, including an Address Validation Test, an Optimizing Self-Response Test, and a 2015 Census Test – plus a Human in the Loop Simulation Exercise – resulted in the provision of significant findings and metrics that contributed to future planning. Using proof of concept and prototype systems, these tests demonstrated that automating field operations is feasible, including managing the case load with a sophisticated operational control system, collecting address and spatial data on an electronic tablet, communicating with enumerators using smart phone messaging and texts, and using an enumeration instrument “app” to collect data from non-respondents on a smartphone. The FY 2016 budget request builds on that prototype work and allows for the development of production systems and operational implementation needed to conduct a successful census in 2020. Development of interoperable production systems must be largely completed in FY 2016 and FY 2017 to be ready for an 2018 Operational Readiness Test. If the Census Bureau does not
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receive the funding requested for operational design, implementation, and systems development and testing in FY 2016, it will not be able to implement a properly planned 2018 Operational Readiness Test. Without the appropriate preparation, the Census Bureau will be unable to mitigate the risk associated with the sweeping design changes planned for the 2020 Census, especially those related to using technology to reengineer field operations. In order to minimize the risk, the Census Bureau will have to institute a more conservative approach to the Census that would erode forecasted savings. Work in FY 2016 supports the production implementation of the major design innovations that the Census Bureau expects for the 2020 Census. The Census Bureau will continue to refine the design of the reengineered 2020 Census, as well as implement some early 2020 operations and legally mandated programs that must begin in FY 2016. The text that follows describes the work being conducted in FY 2016 for each of the four major cost-saving innovations, as well as the early work on 2020 operations and the conduct of these legally mandated programs. Reengineering Address Canvassing The goal of Reengineering Address Canvassing is to eliminate a nationwide in-field address canvassing in 2019. Instead, the Census Bureau is developing innovative methodologies for updating the Master Address File (MAF)/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) System throughout the decade. We will cover address and spatial updates of every area of the country. Our goal is to do it more efficiently, eliminating the need to conduct in-field canvassing for every area of the country. The Census Bureau will use a combination of methods, including the use of addresses obtained from the US Postal Service, local governments, satellite imagery, commercial databases, and other private sector resources. Where these updates cannot be obtained, or in areas we believe are undergoing rapid change, we will send people out to update addresses on the ground. Statistical modeling and the analysis of geographic evidence to help determine where in-field address canvassing will occur. These design changes have the potential to save the Census Bureau an estimated $1 billion. In FY 2015, the Census Bureau conducted the Address Validation Test. This test assessed the performance of the methods and models used to estimate change in the 2020 Census address list and define the address canvassing workloads needed for the operational design decision point in September 2015. The test contained two components. The first, the MAF Model Validation Test, assessed the ability of two sets of statistical models to predict blocks that have experienced address changes that are not captured in the Master Address File (MAF). The second, the Partial Block Canvassing Test, assessed a methodology to detect unrecorded changes in blocks and to identify portions of blocks where change is likely, thus enabling a Partial-Block Canvass that could reduce workloads and cost. Especially significant to the concept of Reengineering Address Canvassing, this test was the first field test to incorporate the use of aerial imagery to detect change in the landscape. In determining the workload, analysts compared the network of streets and addresses within the MAF/TIGER System to aerial photographs, to identify areas with large concentrations of new roads and housing units. Address listers were then sent to those specific areas to validate the changes. The results of these tests informed the development of a critical early operations test to be conducted in FY 2016. In FY 2016, the decennial program will conduct a 2016 Early Operations Test for the 2020 Census. The focus will be on the implementation of Address Canvassing and the processes used to implement both the in-office and in-field work. The test will include the use of the Census Bureau’s Listing and Mapping Application (LIMA), part of the Census Bureau’s Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) system, on a handheld device to validate the Census Bureau’s address and spatial database and collect new address and road updates. For the first time as part of
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the 2020 Census Research and Testing Program, the Census Bureau will test the processes used to transfer data from the handheld device to the MAF/TIGER System. In addition, the Address Canvassing operation will be further refined and validated for testing in the 2018 Operational Readiness Test for the 2020 Census. Key deliverables for FY 2016:
• Designing, testing, and implementing new methods to review aerial imagery and other data sources to classify and update geographic areas.
• Designing and planning the 2020 Census Address Canvassing operation in an environment where only geographic areas identified as undergoing change will be included as part of the in-field address canvassing workload.
• Refining the prototype, continuing analysis, and testing statistical models for use in understanding the ongoing quality of the MAF.
• Independently measuring MAF quality, including the identification of quality thresholds that will inform address canvassing decisions.
• Refining development and testing of an application usable on commercially available devices that allows the users to review and update the Census Bureau’s address and spatial database, including the collection of Global Positioning System coordinates.
Optimizing Self Response The goal of Optimizing Self Response is to communicate the importance of the 2020 Census to the United States population and generate the largest possible self-response, eliminating the need to conduct expensive in-person follow up with those households. The Census Bureau plans to incorporate the use of technology and extensive partnership activities, such as advertising via social media, encouraging the use of the Internet as the primary response mode, and allowing respondents to submit a questionnaire without a unique identification code, to encourage and motivate the population to self-respond. These design changes have the potential to save the Census Bureau $548 million. In FY 2015, the Census Bureau conducted the 2015 Optimizing Self Response Test. The test obtained results needed to answer research questions and inform preliminary design decisions for the 2020 Census. The scope included testing different strategies for contacting respondents and motivating them to self-respond. Various self-response modes were tested, such as Internet, telephone response, and paper. The scope also included using digital micro-targeted advertising methods to increase awareness and engagement, and promoting the option to respond without a unique Census-provided identification code (also known as the “Non-ID” option). Real-time processing of Non-ID cases and optimization of the Internet data collection application for mobile devices was also included. The results of this test informed the development of a critical field operations test in FY 2016. In FY 2016, the Census Bureau will conduct a 2016 Field Operations Test for the 2020 Census. This test will focus on optimizing self-response, including how people respond using the Internet, mobile computing devices, telephone assistance, and paper questionnaires. For the first time, the Census Bureau will test the use of a cloud-based infrastructure to host its 2016 Field Operations Test questionnaire. The test will determine how best to use targeted communications and partnerships to promote language support options and to reach historically hard-to-count populations. Additionally, this test will continue refining methods to process responses in real time submitted without a unique Census-provided identification code. This Census-provided code has been required in censuses of
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the past, but the option to respond to the census without it represents a giant leap in the convenience to the person responding. The test will also determine system performance parameters and measure the systems’ abilities to manage a significant number of concurrent users during self-response. During FY 2016, the Census Bureau will initiate preparatory work for 2020 Census questionnaire assistance efforts. This work is essential in helping the Census Bureau develop new methods for assisting respondents as they complete the questionnaire. For example, trends indicate that the capacity for a centralized telephone “call center” approach in the year 2020 may be insufficient to support the volume of calls anticipated during the 2020 Census. These trends could lead to the development of a hybrid or decentralized questionnaire assistance approach. We will explore whether calls from people with questions about the census can be routed to enumerators in the field, rather than handled in large centrally-located call centers. This work will also include researching the best ways to communicate with respondents in real-time, such as via web chat or direct interaction with a Census Bureau enumerator. Finally, the telephone assistance solution will be tested to ensure that it meets Census Bureau requirements and will provide the estimates for call volumes, peak call times, and cost per case for the 2020 Census. Also during FY 2016, the Census Bureau will initiate preparatory work for the 2020 Communications and Partnership Program. This program will design the communications and partnership plan for the 2020 Census. One major component includes development of the audience segmentation model and the advertising campaign. Another includes preparation for the maintenance of an external 2020 Census website. A large focus of developing the partnership program will include consultations with external stakeholders to elicit a wide range of options and strategies for gaining their support in communicating the importance of the 2020 Census to the public. Finally, the program will provide plans to test the impact of different communications methods to support self-response. Key deliverables for FY 2016:
• Conducting a 2016 Field Operations Test that focuses on optimizing self-response.
• Defining, developing, and implementing capabilities for Internet response, paper data capture, questionnaire assistance and data capture, and other 2020 Census Operations related to optimizing self-response.
• Developing strategies that optimize self-response methods and modes for notifying, reminding, and following up with respondents. This includes extensive use of the Internet and tailoring contact strategies and response modes by demographic and geographic characteristics.
• Developing and testing the most effective ways to provide diverse communities with the ability to respond to the 2020 Census in languages other than English.
• Refining and testing the methodologies and solutions around how to link a physical address to a response received without a Census-provided unique identifier (Non-ID), including validation of responses received without an identifier to mitigate fraud and duplication.
• Developing and testing questionnaire content and design.
• Supporting the preparation and execution of a questionnaire assistance effort.
• Defining, developing, and implementing telephone data collection and questionnaire assistance capabilities and interfaces to support the timeline and scale of the 2020 Census.
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• Preparation and execution of a communications and partnership program. Defining, developing, and implementing capabilities related to advertising, communicating with the public, and partnering with external stakeholders, in support of the 2020 Census.
Using Administrative Records The goal of Using Administrative Records is to use administrative record data (e.g., information from federal and state governments) and third-party data (e.g., information from commercial sources) to reduce the Non-Response Follow-Up (NRFU) workload. The Census Bureau plans to use data from internal and external sources, such as the 2010 Census, the United States Postal Service (USPS), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to identify vacant housing units and those units that do not meet the Census Bureau’s definition of a housing unit (deletes). The Census Bureau plans to continue acquiring and testing other files as well, such as the National Database of New Hires (NDNH) and the Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program (SNAP). The data sources may also be used to enumerate the population in cases of non-response. These design changes have the potential to save the Census Bureau $1.2 billion. In FY 2015, the Census Bureau conducted the 2015 Census Test. One major component of this test included the use of administrative records to reduce the nonresponse follow-up workload and manage fieldwork. Specifically, administrative records will be used to identify vacant housing units and enumerate housing units that did not self-respond. Administrative records will also be used to implement an adaptive contact strategy, such as the best time of day to visit a non-responding housing unit and the most appropriate number of visits. The results of this test will inform the development of a critical field operations test in FY 2016. In FY 2016, the Census Bureau will conduct the 2016 Field Operations Test for the 2020 Census. This test will focus on non-response follow up and will further develop the methodologies related to using administrative records. This test will determine the end-to-end flow of administrative record data through the Census Bureau’s data matching, processing, and tabulation systems. This testing in FY 2016 is critical to reducing the risks associated with completeness and data quality when using administrative records for the 2020 Census. Key deliverables FY 2016:
• Conducting a 2016 Field Operations Test that focuses on utilizing administrative records and third-party data to reduce the nonresponse follow up workload.
• Refining systems and procedures for using administrative records and third-party data to identify vacant housing units and enumerate households that do not respond to the 2020 Census.
• Defining, developing, and implementing capabilities and interfaces to support administrative record and third-party production activities, such as data processing, tabulation, and dissemination, as well as matching methods and editing and imputation methods.
• Continuing research and testing of various administrative record and third-party data sources to determine their fitness for use in the 2020 Census, including testing the coverage and quality of the records for obtaining information from nonresponding housing units.
Reengineering Field Operations The goal of Reengineering Field Operations is to use technology to efficiently and effectively manage the 2020 Census fieldwork, and as a result, reduce the staffing, infrastructure, and brick and mortar footprint required for the 2020 Census. The Census Bureau plans to develop an operational control system that intelligently automates tasks and makes decisions that were previously made by humans
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during field operations (e.g., case assignments, number of contact attempts). We expect this to eliminate the need for the massive infrastructure of the past. In support of the 2010 Census field operations, the Census Bureau established 12 regional census centers, 3 paper processing centers (for capture of data from the paper questionnaires), and over 400 local census offices. The agency hired over 500,000 enumerators to conduct nonresponse follow up activities. Modernization associated with the 2020 Census includes a streamlined approach to implementing and managing field operations through a new field structure, including field staff roles, work schedules, and staffing ratios. These design changes have the potential to save the Census Bureau $2.3 billion. In FY 2015, the Census Bureau conducted a Human in the Loop Simulation and the 2015 Census Test. The Human in the Loop Simulation focused on studying the functionality of the operational control system used to manage the nonresponse follow up workload. This simulation exercise occurred in the Census Bureau’s Center for Adaptive Technology and helped to prove-in staffing ratios, assignment optimization, and staff-interaction strategies. It also demonstrated that not all testing must be conducted in the field. The 2015 Census Test assessed the feasibility of fully utilizing a field operations management system that leveraged automation and available real-time data. The scope of the test included a Bring Your Own Device option for enumerators, use of automated training for enumerators and managers, and the use of a reengineered approach to case management. The Test also allowed for examination of how regional offices can manage local office operations in an automated environment, the extent to which enumerator and manager interactions can occur without daily face-to-face meetings, and revised field staffing ratios. The results of this Test informed the development of a critical field operations test in FY 2016. In FY 2016, the Census Bureau will conduct the 2016 Field Operations Test for the 2020 Census. This test will focus on the management of the nonresponse follow up operation. Specifically, the test will operationalize further enhancements to the operational control system used to manage the workload and make assignments. The test will study a management structure that uses a ratio of fewer supervisors to field staff and depends upon instant communication through handheld devices. The test will employ the use of automated applications for field recruiting and administration, such as an online job application and web-based applicant, personnel, and payroll management. This layering of significant field operational changes makes FY 2016 testing critical to the Census Bureau’s ability to reduce operational risk and to optimize the implementation of the changes for the 2020 Census. Each subsequent test allows for further development of systems that are moving from the prototype phase to the production phase. These tests serve to reduce overall risk through continual design and development of the business capabilities and technical requirements necessary to integrate 2020 Census operations with enterprise-wide CEDCaP systems. Key deliverables for FY 2016:
• Conducting a 2016 Field Operations Test that focuses on reengineering field operations in support of the nonresponse follow up operation.
• Designing, developing, and testing the 2020 Census IT solutions, architecture, and infrastructure that will leverage and support enterprise solutions.
• Developing the systems to make field operations more efficient, including an enhanced operational control system, automated enumeration instruments residing on handheld computers, dynamic case management, route planning, and address listing capabilities.
• Automating and integrating field operations on handheld devices in order to streamline decentralized management processes.
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• Conducting integration testing to prove that the systems and operations in each area function in tandem with each other without diminishing data quality.
• Reengineering field management structures to streamline supervisory structures and reduce costly face-to-face meetings between supervisors and enumerators.
Quality Control and Coverage Improvement Quality Control for the decennial program supports the development, coordination, and testing of quality control activities across projects, including the management of quality control integration. FY 2016 will focus on reengineering quality control. For the first time, the Census Bureau will use paradata collected during the enumeration interview, such as time and length of interview, and GPS points, to conduct quality control and to take immediate corrective action when necessary. In FY 2016, the Census Bureau will establish a preliminary strategy for quality control of 2020 Census field operations. The Census Bureau will also focus on coverage improvement efforts in FY 2016 to help reduce under coverage and over coverage in the census. This includes research accounting for persons missed from the normal enumeration operations (e.g., young children) and the identification and resolution of duplication in the census (e.g., persons with multiple residences). It includes the definition of residence rules for topics such as prisoners, snowbirds, and other population groups who may require special approaches to enumeration. 2020 Census Operations and Projects In FY 2016, the Census Bureau must also focus on areas beyond the four key design decisions, that are critical to conducting and managing the 2020 Census including:
• The Group Quarters Planning and Development project plans, develops, and tests methods for enumerating persons within group quarters, such as prisons, dormitories, nursing homes, and homeless shelters. In FY 2016 this will include continuing to investigate the use of administrative records as a means of enumeration; pursuit of the Internet as a response option for group quarters; revisiting group quarters definitions/classifications; and developing methodologies for updating the inventory and enumerating group quarters, especially in a Reengineered Address Canvassing environment.
• The Puerto Rico Planning and Development project defines and develops the operational implementation requirements for conducting the 2020 Census in Puerto Rico. In FY 2016, this work includes partnering with the Puerto Rican government and ensuring integration with the planning for stateside operations.
• The Island Areas Planning and Development project defines and develops the operational implementation requirements for conducting the 2020 Census of American Samoa, the Commonwealth or the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In FY 2016, the Census Bureau will continue efforts to build the Island Areas Master Address File.
• The Overseas Enumeration project initiates the planning, design, and development of the business process model for the overseas enumeration. In FY 2016, the Census Bureau will finalize the approach for enumerating overseas military personnel and their dependents. Work will continue to investigate methods for enumerating other federally affiliated overseas populations.
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Programs Required by Law The Census Redistricting Data Program plans, designs, and develops the 2020 Census P.L. 94-171 geographic and data products by consulting with internal and external stakeholders, such as state redistricting officials and members of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). In FY 2016, the project will focus on Phase 1, the Block Boundary Suggestion Project. The Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) Program (P.L. 103-430) will allow tribal, state, and local government officials to review the Census Bureau’s address list and suggest adds, deletes, and/or changes to the Master Address File (MAF) that will be used in the 2020 Census. This program will be implemented and systems will be in production to collect the data in FY 2016 and FY 2017. Infrastructure Support to the Decennial Program
Infrastructure support is needed throughout the lifecycle of the 2020 Census planning, development, testing and production. The decennial program will provide funding for the following infrastructure projects and services:
• The IT Security, Maintenance and System Testing project supports the development of processes, methods, and systems for providing centralized software testing, release, and repository for all versions of software used in support of the FY16 testing and the 2020 Census.
• The IT Security, Maintenance and System Testing project supports the development of processes, methods, and systems for providing centralized software testing, release, and repository for all versions of software used in support of the FY16 testing and the 2020 Census.
• The Service Desk project defines requirements for the development of a complete support solution of an IT Help Desk to support 2020 Census activities.
• The decennial program funds the 2020 Census share of corporate requirements for the Information Technology Directorate.
• The Enterprise Development Environment project is for IT development and testing for an enterprise solution for system integration and testing that would include 2020 Census requirements.
• The decennial program needs to plan for workmen's compensation claims from injured workers during FY 16 testing and to provide funding for other related compensation claims.
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Table 1: FY 2016 Request by Major Operational Grouping Major Operational Group Major Activity FY 2016 Increase FY 2016 Request
Reengineering Address Canvassing
· Work to inform decisions about a reengineered address · canvassing, including the potential use of statistical modeling
and partial block canvassing · Measuring and assessing the quality of the Master Address File · Planning and design of the in-office and in-field address
canvassing operations · The Listing and Mapping Instrument (LIMA) supports the
collection of address, road, and GPS data during field operations (address canvassing, update/enumerate)
Reengineering Address Canvassing $13.5million $23.5 million Optimizing Self Response
· Activity designed to inform decisions related to the content of the census questionnaire and usability testing
· Activity designed to inform decisions related to use of the Internet as the primary mechanism to answer the census and the ability to process responses that are submitted without a unique census identification code
· Non-ID Processing allows respondents to answer the census without a unique identification code. The system validates the respondent and matches (Matching Process Improvement) their address to the census frame
· Design of the 2020 Census questionnaire and associated content – accounting for multi-modes such as an Internet application and paper form
· Developing, testing, and integration of iCADE – Integrated Capture and Data Entry to ensure the capture of data from paper questionnaires
· Planning and development of the optimizing self response strategy, including development of an email contact frame, media relations, the language program, and the partnership program
· Researching most effective ways to communicate about privacy, confidentiality, and the security of the data that respondents provide
· Questionnaire Assistance (telephony) provides telephone assistance to respondents, including the ability to communicate with a census operator on the telephone, on-line (i.e. web chat), etc.
Optimizing Self Response $53.7 million $88.1 million
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Utilizing Administrative Records
· Improving the coverage of housing units and special populations
· Planning and design of the use of administrative records in reducing the non-response follow up workload – including the analysis of multiple administrative and third-party sources to determine fitness for use in identifying vacant and occupied units and for enumerating the population
Utilizing Administrative Records $7.8 million $10.1 million Reengineering Field Operations
· Automating field activities include the development of the applications used to conduct non-response follow up (COMPASS) and to manage the non-response follow up workload ( MOJO) (i.e., training, case assignments, control systems, routing and navigation, payroll)
· Work designed to inform decisions about reengineering field operations, including the use of technology to automate tasks typically performed by humans, such as training, case management, routing and navigation, and payroll.
· Work to inform decision related to the use of administrative records in reducing the non-response follow up workload
· 2016 Census Tests - The SIMEX Test planned in early Fiscal Year 2016 is an opportunity to refine methods and get input from field staff to improve our processes prior to larger tests in the field. The Field Operations Test focusses on refining the efficiency of large operations, including Self-response, Non-ID, Communications, and NRFU.
· Development of the business operations and requirements that support non response follow up
· Development of the field office infrastructure (operational control centers) and systems related to recruiting, hiring, training, paying, and providing support to employees
· Support of enterprise-wide systems (CEDCAP)
Reengineering Field Operations $89.8 million $210.5 million 2020 Census Operations
· Planning and design of census operations in Puerto Rico · Planning and design of census operations in the Island Areas · Planning and design of operations to enumerate special
populations such as prisoners, college students, and the military · Planning and design of the geographic programs – Boundary
and Annexation Survey, Participant Statistical Areas Program, Tribal Statistical Areas Program, Count Review, Count Question Resolution
2020 Census Operations $15.5 million $25.1 million Coverage and Quality
· Planning and design of operations that support quality control and reporting within the reengineered 2020 Census
· Planning and design of the 2020 Census Evaluations Program · Studies of alternative and improved Census Coverage
Measurement (CCM) methods
Coverage and Quality $15.3 million $19.7 million Programs Required by Law
· Planning for the 2020 Census Redistricting Data Program – allows state government officials to submit congressional, state legislative, and voting district boundaries to the Census Bureau in support of data tabulation (P.L. 94-171)
· Planning for the Local Update of Census Addresses (P.L. 103-430 – allows tribal, state, and local governments to review the Census Bureau’s address list and suggest adds, deletes, and/or changes
Programs Required by Law 4.3 million $13.2 million
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Program Management Program Management Program Management $0.6 million $20.1 million Systems Engineering Systems Engineering Systems Engineering $10.8 million $14.5 million Management and Administrative Services
Management and Administrative Services
Management and Administrative Services $48.8 million $82.4 million Program Reserve Management Reserve/Contingency Program Reserve $32.9 million $65.3 million IT Support, IT Security, Acquisitions Management, Worker’s Compensation, Data Access and Dissemination System
IT Support, IT Security, Acquisitions Management, Worker’s Compensation, Data Access and Dissemination System
IT Support, IT Security, Acquisitions Management, Worker’s Compensation, Data Access and Dissemination System
$23.9 million $90.1 million
Fiscal Year Totals $316.9 million $662.5 million *Totals may not add due to rounding Table 2: FY 2016 Request by Investment Area
Investment Area FY 2016 Increase FY 2016 Request
Program Management $9.8 million $39.5 million
Systems Engineering & Integration $25.0 million $45.4 million
Census Frame $38.0 million $69.2 million
Enumeration $96.2 million $246.0 million
Response Processing $10.9 million $23.2 million
Data Products $10.1 million $11.6 million
Evaluative Programs $10.7 million $12.7 million
Infrastructure $116.0 million $215.0 million
Fiscal Year Totals $316.9 million $662.5 million *Totals may not add due to rounding Linkages with Other Initiatives/Programs The 2020 Census program will take advantage of related work across the Census Bureau. Therefore, we have identified specific relationships and interactions, not only between and among program projects, but also with other initiatives/programs, particularly with the expansion of the Geographic Support System Initiative and the Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing Initiative. The following is a summary of the interdependencies. • Supplemental and complementary research is included in the Geographic Support
program. To ensure no duplication of effort, clear project-by-project delineation will be established to guide those activities that belong in the Geographic Support program and those that are required for 2020 Census. Specifically, 2020 Census frame-related projects are focused on developing independent, customer-focused methods for understanding error in the MAF, measuring MAF quality over the decade, improving LUCA, understanding MAF/TIGER updating business rules, developing MAF extract requirements, defining and developing geographic programs, and planning the 2020 Census Address Canvassing operation. Results will flow in both directions between the Geographic Support program and 2020 Census research projects.
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• Integration of the design and development of the 2020 Census data collection and processing requirements with efforts to design and develop an enterprise data collection and processing system;
• Integration of appropriate testing into the ACS Methods Panel infrastructure; • Exploration of opportunities for bureau-wide architecture and IT solutions, with the Chief
Information Officer as the systems overseer for enterprise IT solutions; • Integration of key components of the field infrastructure into all planning; and • Supplemental and complementary research is included in the Center for Administrative
Records and Research Applications (CARRA). To ensure no duplication of effort, clear project-by-project delineation will guide which activities belong in CARRA and which are required for the 2020 Census.
Statement of Need and Economic Benefits
We will conduct an efficient, quality, inclusive census supported by enterprise systems, methods, and infrastructure. The expected results of the approaches for the 2020 Census are described below – the likely savings from these new approaches hast the potential to be more than $5 billion compared to repeating the approaches used for the 2010 Census. Innovations and improvements are necessary to control the cost of undertaking the 2020 Census. However, it is equally imperative that the 2020 Census produces high quality data. Sweeping design changes and the layering of significant field operational changes makes FY 2016 testing critical to the Census Bureau’s ability to reduce operational risk and to optimize the implementation of the changes for the 2020 Census. Each subsequent test allows for further development of systems that are moving from the prototype phase to the production phase. These tests serve to reduce overall risk through continual design and development of the business capabilities and technical requirements necessary to integrate 2020 Census operations with enterprise-wide CEDCaP systems. Said otherwise, findings from the 2016 Field Operations Test and the 2016 Early Operations Test will inform the development of a 2017 Early Operations Test. The 2017 Test will determine how one operation affects another, and ensure integration between operations and systems. Findings from the 2017 Early Operations Test will inform the development of the 2018 Operational Readiness Test, an end-to-end test of operations and systems. The 2018 Test will be the Census Bureau’s last chance to make adjustments prior to the 2020 Census.
For those reasons, investments are required in FY 2016 to ensure that operations and systems required for the 2020 Census continue to develop as scheduled. These investments began in FY 2015 and must increase significantly in FY 2016. Significant operational work also is underway which must continue unabated in FY 2016. If this work is not funded at the requested level, work will be curtailed in some areas, and scaled back in others, placing the 2020 Census at risk and driving up costs. This would significantly impact the Census Bureau’s ability to achieve this high priority goal and the expectations of Congress.
Potential Return on Investment The Census Bureau will finalize major design decisions by the end of FY 2015, and will then publish a lifecycle cost estimate for the 2020 Census reflecting those major decisions. But to inform decision making prior these major design decisions, the Census Bureau has revised its 2020 Census lifecycle
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cost estimates. In 2011, the Census Bureau prepared rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates for the 2020 Census lifecycle cost. In developing the FY 2015 budget request, the Census Bureau revised components of these lifecycle cost estimates. We are now able to provide preliminary revisions of these estimates because we have completed some research on the cost implications of certain alternative design features. As a result, we now are able to better quantify some of the inputs to the estimates, but because we expect significantly more data to come from analysis of tests conducted in FY 2014 and FY 2015, and because the research will further mature the design options along with their assumptions, the estimates are presented as ranges to reflect remaining uncertainty in the program. Once key design decisions are made at the end of FY 2015, the Census Bureau will publish overall baselined lifecycle cost estimates for the 2020 Census program that reflect those decisions. Also, we will continue to refine and narrow the ranges around these estimates beyond FY 2015 as we become more certain of the 2020 Census design and the prevailing economic and policy conditions likely to surround that census. In constructing these revised cost estimates, we used final actual data from the 2010 Census, and data from the 2020 Census research conducted to date, wherever possible to develop our input parameters. In areas where critical research results are still pending, we relied on subject matter experts at the Census Bureau. We then used sensitivity analysis to provide ranges of uncertainty around these cost estimates. The Census Bureau uses the Monte Carlo simulation method, which is considered a common and recommended practice by both the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the International Cost Estimation and Analysis Association (ICEAA). For the chart and table below, we used a common practice of presenting Monte Carlo outputs at the 80th percentile level, which translates to an 80 percent probability that funding at this level will be adequate to conduct the census.
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Table 3 – 2020 Decennial Census Potential Cost Savings by Fiscal Year Potential Cost of
Repeating the 2010 Census Design in 2020 (80% Monte Carlo Estimate)
Potential Cost of the 2020 Census after
Design Changes (80% Monte Carlo Estimate)
Potential Cost Savings
Total $17,701 million
$12,591 million
-$5,110. million
FY 2012 (enacted)
$66.6 million $66.6 million
FY 2013 (enacted)
$94.1 million $94.1 million
FY 2014 (enacted)
$232.7 million $232.7 million
FY 2015 (enacted)
$344.8 million $344.8 million
FY 2016 (request)
$662.5 million $662.5 million
FY 2017 $910 million $910 million
FY 2018 $1,820 million $1,190 million -$630 million
FY 2019 $3,710 million $2,270 million -$1,440 million
FY 2020 $8,850 million $5,810 million -$3,040 million
FY 2021 $650 million $650 million
FY 2022 $210 million $210 million
FY 2023 $150 million $150 million
Note: Totals may not add due to rounding. These numbers are model-driven, and the 2020 Redesign estimates for FY 2016 through FY 2023 are based on current assumptions and projections, and are subject to change.
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Performance Goals and Measurement Data:
Performance Measure:
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Target With Change 1) Conduct a field test to
validate the MAF quality measurement and improvement approaches. Analyze results, refine the statistical models, and document results. 2) Conduct a field test designed to understand the impact of multiple self-response contact strategies and modes, multiple nonresponse contact strategies and modes, methodologies to reduce the nonresponse follow-up workload, and adaptive design techniques. Analyze results and refine strategies. 3) Develop plans for a FY 2015 integration test of the refined self-response and nonresponse contact strategies and modes.
1) Conduct testing of refined self-response and nonresponse contact strategies and modes, and testing of questionnaire content for the 2020 Census. Analyze and document results. 2) Approaches are selected for measuring and improving MAF quality. 3) Preliminary estimates of 2020 self-response and internet response are established. 4) Approaches are selected for integrating, expanding, and optimizing field and IT infrastructure. 5) Initiate the planning, design, and development of select 2020 Census operations.
1) Conduct additional testing of self-response contact strategies, focusing on optimizing timing of contacts and support for non-English-speaking populations
2) Conduct a field test to further examine the reengineered approach to field staff management, and the associated operations control system that was piloted in FY 2015 testing.
3) Approach to field management processes and systems is proven in.
4) Approaches are selected for supporting non-English languages for the 2020 Census
5) Conduct feasibility test(s) of consolidation of field operations
6) Conduct testing of Group Quarters operational design
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Without the requested increase, we will not be able to continue a 2020 Census early planning effort in FY 2015.
Without the requested increase, we will not be able to complete the necessary testing to arrive at a preliminary design for the 2020 Census. Without the evidence needed to support key innovations aimed at achieving our cost and quality goals, we will resort to proven, but more expensive methods of conducting the 2020 Census. Innovative approaches to conducting the 2020 Census to achieve our cost goals may be abandoned.
Without the requested increase, we will not be able to complete the necessary testing to refine and implement the design for the 2020 Census. Without the evidence needed to incorporate new methods and innovations into our design, we will resort to obsolete and more costly methods and our ability to meet our cost goals will be jeopardized. We also need to begin building major systems and infrastructures in FY 2016. Without requested funding, this work will have to be delayed to FY 2017, adding significant risk and cost to the overall 2020 Census program.
Description: Make and implement major design decisions based on high-quality information derived from individual product performance measures and key decision points.
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Demographic statistics programs Sub- program: Decennial census program Program Change: 2020 Census
FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Increase Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $85,08211.3 Other than full-time permanent $68,446 73,91511.5 Other personnel compensation 963 2,10211.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation 69,409 161,09912.1 Civilian personnel benefits 8,959 43,00313 Benefits for former personnel (485) 43921 Travel and transportation of persons 2,530 5,30522 Transportation of things (5) 14023.1 Rental payments to GSA 3,615 14,20123.2 Rental payments to others 924 1,17723.3 Commun., util., misc. charges (388) 7,49024 Printing and reproduction (6,310) 1,47725.1 Advisory and assistance services 21,338 45,18425.2 Other services from other non-Federal sources 154,724 244,07725.3 Purchases of goods and services from gov't accts. 11,468 28,58625.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities 889 3,16425.5 Research and development contracts 13,678 15,87825.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 37,149 73,17825.8 Subsistence and support of persons 201 26026 Supplies and materials 457 1,63131 Equipment (1,336) 16,26132 Lands and structures 0 033 Investments and loans 0 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 043 Interest and dividends 0 044 Refunds 0 099 Total obligations 316,817 662,550
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Line Item: American Community Survey
Base Program The Census Bureau has supported a steady state American Community Survey (ACS) Program. However, as changes occur in the nation, the ACS must adapt to technological innovations and methodological changes. The ACS must respond to demands by data users for new products and information that reflect the dynamic economy and population of the country. The ACS, replaced the once-a-decade data collection once known as the decennial census long form. It was designed to meet the needs of the Federal Government, states, municipalities, tribal governments, and businesses for current data about rapid demographic changes in the United States. The ACS is sent monthly to a small percentage of the population. It collects detailed information on the characteristics of population and housing on an ongoing basis. The ACS collects data from households and group quarters in all counties throughout the U.S. (including the fifty states, District of Columbia, and all municipios in Puerto Rico) and continues to be the only Census Bureau population-based survey that collects information in many of these counties. The ACS is also the only source of data for small geographic areas and small populations. ACS data enables Federal agencies, tribal officials, state governments, and local customers to make decisions based on current information, rather than on data collected nine or more years ago. In addition, the ACS provides the business community with the information they need to determine where to place their businesses and what type of products and services to provide communities, which helps generate job growth in these communities. For fiscal year 2016, the ACS Program will continue the survey life cycle of planning and implementing operations to release the estimates from the ACS each year, based on the previous year’s data collection. Due to declining response rates in demographic surveys, the ACS is committed to continuing to expand communication efforts to better reach and educate respondents, data users, the public, and other target audiences. In addition, we are conducting a comprehensive content review of all topics and questions on the American Community Survey. The goal is to ensure that information collected by the ACS to administer federal programs also minimizes burden on the American public. This undertaking will occur in stages with the initial focus on topics with a known degree of difficulty associated with collecting the information from respondents. Potentially, this effort could lead to changes to the 2016 ACS questionnaire content. Full implementation of the ACS eliminated the need for a long form as part of the 2010 Census resulting in substantially reducing the complexity and cost of the 2010 Census. Collecting long-form data during the decade through the ACS has had a profound effect on the census design plan. As demonstrated during the 2010 Census, the collection of long-form data through the ACS relieved a substantial burden and complexity to the Decennial Census operations. Implementing the ACS means that the Decennial Census can focus on its constitutional mandate to accurately count the population to apportion the House of Representatives. The ACS remains a test bed for the Decennial Census and provides support in determining appropriate approaches for the 2020 design. The ACS—supported by a complete and accurate address system—has simplified the census design, resulting in improvements in both coverage and data quality, while providing current data on detailed population, social, economic, and housing characteristics.
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PROGRAM CHANGES: American Community Survey ($15,213,000, 227 FTE): The ACS releases over 11 billion estimates each year. This is a tremendous amount of information used by Federal and non-Federal data users. Data from the ACS, in conjunction with other Census data, are used to distribute more than $400 billion of Federal dollars each year. State, tribal and local governments use ACS estimates to inform a variety of planning decisions, including where to build new schools and hospitals, and where to focus emergency planning and public transportation efforts. Business and non-profit organizations use ACS estimates to determine where to locate and to predict the types of products or services that may be needed in a given geographic area. The requested $15.2 million increase for the American Community Survey will reduce current and emerging program risk by (1) strengthening production activities with the program, (2) conducting research focused on reduced respondent burden and increased program efficiency, and (3) improving external communication activities. Production The FY 2016 increase proposes to restore several ACS operations focused on the quality of ACS data, thus ensuring data quality, respondent cooperation, and data user satisfaction. These include:
• Failed Edit Follow-up (FEFU) Operation ($4.5 million): FEFU is an important data quality improvement operation that collects data that was left incomplete by respondents. Eliminating the FEFU operation in FY 2013, FY 2014 and FY 2015 has increased missing data rates for mail and Internet respondents, which has reduced data quality. Based on an analysis of 15 key questions, the average missing data rate was 5.5 percent prior to the FEFU cut. After the FEFU cut was implemented, the average missing data rate for the 15 key questions increased to 8.5 percent. In order to improve data quality, FEFU will be restored.
• Field Representative Refresher Training ($2.1 million): ACS conducts refresher training of the FR staff annually in order to provide additional classroom instruction to reinforce respecting the respondent when establishing contact and interacting with the respondent, clarify and reinforce difficult survey concepts, train the FRs on new concepts, and share or clarify field procedures. Refresher training improves data quality by reducing non-sampling errors. Refresher training also emphasizes to field staff the importance of good relationship management techniques with the American public. The Census Bureau depends of good relationships with our respondents because they supply to vital data we need to meet our mission. However, this training has not been conducted since FY 2012. Without this training, the ACS has experienced increased risk of reductions in data quality, delays in the schedule, increases in cost, and increases in respondent complaints.
• General Performance Reviews (GPRs) ($1.7 million): Each year, Census Bureau Regional Office supervisors are required to conduct GPRs of FRs. These reviews provide FRs the opportunity to receive immediate and direct feedback from their supervisor on their performance. This helps to clarify and reinforce survey interviewing techniques, correct the inaccurate implementation of field procedures, observe the FR’s interactions with respondents, and reinforce the needs to interact with respondents in a respectful manner. The reviews also improve data quality by reducing data quality errors. Continued failure to conduct these reviews, which have been deferred due to resource constraints,
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increases the risk of reductions in data quality, delays in the schedule, increases in cost, and increases in respondent complaints.
Data Products Restoration of ACS Data Products ($1.5 million): Each year, the ACS releases a wide range of data products widely used by policymakers, Federal, state and local governments, businesses and the public to make decisions on allocation of taxpayer-funds, the location of businesses and the placement of products, emergency management plans, and a host of other matters. Resource constraints have led to the cancellation of data products for areas with populations between 20 and 60 thousand based on 3-year rolling averages of ACS data (known as the “3-Year Data” Product). They have also resulted in delays in the release of the 1- and 5- year Public Use Macro Sample (PUMS) data files and canceled the release of the 5-year Comparison Profile data product and the Spanish Translation of the 1- and 5-year Puerto Rico data products. The Census Bureau proposes to terminate permanently the “3-Year Data” Product. The Census Bureau intended to produce this data product for a few years when the ACS was a new survey. Now that the ACS has collected data for nearly a decade, this product can be discontinued without serious impacts on the availability of the estimates for these communities. The ACS would like to restore the timely release of the other essential products in FY2016. The continued absence of these data products will impact the availability of data – especially for Puerto Rico – to public and private sector decision makers.
Research on Reduced Respondent Burden, Enhanced Data Products, and Greater Operational Efficiency The FY 2016 Budget includes $2.4 million to conduct new research aimed at reducing respondent burden and increasing program efficiency. This funding supports three high-priority research projects in FY 2016 to help achieve these goals:
• Innovative Data Collection Procedures: In response to communications from constituents, the Congress has raised concerns about ACS data collection procedures. The Census Bureau has begun examining approaches to reduce respondent burden and perceived intrusiveness. The FY 2016 budget proposes additional research to understand the impacts of changing data collection procedures, so that the ACS maintains high quality data while reducing respondent burden and perceived intrusiveness.
• Questionnaire Content: In FY2014, the Congress directed the Census Bureau to conduct a comprehensive review of all ACS survey questions to ensure that they contain only those necessary to support the needs of the Federal Government and the American people. While the initial phase of that work is completed, there is additional work on the questionnaire content that could result in reducing the number of questions through both the use of alternative data sources, and rewording of the questions aimed at reducing the level of respondent difficulty in answering the questions. The FY 2016 budget contains funding to continue this research.
• Monthly Estimates: Since the ACS conducts data collection operations monthly, there is an
opportunity for the program to produce national and state level estimates every month. This is especially important in situations where conditions for certain characteristics change rapidly at the national or state level. In these cases, a “before and after” measure would be useful in understanding the impact of these changes. However, the ACS is not currently designed to
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produce estimates on a monthly basis. There are operational and statistical challenges in producing monthly estimates that the Census Bureau needs to overcome in order to make this possible and this proposed research will help the Census Bureau fully understand and addresses these challenges, so that the release of monthly estimates could be proposed in the future.
Communication The FY 2016 budget contains $3.0 million to expand communications, outreach and partnership efforts with stakeholders. These efforts are aimed at increasing customer satisfaction with the survey, decreasing respondent complaints, and increasing the program’s value to stakeholders. This will be accomplished by:
• Developing new and modifying existing educational materials to support our outreach efforts with the Congress, the business community, state, local and tribal governments, and the respondents.
• Assessing the impact of modified questionnaire mail package design features and messaging on improving self-response rates.
• Planning and implementing an ACS 2017 Data User Conference. Linkages with other programs The ACS Program will take advantage of and participate in related work across the Census Bureau in the following ways:
• System Integration: o The ACS is a key participant in Census Enterprise Data Collection and
Processing (CEDCaP) initiative. o The ACS is participating in the development of the Listing and Mapping
Instrument (LIMA), focused on developing a common application for address and map updating across all surveys and censuses.
• Research: o The ACS is working with the 2020 Census to integrate, where appropriate, ACS
research and testing into the 2020 Census program in the areas of Internet implementation, messaging, content and contact strategy methodology.
o The ACS is also exploring the potential use of Administrative Records data to help reduce respondent burden.
Statement of Need and Economic Benefits The rich data that the ACS releases each year provide tremendous benefits to both public and private sector organizations. Examples of the utility of ACS data to a wide range of stakeholders include:
• Federal, state, local, and tribal governments: Federal Government agencies use ACS estimates to inform public policy, distribute funds, and assess programs. For example, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs uses ACS estimates to evaluate the need for health care, education, and employment programs for those who have served in the military, and the U.S. Department of Education uses ACS estimates to develop adult education and
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literacy programs. Information from the ACS is critical for state, local, and tribal policymakers and planners as well.
• Business: Business use ACS estimates to determine where to locate and to predict the types of products and services needed in a given geographic area. For example, Target uses ACS data to differentiate between urban vs. suburban stores and shoppers, so they can in turn adjust the size and types of products (e.g., furniture and clothes) in different stores.
• Nongovernmental organizations: ACS estimates are freely available to the public and are routinely used by researchers, non-profit organizations, and community groups to design further business ventures, and to apply for funding in the form of grants and donations for community projects.
• American Indians and Alaska Natives: ACS estimates are used by tribal planners and
administrators, as well as national organizations serving American Indians and Alaska Natives to plan for future economic development, housing needs, and access to health and educational services for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
• Emergency Planners: Emergency Planners use ACS estimates to find local statistics critical to emergency planning, preparedness and recovery efforts. When severe weather threatens or a natural disaster has occurred, ACS estimates provide important characteristics about the displaced population and the characteristics of housing that may be damaged or destroyed.
Potential Return on Investment The ACS is a unique national asset, providing a service that no other program, public or private, provides. It is the only sources of small-area and small-population statistics on a wide range of important housing, social, economic, and demographic characteristics for all communities in the country. As such, there are two key ways having an ACS provides a return on investment:
• For the Census Bureau: Utilizing the ACS as a test bed for the 2020 Census, allows
the Census Bureau to leverage existing infrastructure and resources at a lower cost than building these for 2020, which provides overall efficiency and optimization.
• For the American public: Having an ACS provides the nation with critical information to make important data driven decisions for much needed programs, services, and infrastructure to enhance the lives of those living in the United States of America. At a fundamental level, the ACS provides current and consistent information for everyone.
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY PERSONNEL (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Demographic statistics programs Sub- program: Decennial census program Program Change: American community survey
Number Annual TotalLocation Grade of Positions Salary Salaries
Program Analyst Suitland, MD GS-14 10 $107,325 $1,073,250Program Analyst Suitland, MD GS-13 10 90,823 908,230Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-12 10 76,378 763,780Mathmaticial Statistician Suitland, MD GS-12 5 76,378 381,890Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-11 11 63,722 700,942Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-09 24 52,688 1,264,512 Subtotal 70 5,092,604
Distributed share of staff for centralized services 10 869,200 Subtotal 80 5,961,804
Less Lapse 25% -20 -1,490,451Total Full-time permanent: 60 4,471,353
1.300% 58,128Total 60 4,529,481
Personnel Data NumberFull-time Equivalent Employment
Full-time permanent 60Other than full-time permanent 167Total 227
Authorized Positions:Full-time permanent 80Other than full-time permanent 120Total 200
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Demographic statistics programs Sub- program: Decennial census program Program Change: American community survey
FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Increase Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $4,529 $68,77111.3 Other than full-time permanent 4,743 44,99911.5 Other personnel compensation 12 1,18711.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation 9,284 114,95712.1 Civilian personnel benefits 1,512 36,02013 Benefits for former personnel 73 68121 Travel and transportation of persons 10 22,10022 Transportation of things 0 91923.1 Rental payments to GSA 110 8,94423.2 Rental payments to others 0 4623.3 Commun., util., misc. charges 18 14,46024 Printing and reproduction 1 3,80725.1 Advisory and assistance services 405 12,15525.2 Other services from other non-Federal sources 2,570 11,41025.3 Purchases of goods and services from gov't accts. 1,140 12,51525.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities 18 1,47125.5 Research and development contracts 5 23225.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 54 13,58725.8 Subsistence and support of persons 0 54926 Supplies and materials 11 89031 Equipment 2 2,05532 Lands and structures 0 033 Investments and loans 0 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 043 Interest and dividends 0 044 Refunds 0 099 Total obligations 15,213 256,798
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APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Periodic Censuses and Programs BUDGET PROGRAM: Geographic Support System For FY 2016, the Census Bureau requests an increase of $21,387,000 and 88 FTE from the FY 2016 base for a total of $81,061,000 and 418 FTE for Geographic Support. BASE JUSTIFICATION: The Geographic Support System (GSS) budget is organized into one budget program with the same name under the Periodic Censuses and Program account. This budget program contains one sub-program with the same name ($81.1 million and 418 FTE.) The GSS Program provides the address lists, geospatial data products, and processing systems that support the geographic requirements of all Census Bureau programs, as well as local governments and businesses that use Census Bureau Geographic data, advancing the Department of Commerce’s Science and Information goal of generating and communicating new, cutting-edge scientific understanding of technical, economic, social and environmental systems, and supports Objective 1.4 to: Improve understanding of the U.S. economy, society and environment by providing timely, relevant, trusted and accurate data, standards and services enabling entities to make informed decisions. SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENTS-TO-BASE (ATBs):
The Census Bureau requests an increase of $1.5 million to fund adjustments to the Geographic Support program.
SUB-PROGRAM: Geographic Support The GSS program provides the address lists, maps, and address and geographic reference files needed to meet the geographic requirements of all Census Bureau programs (including the economic census, the current demographic statistics program, the intercensal demographic estimates program, the ACS, and the 2020 Census). The GSS maintains the Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System, an integrated IT system consisting of a processing environment (hardware and software), the MAF/TIGER database (MTDB) that contains address, feature, and boundary data, and the processes necessary to update, maintain, and create all geographic products. These products are vital to data users, including governmental organizations, businesses, and the public who use Census Bureau data produced at all geographic levels to make resource allocation and investment decisions. The Geographic Support program provides the geographic foundation for nearly every economic, and social data product produced by the Census Bureau. The GSS Initiative (GSS-I), formulated in 2011, augments the GSS program through the continuous update of the address list and the road network. The established GSS-I Partnership Program solicits partner provided address and road data, incorporates automated methods for updating existing data with the newly acquired data, and introduced a method to quantitatively evaluate the data. The work demonstrates the ability to maintain the quality of address and geospatial data required to support a reengineered, rather than full, address canvassing operation for the 2020 Census and supports the annual update needs of the American
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Community Survey (ACS). The GSS-I will complete the update of addresses throughout the nation by the end of FY 2017 using multiple sources of data. Field data collection programs continue to offer unique benefits to the quality of the Census Bureau’s address data. The Community Address Update System (CAUS), now a component of the GSS-I, is a field operation conducted in rural areas in blocks that have a high percentage of non-city style addresses that lack available partner files. CAUS data collection allows the Census Bureau to target specific areas, serves as quality assurance for partner files, is used to evaluate newly proposed techniques of data collection, and offers the immediate impact of improving coverage for the ACS and current surveys. Legal geographic area boundaries are updated through the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS). The BAS has been conducted for over 40 years and is currently the only source of a nationally consistent inventory of governments, their legal status, and their boundary configuration. Programs within the Census Bureau rely on the BAS information to provide a record for reporting the results of the decennial and economic censuses, the ACS, and to support the Population Estimates Program. In FY 2015, the Census Bureau is reengineering the BAS to reduce costs by converting to an all-electronic format for submissions of boundary changes from local governments. Tribal governments will still have the ability to submit updates via traditional paper methods. Maintaining correct boundaries and boundary-to-feature relationships through the BAS helps ensure that the population is correctly allocated to each jurisdiction. The population is located on the map of the United States using an important MAF/TIGER process known as “geocoding”. Geocoding is the ability to assign a correct census block code for each residential address. Major improvements continue to be made to the antiquated geocoding processes and now include a geocoding application that both internal and external customers can use to obtain geographic information based on their addresses. The GSS program enables the Census Bureau to provide technology and services necessary to support and maintain the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, as mandated in Section 8 of OMB Circular A-16 (Coordination of Geographic Information and Related Spatial Data Activities). The OMB has designated the Census Bureau as the Federal agency with the lead responsibility for governmental units; and administrative and statistical boundaries. The GSS program supports the Geospatial Line of Business, which is sponsored by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). In accordance with OMB Circular A-16, the Census Bureau’s spatial data steward responsibilities for the FGDC and the Geospatial Platform include updating the inventory and boundaries of governmental units (acquired through the BAS which additionally is the source of up-to-date information on boundaries, geographic codes, and names for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System and The National Map.) The program funds the maintenance of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) geographic area codes for states, counties, metropolitan and micropolitan areas, and other geographic areas. The GSS also funds cooperative geographic code maintenance efforts with the USGS, which is the ANSI maintenance authority for place and minor civil division geographic codes. The GSS supports Geodata.gov, a web-based portal that serves as a public gateway for improving access to geospatial information and data under the Geospatial One-Stop E-Government initiative. The GSS program establishes and distributes the geographic component for the multi-agency Geospatial One-Stop project and the government’s Data.gov website.
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PROGRAM CHANGES: Geographic Support System Initiative Increase ($21,387,000, 88 FTE): The Census Bureau requests an increase of $21.387 million for the Geographic Support program. The request builds on early successes of the GSS-I such as acquiring address and road data from government partners. It will also increase the capacity to evaluate, process, and ingest the data into the MAF/TIGER System. At the base funding level, the workload outstrips capacity. Based on lessons learned from early research and initial production activities, the request supports further work on assessing the address list for the reengineered address canvassing operation for the 2020 Census as well as the ACS and current surveys. The FY 2016 request supports fieldwork to improve address list in rural areas, research and evaluation of incorporating address information from commercial and governmental sources into the Census Bureau’s database; updates to information on Group Quarters addresses; improvements to the address list in Puerto Rico; and research on advanced techniques, like the use of imagery, to detect areas of address change so that the Census Bureau’s address updating operations are targeted to yield maximum return on investment. Knowing the quality of each address aids in identifying specific areas where addresses are deficient and that will require in field address canvassing. Conversely, areas with acceptable address quality will avoid costly fieldwork in validating the address list for the 2020 Census. Information acquired as part of this request contributes to the 2020 Census design decisions and informs plans for the field operations infrastructure. Increased capacity to process geographic updates from state and local partners The FY 2016 request supports research and development efforts and increases production capacity; specifically, processes to analyze and resolve quality issues existing in partner-supplied files will be improved and the ability to mine the quality data from partner-supplied files increased. The partnership program will enhance support to partners currently lacking data of sufficient quality by offering additional data quality improvement tools. Improving address coverage in rural areas The CAUS field operation will expand to cover 10,000 blocks per year (from the current 1,500) in FY 2016 to improve address coverage in rural areas and to support resolution of limited data inconsistencies that remain after acquiring partner files. Providing the 2020 Census with an up-to-date address list to support reengineered address canvassing Essential research and evaluation of commercial data and administrative records will determine the benefits of using these records to provide address information to fill in gaps in coverage. Alternate source data that could serve as sources for data deficiencies or for use in areas entirely lacking partner files will be identified. Currently, the Postal Service’s Delivery Sequence File (DSF), a primary source of address information, and most partner-supplied files fail to differentiate among various types of housing units. For a successful 2020 Census, it is necessary to know which housing units contain group quarters (GQs), places where unrelated adults live. Therefore, maintaining the universe of GQs often requires a focused effort. This increase will support research and development into characteristics of GQs and the potential sources that can provide this information. Updates to the MAF/TIGER System for Puerto Rico will be initiated, including evaluation and use of the Puerto Rico DSF, partner file acquisition, and implementation of CAUS fieldwork. All
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of these efforts are required to reduce address canvassing in Puerto Rico prior to the 2020 Census. Research on incorporating imagery into existing programs as well as introducing new programs reliant upon imagery as source data will continue. A review of the state of technology by independent experts conducted for the Census Bureau earlier in the decade identified imagery as the most cost effective and viable source for monitoring change, particularly of roads--though advances in monitoring change in the universe of housing units was noted as promising. Use of automated feature extraction from imagery, if innovation in this area is sufficiently advanced, will be considered. The ability to successfully extract roads from imagery would alleviate the need for extensive road collection in the field, as field staff could simply identify areas of growth as candidates for in-house attention rather than conduct a time-consuming road collection. The importance of imagery for in-house determinations for targeting 2020 census field operations will also be researched. This has the potential to produce savings in the reengineered address canvassing operation for the 2020 Census by ensuring that costly fieldwork to update addresses is targeted to areas of rapid change. The GSS program increase aligns the continued work of the GSS-I with 2020 Census decision-making milestones and supports the 2020 Census goals. The GSS-I as a part of the Geographic Support program further supports the Department of Commerce’s Data goal to “Improve government, business, and community decisions and knowledge by transforming Department data capabilities and supporting a data-enabled economy." Specifically, the Department’s Objective 4.2 to "Improve data-based services, decision-making, and data sharing within the Department and with other parts of the Federal Government."
This initiative supports the Department’s Strategic Plan Objective 4.1 to "Transform the Department’s data capacity to enhance the value, accessibility and usability of Commerce data for government, business, and the public" by closing critical gaps in the Census Bureau’s ability to maintain a continuously updated address list throughout the decade. Furthermore, the GSS-I supports the Census Bureau's Strategic Plan Objective 1.6, to “Meet geo-spatial and frame-related requirements of all Census Bureau programs.” This will help ensure that statistical programs’ frame-related quality measure are achieved in a cost efficient way.
Statement of Need and Economic Benefits This increase will fund vital work in support of conducting a reengineered address canvassing operation for the 2020 Census. Tasks supported by this increase include increased capacity to process address files received from partners, increased research into the use of administrative records and commercial data, research into improving Puerto Rico addresses and GQs, increased CAUS fieldwork, and investigation of more automated change detection technologies and expanded use of imagery. An increase in the amount of CAUS block fieldwork improves the coverage in rural areas and assists in resolving identified gaps that remain following partner file updates. Additional research funding allows for the determination of the feasibility of using administrative files for address updates and supplements potential source data for improving addresses throughout the country. Commercial data potentially supplements other source data for improving addresses throughout the country. Research into Puerto Rico address characteristics and the Puerto Rico DSF allow the Census Bureau to better understand and automate Puerto Rico address updating. Group Quarters research and subsequent update
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ensures quality and coverage of GQ populations in the 2020 Census. These improvements to the quality and completeness are integral to the Census Bureau’s plans to conduct a reengineered address canvassing operation for the 2020 Census. Significant cost savings and efficiencies will result from the reduction of the number of blocks included in the address canvassing universe, which will decrease the amount of fieldwork necessary in preparation for the 2020 Census. An improved sampling frame in the U.S. yields quality benefits all of Census’ household surveys and the surveys we conduct on behalf of our customers on a reimbursable basis. More units that have unique characteristics have an increased chance of selection. Schedule and Milestones:
• Identify CAUS block selection criteria. (FY2016, Q1) • Conduct research and identify additional source data such as commercial data for MTDB
address or feature updates. (FY2016, Q2) • Create CAUS block assignments. (FY2016, Q2) • Hire and train CAUS field staff. (FY2016, Q2) • Begin research into Puerto Rico addresses; provide an analysis of the unique
characteristics of Puerto Rico addresses and a plan for accommodating these characteristics. (FY2016, Q2)
• Begin research into GQs; provide an analysis of available source data. (FY2016, Q2) • Begin research into change detection methods (FY 2016, Q2) • Begin use of PR DSF for MTDB Puerto Rico address updates. (FY2016, Q3) • Acquire source data for MTDB GQ updates. (FY2016, Q3) • Complete FY2016 CAUS fieldwork. (FY2016, Q4) • Complete research into the use of administrative records; provide a comprehensive plan
of administrative record use based on research. (FY2016,Q4) • Begin use of source data for MTDB GQ updates. (FY2016, Q4)
Deliverables:
• Deliver CAUS block assignments to FLD. (FY2016, Q2) • Hire and train CAUS field staff. (FY2016, Q1 & 2) • FLD delivery of all 10,000 FY 2016 CAUS blocks to GEO. (begin FY2016 Q2, complete
FY2016 Q4) • Complete a report of analysis of Puerto Rico addresses and a plan for accommodating
special requirements. (FY2016, Q2) • Complete a recommendation on change detection options (FY2016, Q4) • Complete a report containing an analysis of available GQ source data. (FY2016, Q2) • Use the PR DSF to update addresses in 8 Puerto Rico municipios. (FY2016, Q4)
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Performance Goals and Measurement Data
Performance Measure 1: (CAUS) FY 2014 Est.
FY 2015
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FY 2016
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FY 2017
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FY 2018
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FY 2019
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FY 2020
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With Change Assign 1,500 eligible blocks for field work.
Assign 1,500 eligible blocks for field work.
Assign 10,000 eligible blocks for field work.
Assign 10,000 eligible blocks for field work.
Assign 10,000 eligible blocks for field work.
Assign 10,000 eligible blocks for field work.
Assign 10,000 eligible blocks for field work.
Without Change Assign 1,500 eligible blocks for field work.
Assign 1,500 eligible blocks for field work.
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Description: The Community Address Update System (CAUS) aims to incorporate changes to addresses in non-urban communities in the U.S. These areas are excluded from automated updates from postal files and require the use of trained field representatives to add, update or delete non-city style addresses in the Master Address File. Assignment lists are determined through review of gross growth indicators and targeting high growth areas. It is not a GPRA measure.
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PROGRAM CHANGE PERSONNEL DETAIL (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Geographic support Sub-program: Geographic support Program Change: Geography support systems initiative
Number Annual TotalLocation Grade of Positions Salary Salaries
Mathmatical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-14 3 107,325 $321,975Mathmatical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-13 4 90,823 363,292Geographer Suitland, MD GS-13 2 90,823 181,646Mathmatical Statistician Suitland, MD GS-12 5 76,378 381,890Geographer Suitland, MD GS-12 3 76,378 229,134Clerk Suitland, MD GS-05 1 34,759 34,759 Subtotal 18 1,512,696
Distributed share of staff for centralized services 13 1,059,928 Subtotal 31 2,572,624
Less Lapse 20% -6 -514,525Total Full-time permanent: 25 2,058,099
1.300% 26,755Total 25 2,084,854
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Full-time permanent 25Other than full-time permanent 63Total 88
Authorized Positions:Full-time permanent 31Other than full-time permanent 140Total 171
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
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FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Increase Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $2,085 $30,63111.3 Other than full-time permanent 2,715 3,44711.5 Other personnel compensation 36 47411.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation 4,836 34,55212.1 Civilian personnel benefits 1,327 11,26613 Benefits for former personnel 12 16821 Travel and transportation of persons 330 80222 Transportation of things 71 10623.1 Rental payments to GSA 584 3,66423.2 Rental payments to others 45 8223.3 Commun., util., misc. charges 534 1,08424 Printing and reproduction 10 5325.1 Advisory and assistance services 10,427 13,34825.2 Other services from non-Federal sources 218 1,10725.3 Purchases of goods and services from gov't ac 681 3,64125.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities 61 1,08325.5 Research and development contracts 10 58525.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 228 6,12725.8 Subsistence and support of persons 11 5126 Supplies and materials 245 51331 Equipment 1,757 2,82932 Lands and structures 0 033 Investments and loans 0 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 043 Interest and dividends 0 044 Refunds 0 099 Total obligations 21,387 81,061
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APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Periodic Censuses and Programs BUDGET PROGRAM: Enterprise Data Collection and Dissemination Systems For FY 2016, the Census Bureau requests an increase of $17,352,000 and 84 FTE to the FY 2016 base for a total of $76,319,000 and 229 FTE for Enterprise Data Collection and Dissemination Systems. BASE JUSTIFICATION: Enterprise Data Collection and Dissemination Systems Overview The Enterprise Data Collection and Dissemination Systems (EDCaDS) budget is organized into one sub-program with the same name under the Periodic Censuses and Programs account. That sub-program consists of one line item with the same name ($76.3 million and 229 FTE). SIGNIFICANT ADJUSTMENTS-TO-BASE: The Census Bureau requests a net increase of $3.1 million to fund adjustments to the EDCaDS program. SUB-PROGRAM: Enterprise Data Collection and Dissemination Systems The Census Bureau proposes the termination of the Data Processing Systems subactivity and the creation of the EDCaDS subactivity. The Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) initiative is funded by this new subactivity, as is the Data Access and Dissemination System (DADS), the Decennial Applicant Personnel and Payroll System (DAPPS), and the decennial portion of the Census Hiring and Employment Check (CHEC) system. The CEDCaP program, begun in FY 2015, creates an integrated and standardized enterprise suite of systems that offers shared data collection and processing services. This new standardized system will enable cost avoidance by retiring unique, survey-specific system and redundant capabilities and bring a greater portion of the Census Bureau’s IT expenditure under a single, integrated and centrally managed program. The CEDCaP will reduce inefficiencies and redundancies by creating an enterprise wide data collection shared service and application that provide the functional capabilities to meet requirements across the Bureau, including the Decennial Census. We expect this initiative to garner savings by preventing the initiation of single-use survey specific systems that are retired upon their completion. We will instead focus our efforts on designing systems and applications that benefit the enterprise; allowing the bureau to implement adaptive design methodology. The DADS, or the American Fact Finder (AFF) as it is commonly known by users of Census Bureau data, is a major provider of dissemination services that are vital to the mission and strategic goals of the Census Bureau. AFF currently supports seventeen demographic and economic programs including the bureau’s largest data-producing programs such as the Decennial Census, the American Community Survey and the Economic Census. The system
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serves over 7 million users annually including Congress, federal agencies and departments, state and local governments, businesses, associations, colleges and universities and the public. The Decennial Applicant, Personnel, and Payroll System (DAPPS) is a fully integrated human resources and payroll system that meets financial and regulatory reporting requirements for temporary decennial field staff. This web-based system supports the recruiting and applicant process, hiring of employees, processing personnel actions, paying decennial field employees, providing reports and outputs, and maintaining historical data; that is, it tracks the careers of temporary decennial field employees from recruitment to background check to payroll. Census Hiring and Employment Check (CHEC), is a system in which name and fingerprint background checks are performed for applicants to determine their suitability and reliability for Federal work. Arrest records are checked for applicants by sending fingerprints or other identifying information electronically to the FBI through OPM. Once results are received, results are reviewed and additional inquiries are conducted to determine the applicant’s suitability for employment at the Census Bureau. The objective of the EDCaDS program is to provide for large cyclical systems that must be scaled for peak operations for the Decennial Census, the Economic Census, and the Census of Governments. The requirements of these systems both in terms of scale and requirements change with each iteration of the large cyclical programs and the data that they disseminate. However, given long lead times for systems development, as well as the fact that some are needed in advance of peak operations for the programs that they support, funding is often required on a cyclical bases that does not correspond with peak operations in the censuses. The Census Bureau believes that, with the advent of an enterprise approach to the data collection and processing systems, these systems also should be funded from an enterprise perspective. This would provide a stable source of funding for each system, and relieve the programs mentioned above of the cyclical budgetary pressures associated with their funding. These systems must be maintained throughout the decade. The proposed restructuring consolidates the funding for these systems in the EDCaDS subactivity. EDCaDS supports the Department of Commerce’s Data goal to “Improve government, business, and community decisions and knowledge by transforming Department data capabilities and supporting a data-enabled economy." They specifically support objective 4.1 to "Transform the Department’s data capacity to enhance the value, accessibility and usability of Commerce data for government, business and the public."
Furthermore, the Census Bureau is leading a Department-wide initiative to make Commerce data easier to access, use, download, and combine through a “Find it-Connect It” service.
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PROGRAM CHANGES FOR FY 2016:
1. Administrative Records Clearinghouse for the Evaluation of Federal and Federally-Sponsored Programs ($10,000,000, 45 FTE ):
The strategic reuse of administrative data collected by government programs can provide powerful new insights and enable evidence-based decision making for program administrators and policy makers. This budget proposal will expedite the acquisition of federal and federally-sponsored administrative data sources, improve data documentation and linkage techniques, and leverage and extend existing systems for governance, privacy protection, and secure access to these data. These activities will create an infrastructure that permits timely and high quality program evaluation via the Census Bureau’s Research Data Centers (RDCs) and potentially via other secure protocols approved by agencies contributing source data. The resulting data resources will promote the Federal Statistical System’s mission of providing quality, unbiased data to support reasoned, disciplined decisions. Statement of Need The Federal Government has many programs designed to assist individuals and businesses, and there is a pressing need to evaluate the efficacy of these programs using rigorous scientific methods. The Federal Statistical System plays a key role in promoting access to high-quality data that can be used to make evidence-driven decisions. This proposal addresses the need to expedite the acquisition, standardization, and provision of a wide range of federal and federally-sponsored program data. For decades, the Census Bureau has been pursuing federal, state, local, and private data sources to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of its own statistical programs. The Census Bureau has legal authority to acquire data through the Census Act, Title 13 of the United States Code (U.S.C.). This federal law authorizes and directs the Census Bureau to obtain records previously collected by other federal agencies, as well as state, tribal, or local governments, and to use this information instead of conducting direct inquiries whenever possible. In combination with this authority, the Census Bureau also has a specific exemption in the Privacy Act that permits agencies to transfer identifiable records to the Census Bureau. This initiative leverages four of the Census Bureau’s key strengths: an authority to obtain data with identifiable records; a proven track record protecting the confidentiality of the information obtained from census respondents, survey respondents, and administrative records; expertise in creating linkages between data sources; and an existing infrastructure that provides secure access to confidential data for authorized users in the RDC network. The requested funds will allow the Census Bureau to (1) Accelerate the acquisition and processing of federal and federally-sponsored program data, (2) Expand and improve infrastructure for processing and linking data, (3) Enhance infrastructure for the provision of data, and (4) Administer a Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. (1) Accelerate the acquisition and processing of federal and federally-sponsored program data: While the Census Bureau has the legal authority to request data from any public or private entity, most entities are not compelled to provide data. Staff need to contact agencies, explain
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the need and justification for data sharing, legal and security issues, negotiate agreements, arrange funding and technical support, and to maintain relationships and update agreements with existing data providers. Resources are also required to provide some agencies and states with cost recovery of expenses related to extract preparation and delivery. Since several of the most significant social programs are administered at the state level, national-level data analyses will require fifty or more separate acquisitions, each with its own issues and challenges. The Census Bureau has significant and long-standing experience with acquiring federal and state administrative records, including regular acquisitions from more than a dozen federal agencies, Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage data from all states, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) data from a selection of states. Funding will support concentrated efforts to obtain new federal and state data sources. Census Bureau leads will work with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop a master list of highest-priority files. Datasets will likely include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), additional fields from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) forms (e.g., Form W-2, 1099 Forms, and Form 1040), additional data sets from the Social Security Administration (SSA) (e.g., information on persons receiving Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, and parent-child information from Form SS-5), additional data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (e.g., Low Income Housing Tax Credit data and more information on Federal Housing Administration loan holders), and federal business assistance program data (e.g., administrative records from the Economic Development Administration (EDA) and Small Business Administration (SBA)). To the extent that staff are successful in managing administrative and legislative issues currently limiting access, data sharing will also include: Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS), Head Start, National Directory of New Hires (NDNH), the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and “Data Synchronization” for Title 26 data. These acquisitions of new program data are supported by existing data stewardship protections at the Census Bureau. By law, the Census Bureau is obligated to protect the privacy and confidentiality of the data it acquires and has developed a series of robust policies and safeguards. Data can only be used for statistical purposes, and cannot be used for adjudicative, enforcement, or surveillance activities. The Census Bureau cannot release data or information whereby individuals or firms could be identified, and cannot “onward” share identifiable microdata with other organizations. The Census Bureau communicates its practices, engages with privacy stakeholders, and ensures that disclosure avoidance techniques are applied to all work products. Funding will support Census Bureau exploration of the domestic and international data integration and privacy literature, identification and engagement of key stakeholders, and monitoring of public debate on these and related issues. The funding will support internal planning and strategy, the development of policies and procedures concerning data access and use, and plans for communication with Congressional staff, the press, and advisory committees. (2) Expand and improve infrastructure for processing and linking data: After agreements are signed by both agencies, significant effort is required to obtain program data and prepare it for use. In many states, the data reside in databases and are used only for administrative purposes. These states often have difficulty extracting data for delivery to the Census Bureau. A stable and robust data infrastructure will contain uniformly processed, documented data to observe trends within and across states and over time. For most programs, each state
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maintains its own data system and there is no requirement to create standardized data content. The Census Bureau will develop methods or software to improve data harmonization. Whenever permitted by the providing agency, Census will develop and implement greater automation to document, link, and anonymize the sources. By investing in quality metadata, the files will be ready for by use statisticians, social, and data scientists, to conduct analyses and prepare visualizations. The funding will support the anonymization of data through the addition of person, business, and address linkage keys, specified in corresponding agreements describing how the data may be used. The Census Bureau maintains highly developed data stewardship practices to protect the confidentiality of all entities (persons or businesses) within its data from respondents or from administrative sources. Expanded infrastructure staff will be responsible for enforcing administrative requirements for data security and mitigating data privacy concerns. All data acquired by the Census Bureau are covered by a System of Records Notice and fall under a Privacy Impact Assessment. We maintain compliance with the terms of existing agreements, including safeguard reviews, and with Paperwork Reduction Act requirements. Efforts to expand access to data may include working with OMB to propose more global administrative or legislative options to standardize data formats or to incentivize such data standardization. This could use one of several models. For example in the Public Housing Authority, vendors help PHAs code data submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for federal reporting requirements. For Medicaid, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services offers states technical assistance to standardize their data systems enabling them to comply with Medicaid Statistical Information System reporting requirements. The first exchange with any party is resource intensive. Activities related to data capture, processing, and provisioning will remain stable, because the flow of data will be ongoing once data exchange commences. This budget proposal assumes that the Census Bureau will establish data exchange relationships with most data providers within the first 36 months. (3) Enhance infrastructure for the provision of data: The funding enhances data access procedures through two mechanisms. First, it will expedite improvements to governance procedures in the RDC network. Existing processes permit proposal review, production documentation, and project status updates. The RDC proposal review team will support data providing agencies to expedite safe and authorized data access. For agencies with resource intensive review processes (such as the IRS and the SSA), funding will be available for detailed staff to support the review process. The funding also supports hardware and software expansions to provide additional data and additional users. Users will need processing power, data storage space, and software licenses. As they produce output, they will need disclosure avoidance review to ensure that their findings do not violate the disclosure provisions from any data source. Second, the funding will expedite the development of procedures for the Census Bureau to provide linkage services for other agencies or entities. This mechanism will provide for the creation of uniformly processed and linked files for use at the source agency, in the RDC network, or at a secure enclave that the agency designates. (4) Administer a Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking: This budget increase will provide for the temporary administration of a Commission of experts responsible for making recommendations about data inventory, data infrastructure, outcomes measurement protocols, data linkages, legal and administrative barriers, data sharing, funding, researcher access, confidentiality, privacy, and strategies to increase program effectiveness. The Commission will
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have representatives with expertise in academic research, database management, privacy, and program administration. Federal Statistical System agency heads and OMB will advise and consult with the Commission on their respective areas of expertise and responsibility. Benefits The project will permit the evaluation of government programs with evidence-based research. The Census Bureau is the ideal location to conduct this project due to the agency’s authority to obtain data, its strong commitment to privacy and confidentiality, its expertise in creating linkages, its infrastructure to securely provide confidential data to authorized RDC users, and its strong commitment to working collaboratively with other Federal statistical agencies. Outcomes This project will provide the Federal Government with increased capacity to make data driven decisions about critical programs and provide transparency about program effectiveness to the public. Schedule and Milestones
Fiscal Year 2016
• Hire necessary staff to accelerate expanding the infrastructure.
• Work with OMB and other stakeholders to identify and acquire highest-priority datasets for inclusion.
• Conduct environmental scan on privacy issues, engage privacy stakeholders.
• Acquire additional hardware for storing and processing data and additional software licenses.
• Enhance data access governance procedures; publish documentation detailing procedures for accessing new restricted microdata files.
• Expedite data processing, production of documentation, and improved linkage keys for highest priority datasets; and make all data available to approved users.
• Initiate and administer Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking Fiscal Year 2017 – Fiscal Year 2020
• Maintain in-house expertise on privacy issues, continue to identify and engage stakeholders. • Create Privacy Advisory Committee.
• Annually coordinate with OMB to review list of highest-priority datasets.
• Annually acquire, process, document, and provision new data files.
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• Annually update hardware and software necessary to accommodate new data acquisitions and projects.
• Annually update and publicize information for accessing restricted microdata files. Deliverables
• Acquire 65-125 new high-priority datasets from other federal and state agencies, conditional on agency agreement. Datasets likely to be included are SNAP (expecting 20-40 state-level datasets), TANF (expecting 20-40 state-level datasets), WIC (expecting 20-40 state-level datasets), National Directory of New Hires (NDNH), SSA parent-child file (“Kidlink”), additional fields from IRS W-2/1099/1040, additional data from HUD, and business-assistance program files from the EDA and SBA. For each of those 65-125 datasets, cost assumes original acquisition and ongoing updates (monthly, quarterly, or annual, depending on the program). Assuming staff are able to overcome current administrative/legislative barriers, other datasets may include SLDS, Head Start, FAFSA, and Data Synchronization.
• Produce research-ready data files, documentation, and linkage keys for file use.
• Provision linked data files within RDC network, back to source agencies, or via other secure protocols approved by the source agencies.
• Prepare technical and administrative infrastructure to support additional projects based on the new data files.
• Coordinate with other agencies to develop and publicize procedures for approval, access, and tracking of program evaluation projects using enhanced infrastructure and new data files.
• Conduct privacy literature review and environmental scan to assess sensitivity of expanded program evaluation using linked administrative data.
2. Census Enterprise Data Collection and Processing System ($7,352,000, 39 FTE):
Proposed Actions:
Fiscal Year 2016 is the second year of the Census Enterprise Collection and Processing (CEDCaP) initiative which will create an integrated and standardized system of systems that will offer shared data collection and processing across all operations. This initiative will consolidate costs by retiring unique, survey-specific systems and redundant capabilities and bring a much greater portion of the Census Bureau’s total IT expenditures under a single, integrated and centrally-managed program. We will also halt the creation of program-specific systems and put in place a solution that will be mature and proven for the 2020 Census.
The CEDCaP effort is funded jointly by the Enterprise Data Collection and Dissemination Systems and the 2020 Decennial Census programs. The narrative in this section is inclusive of the entire CEDCaP effort.
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In FY 2016, the Census Bureau will complete CEDCaP Baseline 1, delivering several systems into production in support of Decennial FY 2016 Test. System specific deliverables in FY 2016 include:
• The Control and Response Data System (CaRDS) (funded in the Decennial Census PPA) provides sample design, workload determination and post collection response processing. The first two releases will concentrate on ACS and Decennial data, eliminating the need for two separate systems. The program will start by examining the duplicity that currently exists and determine methods of streamlining functions that can be used by both the American Community Survey (ACS) and Decennial programs. In the future, CaRDS will also include other Census Bureau surveys. The initial release of CaRDs will be deployed into the production environment in FY 2016, delivering functionality needed for the Decennial FY 2016 Test.
• The Census Bureau has outlined a vision, commonly known as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) where application services and data are provided through an application programming interface (API), making them accessible across the enterprise. Toward this effort, the Census Bureau has implemented a set of policies for new system interface designs, which requires a SOA platform/framework on which to build, deploy, scale and manage the Census’s shared services. This infrastructure provides the framework on which to build the APIs. In FY 2016, SOA will deliver its release to the production environment providing functionality needed for Decennial FY 2016 Test.
• Multimode Operational Control System (MOCS) is a service-based solution that serves as the primary mechanism for operational control across multiple survey modes. MOCS is the “Executor” and operational brain. It receives augmented frame data and paradata, and executes business-rules-based workflows to determine the appropriate course of action for cases. It then assigns the cases to the specific mode processing systems. In FY 2016, MOCS will deliver its initial release to the production environment providing functionality needed for the Decennial FY 2016 Test.
• Centurion (funded in the Decennial Census PPA) is an existing secure Internet system used for the design, delivery, and execution of surveys, censuses, and other data collection and data exchange efforts. Enhancements under the CEDCaP program will allow the current system to be expanded, allowing more surveys the ability to reach large numbers of potential respondents online. Centurion allows the Census Bureau to collect data more cost effectively and with a higher degree of accuracy as compared to equivalent traditional collection methods. In FY 2016, Centurion will deliver an initial CEDCaP release that provides a new interface using the SOA architecture and will allow access to data from other systems like the Multi-Mode Operational Control System (MOCS).
• The Integrated Computer Assisted Data Entry (iCADE) (funded in the Decennial Census PPA) system is a large-scale, comprehensive data capture solution for paper based data collection operations. It facilitates the batching, scanning, registration, interpretation, quality control measurement, error containment, as well as an exception review process. It also provides scanned digital images of respondent questionnaires in near-real time (i.e. every few hours). Under CEDCaP, several system enhancements and modifications necessary for continued use of iCADE by Census and external customers, will be completed. The primary driver of those enhancements and modifications will be Decennial requirements, leading up to using iCADE for the 2020 Census. In FY 2016, iCADE will release a new interface using
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the SOA architecture, allowing access to its data from other systems such as MOCS, Universal Tracking System (UTS) and Content Metadata system (COMET).
• The Unified Tracking System (UTS) is an existing application used by survey managers. UTS provides custom business intelligence reporting to stakeholders using paradata collected from various mode-level applications (paper, Internet, telephone, in-person) to track progress. UTS’ back end functionality must be modified to work seamless with the other new and updated CEDCaP systems in order to accurately report of progress and performance in advance of the Decennial FY 2016 Test.
In FY 2016, all other CEDCaP projects will continue to follow the enterprise system development lifecycle (eSDLC) and develop functionality to address the next major release which is specific to capability needs of the 2020 Decennial Census. The CEDCaP program will continue development and testing efforts for all other systems within its scope.
Statement of Need and Economic Benefits:
There are currently six unique systems at the U.S. Census Bureau for managing survey samples during data collection operations; twenty unique systems to manage the different modes of data collection, data capture, and field control; and five major unique survey and census data processing systems. In the preparation and execution of the 2010 Census, the Census Bureau spent over $1 billion to build and deploy only four of the nearly thirty systems similar to those mentioned above. After the 2010 Census, those four systems were retired. In the Enterprise Data Collection and Processing initiative, we are creating an integrated and standardized system of systems that offers shared data collection and processing services across the enterprise. We will consolidate costs by retiring unique, survey-specific systems and redundant capabilities and bring a significant portion of the Census Bureau’s total IT expenditures under a single, integrated and centrally managed program. We will halt the creation of program-specific systems and puts in place an enterprise solution that will be mature and proven for the 2020 Census. This solution will both precede and outlast the 2020 Decennial Census becoming a permanent enterprise data collection and processing environment at an estimated cost lower than the cost of 2010 Census systems alone. As noted earlier, the CEDCaP initiative works in concert with the 2020 program increase, which funds several of the systems that, combined, move the Census Bureau toward common enterprise solutions for data collection and processing functions. The potential cost savings cited in the 2020 Census narrative assume the CEDCaP initiative is fully funded.
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Schedule and Milestones:
Fiscal Year 2016
• Baseline 1 the Centralized Operational Analysis and Control and Adaptive Design capability Ready for Production
• Enterprise Paradata Repository in development Fiscal Year 2017
• All Systems Integrations Test for Baseline 2 of the Centralized Operational Analysis and Control and Adaptive Design capability Complete
• Dashboard for Monitoring Survey Cost, Progress, and Quality implemented • Survey Interview Operational Control Systems Production and Interfaces Complete
Fiscal Year 2018
• Baseline 2 of the Centralized Operational Analysis and Control and Adaptive Design capability Ready for 2020 Census Testing
• Survey Interview Operational Control Systems Production and Interfaces in production in the American Community Survey and for 2020 testing
Fiscal Year 2019
• Economic Pilot Test Complete • Systems Integrations Test for Iteration 3 of the Centralized Operational Analysis and Control
and Adaptive Design capability
Fiscal Year 2020 • 2020 Census • Further development of capabilities for the 2022 Economic Census
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Performance Goals and Measurement Data
Performance Measure:
FY 2016 Target
FY 2017 Target
FY 2018 Target
FY 2019 Target
FY 2020 Target
With Change 1) MOCS, iCADE, Centurion, UTS, CaRDS and CoMeT integrated into Decennial FY16 Test environment 2)Enterprise Paradata Repository in development
1) Systems Integration Test for Baseline 2 of the Centralized Operational Analysis and Control and Adaptive Design capability Complete 2)Dashboard for Monitoring Survey Cost, Progress, and Quality implemented 3) Survey Interview Operational Control Systems Production and Interfaces Complete
1) Baseline 2 of the Centralized Operational Analysis and Control and Adaptive Design capability Ready for 2020 Census testing
2) Survey Interview Operational Control Systems Production and Interfaces in production in the American Community Survey and for 2020 testing
1)Economic Pilot Test Complete 2) Systems Integration Test for Iteration 3 of the Centralized Operational Analysis and Control and Adaptive Design capability implemented
1) 2020 Census 2) Further develop-ment of capabilities for the 2022 Census
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Continued from previous page:
FY 2016 Target
FY 2017 Target
FY 2018 Target
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FY 2020 Target
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1) Continued use of non-enterprise out-dated legacy systems for the Decennial FY 16 Test moving into 2020 Census development
2) No enterprise paradata repository
1) Anticipate large single-system expenditure for development of the 2020 Census Operational control capabilities
2)Dashboard capability developed for 2020 alone
Anticipate high-cost single-use systems for 2020 Census
Continued siloed approach to Economic and Demographic system development in preparation for 2022 Economic Census and ongoing Current Surveys
1) Anticipate high-cost single-use systems for 2020 Census
2) Continue siloed approach to Economic and Demo-graphic system development in preparation for 2022 Economic Census and ongoing Current Surveys
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PROGRAM CHANGE PERSONNEL DETAIL
Budget Program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Sub-program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Program Change: Administrative records clearinghouse initiative
Number Annual TotalLocation Grade of Positions Salary Salaries
Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-14 2 $107,325 $214,650Program Analyst Suitland, MD GS-14 2 107,325 214,650IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-14 1 107,325 107,325Economist Suitland, MD GS-14 1 107,325 107,325General Attorney Suitland, MD GS-14 2 107,325 214,650Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-13 6 90,823 544,938Program Analyst Suitland, MD GS-13 2 90,823 181,646IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-13 2 90,823 181,646Economist Suitland, MD GS-13 1 90,823 90,823Survey Statistician Suitland, MD GS-12 6 76,378 458,268Program Analyst Suitland, MD GS-12 3 76,378 229,134IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-12 4 76,378 305,512Computer Scientist Suitland, MD GS-12 2 76,378 152,756Paralegal Specialist Suitland, MD GS-12 1 76,378 76,378 Subtotal 35 3,079,701
Distributed share of staff for centralized services 10 797,192 Subtotal 45 3,876,893
Less Lapse 0% 0 0Total Full-time permanent: 45 3,876,893
1.300% 50,400Total 45 3,927,293
Personnel Data NumberFull-time Equivalent Employment
Full-time permanent 45Other than full-time permanent 0Total 45
Authorized Positions:Full-time permanent 45Other than full-time permanent 0Total 45
Title:
2016 Pay Adjustment
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PROGRAM CHANGE PERSONNEL DETAIL
Budget Program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Sub-program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Program Change: Census enterprise data collection and processing increase
Number Annual TotalLocation Grade of Positions Salary Salaries
IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-15 4 $126,245 $504,980IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-15 4 126,245 504,980Computer Engineer Suitland, MD GS-15 2 126,245 252,490IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-14 11 107,325 1,180,575IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-14 6 107,325 643,950Budget Analyst Suitland, MD GS-14 1 107,325 107,325IT Specialist Suitland, MD GS-13 2 90,823 181,646 Subtotal 30 3,375,946
Distributed share of staff for centralized services 18 1,482,162 Subtotal 48 4,858,108
Less Lapse 20% -10 -971,622Total Full-time permanent: 38 3,886,486
1.300% 50,524Total 38 3,937,010
Personnel Data NumberFull-time Equivalent Employment
Full-time permanent 38Other than full-time permanent 1Total 39
Authorized Positions:Full-time permanent 48Other than full-time permanent 3Total 51
Title:
2016 Pay Adjustment
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Sub-program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Program Change: Administrative records clearinghouse initiative
FY 2016 FY 2016Object Class Increase Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $3,927 $19,95111.3 Other than full-time permanent 17 66211.5 Other personnel compensation 9 17311.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation 3,953 20,78612.1 Civilian personnel benefits 1,087 6,74213 Benefits for former personnel 11 6021 Travel and transportation of persons 21 30422 Transportation of things 1 823.1 Rental payments to GSA 112 86023.2 Rental payments to others 0 7623.3 Commun., util., misc. charges 44 80924 Printing and reproduction 4 2925.1 Advisory and assistance services 86 7,03125.2 Other services from non-Federal sources 2,759 18,03625.3 Purchases of goods and services from gov't accts. 359 2,85625.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities 28 20725.5 Research and development contracts 6 1,52625.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 99 8,95725.8 Subsistence and support of persons 3 2826 Supplies and materials 15 10431 Equipment 1,412 7,90032 Lands and structures 0 033 Investments and loans 0 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 043 Interest and dividends 0 044 Refunds 0 099 Total obligations 10,000 76,319
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PROGRAM CHANGE DETAIL BY OBJECT CLASS (Dollars in thousands)
Budget Program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Sub-program: Enterprise data collection and dissemination systems Program Change: Census enterprise data collection and processing increase
FY 2016 FY 2016
Object Class Increase Total Program
11 Personnel compensation11.1 Full-time permanent $3,937 $19,95111.3 Other than full-time permanent 29 66211.5 Other personnel compensation 96 17311.8 Special personnel services payments 0 011.9 Total personnel compensation 4,062 20,78612.1 Civilian personnel benefits 1,397 6,74213 Benefits for former personnel 29 6021 Travel and transportation of persons 53 30422 Transportation of things 1 823.1 Rental payments to GSA (179) 86023.2 Rental payments to others 68 7623.3 Commun., util., misc. charges (7,195) 80924 Printing and reproduction 8 2925.1 Advisory and assistance services 134 7,03125.2 Other services from non-Federal sources (144) 18,03625.3 Purchases of goods and services from gov't accts. 399 2,85625.4 Operation and maintenance of facilities (74) 20725.5 Research and development contracts 1,287 1,52625.6 Medical care 0 025.7 Operation and maintenance of equipment 1,812 8,95725.8 Subsistence and support of persons 13 2826 Supplies and materials 6 10431 Equipment 5,675 7,90032 Lands and structures 0 033 Investments and loans 0 041 Grants, subsidies and contributions 0 042 Insurance claims and indemnities 0 043 Interest and dividends 0 044 Refunds 0 099 Total obligations 7,352 76,319
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Exhibit 33
Department of Commerce U.S. Census Bureau
Periodic Censuses and Programs Appropriation Language and Code Citations:
1. For necessary expenses to collect and publish statistics for periodic censuses and
programs provided for by law, $1,222,101,000 to remain available until September 30, 2017, provided that from amounts provided herein, funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities.
13 U.S.C. §§4, 6, 12, 61-63, 81, 91, 181, 182, 301-307, 401; 15 U.S.C. §§1516, 4901 et seq.; 19 U.S.C. §§1484(e), 2354, 2393.
13 U.S.C. §4 authorizes the Secretary to "perform the functions and duties imposed upon him by this title," or he may delegate any of them "to such officers and employees of the Department of Commerce as he may designate."
13 U.S.C. §§6, 12, 61-63, 81, 91, 182, 301-307 provide for (1) acquisition of information from other organizations, public and private; (2) conducting joint statistical projects with nonprofit organizations or agencies; (3) conducting mechanical and electronic developmental work as needed; (4) collection and publication of statistics on fats and oils; (5) collection and publication of statistics relating to the domestic apparel and textile industries; (6) collection and publication of quarterly financial statistics of business operations; (7) conducting current surveys on statistical subjects covered by periodic censuses; and (8) compilation and publication of information on imports, exports, and mode of transportation.
13 U.S.C. §181 provides that "The Secretary...shall annually produce and publish for each state, county, and local unit of general purpose government which has a population of fifty thousand or more, current data on total population and population characteristics and...shall biennially produce and publish for other local units of general purpose government current data on total population."
13 U.S.C. §401 provides that "The Bureau of the Census shall exchange with the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce information collected under this title, and under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act, that pertains to any business enterprise that is operating in the United States, if the Secretary of Commerce determines such information is appropriate to augment and improve the quality of data collected under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act."
15 U.S.C. §1516 provides that "The Secretary of Commerce shall have control of the work of gathering and distributing statistical information naturally relating to the subjects confided to his department...He shall also have authority to call upon other departments
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of the government for statistical data and results obtained by them; and he may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise."
15 U.S.C. §4901 et seq. provides that "The Secretary [of Commerce] shall establish the [National Trade] Data Bank. The Secretary shall manage the Data Bank."
19 U.S.C. §1484(e) provides that "The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, and the United States International Trade Commission are authorized and directed to establish...an enumeration of articles...comprehending all merchandise imported into the United States and exported from the United States, and shall seek, in conjunction with statistical programs for domestic production and programs for achieving international harmonization of trade statistics, to establish the comparability thereof with such enumeration of articles."
19 U.S.C. §2354 provides that "Whenever the [International Trade] Commission begins an investigation...with respect to an industry, the Commission shall immediately notify the Secretary [of Commerce] of such investigation, and the Secretary shall immediately begin a study of:
(1) the number of firms in the domestic industry producing the like or directly
competitive article which have been or are likely to be certified as eligible for adjustment assistance, and
(2) the extent to which the orderly adjustment of such firms to the import
competition may be facilitated through the use of existing programs."
19 U.S.C. §2393 provides that "The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor shall establish and maintain a program to monitor imports of articles into the United States which will reflect changes in the volume of such imports, the relation of such imports to changes in domestic production, changes in employment within domestic industries producing articles like or directly competitive with such imports, and the extent to which such changes in production and employment are concentrated in specific geographic regions of the United States."
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l FT
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556
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40
0
Incr
ease
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ecre
ase)
ov
er B
ase
2014
Act
ual
2015
Ena
cted
2016
B
ase
2016
Est
imat
e
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IS P
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TIO
NA
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Y L
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T B
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NK
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Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ceU
.S. C
ensu
s B
urea
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ng C
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l Fun
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MM
ARY
OF
REI
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IGAT
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ount
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sand
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bit 6
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alFY
201
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acte
dFY
201
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timat
eFe
dera
l Age
ncie
s
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cy fo
r Int
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tiona
l Dev
elop
men
t$5
,378
$8,6
85$7
,225
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artm
ent o
f Agr
icul
ture
4,05
6
18,7
99
3,
010
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artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ce2,
741
3,
417
1,95
4
D
epar
tmen
t of D
efen
se83
4
80
5
927
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epar
tmen
t of E
duca
tion
22,5
98
19
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22,8
37
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epar
tmen
t of E
nerg
y89
6
1,
614
974
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epar
tmen
t of H
ealth
and
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an S
ervi
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67,6
67
63
,650
52,9
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epar
tmen
t of H
ousi
ng a
nd U
rban
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elop
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t20
,934
28,0
39
20
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artm
ent o
f Jus
tice
34,0
36
43
,559
35,8
01
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epar
tmen
t of L
abor
83,3
52
10
8,66
8
88,6
49
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epar
tmen
t of T
rans
porta
tion
3,59
4
4,55
5
4,
181
Dep
artm
ent o
f Tre
asur
y71
4
43
755
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atio
nal S
cien
ce F
ound
atio
n7,
890
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923
7,76
7
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ther
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eral
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ncie
s8,
729
8,
668
12,5
01
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isce
llane
ous
reim
burs
able
ser
vice
s19
,493
4,06
2
2,
303
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tota
l Fed
eral
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ncie
s28
2,91
2
32
4,11
7
262,
683
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tistic
al W
ork)
396
7,57
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5,
016
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L28
3,30
8
33
1,69
4
267,
699
CEN - 145
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ceU
.S. C
ensu
s B
urea
uW
orki
ng C
apita
l Fun
d S
UM
MA
RY
OF
FIN
AN
CIN
G -R
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RS
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LE(D
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ount
s in
thou
sand
s)
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ibit
7A
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al20
15En
acte
d20
16B
ase
2016
Estim
ate
Incr
ease
/(D
ecre
ase)
over
Bas
e
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l Obl
igat
ion
$283
,308
$331
,694
$267
,699
$267
,699
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ncin
g: O
ffset
ting
colle
ctio
ns fr
om:
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eder
al F
unds
(290
,532
)(2
93,4
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(255
,523
)(2
55,5
23)
0
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-Fed
eral
sou
rces
(12,
105)
(12,
228)
(10,
647)
(10,
647)
0
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er0
00
00
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over
ies
(756
)(1
,000
)0
00
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blig
ated
bal
ance
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r(1
97,6
70)
(217
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55)
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blig
ated
bal
ance
tran
sfer
red
00
00
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nobl
igat
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ng0
00
00
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blig
ated
bal
ance
, end
of y
ear
217,
755
192,
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191,
226
191,
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0
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cret
iona
ry B
udge
t Aut
horit
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00
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ncin
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rans
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iscr
etio
nary
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ropr
iatio
n0
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CEN - 146
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ceU
.S. C
ensu
s B
urea
uW
orki
ng C
apita
l Fun
d SU
MM
ARY
OF
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ANC
ING
- AP
PRO
PRIA
TED
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lar a
mou
nts
in th
ousa
nds)
Exhi
bit
7B
2014
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al20
15En
acte
d20
16B
ase
2016
Estim
ate
Incr
ease
/(D
ecre
ase)
over
Bas
e
Tota
l Obl
igat
ion
$444
,861
$469
,436
$529
,994
$529
,994
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ncin
g: O
ffset
ting
colle
ctio
ns fr
om:
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eder
al F
unds
00
00
0
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-Fed
eral
sou
rces
00
00
0
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er(4
33,9
18)
(457
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)(5
19,9
94)
(519
,994
)0
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over
ies
(10,
608)
(12,
000)
(10,
000)
(10,
000)
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nobl
igat
ed b
alan
ce, s
tart
of y
ear
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)(3
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00
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etio
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iatio
n0
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CEN - 147
APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT: Working Capital Fund BUDGET ACTIVITY: Working Capital Fund
The FY 2016 request is for $797.7 million, a decrease of $3.4 million from FY 2015. The request includes $267.7 million in obligations from funding provided by other Federal agencies and other customers for reimbursable work that the Census Bureau performs on their behalf. The request includes 2,997 FTE in support of this reimbursable work for outside customers. BASE JUSTIFICATION FOR FY 2016: Working Capital Fund Overview The Working Capital Fund (WCF) was created by the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 (P.L. 104-208). The Working Capital Fund supports Department of Commerce and Census Bureau goals related to increasing scientific understanding and supports informed decision-making in the public and private sectors by providing current and benchmark measures of the Nation’s economy, society, and institutions. Significant Adjustments-to-Base (ATBs): The adjustments to base for the Working Capital Fund are not inflationary adjustments. Rather they reflect the cyclical nature of reimbursable work agreements that are managed by the fund. SUBACTIVITY: Working Capital Fund The Working Capital Fund is a revolving fund that supports a large reimbursable survey line of business performed for other Federal agencies. The Census Bureau is able to capitalize on its nationwide field infrastructure to conduct this work more efficiently and effectively than other agencies are able to do on their own. These reimbursable surveys include some of the most important surveys conducted by the Federal Government including the Current Population Survey, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, the National Crime Victimization Survey, the National Health Interview Survey, and the American Housing Survey, to name a few. A table breaking out FY 2016 estimated reimbursable obligations is shown below. Census leadership is taking a direct role in providing a formal structure to better serve the needs of our customers. We are aggressively implementing policies to achieve greater transparency and better communicate how the WCF serves our corporate needs, as recommended by both the Congress and GAO. The Census Bureau has developed a formal governance structure and put in place performance measures to quantify our progress. The WCF supports centralized enterprise-wide services, such as Information and Cyber Security, to both appropriated and reimbursable programs. We must constantly assess the security of all information systems that support the Census Bureau. This is essential to our core mission because our work depends on protecting respondent data. Other services include human capital support, financial and budget support, and much of the processing infrastructure that supports surveys, censuses, and programs. Positioning the Census Bureau to respond effectively to a more challenging future is an organizational priority, and key components of change initiatives include
CEN - 148
WCF funding. For example, we are investing in survey analytic capabilities to improve the quality of data we collect and enable informed decisions to reduce costs during the data collection process. The Census Bureau’s programs and projects, whether funded by appropriated funds or other funds, pay their own share of the centralized services received through the Working Capital Fund; there is full recovery of the cost of providing the service, paid by those who actually use or benefit from the service.
The entire budgeted unobligated balance at the end of each fiscal year is from funding provided by outside reimbursable customers to conduct the work that they requested.
FY 2016 Estimated Reimbursable Obligations ($ in millions)
Current Population Survey (Bureau of Labor Statistics) $52.9 Consumer Expenditure Survey (Bureau of Labor Statistics) 26.3
National Crime Victimization Survey (Bureau of Justice Statistics) 32.8
National Health Interview Survey (National Center for Health Statistics) 26.3
Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) 9.9
American Housing Survey (Department for Housing and Urban Development) 10.2
National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (National Center for Health Statistics) 8.2
National Center for Education Statistics Poverty Statistics (National Center for Education Statistics) 4.0
Surveys of College Graduates (National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics) 3.6
Telephone Point of Purchase Survey (Bureau of Labor Statistics) 3.7
Housing Sales Survey (Department for Housing and Urban Development) 4.0
Other Reimbursable Work (Various) 85.8 Total Reimbursable Obligations $267.7 *Totals may not add due to rounding.
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Ex
hibi
t 32
D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
Bur
eau
of th
e C
ensu
s
JU
STI
FIC
ATI
ON
OF
PR
OP
OS
ED
LA
NG
UA
GE
CH
AN
GE
S
1.
H
erea
fter,
amou
nts
prov
ided
by
this
Act
or b
y an
y fu
ture
app
ropr
iatio
ns A
ct, o
r am
ount
s pr
ovid
ed b
y an
y pr
ior
appr
opria
tions
Act
that
rem
ain
avai
labl
e fo
r obl
igat
ion,
for n
eces
sary
exp
ense
s of
the
prog
ram
s of
the
Eco
nom
ics
and
Sta
tistic
s A
dmin
istra
tion
of th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
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, inc
ludi
ng a
mou
nts
prov
ided
for p
rogr
ams
of th
e B
urea
u of
E
cono
mic
Ana
lysi
s an
d th
e U
.S. C
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s B
urea
u, s
hall
be a
vaila
ble
for e
xpen
ses
of c
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ents
with
ap
prop
riate
ent
ities
, inc
ludi
ng a
ny fe
dera
l, st
ate,
or l
ocal
gov
ernm
enta
l uni
t, in
tern
atio
nal o
rgan
izat
ion,
inst
itutio
n of
hig
her
educ
atio
n, o
r com
mer
cial
or n
onpr
ofit
orga
niza
tion,
to a
id a
nd p
rom
ote
stat
istic
al, r
esea
rch
and
met
hodo
logy
act
iviti
es
whi
ch fu
rther
the
purp
oses
for w
hich
suc
h am
ount
s ha
ve b
een
mad
e av
aila
ble.
The
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
requ
ests
the
auth
ority
to u
se c
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ents
in s
uppo
rt of
its
prog
ram
act
iviti
es. C
oope
rativ
e A
gree
men
ts p
rovi
de fl
exib
ility
that
trad
ition
al c
ontra
cts
and
inte
rage
ncy
agre
emen
ts a
re u
nabl
e to
pro
vide
, by
prom
otin
g co
llabo
ratio
n an
d pa
rtner
ship
s ac
ross
gov
ernm
enta
l and
non
-gov
ernm
enta
l org
aniz
atio
ns. C
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ent a
utho
rity
will
ena
ble
our s
ubje
ct m
atte
r exp
erts
in s
urve
y m
etho
dolo
gy, s
urve
y m
easu
rem
ent,
geog
raph
y, e
tc. t
o en
gage
with
lead
ing
expe
rts in
tech
nica
l are
as (e
.g.,
adva
nced
com
puta
tiona
l pro
gram
min
g, d
ata
anal
ytic
s, s
atel
lite
imag
ery)
or s
ocia
l sci
ence
or
econ
omet
rics.
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abi
lity
to im
prov
e cu
rren
t pro
cess
es th
roug
h in
nova
tion,
led
by re
sear
ch a
nd d
evel
opm
ent,
wou
ld n
ot o
nly
enha
nce
over
all e
ffici
ency
of o
pera
tions
but
als
o sa
ve s
igni
fican
t tax
paye
r dol
lars
and
pre
serv
e th
e B
urea
us’ a
bilit
y to
rem
ain
on th
e cu
tting
edg
e of
sta
tistic
al s
cien
ce. T
his
is e
xper
tise
that
we
cann
ot c
urre
ntly
acc
ess
thro
ugh
our c
urre
nt a
utho
ritie
s w
ill
furth
er o
ur a
bilit
y to
ach
ieve
mis
sion
goa
ls, s
pur i
nnov
atio
n in
last
ing
way
s an
d pr
omot
e m
ore
cost
effi
cien
t way
s of
doi
ng
busi
ness
.
At t
he c
ore
of a
coo
pera
tive
agre
emen
t is
a co
llabo
rativ
e pa
rtner
ship
bet
wee
n th
e Fe
dera
l Gov
ernm
ent a
nd a
sta
te, p
rivat
e,
or n
on-g
over
nmen
tal e
ntity
. Th
roug
h si
mila
r par
tner
ship
s, a
chie
ved
by c
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ents
, sis
ter a
genc
ies
with
in th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
hav
e re
aliz
ed s
igni
fican
t, su
bsta
ntia
l and
last
ing
bene
fits
not o
nly
to th
eir i
ndiv
idua
l mis
sion
s bu
t to
thei
r age
ncie
s as
a w
hole
. Fo
r exa
mpl
e, th
e N
atio
nal O
cean
ic a
nd A
tmos
pher
ic A
dmin
istra
tion
has
esta
blis
hed
coop
erat
ive
inst
itute
s w
ith a
cade
mic
and
non
-pro
fit re
sear
ch in
stitu
tions
to fu
rther
its
stra
tegi
c go
als,
impr
ove
proc
esse
s, a
nd a
chie
ve th
e hi
ghes
t lev
els
of p
erfo
rman
ce.
With
sta
tuto
ry c
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ent a
utho
rity,
NO
AA
can
ent
er in
to lo
ng-te
rm c
olla
bora
tive
partn
ersh
ips
that
allo
w th
e pr
omot
ion
and
supp
ort o
f res
earc
h, e
duca
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trai
ning
, and
out
reac
h al
igne
d w
ith N
OA
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mis
sion
in
a w
ay th
at e
xcee
ds it
s in
tern
al c
apab
ilitie
s.
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The
bene
fits
deriv
ed fr
om N
OA
A’s
coo
pera
tive
agre
emen
ts w
ould
be
sim
ilarly
app
licab
le to
the
Cen
sus
Bur
eau’
s m
issi
ons
and
capa
bilit
ies.
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cific
ally
, the
re a
re tw
o ty
pes
of c
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ents
that
wou
ld b
e of
imm
edia
te a
nd b
enef
icia
l use
to
the
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sus
Bur
eaus
’ cur
rent
ope
ratio
ns.
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t, th
ere
are
Res
earc
h S
uppo
rt A
gree
men
ts (R
SA
s) w
hich
are
agr
eem
ents
be
twee
n an
age
ncy
and
stat
e co
oper
ativ
e in
stitu
tions
, col
lege
s, o
r uni
vers
ities
to c
arry
out
sta
tistic
al re
sear
ch, e
xten
sion
, or
teac
hing
act
iviti
es o
f mut
ual i
nter
est b
etw
een
them
. S
econ
d, th
ere
are
Spe
cific
Coo
pera
tive
Agr
eem
ents
(SC
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whi
ch a
re
agre
emen
ts b
etw
een
an a
genc
y an
d an
othe
r par
ty th
at d
escr
ibe
in d
etai
l a jo
intly
pla
nned
and
exe
cute
d re
sear
ch p
rogr
am o
r pr
ojec
t of m
utua
l int
eres
t bet
wee
n th
em w
here
bot
h pa
rties
con
tribu
te re
sour
ces.
Bel
ow a
re tw
o ex
ampl
es o
f im
porta
nt a
nd
valu
able
ope
ratio
ns a
t Cen
sus
Bur
eau
that
cou
ld b
enef
it su
bsta
ntia
lly fr
om th
e ab
ility
to e
nter
into
thes
e ty
pes
of c
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ents
. S
uppo
rt fo
r Cen
sus
Bur
eau
Res
earc
h O
bjec
tives
. Res
earc
h S
uppo
rt A
gree
men
ts (R
SA
) wou
ld e
nabl
e C
ensu
s to
inve
st in
ed
ucat
ion,
trai
ning
, out
reac
h an
d re
sear
ch to
driv
e in
nova
tion
and
prod
uce
stat
istic
s ne
eded
for p
rogr
am e
valu
atio
n an
d po
licy
anal
ysis
. In
an
era
of re
duce
d bu
dget
s an
d de
clin
ing
resp
onde
nt c
oope
ratio
n, th
e B
urea
u ne
eds
to e
xplo
re n
ew
met
hods
to p
rovi
de a
ccur
ate
and
timel
y st
atis
tics.
Res
earc
h br
idgi
ng m
ultip
le d
isci
plin
es is
ess
entia
l: m
oder
n st
atis
tics
requ
ires
skill
s fro
m c
ompu
ter s
cien
ce, d
ata
scie
nce,
eco
nom
ics,
soc
iolo
gy, d
emog
raph
y, a
s w
ell a
s st
atis
tics.
To
acce
ss
expe
rts a
cros
s th
ese
field
s, C
ensu
s ne
eds
to e
ngag
e ac
adem
ics.
RS
As
allo
w th
e ac
quis
ition
of g
oods
and
ser
vice
s,
incl
udin
g pe
rson
al s
ervi
ces,
whi
ch p
rovi
de m
utua
l ben
efit
to th
e pa
rties
. C
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ent a
utho
rity
wou
ld p
erm
it en
gage
men
t with
the
facu
lty a
nd re
sour
ces
at a
uni
vers
ity in
way
s, m
eetin
g m
issi
on n
eeds
whe
re o
ur li
mite
d co
ntra
ctua
l ve
hicl
es fa
il.
The
2020
Cen
sus
Res
earc
h an
d Te
stin
g P
rogr
am is
exp
lorin
g th
e us
e of
adm
inis
trativ
e re
cord
s da
ta to
redu
ce c
osts
and
re
spon
dent
bur
den
whi
le m
aint
aini
ng d
ata
qual
ity.
Fede
ral a
dmin
istra
tive
data
are
obt
aine
d fro
m m
any
agen
cies
incl
udin
g th
ose
in th
e D
epar
tmen
ts o
f the
Tre
asur
y, H
ousi
ng a
nd U
rban
Dev
elop
men
t, an
d H
ealth
and
Hum
an S
ervi
ces.
Cen
sus
is
purs
uing
dat
a fro
m S
tate
pro
gram
age
ncie
s, e
spec
ially
for f
ood
secu
rity
and
wel
fare
pro
gram
s. O
ther
fede
ral a
genc
ies
and
rese
arch
con
sorti
a ar
e al
so in
tere
sted
in s
ocia
l and
eco
nom
ic m
easu
rem
ent i
nvol
ving
thes
e da
ta.
Coo
pera
tive
Agr
eem
ent
Aut
horit
y w
ould
ena
ble
Cen
sus
to e
ngag
e w
ith H
ealth
and
Hum
an S
ervi
ces,
leve
ragi
ng C
ensu
s’ re
cord
link
age
infra
stru
ctur
e an
d pr
ogra
m-s
peci
fic e
xper
tise
from
HH
S.
A S
peci
fic C
oope
rativ
e A
gree
men
t wou
ld d
efin
e a
join
tly p
lann
ed a
nd e
xecu
ted
rese
arch
pro
gram
or p
roje
ct o
f mut
ual i
nter
est.
In
add
ition
, we
belie
ve th
at th
e be
st o
ptio
n fo
r the
202
0 C
ensu
s P
rogr
am to
aut
hent
icat
e re
spon
dent
s w
ho c
anno
t pro
vide
an
iden
tific
atio
n nu
mbe
r cou
ld b
e so
lved
by
usin
g th
e N
IST
Nat
iona
l Stra
tegy
for T
rust
ed Id
entit
ies
in C
yber
spac
e (N
STI
C)
auth
entic
atio
n. C
ensu
s is
cur
rent
ly c
onst
rain
ed fr
om fu
ll te
stin
g an
d pa
rtici
patio
n in
the
NS
TIC
aut
hent
icat
ion
wor
k be
caus
e w
e ca
nnot
ent
er a
coo
pera
tive
agre
emen
t with
the
set o
f fed
eral
and
priv
ate
entit
ies
invo
lved
.
CEN - 152
Topo
logi
cally
Inte
grat
ed G
eogr
aphi
c E
ncod
ing
and
Ref
eren
cing
(TIG
ER
) Sys
tem
. The
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
crea
ted
the
TIG
ER
sy
stem
, with
ass
ista
nce
from
the
Uni
ted
Sta
tes
Geo
logi
cal S
urve
y, in
ord
er to
hav
e a
navi
gabl
e m
ap o
f the
Uni
ted
Sta
tes.
C
ensu
s B
urea
u pr
ogra
m o
pera
tors
are
con
sist
ently
eva
luat
ing
and
impr
ovin
g th
eir p
roce
sses
to e
nsur
e its
acc
urac
y an
d ef
ficie
ncy.
The
re a
re a
num
ber o
f pot
entia
l opp
ortu
nitie
s to
impr
ove
TIG
ER
with
the
assi
stan
ce o
f priv
ate
com
pani
es w
ith
rele
vant
geo
grap
hic
info
rmat
ion
syst
ems
expe
rtise
, but
it is
diff
icul
t to
ente
r int
o an
y ki
nd o
f con
tract
ual r
elat
ions
hip
with
them
gi
ven
our g
oals
.
Trad
ition
al F
eder
al A
cqui
sitio
n R
egul
atio
n (F
AR
)-ty
pe p
rocu
rem
ent c
ontra
cts
requ
ire a
n ex
chan
ge o
f val
ue fo
r goo
ds o
r se
rvic
es.
Inhe
rent
in th
is a
ppro
ach,
the
cont
ract
or m
ust m
eet a
requ
irem
ent o
r pro
duce
a d
eliv
erab
le in
exc
hang
e fo
r pa
ymen
t. H
owev
er, i
n th
is c
ase,
the
Bur
eau
and
the
priv
ate
com
pany
wou
ld s
hare
a m
utua
l obj
ectiv
e of
impr
ovin
g th
eir
inte
rnal
pro
cess
es a
nd u
ltim
atel
y th
eir e
ffici
ency
and
dat
a qu
ality
. In
doi
ng s
o, it
wou
ld b
e m
ore
bene
ficia
l to
esta
blis
h a
fram
ewor
k fo
r eng
agem
ent,
in th
e fo
rm o
f a c
oope
rativ
e ag
reem
ent,
rath
er th
an a
ttem
pt to
forc
e th
e te
rms
of a
trad
ition
al
fede
ral c
ontra
ct o
nto
the
rela
tions
hip.
In
con
clus
ion,
ther
e ar
e m
any
type
s of
col
labo
rativ
e re
latio
nshi
ps th
at a
re n
ot s
uppo
rted
by c
ontra
cts
deriv
ed fr
om th
e FA
R.
Not
eve
ry a
ctiv
ity th
at th
e B
urea
u co
nduc
ts c
ente
rs o
n ex
chan
ging
app
ropr
iate
d m
oney
for s
peci
fic g
oods
and
ser
vice
s.
Thes
e ot
her a
ctiv
ities
stil
l ser
ve a
n im
porta
nt a
nd c
ontin
uing
nee
d to
fulfi
ll th
e du
ties
of th
e ag
enci
es a
nd s
erve
the
publ
ic a
t la
rge.
For
exa
mpl
e, e
nsur
ing
the
cont
inui
ty o
f effe
ctiv
e op
erat
ions
, eng
ende
ring
the
skill
s ne
cess
ary
for t
he n
ext g
ener
atio
n of
the
wor
kfor
ce, a
nd d
evel
opin
g ne
w, b
ette
r way
s to
ach
ieve
the
mis
sion
s pr
ovid
e va
lue
that
is o
ften
diffi
cult
to q
uant
ify a
s sp
ecifi
c de
liver
able
s. T
he la
ck o
f coo
pera
tive
agre
emen
t aut
horit
y m
eans
that
ther
e is
a p
oten
tial w
ells
prin
g of
unt
appe
d an
d un
deru
tiliz
ed b
enef
its th
at m
ay b
e de
rived
by
spur
ring
inno
vatio
n th
roug
h re
sear
ch a
nd d
evel
opm
ent a
nd c
oope
rativ
e pa
rtner
ship
s.
2.
SE
C. X
XX
EV
ALU
ATI
ON
FU
ND
ING
FLE
XIB
ILIT
Y P
ILO
T-
(a)
This
sec
tion
appl
ies
to th
e st
atis
tical
-rel
ated
gra
nt a
nd c
ontra
ctin
g ac
tiviti
es o
f the
: 1.
C
ensu
s B
urea
u in
the
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ce; a
nd
2.
Nat
iona
l Ins
titut
e of
Jus
tice
and
Bur
eau
of J
ustic
e S
tatis
tics
in th
e D
epar
tmen
t of J
ustic
e.
(b)
Am
ount
s m
ade
avai
labl
e un
der t
his
Act
whi
ch a
re e
ither
app
ropr
iate
d, a
lloca
ted,
adv
ance
d on
a re
imbu
rsab
le
basi
s, o
r tra
nsfe
rred
to th
e fu
nctio
ns a
nd o
rgan
izat
ions
iden
tifie
d in
sub
sect
ion
(a) f
or re
sear
ch, e
valu
atio
n, o
r st
atis
tical
pur
pose
s sh
all b
e av
aila
ble
for o
blig
atio
n th
roug
h S
epte
mbe
r 30,
202
0. W
hen
an o
ffice
refe
renc
ed in
su
bsec
tion
(a) r
ecei
ves
rese
arch
and
eva
luat
ion
fund
ing
from
mul
tiple
app
ropr
iatio
ns, s
uch
offic
es m
ay u
se a
sin
gle
Trea
sury
acc
ount
for s
uch
activ
ities
, with
fund
ing
adva
nced
on
a re
imbu
rsab
le b
asis
. (c
) A
mou
nts
refe
renc
ed in
sub
sect
ion
(b) t
hat a
re u
nexp
ende
d at
the
time
of c
ompl
etio
n of
a c
ontra
ct, g
rant
, or
coop
erat
ive
agre
emen
t may
be
deob
ligat
ed a
nd s
hall
imm
edia
tely
bec
ome
avai
labl
e an
d m
ay b
e re
oblig
ated
in th
at
fisca
l yea
r or t
he s
ubse
quen
t fis
cal y
ear f
or th
e re
sear
ch, e
valu
atio
n, o
r sta
tistic
al p
urpo
ses
for w
hich
the
amou
nts
are
mad
e av
aila
ble
to th
at a
ccou
nt.
CEN - 153
Eval
uatio
n Fu
ndin
g Fl
exib
ility
Pilo
t. H
igh-
qual
ity e
valu
atio
ns a
nd s
tatis
tical
sur
veys
are
ess
entia
l to
build
ing
evid
ence
ab
out w
hat w
orks
. Th
ey a
re a
lso
inhe
rent
ly c
ompl
icat
ed, d
ynam
ic a
ctiv
ities
; the
y of
ten
span
man
y ye
ars,
and
ther
e is
un
certa
inty
abo
ut th
e tim
ing
and
amou
nt o
f wor
k re
quire
d to
com
plet
e sp
ecifi
c ac
tiviti
es--
such
as
the
time
and
wor
k ne
eded
re
crui
t stu
dy p
artic
ipan
ts. I
n so
me
case
s th
e st
udy
desi
gn m
ay n
eed
to b
e al
tere
d pa
rt-w
ay th
roug
h th
e pr
ojec
t in
orde
r to
bette
r res
pond
to th
e fa
cts
on th
e gr
ound
. Th
e av
aila
ble
proc
urem
ent v
ehic
les
lack
the
flexi
bilit
y ne
eded
to m
atch
the
dyna
mic
nat
ure
of th
ese
proj
ects
. Add
ition
ally
, som
e st
udie
s pr
ovid
e hi
gh q
ualit
y in
form
atio
n in
whi
ch m
any
fede
ral a
genc
ies
are
inte
rest
ed, a
nd it
is fr
eque
ntly
des
irabl
e to
cos
pons
or th
ese
activ
ities
in o
rder
to e
ffici
ently
ext
end
the
utili
ty o
f the
dat
a co
llect
ed.
Cha
nges
in ti
min
g an
d co
nten
t can
mak
e co
spon
sors
hip
diffi
cult,
sin
ce fu
nds
are
ofte
n tim
e-lim
ited.
In
ord
er to
stre
amlin
e th
ese
proc
urem
ent p
roce
sses
, im
prov
e ef
ficie
ncy,
and
mak
e be
tter u
se o
f exi
stin
g ev
alua
tion
reso
urce
s th
e B
udge
t pro
pose
s to
pro
vide
the
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
with
exp
ande
d fle
xibi
litie
s to
spe
nd fu
nds
over
a lo
nger
per
iod
of ti
me.
Th
is re
ques
t is
a pa
rt of
a la
rger
pro
pose
d pi
lot p
rogr
am w
hich
incl
udes
HH
S’s
Ass
ista
nt S
ecre
tary
for P
lann
ing
and
Eva
luat
ion
and
the
Offi
ce fo
r Pla
nnin
g, R
esea
rch
and
Eva
luat
ion
in th
e A
dmin
istra
tion
for C
hild
ren
and
Fam
ilies
; The
D
epar
tmen
t of L
abor
’s C
hief
Eva
luat
ion
Offi
ce a
nd B
urea
u of
Lab
or S
tatis
tics;
The
Dep
artm
ent o
f Jus
tice’
s N
atio
nal I
nstit
ute
of J
ustic
e an
d B
urea
u of
Jus
tice
Sta
tistic
s; th
e C
ensu
s B
urea
u; a
nd th
e D
epar
tmen
t of H
ousi
ng a
nd U
rban
Dev
elop
men
t’s
Offi
ce o
f Pol
icy
Dev
elop
men
t & R
esea
rch.
The
se fl
exib
ilitie
s w
ill a
llow
age
ncie
s to
bet
ter t
arge
t eva
luat
ion
and
stat
istic
al
fund
s to
refle
ct c
hang
ing
circ
umst
ance
s on
the
grou
nd.
CEN - 154
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ceE
xhib
it 34
U.S
. Cen
sus
Bur
eau
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NS
ULT
ING
AN
D R
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TED
SE
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irect
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igat
ions
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nds)
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ual
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ent a
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alua
tions
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chni
cal s
ervi
ces
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es:
The
prin
cipa
l use
s of
adv
isor
y an
d as
sist
ance
ser
vice
s ar
e to
mak
e th
e da
ta c
olle
cted
by
the
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
mor
e us
eful
to th
e us
er c
omm
unity
. Inc
lude
s M
anda
tory
fund
ing.
CEN - 155
Exh
ibit
35
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014
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ual
FY 2
015
Ena
cted
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016
Est
imat
e
Per
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cals
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iodi
cals
: In
add
ition
to th
e de
cenn
ial C
ensu
s of
Pop
ulat
ion
and
Hou
sing
(con
duct
ed e
very
10
year
s in
ye
ars
endi
ng in
zer
o), a
nd th
e E
cono
mic
Cen
sus
(con
duct
ed e
very
5 y
ears
in y
ears
end
ing
in 2
and
7),
and
the
Am
eric
an C
omm
unity
Sur
vey
(ann
ual),
the
US
Cen
sus
Bur
eau,
on
aver
age,
con
duct
s 15
0 su
rvey
s an
nual
ly
Pam
phle
ts:
In a
n ef
fort
to p
rom
ote
the
two
maj
or c
ensu
ses
note
d ab
ove
and
the
Am
eric
an C
omm
unity
S
urve
y, t
he C
ensu
s B
urea
u pr
oduc
es a
var
iety
of p
rom
otio
nal m
ater
ials
des
igne
d to
gen
erat
e in
tere
st in
hi
gher
resp
onse
rate
s to
thes
e ef
forts
. All
the
vario
us fo
rms,
boo
klet
s an
d tra
inin
g m
ater
ials
nee
d to
con
duct
th
e de
cenn
ial c
ensu
s ar
e ne
eded
in h
uge
quan
titie
s. T
he a
genc
y al
so p
rodu
ces
exte
rnal
ly-fo
cuse
d m
ater
ials
re
late
d to
rein
forc
ing
its m
issi
on a
nd g
oals
of p
rovi
ding
val
uabl
e, a
ccur
ate,
qua
lity
data
; rec
ruitm
ent o
f new
st
aff;
polic
ies
(suc
h as
resp
ondi
ng to
FO
IA re
ques
ts o
r adv
ice
on h
ow re
porte
rs c
an w
ork
mor
e ef
fect
ivel
y w
ith
the
Cen
sus
Bur
eau)
and
oth
er is
sues
and
topi
cs o
f int
eres
t. Th
e C
ensu
s B
urea
u al
so p
rints
and
pub
lish
for t
he
publ
ic, C
ompl
ete
Cou
nt C
omm
ittee
Gui
des
for T
ribal
Lea
ders
, loc
al le
ader
s, a
nd n
atio
nal l
eade
rs.
Aud
iovi
sual
s: T
his
cate
gory
incl
udes
bot
h in
-hou
se a
nd c
ontra
cted
cos
ts fo
r prin
ting
artw
ork
and
phot
ogra
phic
sl
ides
and
tran
spar
enci
es fo
r pre
sent
atio
ns. T
his
cate
gory
als
o in
clud
es th
e pr
oduc
tion
of p
rom
otio
nal a
nd
med
ia-u
se v
ideo
, a d
aily
radi
o pr
ogra
m, p
oste
rs a
nd g
raph
ics,
pho
togr
aphy
, and
oth
er m
ultim
edia
pro
duct
s on
line
and
on d
isc.
It a
lso
incl
udes
adv
ertis
ing
and
othe
r pro
mot
iona
l act
iviti
es fo
r Cen
sus
Bur
eau
surv
eys
and
prog
ram
are
as.
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ceU
. S. C
ensu
s B
urea
u
PE
RIO
DIC
ALS
, PA
MP
HLE
TS, A
ND
AU
DIO
VIS
UA
L P
RO
DU
CTS
(Obl
igat
ions
in th
ousa
nds)
CEN - 156
Exh
ibit
36D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
U. S
. Cen
sus
Bur
eau
AV
ER
AG
E G
RA
DE
AN
D S
ALA
RY
FY 2
014
Act
ual
FY 2
015
Ena
cted
FY 2
016
Est
imat
e
Dire
ct:
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vera
ge E
S S
alar
y .
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. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. $1
63,5
35$1
65,1
70$1
67,3
18
Ave
rage
GS
/GM
Gra
de .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. 11
1111
A
vera
ge G
S/G
M S
alar
y . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .
$8
4,43
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6,38
8
CEN - 157
TH
IS P
AG
E I
NT
EN
TIO
NA
LL
Y L
EF
T B
LA
NK
CEN - 158
FY 2
016
Ann
ual P
erfo
rman
ce P
lan
/ FY
2014
Ann
ual P
erfo
rman
ce R
epor
t
US
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
Tabl
e of
Con
tent
s
Part
1:
Age
ncy
and
Mis
sion
Info
rmat
ion
Sec
tion
1.1:
O
verv
iew
C
ensu
s Bu
reau
info
rmat
ion
shap
es im
porta
nt p
olic
y an
d op
erat
iona
l dec
isio
ns th
at h
elp
impr
ove
the
natio
n’s
soci
al a
nd e
cono
mic
con
ditio
ns. T
he B
urea
u co
nduc
ts th
e co
nstit
utio
nally
man
date
d D
ecen
nial
Cen
sus
of P
opul
atio
n an
d H
ousi
ng e
very
10
year
s, w
hich
is u
sed
to a
ppor
tion
seat
s in
the
Hou
se o
f R
epre
sent
ativ
es a
nd in
form
s co
ngre
ssio
nal r
edis
trict
ing.
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au a
lso
cond
ucts
a c
ensu
s of
all
busi
ness
est
ablis
hmen
ts a
nd o
f all
gove
rnm
enta
l uni
ts,
know
n re
spec
tivel
y as
the
Econ
omic
Cen
sus
and
the
Cen
sus
of G
over
nmen
ts, e
very
five
yea
rs. T
he E
cono
mic
Cen
sus
is th
e be
nchm
ark
used
for m
easu
ring
Gro
ss D
omes
tic P
rodu
ct (G
DP)
and
oth
er k
ey in
dica
tors
that
gui
de p
ublic
pol
icy
and
busi
ness
inve
stm
ent d
ecis
ions
. In
addi
tion,
the
Bure
au c
ondu
cts
seve
ral
ongo
ing
busi
ness
and
hou
seho
ld s
urve
ys th
at p
rovi
de th
e in
form
atio
n in
sev
eral
of t
he N
atio
n’s
key
econ
omic
indi
cato
rs a
nd w
hich
are
use
d to
allo
cate
ove
r $40
0 bi
llion
in fe
dera
l fun
ding
ann
ually
, incl
udin
g th
e Am
eric
an C
omm
unity
Sur
vey
(AC
S). T
he A
CS
allo
ws
com
mun
ities
to m
ake
the
best
dec
isio
ns a
bout
whe
re th
ey
shou
ld lo
cate
new
sch
ools
or e
xpan
d se
rvic
es fo
r the
eld
erly
. Bec
ause
it is
ava
ilabl
e to
bus
ines
ses
of a
ll si
zes
at n
o co
st, i
t hel
ps p
laye
rs fr
om th
e la
rges
t co
rpor
atio
ns to
the
smal
lest
em
ergi
ng in
nova
tors
loca
te th
eir l
abor
forc
e, ta
rget
thei
r cus
tom
er b
ase
and
find
new
mar
kets
. Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
mea
sure
s Am
eric
a’s
rapi
dly
chan
ging
eco
nom
ic a
nd s
ocia
l arr
ange
men
ts, a
nd d
evel
ops
effe
ctiv
e w
ays
to d
isse
min
ate
info
rmat
ion
usin
g th
e m
ost a
dvan
ced
tech
nolo
gies
, to
enab
le p
olic
ymak
ers
at a
ll le
vels
of g
over
nmen
t, bu
sine
sses
, non
-pro
fit o
rgan
izat
ions
, and
the
publ
ic to
mak
e ef
fect
ive
deci
sion
s.
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au’s
hea
dqua
rters
is lo
cate
d in
Sui
tland
Mar
ylan
d, w
ith s
ix re
gion
al o
ffice
s in
New
Yor
k, N
Y; P
hila
delp
hia,
PA;
Atla
nta,
GA;
Chi
cago
, IL;
Den
ver,
CO
; and
Los
Ang
eles
, CA.
Th
e N
atio
nal P
roce
ssin
g C
ente
r is
loca
ted
in J
effe
rson
ville
, IN
and
ope
rate
s th
ree
tele
phon
e ce
nter
s in
Jef
fers
onvi
lle, T
ucso
n AZ
, and
H
ager
stow
n, M
D.
Sec
tion
1.2:
M
issi
on S
tate
men
t Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
’s m
issi
on is
to s
erve
as
the
lead
ing
sour
ce o
f qua
lity
data
abo
ut th
e na
tion'
s pe
ople
and
eco
nom
y. W
e ho
nor p
rivac
y, p
rote
ct c
onfid
entia
lity,
sh
are
our e
xper
tise
glob
ally
, and
con
duct
our
wor
k op
enly
. We
are
guid
ed o
n th
is m
issi
on b
y sc
ient
ific
obje
ctiv
ity, o
ur s
trong
and
cap
able
wor
kfor
ce, o
ur d
evot
ion
to re
sear
ch-b
ased
inno
vatio
n, a
nd o
ur a
bidi
ng c
omm
itmen
t to
our c
usto
mer
s.
Sec
tion
1.3:
V
isio
n an
d V
alue
s O
ur V
isio
n is
to b
e th
e le
adin
g so
urce
of h
igh
qual
ity, t
imel
y, re
leva
nt, a
nd c
ost-e
ffect
ive
stat
istic
al in
form
atio
n su
ppor
ting
the
natio
n’s
deci
sion
-mak
ers.
CEN - 159
CEN - 160
Part
2:
Cro
ss-A
genc
y Pr
iorit
y G
oals
Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
cur
rent
ly d
oes
not l
ead
any
Cro
ss-A
genc
y Pr
iorit
y G
oals
. H
owev
er, t
here
are
sev
eral
effo
rts u
nder
way
that
adv
ance
the
prio
rity
goal
s of
cus
tom
er s
ervi
ce, s
hare
d se
rvic
es a
nd o
pen
data
. Ex
ampl
es in
clud
e:
Cus
tom
er S
ervi
ce:
A
mer
ican
Com
mun
ity S
urve
y C
onte
nt R
evie
w a
nd R
espo
nden
t Adv
ocat
e (O
mbu
dsm
an)
Mem
bers
of t
he A
mer
ican
pub
lic c
alle
d on
to re
spon
d to
the
Amer
ican
Com
mun
ity S
urve
y (A
CS)
hav
e ra
ised
que
stio
ns a
nd s
omet
imes
con
cern
s to
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au d
irect
ly a
nd th
roug
h th
eir C
ongr
essi
onal
repr
esen
tativ
es. S
ome
resp
onde
nts
ques
tion
the
cont
ent o
f the
sur
vey
and
the
man
ner i
n w
hich
this
and
oth
er
surv
eys
are
cond
ucte
d by
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au. I
n FY
201
4, th
e C
omm
ittee
on
Appr
opria
tions
requ
este
d th
at th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
pro
vide
a re
port,
on
effo
rts a
nd
step
s be
ing
take
n to
ens
ure
that
the
ACS
is c
ondu
cted
as
effic
ient
ly a
nd u
nobt
rusi
vely
as
poss
ible
.
To re
spon
d to
thes
e co
ncer
ns, t
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
is im
plem
entin
g a
com
preh
ensi
ve re
view
of A
CS
ques
tion
cont
ent a
nd is
con
tinui
ng re
sear
ch to
impr
ove
surv
ey
effic
ienc
y w
hile
redu
cing
resp
onde
nt b
urde
n. T
he p
urpo
se o
f the
con
tent
revi
ew is
to o
btai
n a
com
preh
ensi
ve u
nder
stan
ding
of t
he u
sage
s, ju
stifi
catio
n, a
nd m
erit
of e
ach
ques
tion
on th
e AC
S. T
he g
oal i
s to
min
imiz
e th
e re
porti
ng b
urde
n im
pose
d on
a s
ubse
t of h
ouse
hold
s w
hile
pro
vidi
ng q
ualit
y in
form
atio
n to
fede
ral,
stat
e,
loca
l, an
d tri
bal g
over
nmen
ts a
long
with
bus
ines
s de
cisi
on-m
aker
s. T
his
cont
ent r
evie
w w
ill st
art b
y ad
dres
sing
sev
eral
AC
S qu
estio
ns th
at re
spon
dent
s ha
ve th
e m
ost d
iffic
ulty
und
erst
andi
ng w
hy th
ey a
re a
sked
, but
will
even
tual
ly c
over
the
entir
e su
rvey
. Th
e pr
iorit
y qu
estio
ns fo
r con
tent
revi
ew c
over
inco
me,
jour
ney
to
wor
k, d
isab
ility,
and
plu
mbi
ng fa
cilit
ies.
Age
ncie
s re
lyin
g on
this
info
rmat
ion
will
be a
sked
to d
ocum
ent t
he ju
stifi
catio
n fo
r que
stio
n us
e; s
tatu
tory
, reg
ulat
ory,
and
pr
ogra
mm
atic
use
s, th
e lo
wes
t lev
el o
f geo
grap
hy re
quire
d; fr
eque
ncy
of u
se; f
undi
ng fo
rmul
ae a
nd th
e am
ount
of f
undi
ng d
istri
bute
d ba
sed
on th
e qu
estio
ns;
char
acte
ristic
s of
the
popu
latio
n su
ppor
ted
by th
e qu
estio
n; a
nd a
ltern
ativ
e da
ta s
ourc
es to
the
ACS.
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au e
xpec
ts to
com
plet
e th
is re
view
by
Mar
ch 2
015.
Addi
tiona
lly, t
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
est
ablis
hed
a R
espo
nden
t Adv
ocat
e (O
mbu
dsm
an) p
ositi
on in
Apr
il 20
13 to
ens
ure
that
resp
onde
nt c
once
rns
are
cons
ider
ed
thro
ugho
ut th
e su
rvey
life
cyc
le a
s w
ell a
s to
pro
vide
real
-tim
e as
sist
ance
to re
spon
dent
s th
at h
ave
conc
erns
abo
ut a
Cen
sus
Bure
au s
urve
y. T
he a
dvoc
ate
has
led
effo
rts to
impr
ove
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au’s
web
site
for s
urve
y re
spon
dent
s, p
rovi
ded
dire
ct a
ssis
tanc
e to
hun
dred
s of
indi
vidu
als
invo
lved
in C
ensu
s Bu
reau
su
rvey
s (a
lway
s w
ithin
24
hour
s an
d us
ually
with
in 4
hou
rs),
and
met
with
nea
rly 4
00 C
ongr
essi
onal
offi
ces
to e
xpla
in th
e ro
le o
f the
AC
S an
d ot
her C
ensu
s Bu
reau
dat
a co
llect
ions
and
the
resp
onsi
bilit
ies
and
dutie
s of
the
Res
pond
ent A
dvoc
ate.
.
Dig
ital T
rans
form
atio
n P
rogr
am
Alig
ned
with
the
Dig
ital G
over
nmen
t Stra
tegy
, the
Dig
ital T
rans
form
atio
n Pr
ogra
m fo
cuse
s on
cus
tom
er-c
entri
city
, sha
red
plat
form
s an
d in
nova
tive
tech
nolo
gies
an
d so
lutio
ns to
Bui
ld a
21st
Cen
tury
pla
tform
to b
ette
r ser
ve th
e Am
eric
an p
eopl
e.
The
goal
s of
the
Dig
ital T
rans
form
atio
n pr
ogra
m a
re:
1.
Incr
ease
aw
aren
ess
and
acce
ss to
U.S
. Cen
sus
Bure
au s
tatis
tics
2.
Impr
ove
cust
omer
sat
isfa
ctio
n 3.
G
row
our
aud
ienc
e
CEN - 161
The
com
pone
nts
of th
is tr
ansf
orm
atio
n pr
ogra
m in
clud
e ef
forts
to:
• R
edes
ign
cens
us.g
ov to
impr
ove
two
maj
or c
halle
nges
from
use
rs –
sea
rch
and
navi
gatio
n. In
trodu
ced
them
atic
nav
igat
ion
allo
win
g us
ers
to a
cces
s in
form
atio
n an
d da
ta b
y to
pics
, whi
ch m
oves
aw
ay fr
om a
n or
gani
zatio
nal s
truct
ure
to a
topi
c ce
ntric
nav
igat
ion
base
d on
cus
tom
er e
xpec
tatio
ns a
nd
priv
ate
and
publ
ic s
ecto
r bes
t pra
ctic
es.
• In
vest
in a
new
Con
tent
Man
agem
ent S
yste
m (C
MS)
. Th
is s
yste
m a
llow
s an
impr
oved
con
tent
dis
sem
inat
ion
acro
ss th
e si
te, m
ore
secu
re c
onte
nt a
nd
cons
iste
ncy
of c
onte
nt a
nd la
yout
acr
oss
site
pro
perti
es. C
onte
nt is
cur
rent
ly b
eing
mig
rate
d in
to th
e C
MS.
•
Impl
emen
t a s
tate
of t
he a
rt se
arch
cap
abilit
y. E
nabl
ing
answ
ers
befo
re re
sults
, inf
orm
atio
n pa
nels
hig
hlig
htin
g st
atis
tics,
and
vis
ualiz
atio
ns a
nd ta
ble
feat
ures
. Thi
s ro
bust
sea
rch
will
pres
ent s
tatis
tics
such
as
popu
latio
n, N
orth
Am
eric
an In
dust
ry C
lass
ifica
tion
Syst
em c
odes
, and
inco
me
and
pove
rty d
ata
as s
earc
h re
sults
. •
Impl
emen
t a m
ulti-
chan
nel c
usto
mer
exp
erie
nce
man
agem
ent c
apab
ility.
The
Cus
tom
er E
ngag
emen
t Man
agem
ent p
latfo
rm w
ill pu
ll to
geth
er u
nstru
ctur
ed
cust
omer
feed
back
from
div
erse
sou
rces
with
cus
tom
er b
ehav
ior d
ata,
ena
blin
g th
e U
.S. C
ensu
s Bu
reau
to id
entif
y th
e fr
ustra
tions
exp
ress
ed b
y ou
r cu
stom
ers,
unc
over
unm
et c
usto
mer
nee
ds, a
nd fi
nd o
ppor
tuni
ties
to im
prov
e th
e an
alyt
ics
gath
erin
g an
d un
ders
tand
ing
cust
omer
exp
erie
nce.
In a
dditi
on,
the
U.S
. Cen
sus
Bure
au in
vest
ed o
n ro
bust
ana
lytic
s an
d m
etric
s so
ftwar
e, in
clud
ing
soci
al m
edia
mon
itorin
g to
ol to
impr
ove
its a
naly
ses
of c
usto
mer
ex
perie
nce.
The
met
rics
and
insi
ghts
alig
n w
ith th
e D
igita
l Tra
nsfo
rmat
ion
prog
ram
goa
ls a
nd k
ey p
erfo
rman
ce in
dica
tors
, mea
surin
g ho
w g
oals
are
bei
ng
met
thro
ugho
ut th
e pr
ogra
m li
fecy
cle.
•
Esta
blis
h an
effe
ctiv
e in
tegr
ated
com
mun
icat
ions
and
pro
mot
ions
effo
rt to
pro
mot
e ne
w p
rodu
cts
and
impr
ove
onlin
e co
mm
unic
atio
ns w
ith c
usto
mer
s.
• Im
prov
e in
ana
lytic
s ga
ther
ing
and
unde
rsta
ndin
g cu
stom
er e
xper
ienc
e •
Esta
blis
h an
effe
ctiv
e co
mm
unic
atio
ns a
nd p
rom
otio
ns e
ffort
to p
rom
ote
new
pro
duct
s an
d im
prov
e on
line
com
mun
icat
ions
with
cus
tom
ers
•
Dev
elop
and
dep
loy
num
erou
s pu
blic
faci
ng d
ata
prod
ucts
incl
udin
g :
o
Thre
e (3
) new
mob
ile a
pplic
atio
ns, n
amed
Am
eric
a’s
Econ
omy,
dw
ellr,
and
Cen
sus
Pop
Qui
z.
o
New
inte
ract
ive
data
tool
s su
ch a
s th
e Po
pula
tion
Clo
ck, M
y C
ongr
essi
onal
Dis
trict
, and
Eas
y St
ats.
The
se to
ols
use
late
st te
chno
logi
es, U
.S.
Cen
sus
Bure
au’s
pub
lic a
nd p
rivat
e ap
plic
atio
n pr
ogra
mm
ing
inte
rface
(API
s), a
nd s
harin
g an
d em
bedd
ing
capa
bilit
ies
allo
win
g fo
r gre
ater
acc
ess
and
easi
er u
se o
f dat
a.
Ef
forts
con
duct
ed h
ave
been
rese
arch
driv
en a
nd c
usto
mer
focu
sed
to e
nsur
e su
cces
sful
out
com
es a
nd a
dapt
atio
n fo
r cus
tom
er in
sigh
ts to
war
ds it
s lif
ecyc
le. T
he
feed
back
from
cus
tom
er is
gat
here
d, p
rior t
o an
d up
on d
eplo
ying
new
pro
duct
s an
d en
hanc
emen
ts th
roug
h an
alyt
ics,
cus
tom
er e
ngag
emen
t man
agem
ent,
and
stak
ehol
der r
elat
ions
. In
FY
2016
, the
Cen
sus
Bure
au w
ill im
plem
ent r
espo
nsiv
e de
sign
for c
ensu
s.go
v (a
llow
ing
the
web
site
to o
pera
te o
n m
ultip
le d
evic
es s
uch
as ta
blet
s an
d m
obile
); se
arch
enh
ance
men
ts; c
ontin
ued
cont
ent m
igra
tion;
and
Cus
tom
er E
xper
ienc
e m
anag
emen
t (C
EM).
The
pla
n al
so in
clud
es th
e de
velo
pmen
t of p
erso
naliz
ed u
ser
porta
l (m
ycen
sus.
gov)
that
will
allo
w in
divi
dual
use
rs to
cus
tom
ize
thei
r exp
erie
nce
and
data
nee
ds o
n th
e w
ebsi
te.
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au w
ill co
ntin
ue to
bui
ld o
n th
e im
porta
nce
of h
avin
g st
rong
web
mon
itorin
g an
d an
alyt
ics
tool
s, w
eb a
pplic
atio
ns a
nd e
nhan
cem
ents
, and
mob
ile a
pplic
atio
ns d
evel
opm
ent a
nd s
uppo
rt. A
lso
prov
idin
g on
goin
g su
ppor
t for
dat
a vi
sual
izat
ion
initi
ativ
es a
roun
d da
ta re
leas
es.
Sha
red
Ser
vice
s: E
nter
pris
e IT
Sha
red
Ser
vice
s P
rogr
am M
anag
emen
t Offi
ce:
In o
rder
to h
arve
st fu
rther
ben
efits
of s
hare
d se
rvic
es a
nd a
lign
with
Mem
oran
dum
M-1
0-26
, the
Cen
sus
Chi
ef In
form
atio
n O
ffice
r (C
IO) i
s es
tabl
ishi
ng a
n En
terp
rise
IT s
hare
d se
rvic
es P
rogr
am M
anag
emen
t Offi
ce (P
MO
) and
an
Ente
rpris
e IT
Sha
red
Serv
ice
(ITSS
) Pol
icy.
The
PM
O is
faci
litat
ing
the
Bure
au’s
tra
nsiti
on to
a s
tate
whe
re s
hare
d se
rvic
es a
re th
e no
rm, r
athe
r tha
n th
e ex
cept
ion.
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au’s
Ent
erpr
ise
ITSS
pol
icy
form
ally
est
ablis
hes,
as
a st
anda
rd p
ract
ice,
the
impl
emen
tatio
n an
d re
-use
of E
nter
pris
e IT
SS a
cros
s th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
. Gov
erna
nce
by th
e pr
ogra
m a
nd a
dher
ence
to p
olic
y w
ill im
prov
e en
terp
rise
flexi
bilit
y an
d su
bsta
ntia
l cos
t sav
ings
thro
ugh:
CEN - 162
• Ef
ficie
nt re
sour
ce a
lloca
tion
allo
win
g bu
sine
ss a
reas
to fo
cus
on d
eliv
erin
g th
eir c
ore
mis
sion
(s),
incl
udin
g re
duci
ng th
e tim
e re
quire
d to
del
iver
dat
a se
rvic
es a
nd p
rodu
cts;
•
Stre
amlin
ed o
pera
tiona
l effi
cien
cies
by
cent
raliz
ing
need
ed o
pera
tiona
l inf
rast
ruct
ure
(tech
nolo
gy, p
roce
sses
and
peo
ple)
requ
ired
to d
eliv
er, m
aint
ain
and
mat
ure
a sh
ared
ser
vice
; •
Impr
oved
org
aniz
atio
nal e
ffect
iven
ess
usin
g be
st p
ract
ices
, pro
ven
func
tiona
litie
s, a
nd in
nova
tive
solu
tions
; and
•
Impr
oved
cos
t-effi
cien
cies
by
redu
cing
cos
ts a
ssoc
iate
d w
ith re
dund
ant I
T re
sour
ces.
Ente
rpris
e IT
Sha
red
Serv
ices
are
sel
ecte
d in
acc
orda
nce
with
the
prog
ram
’s g
uidi
ng p
rinci
ples
that
incl
ude:
Ent
erpr
ise
IT S
hare
d Se
rvic
e id
entif
icat
ion
and
prio
ritiz
atio
n ba
sed
on b
usin
ess
“val
ue,”
and
RO
I in
supp
ort o
f Sur
vey
Life
cycl
e (S
LC) a
nd M
issi
on-E
nabl
ing
& Su
ppor
t (M
ES) f
unct
ions
. Can
dida
te E
nter
pris
e IT
Sh
ared
Ser
vice
s ar
e id
entif
ied
by th
e pr
ogra
m a
nd n
omin
atio
ns b
y in
divi
dual
s an
d or
gani
zatio
ns.
Inte
rnal
ly, t
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
has
est
ablis
hed
seve
ral c
urre
nt s
hare
d se
rvic
es, i
nclu
ding
e-m
ail.
In a
dditi
on, m
ore
than
40
othe
r Ent
erpr
ise
IT S
hare
d Se
rvic
es
cand
idat
es h
ave
been
iden
tifie
d fo
r pot
entia
l use
with
in th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
. The
Cen
sus
Bure
au w
ill us
e th
e Fe
dera
l IT
Shar
ed S
ervi
ces
cate
gorie
s of
Com
mod
ity,
Supp
ort,
and
Mis
sion
to c
ateg
oriz
e th
e po
rtfol
io o
f ser
vice
s.
Whi
le s
ubst
antia
l cos
t sav
ings
and
oth
er e
ffici
enci
es a
re e
xpec
ted
from
the
Ente
rpris
e IT
Sha
red
Serv
ices
Pro
gram
, act
ual s
avin
gs w
ill be
bas
ed o
n se
vera
l fac
tors
in
clud
ing
but n
ot li
mite
d to
the
type
of s
ervi
ce, a
nd w
heth
er th
ere
are
oppo
rtuni
ties
to c
onso
lidat
e lic
ense
s, c
onso
lidat
e co
ntra
cts,
redu
ce a
nd re
purp
ose
hard
war
e,
and
bette
r alig
n st
aff.
Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
Ent
erpr
ise
IT S
hare
d Se
rvic
es P
rogr
am h
as id
entif
ied
succ
ess
crite
ria th
at w
ill m
easu
re th
e de
sire
d ou
tcom
es a
nd th
e im
pact
of t
he p
rogr
am.
The
five
(5) k
ey s
ucce
ss c
riter
ia a
re c
ost s
avin
gs, e
ffici
ency
, sta
ndar
diza
tion,
con
solid
atio
n, a
nd c
usto
mer
ser
vice
. O
pen
Dat
a an
d S
hare
d S
ervi
ces:
Cen
sus
Dat
a A
PI:
The
U.S
. Cen
sus
Bure
au h
as re
leas
ed a
n on
line
serv
ice
that
mak
es k
ey d
emog
raph
ic, s
ocio
-eco
nom
ic a
nd h
ousi
ng s
tatis
tics
mor
e ac
cess
ible
than
eve
r bef
ore.
Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
’s p
ublic
App
licat
ion
Prog
ram
min
g In
terfa
ce (A
PI) a
llow
s de
velo
pers
to d
esig
n W
eb a
nd m
obile
app
s to
exp
lore
or l
earn
mor
e ab
out A
mer
ica'
s ch
angi
ng p
opul
atio
n an
d ec
onom
y. T
he A
PI le
ts d
evel
oper
s cu
stom
ize
Cen
sus
Bure
au s
tatis
tics
into
Web
or m
obile
app
s th
at p
rovi
de u
sers
qui
ck a
nd e
asy
acce
ss to
42
data
set
s, w
ith th
e m
ost r
ecen
t rel
ease
s in
clud
ing:
• Ec
onom
ic In
dica
tors
Tim
e Se
ries
• 20
07 &
201
2 Ec
onom
y-w
ide
Key
Stat
istic
s •
2011
& 2
012
Cou
nty
Busi
ness
Pat
tern
s •
2012
Non
-Em
ploy
er S
tatis
tics
• 20
13 V
inta
ge o
f Pop
ulat
ion
Estim
ates
•
2012
Vin
tage
of P
opul
atio
n Pr
ojec
tions
In
add
ition
, the
Cen
sus
Bure
au h
as la
unch
ed a
n en
terp
rise
effo
rt to
tran
sfor
m h
ow it
dis
sem
inat
es d
ata
and
info
rmat
ion
to th
e pu
blic
by
stre
amlin
ing
acce
ss,
enha
ncin
g th
e ab
ility
to s
earc
h, fi
nd, a
nd u
se th
e da
ta b
y th
e pu
blic
, and
opt
imiz
ing
the
reso
urce
s ne
eded
to a
ccom
plis
h th
ese
task
s.
CEN - 163
The
Cen
ter f
or E
nter
pris
e D
isse
min
atio
n Se
rvic
es a
nd C
onsu
mer
Inno
vatio
n (C
EDSC
I) Th
e C
ente
r for
Ent
erpr
ise
Dis
sem
inat
ion
Serv
ices
and
Con
sum
er In
nova
tion
(CED
SCI)
is c
ompr
ised
of e
xper
ts fr
om a
cros
s th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
, and
thei
r wor
k is
ba
sed
on th
e co
re p
rinci
pals
of t
he F
eder
al D
igita
l Stra
tegy
:
•
Enab
le th
e Am
eric
an p
eopl
e an
d an
incr
easi
ngly
mob
ile w
orkf
orce
to a
cces
s hi
gh-q
ualit
y di
gita
l gov
ernm
ent i
nfor
mat
ion
and
serv
ices
any
whe
re, a
nytim
e,
on a
ny d
evic
e •
Ensu
re th
at a
s th
e go
vern
men
t adj
usts
to th
is n
ew d
igita
l wor
ld, w
e se
ize
the
oppo
rtuni
ty to
pro
cure
and
man
age
devi
ces,
app
licat
ions
, and
dat
a in
ef
fect
ive,
sec
ure,
and
affo
rdab
le w
ays.
•
Unl
ock
the
pow
er o
f gov
ernm
ent d
ata
to s
pur i
nnov
atio
n ac
ross
our
Nat
ion
and
impr
ove
the
qual
ity o
f ser
vice
s fo
r the
Am
eric
an p
eopl
e.
The
goal
s of
the
proj
ect i
nclu
de:
•
Fost
erin
g an
d m
aint
aini
ng a
cus
tom
er-fo
cuse
d, c
ost-e
ffect
ive
data
dis
sem
inat
ion
envi
ronm
ent
• Pr
omot
ing
a se
t of d
isse
min
atio
n to
ols
to m
eet f
utur
e di
ssem
inat
ion
capa
bilit
ies.
•
Adop
ting
a C
usto
mer
Exp
erie
nce
Man
agem
ent (
CEM
) sys
tem
that
cap
ture
s cu
stom
er in
tera
ctio
ns s
yste
mat
ical
ly a
nd p
rovi
des
for d
isse
min
atio
n to
ols,
sy
stem
s, a
nd p
roce
sses
to e
volv
e ba
sed
on q
uant
itativ
e as
sess
men
t of c
hang
ing
cust
omer
nee
ds a
nd n
ew te
chno
logi
cal i
nnov
atio
ns.
• Es
tabl
ishi
ng a
sta
ndar
dize
d ce
ntra
l met
adat
a re
posi
tory
acr
oss
all c
ensu
ses
and
surv
eys,
whi
ch w
ould
ena
ble
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au to
dep
loy
gene
raliz
ed
diss
emin
atio
n ca
pabi
litie
s.
• D
esig
ning
sha
red
enab
ling
tech
nolo
gies
bas
ed o
n bu
sine
ss re
quire
men
ts a
nd n
eeds
. Th
e in
tend
ed b
enef
its in
clud
e:
•
Cos
t sav
ings
thro
ugh
elim
inat
ion
of d
uplic
ate
syst
ems
and
proc
esse
s •
Spur
ring
grea
ter i
nnov
atio
n •
Syst
emat
ic q
ualit
y as
sura
nce
• Im
prov
ed c
usto
mer
sat
isfa
ctio
n th
roug
h m
etad
ata
stan
dard
izat
ion
• M
ore
effic
ient
and
effe
ctiv
e w
ork
envi
ronm
ent
• Be
tter u
tiliz
atio
n of
exi
stin
g to
ols
to m
eet c
usto
mer
nee
ds
• G
reat
er in
sigh
ts in
to c
usto
mer
nee
ds
• In
crea
sed
Cen
sus
bran
d aw
aren
ess
and
acce
ptan
ce
• Im
prov
ed d
iscl
osur
e av
oida
nce
Dis
sem
inat
ion
as a
Sha
red
Serv
ice
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au w
ill fo
ster
and
mai
ntai
n a
cust
omer
-focu
sed,
cos
t-effe
ctiv
e da
ta d
isse
min
atio
n en
viro
nmen
t whe
re:
•
Its p
eopl
e vi
ew d
isse
min
atio
n as
a s
hare
d se
rvic
e an
d re
spon
sibi
lity;
eng
age
in a
ctiv
e lis
teni
ng; l
ook
for w
ays
to s
treng
then
new
idea
s; a
nd a
re in
nova
tive
and
risk-
taki
ng.
• Its
pro
cess
es p
rovi
de c
ontin
uous
info
rmat
ion
abou
t how
effe
ctiv
ely
this
age
ncy
is m
eetin
g da
ta u
sers
’ nee
ds.
• Its
tool
s ar
e cu
stom
er-d
riven
and
mak
e da
ta e
asy
to a
cces
s an
d us
e.
CEN - 164
• Its
info
rmat
ion
resp
ects
con
fiden
tialit
y, a
nd u
sers
trus
t it a
s a
relia
ble
and
cred
ible
sou
rce.
As
we
mod
erni
ze a
nd c
entra
lize
our d
ata
colle
ctio
n an
d pr
oces
sing
act
iviti
es, o
ur d
isse
min
atio
n ef
forts
mus
t sim
ilarly
kee
p pa
ce w
ith te
chno
logi
cal i
nnov
atio
ns a
nd
chan
ging
exp
ecta
tions
from
resp
onde
nts
and
data
use
rs a
like.
Dep
loyi
ng s
hare
d se
rvic
es a
cros
s ou
r div
erse
pro
gram
s an
d da
ta s
ets
not o
nly
prov
ides
us
with
ef
ficie
ncie
s, it
exp
oses
our
inno
vatio
ns to
mor
e of
the
Amer
ican
pub
lic o
n w
hom
we
rely
to p
rodu
ce th
e co
nten
t we
retu
rn to
them
. We
mus
t dem
onst
rate
to th
e pu
blic
that
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au c
an in
nova
te a
nd a
dapt
, les
sen
the
burd
en o
f res
pons
e, a
nd m
eet o
ur b
udge
ts a
nd d
eadl
ines
if w
e ar
e to
pre
serv
e th
eir t
rust
in o
ur
wor
k.
Part
3:
Stra
tegi
c G
oals
and
Obj
ectiv
es
Sec
tion
3.1:
C
orre
spon
ding
DoC
Stra
tegi
c G
oals
, and
Obj
ectiv
es
.
Goa
l O
bjec
tive
Num
ber
Obj
ectiv
e N
ame
Lead
er:
Trad
e &
Inve
stm
ent
1.2
Incr
ease
U.S
. exp
orts
by
broa
deni
ng a
nd d
eepe
ning
the
U.S
. exp
orte
r bas
e Ke
n H
yatt,
Act
ing
Und
er S
ecre
tary
, IT
A
Inno
vatio
n 2.
4 Ac
cele
rate
the
deve
lopm
ent o
f ind
ustry
-led
skills
stra
tegi
es th
at re
sult
in a
pr
oduc
tive
wor
kfor
ce fo
r em
ploy
ers
and
high
-qua
lity
jobs
for w
orke
rs.
Mat
t Ers
kine
, Dep
uty
Assi
stan
t Se
cret
ary,
ED
A
Envi
ronm
ent
3.2
Impr
ove
prep
ared
ness
, res
pons
e, a
nd re
cove
ry fr
om w
eath
er a
nd w
ater
eve
nts
by b
uild
ing
a W
eath
er-R
eady
Nat
ion.
Ka
thy
Sulliv
an, U
nder
Sec
reta
ry,
NO
AA
Dat
a 4.
1 Tr
ansf
orm
the
Dep
artm
ent’s
dat
a ca
paci
ty to
enh
ance
the
valu
e, a
cces
sibi
lity
and
usab
ility
of C
omm
erce
dat
a fo
r gov
ernm
ent,
busi
ness
and
the
publ
ic.
Mar
k D
oms,
Und
er S
ecre
tary
, ESA
Dat
a 4.
2 Im
prov
e da
ta b
ased
ser
vice
s, d
ecis
ion-
mak
ing
and
data
sha
ring
with
in th
e D
epar
tmen
t and
with
oth
er p
arts
of t
he F
eder
al G
over
nmen
t. M
ark
Dom
s, U
nder
Sec
reta
ry, E
SA
Dat
a 4.
3 C
olla
bora
te w
ith th
e bu
sine
ss c
omm
unity
to p
rovi
de m
ore
timel
y, a
ccur
ate,
and
re
leva
nt d
ata
prod
ucts
and
ser
vice
s fo
r cus
tom
ers
Mar
k D
oms,
Und
er S
ecre
tary
, ESA
Sec
tion
3.2:
S
trate
gies
for O
bjec
tives
Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
sup
ports
the
follo
win
g st
rate
gies
in th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
Stra
tegi
c Pl
an:
Trad
e &
Inve
stm
ent (
1.2)
• Ed
ucat
e U
.S. c
ompa
nies
and
com
mun
ities
on
the
bene
fits
of e
xpor
ting
(ESA
, ITA
, MBD
A).
Inno
vatio
n (2
.4)
•
Cap
ture
, coo
rdin
ate,
and
ana
lyze
U.S
. wor
kfor
ce d
ata
(ESA
1 , OS)
.
CEN - 165
1 The
Eco
nom
ics
and
Sta
tistic
s A
dmin
istra
tion
also
incl
udes
the
Bur
eau
of E
cono
mic
Ana
lysi
s an
d th
e C
ensu
s B
urea
u.
Env
ironm
ent (
3.2)
• En
hanc
e de
cisi
on s
uppo
rt se
rvic
es fo
r em
erge
ncy
man
ager
s (C
ensu
s, N
OAA
).
Dat
a (4
.1)
• D
rive
the
deve
lopm
ent o
f Big
Dat
a st
anda
rds
and
mea
sure
men
t sci
ence
(ESA
, NIS
T).
• Es
tabl
ish
data
inte
rope
rabi
lity
acro
ss th
e D
epar
tmen
t and
exp
and
open
dat
a ac
cess
(ESA
, NIS
T, N
TIS)
.
• M
ake
Com
mer
ce d
ata
easi
er to
acc
ess,
use
, dow
nloa
d, a
nd c
ombi
ne th
roug
h a
“Fin
d it-
Con
nect
It” s
ervi
ce (E
SA, N
TIS)
.
Dat
a (4
.2)
•
Impr
ove
the
use
of e
xist
ing
fede
ral d
atab
ases
to h
elp
anal
yze
busi
ness
ass
ista
nce
and
econ
omic
gro
wth
pro
gram
s th
roug
hout
the
gove
rnm
ent (
BIS,
ESA
, IT
A, M
BDA)
. •
Exec
ute
high
pro
file
stat
istic
al d
ata
prog
ram
s w
ell (
ESA)
. •
Incr
ease
dat
a sh
arin
g am
ong
fede
ral a
genc
ies
and
redu
ce th
e pu
blic
’s b
urde
n of
pro
vidi
ng in
form
atio
n (E
SA).
Dat
a (4
.3)
•
Expl
ore
com
bini
ng o
f fed
eral
and
priv
ate-
sect
or d
atas
ets
to s
treng
then
dec
isio
n-m
akin
g (E
SA).
• C
ontin
ually
revi
sit a
nd re
vise
the
Dep
artm
ent’s
dat
a pr
oduc
ts to
mee
t cha
ngin
g ne
eds
(ESA
).
S
ectio
n 3.
3:
Pro
gres
s U
pdat
e fo
r Stra
tegi
c O
bjec
tives
O
bjec
tive
4.2
– Im
prov
e da
ta b
ased
ser
vice
s, d
ecis
ion-
mak
ing,
and
dat
a sh
arin
g w
ithin
the
Dep
artm
ent a
nd w
ith o
ther
par
ts o
f the
Fed
eral
Gov
ernm
ent
The
2020
Dec
enni
al C
ensu
s pr
ogra
m c
ompl
eted
two
field
test
s, th
e 20
13 C
ensu
s Te
st a
nd 2
014
Cen
sus
Test
. Th
e 20
13 C
ensu
s Te
st e
xam
ined
the
oper
atio
nal
feas
ibilit
y of
usi
ng a
dmin
istra
tive
reco
rds
to re
duce
the
Non
resp
onse
Fol
low
-up
(NR
FU) w
orkl
oad
and
an a
dapt
ive
cont
act s
trate
gy to
incr
ease
NR
FU p
rodu
ctiv
ity.
The
2014
Cen
sus
Test
look
ed a
t sel
f-res
pons
e an
d no
nres
pons
e fie
ld c
ompo
nent
s to
ans
wer
rese
arch
que
stio
ns a
nd in
form
pre
limin
ary
desi
gn d
ecis
ions
for t
he
2020
Cen
sus.
Dec
enni
al a
lso
desi
gned
and
beg
an w
ork
on th
e Ad
dres
s Va
lidat
ion
Test
to a
sses
s th
e pe
rform
ance
of t
he m
etho
ds a
nd m
odel
s th
at w
ill he
lp u
s de
velo
p th
e 20
20 C
ensu
s ad
dres
s lis
t and
def
ine
the
in-fi
eld
addr
ess
canv
assi
ng w
orkl
oads
nee
ded
for t
he o
pera
tiona
l des
ign
deci
sion
poi
nt in
Sep
tem
ber 2
015.
Al
l the
3-y
ear (
2010
-201
3) a
nd 5
-yea
r (20
08-2
012)
Am
eric
an C
omm
unity
Sur
vey
(AC
S) d
ata
and
the
1-ye
ar 2
013
ACS
data
pro
duct
s w
ere
rele
ased
by
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au o
n sc
hedu
le.
CEN - 166
Geo
grap
hy D
ivis
ion
acqu
ired
250
addi
tiona
l file
s fro
m tr
ibal
, sta
te, a
nd lo
cal g
over
nmen
t par
tner
s as
par
t of t
he G
eogr
aphi
c Su
ppor
t Sys
tem
Initi
ativ
e Pa
rtner
ship
Pr
ogra
m a
nd u
sed
them
to m
ake
furth
er im
prov
emen
ts to
add
ress
cov
erag
e.
The
Geo
grap
hy D
ivis
ion
also
con
duct
ed a
pilo
t pro
ject
to te
st th
e fe
asib
ility
of u
sing
in-o
ffice
imag
ery-
to-M
aste
r Add
ress
File
(MAF
) com
paris
on a
nd d
ata
anal
ysis
te
chni
ques
to id
entif
y ar
eas
in w
hich
the
resi
dent
ial h
ousi
ng u
nits
are
sta
ble,
and
are
as in
whi
ch re
side
ntia
l hou
sing
uni
t cha
nge
is o
ccur
ring.
Bas
ed o
n th
e po
sitiv
e re
sults
of t
he p
ilot p
roje
ct, i
n w
hich
82%
of b
lock
s w
ere
iden
tifie
d st
able
(i.e
., no
cha
nge
in re
side
ntia
l hou
sing
uni
ts b
etw
een
2010
imag
ery
and
curre
nt
imag
ery,
and
no
chan
ge in
the
MAF
), G
EO is
bui
ldin
g a
natio
nal i
mpl
emen
tatio
n of
the
proj
ect,
unde
r the
rebr
ande
d na
me
TIG
ER (T
opol
ogic
ally
Inte
grat
ed
Geo
grap
hic
Enco
ding
and
Ref
eren
cing
) and
MAF
Ass
essm
ent a
nd C
lass
ifica
tion
(TR
MAC
). In
Nov
embe
r 201
3, ta
bula
tion
and
mac
ro d
ata
anal
ysis
for t
he 2
012
Econ
omic
Cen
sus
bega
n. T
he fi
rst p
rodu
ct fr
om th
e 20
12 E
cono
mic
Cen
sus,
the
Adva
nce
Rep
ort,
whi
ch p
rovi
des
natio
nal l
evel
dat
a on
the
natio
n’s
econ
omy,
was
rele
ased
Mar
ch 2
6, 2
014.
Rel
ease
s be
gan
in M
ay 2
014
for t
he 2
012
Econ
omic
Cen
sus
Indu
stry
Ser
ies
repo
rts. A
s of
Sep
tem
ber 3
0th, 4
06 o
f the
ant
icip
ated
538
Indu
stry
Rep
orts
(cov
erin
g 95
4 N
AIC
S in
dust
ries)
wer
e is
sued
. Thi
s ex
ceed
ed th
e ta
rget
to
rele
ase
30 p
erce
nt o
f the
Indu
stry
Ser
ies
data
pro
duct
s by
Sep
tem
ber 3
0, 2
014.
Rel
ease
s fo
r the
201
2 Ec
onom
ic C
ensu
s w
ill co
ntin
ue in
FY
2015
. In
addi
tion,
th
e de
man
d-ba
sed
hier
arch
ical
stru
ctur
e of
the
Nor
th A
mer
ican
Pro
duct
Cla
ssifi
catio
n Sy
stem
(NAP
CS)
was
fina
lized
. Thi
s w
ork
grea
tly e
xpan
ds th
e us
eful
ness
of
prod
uct s
tatis
tics
for m
arke
t ana
lysi
s, b
usin
ess
plan
ning
, and
dem
and
orie
nted
stu
dies
. A
chec
k-in
rate
of 7
3.2
perc
ent f
or th
e SB
O e
mpl
oyer
com
pone
nt w
as
achi
eved
, with
ele
ctro
nic
resp
onse
acc
ount
ing
for 9
0 pe
rcen
t of t
otal
resp
onse
s. L
esso
ns le
arne
d fro
m th
e 20
12 S
BO w
ill be
app
lied
as w
e m
ove
to 1
00 p
erce
nt
elec
troni
c re
porti
ng in
the
2017
Eco
nom
ic C
ensu
s.
As o
f May
22,
201
4, 9
0 pe
rcen
t of t
he 2
012
Cen
sus
of G
over
nmen
ts p
rodu
cts
wer
e re
leas
ed, a
head
of t
he J
une
30, 2
014
targ
et d
ate.
The
201
2 C
ensu
s of
G
over
nmen
ts: S
tate
Gov
ernm
ent F
inan
ces
rele
ased
in J
anua
ry 2
014,
two
mon
ths
earli
er th
an th
e m
etric
, and
the
2012
Cen
sus
of G
over
nmen
ts: E
mpl
oym
ent
rele
ased
in M
arch
201
4, o
ne m
onth
ear
lier t
han
the
met
ric. T
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
will
com
plet
e th
e re
leas
e of
the
2012
Cen
sus
of G
over
nmen
ts b
y Ja
nuar
y 20
15.
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
3 –
Col
labo
rate
with
the
busi
ness
com
mun
ity to
pro
vide
mor
e tim
ely,
acc
urat
e, a
nd re
leva
nt d
ata
prod
ucts
and
ser
vice
s fo
r con
sum
ers.
Ta
rget
rele
ase
date
s fo
r all
120
non-
econ
omic
indi
cato
r qua
rterly
and
ann
ual s
urve
y da
ta re
leas
es w
ere
met
or e
xcee
ded.
In a
dditi
on, a
ll 12
0 m
onth
ly a
nd
quar
terly
prin
cipa
l eco
nom
ic in
dica
tors
wer
e re
leas
ed 1
00 p
erce
nt o
f the
tim
e as
sch
edul
ed o
r as
revi
sed
due
to th
e O
ctob
er s
hutd
own.
In F
Y14
a pr
otot
ype
Cen
sus
Ope
n fo
r Bus
ines
s To
ol, a
des
ktop
/tabl
et to
ol a
imed
at f
irst t
ime
busi
ness
ent
repr
eneu
rs, w
as d
evel
oped
. Thi
s to
ol w
ill al
low
for e
asy
acce
ss to
Cen
sus
Bure
au d
ata
to d
evel
op a
bus
ines
s pl
an th
at c
an b
e us
ed to
sup
port
thei
r loa
n ap
plic
atio
n an
d as
sist
in c
hoos
ing
a lo
catio
n fo
r the
bus
ines
s.
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au m
et m
ilest
ones
in p
repa
ratio
n fo
r the
new
201
4 Su
rvey
of I
ncom
e an
d Pr
ogra
m P
artic
ipat
ion
(SIP
P) p
anel
and
dat
a fo
r wav
e 1
wer
e co
llect
ed
from
Feb
ruar
y –
June
201
4. T
he B
urea
u al
so c
ompl
eted
dat
a co
llect
ion
for t
he 2
008
SIPP
pan
el, w
hich
resu
lted
in a
n ov
eral
l res
pons
e ra
te a
bove
60%
into
the
fifth
yea
r of t
he d
ata
colle
ctio
n fo
r the
200
8 Pa
nel.
Dat
a re
leas
es th
roug
h w
ave
15 a
re o
n sc
hedu
le.
Cur
rent
Pop
ulat
ion
Surv
ey (C
PS) c
ontro
ls w
ere
cons
iste
ntly
rele
ased
in ti
me
for w
eigh
ting
mon
thly
est
imat
es, w
hich
is im
porta
nt b
ecau
se th
e C
PS is
the
sour
ce o
f th
e m
onth
ly u
nem
ploy
men
t dat
a fo
r the
Uni
ted
Stat
es; a
lead
ing
econ
omic
indi
cato
r.
In F
Y 20
14, t
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
dev
elop
ed fi
nal e
xper
imen
tal r
ace
and
His
pani
c or
igin
que
stio
ns fo
r pap
er a
nd e
lect
roni
c m
odes
for t
he 2
015
Dec
enni
al C
onte
nt
Test
. The
Bur
eau
also
com
plet
ed a
ll ke
y m
ilest
ones
for r
esea
rch,
test
ing,
and
sta
keho
lder
out
reac
h as
soci
ated
with
impr
ovin
g ra
ce a
nd H
ispa
nic
orig
in q
uest
ions
in
cen
suse
s an
d su
rvey
s.
CEN - 167
The
Dem
ogra
phic
Sur
veys
Sam
ple
Red
esig
n pr
ogra
m d
eliv
ered
the
first
wav
e of
the
SIPP
Eve
nt H
isto
ry C
alen
dar (
EHC
) cas
es a
s w
ell a
s th
e fir
st ro
tatio
n of
the
2010
des
ign
CPS
cas
es to
pro
duct
ion
ahea
d of
sch
edul
e. C
PS s
elec
ted
its s
econ
d an
nual
sam
ple,
whi
le th
e Am
eric
an H
ousi
ng S
urve
y (A
HS)
, Con
sum
er
Expe
nditu
res
Dia
ry a
nd Q
uarte
rly (C
ED a
nd C
EQ),
and
Nat
iona
l Crim
e Vi
ctim
izat
ion
Surv
ey (N
CVS
) sel
ecte
d th
eir f
irst.
Sec
tion
3.4:
N
ext S
teps
Th
e U
.S. C
ensu
s Bu
reau
is im
prov
ing
data
bas
ed s
ervi
ces,
dec
isio
n-m
akin
g, a
nd d
ata
shar
ing
with
the
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ce a
nd o
ther
par
ts o
f the
Fed
eral
G
over
nmen
t. In
itiat
ives
incl
ude
cond
uctin
g a
mor
e ef
ficie
nt 2
020
Dec
enni
al C
ensu
s by
max
imiz
ing
the
use
of te
chno
logy
, suc
h as
the
Geo
grap
hic
Supp
ort S
yste
m
Initi
ativ
e to
redu
ce c
osts
whi
le m
aint
aini
ng a
hig
h le
vel o
f qua
lity.
Cen
sus
also
com
plet
ed s
ever
al s
teps
tow
ard
ensu
ring
the
effic
ienc
y of
the
2020
Dec
enni
al
Cen
sus
by p
erfo
rmin
g se
lf-re
spon
se a
nd n
on-re
spon
se fo
llow
-up
data
col
lect
ion
for t
he 2
014
Cen
sus
trial
test
s, a
s w
ell a
s th
e sy
stem
s re
adin
ess
test
s. T
he
Bure
au is
targ
eted
by
FY20
15Q
4 to
issu
e th
e 20
20 C
ensu
s op
erat
iona
l pla
n an
noun
cing
maj
or d
esig
n de
cisi
ons.
Th
e U
.S. C
ensu
s Bu
reau
is e
ngag
ing
in a
n m
ulti-
evid
ence
bas
ed b
uild
ing
stra
tegy
that
incl
udes
use
of a
Bal
ance
d Sc
orec
ard,
whi
ch is
a s
trate
gic
plan
ning
and
m
anag
emen
t sys
tem
use
d to
alig
n bu
sine
ss a
ctiv
ities
to th
e vi
sion
and
stra
tegy
of t
he o
rgan
izat
ion;
Pro
gram
Man
agem
ent R
evie
ws,
whi
ch id
entif
y th
e m
issi
on-
criti
cal,
high
-prio
rity
prog
ram
s, w
hich
are
sub
ject
to fo
rmal
revi
ews
by th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
’s O
pera
ting
Com
mitt
ee; W
orkf
orce
Pla
nnin
g, to
ens
ure
the
Bure
au h
as a
w
orkf
orce
com
pete
ncy
supp
ly th
at m
eets
man
agem
ent e
xpec
tatio
ns; 2
020
Cen
sus
revi
ews,
whe
re T
he N
atio
nal A
cade
my
of S
cien
ces
(NAS
) is
prov
idin
g sc
ient
ific
and
rese
arch
exp
ertis
e to
the
2020
Cen
sus
Prog
ram
; and
the
Amer
ican
Com
mun
ity
Surv
ey, w
here
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au h
as a
sked
the
Cen
sus
Scie
ntifi
c Ad
viso
ry
Com
mitt
ee to
revi
ew th
e AC
S gr
oup
quar
ters
pro
gram
and
mak
e re
com
men
datio
ns
on im
prov
ing
sam
plin
g ef
forts
and
dat
a co
llect
ion
issu
es w
ith c
erta
in g
roup
qua
rter
type
s.
Pa
rt 4
Perf
orm
ance
Goa
ls /
Indi
cato
rs
Sec
tion
4.1:
S
umm
ary
of P
erfo
rman
ce
Stat
us is
bas
ed o
n th
e fo
llow
ing
stan
dard
: Ex
ceed
ed
M
ore
than
100
per
cent
of t
arge
t M
et
90 -
100
perc
ent o
f tar
get
Not
Met
Belo
w 9
0% o
f tar
get
Stat
us o
f FY
2014
In
dica
tors
Exce
eded
Met
Not
Met
Actu
al T
rend
s of
Indi
cato
rs Po
sitiv
e
Neg
ativ
e
Stab
le
Vary
ing
CEN - 168
An in
dica
tor w
ith a
pos
itive
tren
d is
one
in w
hich
per
form
ance
is im
prov
ing
over
tim
e w
hile
a n
egat
ive
trend
is a
n in
dica
tor t
hat h
as d
eclin
ing
perfo
rman
ce.
A st
able
tre
nd is
one
in w
hich
the
goal
is to
mai
ntai
n a
stan
dard
, and
that
that
is o
ccur
ring.
A v
aryi
ng tr
end
in o
ne in
whi
ch th
e da
ta fl
uctu
ates
too
muc
h to
indi
cate
a tr
end.
At
a m
inim
um, t
hese
indi
cato
rs m
ust h
ave
thre
e ye
ars
of d
ata.
S
ectio
n 4.
2:
Sum
mar
y of
Indi
cato
r Per
form
ance
O
bjec
tive
1.2:
Inc
reas
e U
.S. e
xpor
ts b
y br
oade
ning
and
dee
peni
ng th
e U
.S. e
xpor
ter b
ase
Indi
cato
r Ta
rget
Ac
tual
St
atus
Tr
end
Per
cent
age
of m
onth
ly e
xpor
t sta
tistic
s re
leas
ed o
n sc
hedu
le
100%
10
0%
Met
S
tabl
e O
bjec
tive
2.4:
Acc
eler
ate
the
deve
lopm
ent o
f ind
ustry
-led
skills
stra
tegi
es th
at re
sult
in a
pro
duct
ive
wor
kfor
ce fo
r em
ploy
ers
and
high
-qua
lity
jobs
for w
orke
rs
Indi
cato
r Ta
rget
Ac
tual
St
atus
Tr
end
Num
ber o
f dat
a di
ssem
inat
ion
tool
s fu
eled
by
publ
ic-u
se
Long
itudi
nal E
mpl
oyer
-Hou
seho
ld D
ynam
ics
(LE
HD
) dat
a an
d im
prov
emen
ts to
LE
HD
dat
a an
d da
ta to
ols.
1)
one
data
dis
sem
inat
ion
tool
2)
tw
o im
prov
emen
ts to
LE
HD
dat
a an
d da
ta to
ols
1)
one
data
dis
sem
inat
ion
tool
2)
on
e im
prov
emen
t to
LE
HD
da
ta a
nd d
ata
tool
s
Not
Met
N
ot
enou
gh
data
O
bjec
tive
3.2:
Im
prov
e pr
epar
edne
ss, r
espo
nse,
and
reco
very
from
wea
ther
and
wat
er e
vent
s by
bui
ldin
g a
Wea
ther
-Rea
dy N
atio
n In
dica
tor
Targ
et
Actu
al
Stat
us
Tren
d
Num
ber o
f web
inar
s co
nduc
ted
and
enha
ncem
ents
to th
e C
ensu
s B
urea
u’s
OnT
heM
ap fo
r Em
erge
ncy
Man
agem
ent
web
site
.
1)
two
web
inar
s or
trai
ning
sho
win
g em
erge
ncy
and
city
pla
nner
s ho
w
to n
avig
ate
OTM
-EM
2)
tw
o en
hanc
emen
ts to
OTM
-EM
1)
two
web
inar
s or
trai
ning
sho
win
g em
erge
ncy
and
city
pla
nner
s ho
w
to n
avig
ate
OTM
-EM
2)
tw
o en
hanc
emen
ts to
OTM
-EM
Met
N
ot
enou
gh
data
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
1: T
rans
form
the
Dep
artm
ent’s
dat
a ca
paci
ty to
enh
ance
the
valu
e, a
cces
sibi
lity
and
usab
ility
of C
omm
erce
dat
a fo
r gov
ernm
ent,
busi
ness
and
the
publ
ic.
Indi
cato
r Ta
rget
Ac
tual
St
atus
Tr
end
Per
cent
age
of m
ilest
ones
met
for “
Find
it-C
onne
ct it
” 10
0%
100%
Met
N
ot
enou
gh
data
CEN - 169
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
2: I
mpr
ove
data
-bas
ed s
ervi
ces,
dec
isio
n-m
akin
g, a
nd d
ata
shar
ing
with
in th
e D
epar
tmen
t and
with
oth
er p
arts
of t
he fe
dera
l gov
ernm
ent
Indi
cato
r Ta
rget
Ac
tual
St
atus
Tr
end
Cos
t effi
cien
cy o
f 202
0 de
cenn
ial c
ensu
s Tw
o fie
ld te
sts
that
will
info
rm c
ost a
nd
qual
ity g
oals
for t
he 2
020
Cen
sus
Two
field
test
s th
at w
ill in
form
cos
t and
qu
ality
goa
ls fo
r the
202
0 C
ensu
s M
et
Not
en
ough
da
ta
Per
cent
age
of m
ilest
ones
met
for b
usin
ess
assi
stan
ce
anal
ysis
10
0%
100%
M
et
Not
en
ough
da
ta
Per
cent
age
of k
ey a
ctiv
ities
for c
yclic
al c
ensu
s pr
ogra
ms
com
plet
ed o
n tim
e to
sup
port
effe
ctiv
e de
cisi
on-m
akin
g by
po
licym
aker
s, b
usin
esse
s an
d th
e pu
blic
. 90
%
86%
Met
(R
esul
t is
with
in
10%
of
targ
et)
Sta
ble
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
3: C
olla
bora
te w
ith th
e bu
sine
ss c
omm
unity
to p
rovi
de m
ore
timel
y, a
ccur
ate,
and
rele
vant
dat
a pr
oduc
ts a
nd s
ervi
ces
for c
usto
mer
s In
dica
tor
Targ
et
Actu
al
Stat
us
Tren
d
Per
cent
age
of k
ey d
ata
prod
ucts
for C
ensu
s B
urea
u pr
ogra
ms
rele
ased
on
time
to s
uppo
rt ef
fect
ive
deci
sion
-m
akin
g of
pol
icym
aker
s, b
usin
esse
s, a
nd th
e pu
blic
1) 1
00%
of E
cono
mic
Indi
cato
rs
2) 9
0% o
f oth
er k
ey s
urve
ys
1) 1
00%
of E
cono
mic
Indi
cato
rs
2) 9
0% o
f oth
er k
ey s
urve
ys
Met
S
tabl
e
CEN - 170
Sec
tion
4.3
Det
aile
d In
dica
tor P
lans
and
Per
form
ance
O
bjec
tive
1.2:
Inc
reas
e U
.S. e
xpor
ts b
y br
oade
ning
and
dee
peni
ng th
e U
.S. e
xpor
ter b
ase
Indi
cato
r Pe
rcen
tage
of m
onth
ly e
xpor
t sta
tistic
s re
leas
ed o
n sc
hedu
le
Des
crip
tion
Per
cent
of s
ched
uled
rele
ase
date
s fo
r the
FT-
900
Inte
rnat
iona
l Tra
de in
Goo
ds a
nd S
ervi
ces
rele
ased
on
the
sche
dule
d du
e da
te. T
his
indi
cato
r sup
ports
the
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ce’s
Tra
de &
Inve
stm
ent g
oal t
o “E
xpan
d th
e U
.S. e
cono
my
thro
ugh
incr
ease
d ex
ports
and
inw
ard
fore
ign
inve
stm
ent t
hat l
ead
to m
ore
and
bette
r Am
eric
an jo
bs."
It sp
ecifi
cally
sup
ports
obj
ectiv
e 1.
2 to
" In
crea
se U
.S. e
xpor
ts b
y br
oade
ning
and
dee
peni
ng th
e U
.S. e
xpor
ter b
ase.
"
FY 2
009
FY 2
010
FY 2
011
FY 2
012
FY 2
013
FY 2
014
FY 2
015
FY 2
016
Targ
et
N/A
N
/A
N/A
10
0%
100%
10
0%
100%
10
0%
Act
ual
N/A
N
/A
N/A
10
0%
100%
10
0%
Sta
tus
N/A
N
/A
N/A
M
et
Met
M
et
Tren
d S
tabl
e
Valid
atio
n an
d Ve
rific
atio
n D
ata
Sou
rce
“Blu
eboo
k” S
ched
ule
of re
leas
e da
tes
Freq
uenc
y M
onth
ly
Dat
a S
tora
ge
Sch
edul
es m
aint
aine
d on
For
eign
Tra
de D
ivis
ion
Com
pute
rs a
nd p
ublic
ly a
vaila
ble
on th
e In
tern
et.
Inte
rnal
Con
trol P
roce
dure
s Th
e C
ensu
s B
urea
u co
mpa
res
actu
al re
leas
e da
tes
with
sch
edul
ed d
ata.
No
varia
tion
from
sch
edul
e is
per
mitt
ed.
Dat
a Li
mita
tions
N
one
Act
ions
to b
e Ta
ken
Con
tinue
100
% o
n-tim
e pe
rform
ance
. E
xpla
natio
n (if
not
m
et in
FY
201
4)
This
com
plex
dev
elop
men
t act
ivity
, pro
ject
requ
ired
addi
tiona
l ref
inem
ent b
ecau
se re
sults
wer
e no
t con
sist
ent w
ith h
isto
rical
pro
ject
qua
lity,
cau
sing
a d
elay
in
one
of t
he im
prov
emen
ts to
LE
HD
dat
a an
tool
s pl
anne
d fo
r com
plet
ion
in F
Y 2
014.
Thi
s is
exp
ecte
d to
be
com
plet
ed b
y th
e fir
st q
uarte
r of F
Y 2
015.
A
ctio
ns to
be
take
n /
Futu
re P
lans
B
ased
on
the
expe
rienc
e in
FY
14, a
tim
elin
e w
ill b
e im
plem
ente
d to
acc
ount
for u
ncer
tain
ties
in th
e re
sear
ch a
nd d
evel
opm
ent t
o al
low
sub
sequ
ent p
roje
cts
to b
e co
mpl
eted
on
sche
dule
. In
form
atio
n G
aps
New
Indi
cato
r for
FY
201
4
Valid
atio
n an
d Ve
rific
atio
n D
ata
Sou
rce
Pro
gram
sch
edul
es, p
lans
, and
repo
rts
Freq
uenc
y O
ngoi
ng
Dat
a S
tora
ge
Sch
edul
es, p
lans
, dat
abas
es, a
nd th
e In
trane
t In
tern
al C
ontro
l Pro
cedu
res
Per
iodi
c re
view
, mon
itor,
man
agem
ent c
ontro
l, an
d co
mpa
rison
of s
ched
ules
D
ata
Lim
itatio
ns
Non
e A
ctio
ns to
be
Take
n C
ontin
ue q
uarte
rly re
view
s of
per
form
ance
dat
a an
d st
atus
repo
rts
CEN - 171
Obj
ectiv
e 2.
4: A
ccel
erat
e th
e de
velo
pmen
t of i
ndus
try-le
d sk
ills s
trate
gies
that
resu
lt in
a p
rodu
ctiv
e w
orkf
orce
for e
mpl
oyer
s an
d hi
gh-q
ualit
y jo
bs fo
r wor
kers
In
dica
tor
Num
ber o
f dat
a di
ssem
inat
ion
tool
s fu
eled
by
publ
ic-u
se L
ongi
tudi
nal E
mpl
oyer
-Hou
seho
ld D
ynam
ics
(LEH
D) d
ata
and
impr
ovem
ents
to L
EHD
dat
a an
d da
ta to
ols.
Des
crip
tion
The
Long
itudi
nal E
mpl
oyer
-Hou
seho
ld D
ynam
ics
prog
ram
pro
duce
s ne
w, c
ost e
ffect
ive,
pub
lic-u
se in
form
atio
n co
mbi
ning
fede
ral,
stat
e an
d C
ensu
s B
urea
u da
ta
on e
mpl
oyer
s an
d em
ploy
ees
unde
r the
Loc
al E
mpl
oym
ent D
ynam
ics
(LE
D) P
artn
ersh
ip. S
tate
and
loca
l aut
horit
ies
incr
easi
ngly
nee
d de
taile
d lo
cal i
nfor
mat
ion
abou
t the
ir ec
onom
ies
to m
ake
info
rmed
dec
isio
ns. T
he L
ED
Par
tner
ship
wor
ks to
fill
criti
cal d
ata
gaps
and
pro
vide
indi
cato
rs n
eede
d by
sta
te a
nd lo
cal
auth
oriti
es.
This
indi
cato
r sup
ports
the
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ce’s
Inno
vatio
n go
al to
“Fos
ter a
mor
e in
nova
tive
U.S
. eco
nom
y—on
e th
at is
bet
ter a
t inv
entin
g,
impr
ovin
g, a
nd c
omm
erci
aliz
ing
prod
ucts
and
tech
nolo
gies
that
lead
to h
ighe
r pro
duct
ivity
and
com
petit
iven
ess.
" It s
peci
fical
ly s
uppo
rts o
bjec
tive
2.4
to "A
ccel
erat
e th
e de
velo
pmen
t of i
ndus
try-le
d sk
ills s
trate
gies
that
resu
lt in
a p
rodu
ctiv
e w
orkf
orce
for e
mpl
oyer
s an
d hi
gh-q
ualit
y jo
bs fo
r wor
kers
."
FY 2
009
FY 2
010
FY 2
011
FY 2
012
FY 2
013
FY 2
014
FY 2
015
FY 2
016
Targ
et
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
1)
one
data
di
ssem
inat
ion
tool
2)
tw
o im
prov
emen
ts to
LE
HD
dat
a an
d da
ta
tool
s
1)
one
data
di
ssem
inat
ion
tool
2)
th
ree
impr
ovem
ents
to
LEH
D d
ata
and
data
tool
s
1) tw
o re
view
s of
use
r fee
dbac
k of
new
di
ssem
inat
ion
tool
s 2)
Ass
essm
ent o
f pot
entia
l mod
ifica
tion
of u
ser
tool
s
Act
ual
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
1)
on
e da
ta
diss
emin
atio
n to
ol
2)
one
impr
ovem
ent t
o LE
HD
dat
a an
d da
ta
tool
s
Sta
tus
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
ot M
et
Tren
d N
ot e
noug
h da
ta
CEN - 172
Obj
ectiv
e 3.
2: I
mpr
ove
prep
ared
ness
, res
pons
e, a
nd re
cove
ry fr
om w
eath
er a
nd w
ater
eve
nts
by b
uild
ing
a W
eath
er-R
eady
Nat
ion
In
dica
tor
Num
ber o
f web
inar
s co
nduc
ted
and
enha
ncem
ents
to th
e C
ensu
s B
urea
u’s
OnT
heM
ap fo
r Em
erge
ncy
Man
agem
ent w
ebsi
te.
Des
crip
tion
OnT
heM
ap fo
r Em
erge
ncy
Man
agem
ent (
OTM
-EM
) is
a pu
blic
dat
a to
ol th
at p
rovi
des
uniq
ue d
etai
l on
the
wor
kfor
ce, f
or U
.S. a
reas
affe
cted
by
hurr
ican
es, f
lood
s,
and
wild
fires
, in
real
tim
e. T
o pr
ovid
e us
ers
with
the
late
st in
form
atio
n av
aila
ble,
OnT
heM
ap fo
r Em
erge
ncy
Man
agem
ent a
utom
atic
ally
inco
rpor
ates
real
tim
e da
ta
upda
tes
from
the
Nat
iona
l Wea
ther
Ser
vice
, Dep
artm
ents
of I
nter
ior a
nd A
gric
ultu
re, a
nd o
ther
age
ncie
s fo
r hur
rican
es, f
lood
s, a
nd w
ildfir
es. T
his
indi
cato
r su
ppor
ts th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
’s E
nviro
nmen
t goa
l to
“Ens
ure
com
mun
ities
and
bus
ines
ses
have
the
nece
ssar
y in
form
atio
n, p
rodu
cts,
and
ser
vice
s to
pr
epar
e fo
r and
pro
sper
in a
cha
ngin
g en
viro
nmen
t." I
t spe
cific
ally
sup
ports
obj
ectiv
e 3.
2 to
"Im
prov
e pr
epar
edne
ss, r
espo
nse,
and
reco
very
from
wea
ther
and
w
ater
eve
nts
by b
uild
ing
a W
eath
er-R
eady
Nat
ion.
"
FY 2
009
FY 2
010
FY 2
011
FY 2
012
FY 2
013
FY 2
014
FY 2
015
FY 2
016
Targ
et
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
1)
two
web
inar
s or
trai
ning
sh
owin
g em
erge
ncy
and
city
pla
nner
s ho
w to
na
viga
te O
TM-E
M
2)
two
enha
ncem
ents
to
OTM
-EM
1)
two
web
inar
s or
tra
inin
g sh
owin
g em
erge
ncy
and
city
pl
anne
rs h
ow to
na
viga
te O
TM-E
M
2)
two
revi
ews
of u
ser
feed
back
on
enha
ncem
ents
to
OTM
-EM
1) tw
o w
ebin
ars
or tr
aini
ng
show
ing
emer
genc
y an
d ci
ty
plan
ners
how
to n
avig
ate
OTM
-EM
2)
two
revi
ews
of u
ser
feed
back
on
enha
ncem
ents
to
OTM
-EM
Act
ual
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
1)
tw
o w
ebin
ars
or tr
aini
ng
show
ing
emer
genc
y an
d ci
ty p
lann
ers
how
to
navi
gate
OTM
-EM
2)
tw
o en
hanc
emen
t to
OTM
-EM
Sta
tus
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
M
et
Tren
d N
ot e
noug
h da
ta
Va
lidat
ion
and
Verif
icat
ion
Dat
a S
ourc
e P
rogr
am s
ched
ules
, pla
ns, a
nd re
ports
Fr
eque
ncy
Ong
oing
D
ata
Sto
rage
S
ched
ules
, pla
ns, d
atab
ases
, and
the
Intra
net
Inte
rnal
Con
trol P
roce
dure
s P
erio
dic
revi
ew, m
onito
r, m
anag
emen
t con
trol,
and
com
paris
on o
f sch
edul
es
Dat
a Li
mita
tions
N
one
Act
ions
to b
e Ta
ken
Con
tinue
qua
rterly
revi
ews
of p
erfo
rman
ce d
ata
and
stat
us re
ports
CEN - 173
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
1: T
rans
form
the
Dep
artm
ent’s
dat
a ca
paci
ty to
enh
ance
the
valu
e, a
cces
sibi
lity
and
usab
ility
of C
omm
erce
dat
a fo
r gov
ernm
ent,
busi
ness
and
the
publ
ic.
Indi
cato
r Pe
rcen
tage
of m
ilest
ones
met
for “
Find
it-C
onne
ct it
”
Des
crip
tion
In o
rder
to b
est s
erve
the
publ
ic a
nd th
eir d
iver
se in
tere
sts,
the
Dep
artm
ent w
ill fo
rmat
its
data
in a
man
ner t
hat c
an b
e qu
erie
d fro
m a
ny o
f a n
umbe
r of d
iffer
ent
pers
pect
ives
thro
ugh
the
crea
tion
of a
com
mon
sys
tem
: Fi
nd it
-Con
nect
It.
This
new
ser
vice
will
gui
de u
sers
to in
tero
pera
ble
data
set
s w
ith b
uilt-
in in
telli
genc
e to
m
ake
data
eas
ier t
o ac
cess
, use
, dow
nloa
d, a
nd c
ombi
ne. T
his
Indi
cato
r sup
ports
the
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ce’s
Dat
a go
al to
“Im
prov
e go
vern
men
t, bu
sine
ss,
and
com
mun
ity d
ecis
ions
and
kno
wle
dge
by tr
ansf
orm
ing
Dep
artm
ent d
ata
capa
bilit
ies
and
supp
ortin
g a
data
-ena
bled
eco
nom
y."
It sp
ecifi
cally
sup
ports
obj
ectiv
e 4.
1 to
"Tra
nsfo
rm th
e D
epar
tmen
t’s d
ata
capa
city
to e
nhan
ce th
e va
lue,
acc
essi
bilit
y an
d us
abili
ty o
f Com
mer
ce d
ata
for g
over
nmen
t, bu
sine
ss a
nd th
e pu
blic
."
FY 2
009
FY 2
010
FY 2
011
FY 2
012
FY 2
013
FY 2
014
FY 2
015
FY 2
016
Targ
et
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
10
0%
100%
10
0%
Act
ual
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
10
0%
Sta
tus
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
M
et
Tren
d N
ot e
noug
h da
ta
Va
lidat
ion
and
Verif
icat
ion
Dat
a S
ourc
e P
rogr
am s
ched
ules
, pla
ns, a
nd re
ports
Fr
eque
ncy
Ong
oing
D
ata
Sto
rage
S
ched
ules
, pla
ns, d
atab
ases
, and
the
Intra
net
Inte
rnal
Con
trol P
roce
dure
s P
erio
dic
revi
ew, m
onito
r, m
anag
emen
t con
trol,
and
com
paris
on o
f sch
edul
es
Dat
a Li
mita
tions
N
one
Act
ions
to b
e Ta
ken
Con
tinue
qua
rterly
revi
ews
of p
erfo
rman
ce d
ata
and
stat
us re
ports
CEN - 174
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
2 Im
prov
e da
ta-b
ased
ser
vice
s, d
ecis
ion-
mak
ing,
and
dat
a sh
arin
g w
ithin
the
Dep
artm
ent a
nd w
ith o
ther
par
ts o
f the
fede
ral g
over
nmen
t In
dica
tor
Cos
t effi
cien
cy o
f 202
0 de
cenn
ial c
ensu
s
Des
crip
tion
Due
to th
e na
ture
of t
his
prog
ram
, it i
s im
porta
nt to
trac
k lo
ng-te
rm q
ualit
y, c
ost,
and
deliv
ery
sche
dule
goa
ls.
The
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
has
emba
rked
on
a m
ulti-
year
re
sear
ch a
nd te
stin
g pr
ogra
m fo
cuse
d on
maj
or in
nova
tions
to th
e de
sign
of t
he c
ensu
s an
d or
ient
ed a
roun
d m
ajor
cos
t driv
ers.
Thi
s In
dica
tor s
uppo
rts th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
’s D
ata
goal
to “I
mpr
ove
gove
rnm
ent,
busi
ness
, and
com
mun
ity d
ecis
ions
and
kno
wle
dge
by tr
ansf
orm
ing
Dep
artm
ent d
ata
capa
bilit
ies
and
supp
ortin
g a
data
-ena
bled
eco
nom
y."
It sp
ecifi
cally
sup
ports
obj
ectiv
e 4.
2 to
"Im
prov
e da
ta-b
ased
ser
vice
s, d
ecis
ion-
mak
ing,
and
dat
a sh
arin
g w
ithin
the
Dep
artm
ent a
nd w
ith o
ther
par
ts th
e fe
dera
l gov
ernm
ent."
FY 2
009
FY 2
010
FY 2
011
FY 2
012
FY 2
013
FY 2
014
FY 2
015
FY 2
016
Targ
et
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
Tw
o fie
ld te
sts
that
will
in
form
cos
t and
qua
lity
goal
s fo
r the
202
0 C
ensu
s
Pre
limin
ary
desi
gn
for k
ey c
ompo
nent
s of
the
2020
Cen
sus
to a
chie
ve c
ost a
nd
qual
ity g
oals
1)
Con
duct
add
ition
al te
stin
g of
sel
f-re
spon
se c
onta
ct s
trate
gies
, foc
usin
g on
op
timiz
ing
timin
g of
con
tact
s an
d su
ppor
t fo
r non
-Eng
lish-
spea
king
pop
ulat
ions
2)
C
ondu
ct a
fiel
d te
st to
furth
er e
xam
ine
the
reen
gine
ered
app
roac
h to
fiel
d st
aff
man
agem
ent,
and
the
asso
ciat
ed
oper
atio
ns c
ontro
l sys
tem
that
was
pi
lote
d in
FY
201
5 te
stin
g.
3)
App
roac
h to
fiel
d m
anag
emen
t pr
oces
ses
and
syst
ems
is p
rove
n in
. 4)
A
ppro
ache
s ar
e se
lect
ed fo
r sup
porti
ng
non-
Eng
lish
lang
uage
s fo
r the
202
0 C
ensu
s 5)
C
ondu
ct fe
asib
ility
test
(s) o
f con
solid
atio
n of
fiel
d op
erat
ions
6)
C
ondu
ct te
stin
g of
Gro
up Q
uarte
rs
oper
atio
nal d
esig
n A
ctua
l N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
Two
field
test
s th
at w
ill
info
rm c
ost a
nd q
ualit
y go
als
for t
he 2
020
Cen
sus
Sta
tus
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
M
et
Tren
d N
ot e
noug
h da
ta
Va
lidat
ion
and
Verif
icat
ion
Dat
a S
ourc
e P
rogr
am s
ched
ules
, pla
ns, a
nd re
ports
Fr
eque
ncy
Ong
oing
D
ata
Sto
rage
S
ched
ules
, pla
ns, d
atab
ases
, and
the
Intra
net
Inte
rnal
Con
trol P
roce
dure
s P
erio
dic
revi
ew, m
onito
r, m
anag
emen
t con
trol,
and
com
paris
on o
f sch
edul
es
Dat
a Li
mita
tions
N
one
Act
ions
to b
e Ta
ken
Con
tinue
qua
rterly
revi
ews
of p
erfo
rman
ce d
ata
and
stat
us re
ports
CEN - 175
Indi
cato
r Pe
rcen
tage
of m
ilest
ones
met
for b
usin
ess
assi
stan
ce a
naly
sis
Des
crip
tion
The
fede
ral g
over
nmen
t pro
vide
s bi
llion
s of
dol
lars
in b
usin
ess
assi
stan
ce p
rogr
ams
each
yea
r. T
he D
epar
tmen
t is
resp
onsi
ble
for m
any
such
pro
gram
s.
Ana
lyzi
ng th
e ef
fect
iven
ess
of th
is a
ssis
tanc
e an
d id
entif
ying
key
driv
ers
of s
ucce
ss c
an b
e di
fficu
lt an
d tim
e-co
nsum
ing.
Bet
ter a
nd p
erha
ps fa
ster
ass
essm
ents
co
uld
be m
ade
if th
e fe
dera
l gov
ernm
ent’s
exi
stin
g ec
onom
ic, d
emog
raph
ic, a
nd s
cien
tific
dat
a ar
e ap
plie
d to
the
deci
sion
-mak
ing
proc
ess
in a
mea
ning
ful w
ay.
The
aim
is to
arr
ive
at th
e be
st w
ay to
inco
rpor
ate
info
rmat
ion
and
anal
yses
gle
aned
from
exi
stin
g da
tase
ts in
to b
usin
ess-
assi
stan
ce p
rogr
am d
ecis
ions
. Thi
s In
dica
tor s
uppo
rts th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
’s D
ata
goal
to “I
mpr
ove
gove
rnm
ent,
busi
ness
, and
com
mun
ity d
ecis
ions
and
kno
wle
dge
by tr
ansf
orm
ing
Dep
artm
ent d
ata
capa
bilit
ies
and
supp
ortin
g a
data
-ena
bled
eco
nom
y."
It sp
ecifi
cally
sup
ports
obj
ectiv
e 4.
2 to
"Im
prov
e da
ta-b
ased
ser
vice
s, d
ecis
ion-
mak
ing,
an
d da
ta s
harin
g w
ithin
the
Dep
artm
ent a
nd w
ith o
ther
par
ts th
e fe
dera
l gov
ernm
ent.”
FY 2
009
FY 2
010
FY 2
011
FY 2
012
FY 2
013
FY 2
014
FY 2
015
FY 2
016
Targ
et
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
10
0%
100%
10
0%
Act
ual
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
10
0%
Sta
tus
N/A
N
/A
N/A
N
/A
N/A
M
et (s
ee n
otes
)
Tr
end
Not
eno
ugh
data
N
otes
Tw
o pr
ojec
ts w
ere
sche
dule
d to
be
initi
ated
in F
Y 2
014,
with
wor
k co
ntin
uing
into
FY
201
5 - o
ne fo
r the
Inte
rnat
iona
l Tra
de A
dmin
istra
tion
(ITA
) and
one
for
the
Min
ority
Bus
ines
s D
evel
opm
ent A
genc
y (M
BD
A).
The
ITA
proj
ect i
s on
sch
edul
e. H
owev
er, t
he M
BD
A p
roje
ct w
as c
ance
lled
due
to c
once
rns
abou
t th
at a
genc
y’s
lega
l aut
horit
ies
surr
ound
ing
the
prov
isio
n of
dat
a to
the
Cen
sus
Bur
eau.
Bec
ause
the
ITA
pro
ject
is o
n sc
hedu
le a
nd th
e ci
rcum
stan
ces
surr
ound
ing
the
canc
ella
tion
of th
e M
BD
A p
roje
ct, w
e co
nsid
er th
is ta
rget
to b
e m
et fo
r FY
201
4.
Info
rmat
ion
Gap
s N
ew In
dica
tor f
or F
Y 2
014
Va
lidat
ion
and
Verif
icat
ion
Dat
a S
ourc
e P
rogr
am s
ched
ules
, pla
ns, a
nd re
ports
Fr
eque
ncy
Ong
oing
D
ata
Sto
rage
S
ched
ules
, pla
ns, d
atab
ases
, and
the
Intra
net
Inte
rnal
Con
trol P
roce
dure
s P
erio
dic
revi
ew, m
onito
r, m
anag
emen
t con
trol,
and
com
paris
on o
f sch
edul
es
Dat
a Li
mita
tions
N
one
Act
ions
to b
e Ta
ken
Con
tinue
qua
rterly
revi
ews
of p
erfo
rman
ce d
ata
and
stat
us re
ports
CEN - 176
Indi
cato
r Pe
rcen
tage
of k
ey a
ctiv
ities
for c
yclic
al c
ensu
s pr
ogra
ms
com
plet
ed o
n tim
e to
sup
port
effe
ctiv
e de
cisi
on-m
akin
g by
pol
icym
aker
s, b
usin
esse
s an
d th
e pu
blic
.
Des
crip
tion
Due
to th
e cy
clic
al n
atur
e of
thes
e pr
ogra
ms,
it is
impo
rtant
to tr
ack
annu
al k
ey a
ctiv
ities
that
sup
port
the
prog
ram
s. T
he in
tern
al a
ctiv
ities
that
are
trac
ked
are
thos
e co
nsid
ered
to b
e th
e m
ost i
mpo
rtant
in m
eetin
g th
e lo
ng-te
rm g
oals
of t
he c
yclic
al c
ensu
s pr
ogra
ms.
Thi
s In
dica
tor s
uppo
rts th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
’s
Dat
a go
al to
“Im
prov
e go
vern
men
t, bu
sine
ss, a
nd c
omm
unity
dec
isio
ns a
nd k
now
ledg
e by
tran
sfor
min
g D
epar
tmen
t dat
a ca
pabi
litie
s an
d su
ppor
ting
a da
ta-
enab
led
econ
omy.
" It
spec
ifica
lly s
uppo
rts o
bjec
tive
4.2
to "I
mpr
ove
data
-bas
ed s
ervi
ces,
dec
isio
n-m
akin
g, a
nd d
ata
shar
ing
with
in th
e D
epar
tmen
t and
with
oth
er
parts
the
fede
ral g
over
nmen
t."
FY
200
9 FY
201
0 FY
201
1 FY
201
2 FY
201
3 FY
201
4 FY
201
5 FY
201
6 Ta
rget
A
t lea
st 9
0%
At l
east
90%
A
t lea
st 9
0%
At l
east
90%
A
t lea
st 9
0%
90%
90
%
90%
A
ctua
l A
t lea
st 9
0%
At l
east
90%
A
t lea
st 9
0%
At l
east
90%
A
t lea
st 9
0%
90%
S
tatu
s M
et
Met
M
et
Met
M
et
Met
Tr
end
Sta
ble
Va
lidat
ion
and
Verif
icat
ion
Dat
a S
ourc
e A
ctiv
ity s
ched
ules
kep
t by
each
of t
he c
yclic
al c
ensu
s pr
ogra
ms.
Fr
eque
ncy
Ong
oing
, bas
ed o
n ac
tivity
sch
edul
es.
Dat
a S
tora
ge
The
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
prog
ram
offi
ces
mai
ntai
n ac
tivity
sch
edul
es a
nd p
erfo
rman
ce d
ata.
In
tern
al C
ontro
l Pro
cedu
res
The
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
com
pare
s ac
tual
com
plet
ion
date
s w
ith s
ched
uled
dat
es.
Per
form
ance
dat
a ar
e re
view
ed q
uarte
rly.
Dat
a Li
mita
tions
N
one
Act
ions
to b
e Ta
ken
Con
tinue
qua
rterly
revi
ews
of p
erfo
rman
ce d
ata
CEN - 177
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
3: C
olla
bora
te w
ith th
e bu
sine
ss c
omm
unity
to p
rovi
de m
ore
timel
y, a
ccur
ate,
and
rele
vant
dat
a pr
oduc
ts a
nd s
ervi
ces
for c
usto
mer
s In
dica
tor
Perc
enta
ge o
f key
dat
a pr
oduc
ts fo
r Cen
sus
Bur
eau
prog
ram
s re
leas
ed o
n tim
e to
sup
port
effe
ctiv
e de
cisi
on-m
akin
g of
pol
icym
aker
s, b
usin
esse
s, a
nd
the
publ
ic.
Des
crip
tion
Ens
urin
g th
at d
ata
prod
ucts
are
rele
ased
on
sche
dule
is e
ssen
tial.
OM
B S
tatis
tical
Dire
ctiv
e N
umbe
r 3 re
quire
s th
at th
e da
ta fo
r the
prin
cipl
e ec
onom
ic in
dica
tors
be
rele
ased
with
in p
resc
ribed
tim
e pe
riods
. The
impa
ct o
f not
mee
ting
rele
ase
date
s fo
r the
eco
nom
ic in
dica
tors
is m
uch
mor
e se
rious
, so
two
sepa
rate
targ
ets
are
note
d. T
his
indi
cato
r sup
ports
the
Dep
artm
ent o
f Com
mer
ce’s
Dat
a go
al to
“Im
prov
e go
vern
men
t, bu
sine
ss, a
nd c
omm
unity
dec
isio
ns a
nd k
now
ledg
e by
tra
nsfo
rmin
g D
epar
tmen
t dat
a ca
pabi
litie
s an
d su
ppor
ting
a da
ta-e
nabl
ed e
cono
my.
" It
spec
ifica
lly s
uppo
rts o
bjec
tive
4.3
to "F
oste
r the
priv
ate
sect
or’s
de
velo
pmen
t of n
ew d
ata-
base
d bu
sine
sses
, pro
duct
s an
d se
rvic
es."
FY
200
9 FY
201
0 FY
201
1 FY
201
2 FY
201
3 FY
201
4 FY
201
5 FY
201
6
Targ
et
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic
Indi
cato
rs
2) A
t lea
st 9
0% o
f ot
her k
ey s
urve
ys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic
Indi
cato
rs
2) A
t lea
st 9
0% o
f ot
her k
ey s
urve
ys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic
Indi
cato
rs
2) A
t lea
st 9
0% o
f ot
her k
ey s
urve
ys
1) 1
00%
of E
cono
mic
In
dica
tors
2)
At l
east
90%
of
othe
r key
sur
veys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic In
dica
tors
2)
At l
east
90%
of
othe
r key
sur
veys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic In
dica
tors
2)
90%
of o
ther
key
su
rvey
s
1) 1
00%
of E
cono
mic
In
dica
tors
2)
90%
of o
ther
key
su
rvey
s
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic In
dica
tors
2)
90%
of o
ther
key
su
rvey
s
Act
ual
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic
Indi
cato
rs
2) A
t lea
st 9
0% o
f ot
her k
ey s
urve
ys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic
Indi
cato
rs
2) A
t lea
st 9
0% o
f ot
her k
ey s
urve
ys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic
Indi
cato
rs
2) A
t lea
st 9
0% o
f ot
her k
ey s
urve
ys
1) 1
00%
of E
cono
mic
In
dica
tors
2)
At l
east
90%
of
othe
r key
sur
veys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic In
dica
tors
2)
At l
east
90%
of
othe
r key
sur
veys
1) 1
00%
of
Eco
nom
ic In
dica
tors
2)
86%
of o
ther
key
su
rvey
s
Sta
tus
Met
M
et
Met
M
et
Met
M
et
Tren
d S
tabl
e N
otes
Tw
o of
the
15 “o
ther
key
sur
veys
” tha
t com
pris
e th
is m
easu
re m
isse
d at
leas
t one
dat
a re
leas
e m
ilest
one.
How
ever
, the
86%
per
form
ance
resu
lt fa
lls w
ithin
the
“met
rang
e” s
ince
the
resu
lt is
with
in 1
0% o
f the
90%
targ
et fo
r thi
s m
easu
re.
Valid
atio
n an
d Ve
rific
atio
n D
ata
Sou
rce
Act
ual d
ata
rele
ases
by
Cen
sus
Bur
eau
prog
ram
s.
Freq
uenc
y Th
e fre
quen
cy o
f dat
a re
leas
es v
arie
s. R
elea
se d
ates
are
ofte
n pu
blis
hed
in a
dvan
ce.
Dat
a S
tora
ge
Dat
a re
leas
e in
form
atio
n is
sto
red
in C
ensu
s B
urea
u sy
stem
s &
pub
lic d
ata.
In
tern
al C
ontro
l Pro
cedu
res
Per
form
ance
dat
a ar
e ve
rifie
d by
com
parin
g ac
tual
rele
ase
date
s w
ith s
ched
uled
rele
ase
date
s. M
etho
dolo
gica
l sta
ndar
ds fo
r sur
veys
are
pub
licly
repo
rted.
D
ata
Lim
itatio
ns
Dat
a th
at a
re re
leas
ed m
ust a
dher
e to
Titl
e 13
requ
irem
ents
to p
rote
ct re
spon
dent
s’ c
onfid
entia
lity.
A
ctio
ns to
be
Take
n C
ontin
ue q
uarte
rly re
view
s of
per
form
ance
dat
a Pa
rt 5
:
Oth
er In
dica
tors
N
ON
E Pa
rt 6
: A
genc
y Pr
iorit
y G
oals
N
one
of th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
’s G
PRA
Perfo
rman
ce G
oals
hav
e be
en id
entif
ied
by th
e D
epar
tmen
t of C
omm
erce
as
an A
genc
y Pr
iorit
y G
oal.
CEN - 178
Part
7:
Res
ourc
e R
equi
rem
ents
Tab
le
Fund
ing
for t
he R
esou
rce
Req
uire
men
ts ta
ble
refle
cts
tota
l dire
ct o
blig
atio
ns.
Rei
mbu
rsab
le o
blig
atio
ns a
re in
clud
ed in
sofa
r tha
t am
ount
s ca
n be
reas
onab
ly b
e pr
edic
ted
with
littl
e va
rianc
e fro
m y
ear t
o ye
ar, a
nd c
ould
reas
onab
ly a
ffect
the
perfo
rman
ce o
f ind
icat
ors.
Fun
ding
and
FTE
app
ear a
t the
obj
ectiv
e le
vel.
Do
not
incl
ude
IT fu
ndin
g (w
hich
is n
o lo
nger
requ
ired)
.
FY 2
009
Actu
al
FY 2
010
Actu
al
FY 2
011
Ac
tual
FY
201
2 Ac
tual
FY
201
3 Ac
tual
FY
201
4 Ac
tual
FY
201
5 Es
timat
e FY
201
6 Ba
se
Incr
ease
/ D
ecre
ase
FY 2
016
Req
uest
O
bjec
tive
1.2:
Incr
ease
U.S
. exp
orts
by
broa
deni
ng a
nd d
eepe
ning
the
U.S
. exp
orte
r bas
e.
Cur
rent
Sur
veys
and
Pr
ogra
ms
11.6
12
.3
12.0
12
.6
11.1
10
.2
11.2
11
.4
0.0
11.4
Subt
otal
Fun
ding
11
.6
12.3
12
.0
12.6
11
.1
10.2
11
.2
11.4
0.
0 11
.4
Dire
ct
11.6
12
.3
12.0
12
.6
11.1
10
.2
11.2
11
.4
0.0
11.4
R
eim
burs
able
T
otal
11
.6
12.3
12
.0
12.6
11
.1
10.2
11
.2
11.4
0.
0 11
.4
Su
btot
al F
TE
86
86
86
86
86
79
86
86
0 86
O
bjec
tive
2.4:
Acc
eler
ate
the
deve
lopm
ent o
f ind
ustr
y-le
d sk
ills
stra
tegi
es th
at re
sult
in a
pro
duct
ive
wor
kfor
ce fo
r em
ploy
ers
and
high
-qua
lity
jobs
for
wor
kers
. C
urre
nt S
urve
ys a
nd
Prog
ram
s 10
.3
12.5
11
.0
11.3
10
.6
8.1
9.9
9.9
0.0
9.9
Subt
otal
Fun
ding
10
.3
12.5
11
.0
11.3
10
.6
8.1
9.9
9.9
0.0
9.9
Dire
ct
10.3
12
.5
11.0
11
.3
10.6
8.
1 9.
9 9.
9 0.
0 9.
9 R
eim
burs
able
T
otal
10
.3
12.5
11
.0
11.3
10
.6
8.1
9.9
9.9
0.0
9.9
Su
btot
al F
TE
130
171
161
164
181
25
31
31
0 31
O
bjec
tive
3.2:
Impr
ove
prep
ared
ness
, res
pons
e, a
nd re
cove
ry fr
om w
eath
er a
nd w
ater
eve
nts
by b
uild
ing
a W
eath
er-R
eady
Nat
ion.
C
urre
nt S
urve
ys a
nd
Prog
ram
s -
- 0.
3 0.
3 0.
3
0.4
0.4
0.0
0.4
Perio
dic
Cen
suse
s an
d Pr
ogra
ms
0.6
Subt
otal
Fun
ding
-
- 0.
3 0.
3 0.
3 0.
6 0.
4 0.
4 0.
0 0.
4 D
irect
-
- 0.
3 0.
3 0.
3 0.
6 0.
4 0.
4 0.
0 0.
4 R
eim
burs
able
T
otal
-
- 0.
3 0.
3 0.
3 0.
6 0.
4 0.
4 0.
0 0.
4
Subt
otal
FTE
5
5 6
2 1
1 0
1
CEN - 179
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
1: T
rans
form
the
Dep
artm
ent’s
dat
a ca
paci
ty to
enh
ance
the
valu
e, a
cces
sibi
lity
and
usab
ility
of C
omm
erce
dat
a fo
r gov
ernm
ent,
busi
ness
an
d th
e pu
blic
. Pe
riodi
c C
ensu
ses
and
Prog
ram
s
57.1
59
.2
19.1
12
.2
10.8
21
.0
55.9
59
.0
17.3
76
.3
Subt
otal
Fun
ding
57
.1
59.2
19
.1
12.2
10
.8
21.0
55
.9
59.0
17
.3
76.3
D
irect
57
.1
59.2
19
.1
12.2
10
.8
21.0
55
.9
59.0
17
.3
76.3
R
eim
burs
able
T
otal
57
.1
59.2
19
.1
12.2
10
.8
21.0
55
.9
59.0
17
.3
76.3
Subt
otal
FTE
18
2 25
9 21
4 14
4 94
41
12
8 14
5 84
22
9 O
bjec
tive
4.2:
Impr
ove
data
bas
ed s
ervi
ces,
dec
isio
n-m
akin
g an
d da
ta s
harin
g w
ithin
the
Dep
artm
ent a
nd w
ith o
ther
par
ts o
f the
Fed
eral
Gov
ernm
ent.
Cur
rent
Sur
veys
and
Pr
ogra
ms
Perio
dic
Cen
suse
s an
d Pr
ogra
ms
3,
007.
1 5,
833.
4 92
6.2
661.
2 61
1.5
644.
4 76
9.8
778.
3 36
5.9
1,14
4.2
Subt
otal
Fun
ding
3,
007.
1 5,
833.
4 92
6.2
661.
2 61
1.5
644.
4 76
9.8
778.
3 36
5.9
1,14
4.2
Dire
ct
3,00
7.1
5,83
3.4
926.
2 66
1.2
611.
5 64
4.4
769.
8 77
8.3
365.
9 1,
144.
2 R
eim
burs
able
T
otal
3,
007.
1 5,
833.
4 92
6.2
661.
2 61
1.5
644.
4 76
9.8
778.
3 36
5.9
1,14
4.2
Su
btot
al F
TE
22,0
33
88,9
56
5,90
1 4,
318
3,99
7 4,
095
4,57
8 4,
578
1,02
9 5,
607
CEN - 180
Obj
ectiv
e 4.
3: C
olla
bora
te w
ith th
e bu
sine
ss c
omm
unity
to p
rovi
de m
ore
timel
y, a
ccur
ate,
and
rele
vant
dat
a pr
oduc
ts a
nd s
ervi
ces
for c
usto
mer
s.
Cur
rent
Sur
veys
and
Pr
ogra
ms
264.
9 28
6.9
285.
3 28
3.9
264.
7 28
3.9
275.
0 28
6.2
0.0
286.
2
Perio
dic
Cen
suse
s an
d Pr
ogra
ms
.7
.2
Rei
mbu
rsab
le
248.
4 23
3.9
293.
0 31
2.6
339.
8 28
3.3
331.
7 26
7.7
0.0
267.
7 Su
btot
al F
undi
ng
513.
3 52
0.8
578.
3 59
6.5
604.
5 56
7.9
606.
9 55
3.9
0.0
553.
9 D
irect
26
4.9
286.
9 28
5.3
283.
9 26
4.7
284.
6 27
5.2
286.
2 0.
0 28
6.2
Rei
mbu
rsab
le
248.
4 23
3.9
293.
0 31
2.6
339.
8 28
3.3
331.
7 26
7.7
0.0
267.
7 T
otal
51
3.3
520.
8 57
8.3
596.
5 60
4.5
567.
9 60
6.9
553.
9 0.
0 55
3.9
Su
btot
al F
TE
4,22
9 4,
132
4,59
4 4,
838
5,33
8 4,
537
5,43
0 5,
017
15
5,03
2
Tota
l Fun
ding
D
irect
3,
351.
0 6,
204.
2 1,
253.
9 98
1.5
909.
0 96
8.9
1,12
2.4
1,14
5.2
383.
2 1,
528.
4 R
eim
burs
able
24
8.4
233.
9 29
3.0
312.
6 33
9.8
283.
3 33
1.7
267.
7 0.
0 26
7.7
Tot
al
3,59
9.4
6,43
8.1
1,54
6.9
1,29
4.1
1,24
8.8
1,25
2.2
1,45
4.0
1,41
2.9
383.
2 1,
796.
1
Tota
l FTE
26
,660
93
,604
10
,961
9,
555
9,70
2 8,
779
10,2
54
9,85
8 1,
128
10,9
86
Part
8:
O
ther
Info
rmat
ion
S
ectio
n 8.
1:
Maj
or M
anag
emen
t Prio
ritie
s, C
halle
nges
, and
Ris
ks
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au is
impl
emen
ting
new
pla
nnin
g, b
udge
ting,
rese
arch
, and
test
ing
proc
esse
s fo
r the
202
0 C
ensu
s. T
hese
effo
rts s
uppo
rt in
nova
tions
und
er
deve
lopm
ent t
o dr
ive
the
cost
of t
he 2
020
Cen
sus
to 2
010
leve
ls (p
er h
ousi
ng u
nit;
adju
sted
for i
nfla
tion)
whi
le p
rodu
cing
hig
h qu
ality
dat
a. A
ccom
plis
hing
our
ob
ject
ives
incl
udes
dev
elop
ing
a ro
bust
test
ing
stra
tegy
to u
nder
stan
d th
e fe
asib
ility
of d
esig
n al
tern
ativ
es to
mee
t thi
s go
al.
The
stra
tegy
als
o in
clud
es b
uild
ing
a ro
bust
pro
gram
man
agem
ent a
nd s
yste
ms
engi
neer
ing
and
inte
grat
ion
infra
stru
ctur
e th
at w
ill pr
ovid
e th
e fo
unda
tion
for a
n ef
fect
ivel
y m
anag
ed p
rogr
am.
The
curre
nt b
udge
t clim
ate
and
expe
ctat
ions
of c
ontin
uing
unc
erta
inty
hav
e ne
cess
itate
d th
at th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
app
ly e
ven
mor
e di
ligen
ce to
how
pro
gram
fund
s ar
e us
ed.
With
maj
or in
nova
tions
nee
ded
to m
eet o
ur c
ost a
nd q
ualit
y go
als,
dev
otin
g av
aila
ble
fund
s to
the
prio
ritiz
atio
n cr
itica
l wor
k is
ess
entia
l.
To u
nder
stan
d w
hen
deci
sion
s ar
e ne
eded
, wha
t wor
k is
nee
ded
in o
rder
to re
ach
thos
e de
cisi
ons,
and
wha
t fun
ding
sup
ports
the
wor
k, th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
has
:
• Es
tabl
ishe
d a
gove
rnan
ce s
trate
gy th
at la
ys o
ut ro
les
and
resp
onsi
bilit
ies,
dec
isio
n m
akin
g pr
oces
ses,
and
alig
ning
pro
gram
con
trols
; •
Con
tinua
lly a
sses
sed
the
prio
ritie
s of
the
prog
ram
aga
inst
ava
ilabl
e bu
dget
; •
Ree
stab
lishe
d sc
hedu
le d
evel
opm
ent a
nd u
pdat
es (d
elay
ed d
ue to
the
reas
sess
men
t des
crib
ed a
bove
), an
d in
crea
sed
effo
rts to
dev
elop
and
refin
e a
road
map
of k
ey d
ecis
ion
poin
ts a
nd m
ilest
ones
;
CEN - 181
• Es
tabl
ishe
d a
Test
ing
and
Res
earc
h St
rate
gies
Tea
m th
at re
view
s th
e m
etho
dolo
gies
, res
earc
h pl
ans,
and
test
des
igns
to e
nsur
e th
at a
ppro
ache
s ta
ken
are
soun
d an
d w
ill pr
ovid
e th
e ev
iden
ce n
eede
d to
reac
h cr
itica
l des
ign
deci
sion
s;
• Ta
ken
incr
ease
d st
eps
tow
ard
ente
rpris
e so
lutio
ns th
at w
ill cr
eate
an
inte
grat
ed a
nd s
tand
ardi
zed
syst
em o
f sys
tem
s th
at o
ffers
sha
red
data
col
lect
ion
and
proc
essi
ng s
ervi
ces
for o
pera
tions
acr
oss
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au; a
nd,
• C
ontin
ued
impl
emen
tatio
n of
stro
ng p
rogr
am m
anag
emen
t and
sys
tem
s en
gine
erin
g di
scip
lines
aro
und
risk
man
agem
ent,
perfo
rman
ce m
anag
emen
t, kn
owle
dge
man
agem
ent,
requ
irem
ents
man
agem
ent,
and
syst
em a
rchi
tect
ure
and
infra
stru
ctur
e pl
anni
ng a
nd d
evel
opm
ent.
•
In s
uppo
rt of
the
Dep
artm
ent’s
obj
ectiv
e to
“stre
ngth
en o
rgan
izat
iona
l cap
abilit
ies
to d
rive
cust
omer
-focu
sed,
out
com
es-d
riven
mis
sion
per
form
ance
”, th
e Bu
reau
is id
entif
ying
mis
sion
-crit
ical
com
pete
ncie
s, a
sses
sing
com
pete
ncy
dist
ribut
ions
, ana
lyzi
ng g
aps
betw
een
curre
nt a
nd d
esire
d st
ates
, and
wor
king
to
clo
se c
ore
and
emer
ging
com
pete
ncy
gaps
.
Wor
k co
ntin
ues
to d
evel
op a
nd re
fine
effo
rts to
use
the
Amer
ican
Com
mun
ity S
urve
y (A
CS)
to fu
rther
the
rese
arch
goa
ls o
f the
202
0 Pr
ogra
m.
Dat
a fro
m
depl
oym
ent o
f the
Inte
rnet
for A
CS
is p
rovi
ding
a w
ealth
of i
nfor
mat
ion
to p
repa
re th
e 20
20 p
rogr
am fo
r an
Inte
rnet
resp
onse
opt
ion.
Lan
guag
e su
ppor
t act
iviti
es
are
bein
g pu
rsue
d to
ben
efit
both
pro
gram
s. A
s to
the
ACS
Con
tent
Tes
t pre
viou
sly
plan
ned
for F
Y 20
15, t
his
test
had
to b
e de
laye
d un
til F
Y 20
16 d
ue to
the
budg
etar
y im
pact
s of
the
FY 2
013
sequ
estra
tion.
O
IG M
anag
emen
t Cha
lleng
es
Ensu
ring
Tim
ely
Des
ign
Dec
isio
n M
akin
g Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
is a
ppro
achi
ng c
ritic
al 2
020
Cen
sus
desi
gn d
ecis
ion
poin
ts th
at re
quire
pla
nnin
g an
d de
velo
ping
a d
ecen
nial
cen
sus
in a
sig
nific
antly
mor
e co
nstra
ined
bud
get e
nviro
nmen
t tha
n ex
perie
nced
dur
ing
the
2010
Cen
sus.
Soo
n, th
e Bu
reau
mus
t rap
idly
ana
lyze
202
0 de
cenn
ial d
esig
n al
tern
ativ
es a
nd m
ake
key
desi
gn d
ecis
ions
bas
ed o
n th
e re
sults
of i
ts re
sear
ch a
nd te
stin
g ph
ase.
Fo
cusi
ng o
n H
uman
Cap
ital M
anag
emen
t, Ti
mel
y R
esea
rch,
and
Tes
ting
Impl
emen
tatio
n D
urin
g th
e O
IG’s
202
0 C
ensu
s re
desi
gn e
valu
atio
n, th
e O
IG n
oted
sig
nific
ant s
ched
ule
slip
page
in th
e Bu
reau
’s k
ey re
sear
ch a
nd te
stin
g pr
ogra
ms.
If c
ontin
ued,
th
e O
IG b
elie
ves
the
mis
sed
dead
lines
will
trans
late
into
an
unte
nabl
e co
ntin
uatio
n of
an
alre
ady
expe
nsiv
e de
sign
. The
cos
t (in
con
stan
t dol
lars
) of c
ount
ing
each
ho
usin
g un
it co
uld
reac
h $1
51, c
ompa
red
with
$97
for 2
010.
Thr
ough
the
OIG
’s o
ngoi
ng w
ork
on th
e Bu
reau
’s a
ppro
ach
to a
nd p
rogr
ess
on p
lann
ing
for 2
020
dece
nnia
l cen
sus,
they
hav
e id
entif
ied
thre
e tim
e-se
nsiti
ve B
urea
u m
anag
emen
t prio
ritie
s:
1.
Man
agin
g hu
man
cap
ital t
o al
ign
with
the
Bure
au’s
mis
sion
and
pro
gram
mat
ic g
oals
2.
C
ompl
etin
g tim
ely
rese
arch
for m
akin
g ev
iden
ce-b
ased
des
ign
deci
sion
s 3.
Im
plem
entin
g a
stab
le, a
gile
fiel
d-te
stin
g st
rate
gy
CEN - 182
Man
agin
g hu
man
cap
ital -
As
part
of th
e de
cenn
ial c
ensu
s pl
anni
ng e
ffort,
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au is
stri
ving
to im
prov
e th
e m
anag
emen
t and
cul
ture
of t
he d
ecen
nial
di
rect
orat
e. T
he B
urea
u’s
two-
pron
ged
effo
rt en
tails
col
labo
ratio
n be
twee
n its
202
0 C
ensu
s di
rect
orat
e an
d H
uman
Res
ourc
es d
ivis
ion
to (1
) rev
iew
requ
ired
skills
an
d co
mpe
tenc
ies
and
(2) c
ondu
ct a
form
al a
naly
sis
to c
ompa
re th
ose
requ
isite
ski
lls to
the
skills
and
cap
abilit
ies
of th
eir c
urre
nt w
orkf
orce
. An
obje
ctiv
e an
d in
form
ativ
e as
sess
men
t of t
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
’s c
urre
nt w
orkf
orce
is c
ritic
al to
con
tain
ing
2020
Cen
sus
cost
s C
ompl
etin
g tim
ely
rese
arch
- Th
e Bu
reau
’s re
sear
ch a
gend
a in
clud
es c
aptu
ring
less
ons
lear
ned
from
the
last
dec
enni
al c
ensu
s an
d co
nduc
ting
rese
arch
and
te
stin
g pr
ojec
ts th
at e
mph
asiz
e co
ntai
ning
cos
ts w
ithou
t dim
inis
hing
info
rmat
ion
qual
ity.
In a
dditi
on to
the
canc
ella
tion
of 2
0 of
the
orig
inal
109
stu
dies
aim
ed to
m
easu
re th
e Bu
reau
’s p
erfo
rman
ce in
the
2010
dec
enni
al, t
he O
IG fo
und
that
the
Cen
sus
Prog
ram
s fo
r Eva
luat
ions
and
Exp
erim
ents
pro
gram
resu
lts w
ere
ofte
n no
t im
plem
ente
d as
des
igne
d to
info
rm th
e 20
20 R
&T p
rogr
am. T
he O
IG a
lso
foun
d th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
is e
xper
ienc
ing
sche
dule
slip
page
and
pro
ject
del
ays
in it
s R
&T p
rogr
am th
at a
ffect
sub
sequ
ent r
esea
rch
phas
es a
nd d
esig
n de
cisi
on p
oint
s. T
he m
ultif
acet
ed a
nd in
terre
late
d na
ture
of t
he re
sear
ch p
rogr
am u
nder
scor
es
the
nece
ssity
of a
dher
ing
to a
sch
edul
e to
mak
e tim
ely,
evi
denc
e-ba
sed
desi
gn d
ecis
ions
. Ano
ther
cha
lleng
e id
entif
ied
in th
e O
IG’s
repo
rt is
to d
evel
op a
sch
edul
e th
at p
rovi
des
man
ager
s an
d ov
ersi
ght s
take
hold
ers
with
val
id, t
imel
y, a
ccur
ate,
and
aud
itabl
e pe
rform
ance
info
rmat
ion
on w
hich
to b
ase
criti
cal d
ecis
ions
. The
O
IG b
elie
ves
that
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au a
lters
bas
elin
es (i
.e.,
reba
selin
es),
whi
ch c
an c
once
al d
elay
s an
d gi
ve th
e ap
pear
ance
that
sch
edul
es a
re m
et.
Impl
emen
ting
a st
able
, agi
le fi
eld-
test
ing
stra
tegy
- Te
stin
g op
erat
ions
in re
al-li
fe s
ituat
ions
is c
ritic
al to
ens
urin
g th
at re
sear
ch re
sults
yie
ld im
prov
emen
ts in
the
dece
nnia
l cen
sus.
How
ever
, fie
ld te
st p
lans
are
in fl
ux: t
heir
sche
dule
has
bee
n pu
shed
bac
k th
ree
times
, with
an
FY 2
016
com
plet
ion
date
refle
ctin
g a
year
-and
-a-
half
dela
y. F
urth
er, t
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
can
cele
d 13
of 2
5 sc
hedu
led
field
test
s. F
requ
ent s
ched
ule
chan
ges,
test
ing
dela
ys, a
nd c
ance
llatio
ns th
reat
en th
e Bu
reau
’s a
bilit
y to
inco
rpor
ate
test
resu
lts in
to s
ubse
quen
t res
earc
h an
d de
sign
dec
isio
ns. T
he B
urea
u ci
tes
the
maj
or im
pact
s of
the
Con
gres
sion
al b
udge
t cut
an
d se
ques
tratio
n as
a c
ause
for t
he c
hang
es in
con
tent
and
tim
ing
of it
s re
sear
ch a
nd te
stin
g ef
forts
. S
ectio
n 8.
2:
Cro
ss-A
genc
y P
riorit
y G
oals
/ C
olla
bora
tions
Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
has
a lo
ng h
isto
ry o
f col
labo
ratin
g w
ith o
ther
Fed
eral
age
ncie
s to
ach
ieve
obj
ectiv
es, p
riorit
y go
als,
and
per
form
ance
goa
ls.
A fe
w e
xam
ples
in
clud
e:
• M
ore
than
$40
0 bi
llion
in F
eder
al fu
nds
dist
ribut
ed to
sta
te, l
ocal
, and
trib
al g
over
nmen
ts e
ach
year
is b
ased
, at l
east
in p
art,
on C
ensu
s Bu
reau
dat
a.
• O
ne o
f our
flag
ship
pro
gram
s, th
e C
urre
nt P
opul
atio
n Su
rvey
, is
a jo
int p
rogr
am w
ith th
e Bu
reau
of L
abor
Sta
tistic
s an
d is
the
sour
ce u
nem
ploy
men
t es
timat
es.
•
We
colla
bora
te e
xten
sive
ly w
ith th
e Bu
reau
of E
cono
mic
Ana
lysi
s in
the
colle
ctio
n of
key
dat
a ab
out t
he N
atio
n’s
Econ
omy
that
our
sis
ter a
genc
y us
es to
pr
oduc
e es
timat
es o
f Gro
ss D
omes
tic P
rodu
ct, o
r GD
P, a
nd o
ther
maj
or in
dica
tors
of t
he h
ealth
and
dire
ctio
n of
the
econ
omy.
•
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au c
olla
bora
tes
with
U.S
. Cus
tom
s an
d Bo
rder
Pro
tect
ion
on th
e Au
tom
ated
Exp
ort S
yste
m, w
hich
we
use
to c
ompi
le m
onth
ly e
xpor
t st
atis
tics.
The
abov
e lis
t is
not c
ompr
ehen
sive
. Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
col
labo
rate
s w
ith o
ther
Fed
eral
, as
wel
l as
stat
e, lo
cal,
triba
l and
non
-gov
ernm
enta
l org
aniz
atio
ns in
m
any
area
s. W
e al
so o
ffer o
ur ro
bust
dat
a co
llect
ion
infra
stru
ctur
e to
oth
er a
genc
ies
on a
reim
burs
able
bas
is, t
here
by le
vera
ging
eco
nom
ies
of s
cale
and
avo
idin
g un
nece
ssar
y du
plic
atio
n in
the
colle
ctio
n of
sta
tistic
al d
ata
acro
ss th
e go
vern
men
t. Th
e U
S C
ensu
s Bu
reau
is n
ot a
lead
er o
f or a
par
ticip
ant i
n an
y C
ross
-Age
ncy
Prio
rity
Goa
ls.
CEN - 183
Sec
tion
8.3:
E
vide
nce
Bui
ldin
g B
alan
ced
Sco
reca
rd
The
Bala
nced
Sco
reca
rd is
a s
trate
gic
plan
ning
and
man
agem
ent s
yste
m u
sed
to a
lign
busi
ness
act
iviti
es to
the
visi
on a
nd s
trate
gy o
f the
org
aniz
atio
n, im
prov
e in
tern
al a
nd e
xter
nal c
omm
unic
atio
ns, a
nd m
onito
r org
aniz
atio
n pe
rform
ance
aga
inst
stra
tegi
c go
als.
Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
con
duct
s qu
arte
rly re
view
s of
key
per
form
ance
indi
cato
rs u
sing
the
"Bal
ance
d Sc
orec
ard.
" Th
e m
easu
res
in th
e Ba
lanc
ed S
core
card
re
pres
ent t
he m
ost c
ritic
al in
dica
tors
of p
rogr
am p
erfo
rman
ce fo
r the
Cen
sus
Bure
au; a
nd th
ey a
re in
corp
orat
ed in
to th
e pe
rform
ance
pla
ns fo
r the
Sen
ior
Exec
utiv
e Se
rvic
e m
embe
rs re
spon
sibl
e fo
r the
atta
inm
ent o
f the
per
form
ance
targ
ets
for t
hese
mea
sure
s.
Pro
gram
Man
agem
ent R
evie
ws
Begi
nnin
g in
201
3, th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
iden
tifie
d th
e m
issi
on-c
ritic
al, h
igh-
prio
rity
prog
ram
s, w
hich
are
sub
ject
to fo
rmal
Pro
gram
Man
agem
ent R
evie
ws
by th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
’s O
pera
ting
Com
mitt
ee.
Thes
e pr
ogra
ms
incl
ude
the
2020
Cen
sus,
the
Amer
ican
Com
mun
ity S
urve
y, th
e 20
17 E
cono
mic
Cen
sus,
the
2017
C
ensu
s of
Gov
ernm
ents
, and
the
Geo
grap
hy S
yste
ms
Supp
ort I
nitia
tive.
The
obj
ectiv
e of
thes
e re
view
s is
to e
nsur
e th
at th
ere
is e
xecu
tive
insi
ght i
nto
maj
or
prog
ram
per
form
ance
and
to id
entif
y re
latio
nshi
ps b
etw
een
and
amon
g th
ese
mis
sion
-crit
ical
pro
gram
s so
that
effi
cien
cies
can
be
expl
oite
d. T
hese
revi
ews
prov
ided
pro
gram
bac
kgro
und,
sta
tus,
mea
sure
s, ri
sks,
and
pro
gram
man
ager
requ
ests
for s
uppo
rt. T
he re
view
s w
ill be
con
tinue
d on
a ro
lling
basi
s.
Stra
tegi
c W
orkf
orce
Pla
nnin
g Th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
has
dev
elop
ed a
new
cap
abilit
y fo
r stra
tegi
c w
orkf
orce
pla
nnin
g. T
he o
vera
ll m
easu
re o
f thi
s pr
ogra
m’s
per
form
ance
is th
at th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
has
stra
tegi
es in
pla
ce to
ens
ure
it ha
s a
wor
kfor
ce c
ompe
tenc
y su
pply
that
mee
ts m
anag
emen
t nee
ds.
The
data
col
lect
ion
phas
e of
the
capa
bilit
y ha
s be
en u
nder
way
and
will
cont
inue
unt
il 20
14.
The
new
pro
gram
pro
vide
s co
mpe
tenc
y de
finiti
on, d
ata
colle
ctio
n m
etho
ds, a
naly
sis
met
hods
, and
repo
rting
and
m
easu
rem
ent p
roce
sses
. St
rate
gic
wor
kfor
ce p
lann
ing
prov
ides
man
agem
ent w
ith th
e “a
s is
” wor
kfor
ce, r
eque
sts
info
rmat
ion
on w
heth
er th
e cu
rrent
wor
kfor
ce
mee
ts c
urre
nt a
nd fu
ture
nee
ds, i
dent
ifies
gap
s, a
nd a
pplie
s st
rate
gies
to c
lose
the
gaps
. O
nce
the
prog
ram
is b
asel
ined
in th
e fo
urth
qua
rter o
f 201
4, th
e C
ensu
s Bu
reau
will
use
Gov
ernm
ent A
ccou
ntab
ility
Offi
ce s
tand
ards
on
wor
kfor
ce p
lann
ing
and
less
ons
lear
ned
as to
det
erm
ine
the
effic
acy
and
effe
ctiv
enes
s of
the
proc
ess.
The
act
ual s
trate
gic
wor
kfor
ce p
lann
ing
actio
n pl
ans
deve
lope
d in
the
first
qua
rter o
f 201
4 fo
r Hea
dqua
rters
em
ploy
ees
in p
rofe
ssio
nal s
erie
s an
d in
the
four
th q
uarte
r of 2
014
for a
ll ot
her e
mpl
oyee
s co
ntai
n ta
rget
s fo
r clo
sing
wor
kfor
ce g
aps
and
will
be u
sed
to m
easu
re th
e ef
fect
iven
ess
of th
e ac
tual
stra
tegi
es to
cl
ose
the
gaps
. Fi
nally
, the
sec
ond
roun
d of
the
as-is
ski
lls a
sses
smen
t will
prov
ide
mea
sure
s of
whi
ch g
aps
have
bee
n cl
osed
or r
educ
ed.
2020
Cen
sus
The
Nat
iona
l Aca
dem
y of
Sci
ence
s (N
AS) p
rovi
des
scie
ntifi
c an
d re
sear
ch e
xper
tise
to th
e 20
20 C
ensu
s Pr
ogra
m.
Spec
ifica
lly, N
AS h
as a
ssem
bled
a p
anel
of
expe
rts to
con
duct
a fi
ve-y
ear r
evie
w o
f the
201
0 C
ensu
s op
erat
ions
and
a c
ompr
ehen
sive
eva
luat
ion
of th
e st
atis
tical
met
hods
and
ope
ratio
nal p
roce
dure
s te
sted
du
ring
the
2020
Res
earc
h an
d Te
stin
g Pr
ogra
m.
As p
art o
f thi
s ev
alua
tion,
sm
alle
r wor
king
gro
ups
have
bee
n es
tabl
ishe
d to
pro
vide
exp
ert a
dvic
e ab
out o
ngoi
ng
rese
arch
in fo
ur o
f the
202
0 C
ensu
s re
sear
ch th
emes
(geo
grap
hic
reso
urce
s, s
elf-r
espo
nse
optio
ns, f
ield
re-e
ngin
eerin
g, a
nd u
se o
f adm
inis
trativ
e re
cord
s).
Beca
use
of th
ese
colla
bora
tive
exch
ange
s, th
e w
ork
grou
ps h
ave
help
ed to
iden
tify
prio
rity
dire
ctio
ns fo
r im
plem
entin
g a
test
ing
prog
ram
that
will
lead
to a
su
cces
sful
and
mor
e co
st-e
ffect
ive
2020
cen
sus.
At t
he c
oncl
usio
n of
this
ong
oing
pro
gram
eva
luat
ion
in 2
014,
NAS
will
prod
uce
a w
ritte
n re
view
of o
ur re
sear
ch
effo
rts a
long
with
reco
mm
enda
tions
to im
prov
e ce
rtain
ope
ratio
ns fo
r the
202
0 C
ensu
s.
CEN - 184
Am
eric
an C
omm
unity
Sur
vey
The
Cen
sus
Bure
au h
as a
sked
the
Cen
sus
Scie
ntifi
c Ad
viso
ry C
omm
ittee
to re
view
the
ACS
grou
p qu
arte
rs p
rogr
am a
nd m
ake
reco
mm
enda
tions
on
impr
ovin
g sa
mpl
ing
effo
rts a
nd d
ata
colle
ctio
n is
sues
with
cer
tain
gro
up q
uarte
r typ
es. A
dditi
onal
ly, t
he C
ensu
s Bu
reau
has
ask
ed th
e N
atio
nal A
dvis
ory
Com
mitt
ee (N
AC)
Wor
king
Gro
up o
n AC
S to
revi
ew, a
sses
s, a
nd p
rovi
de re
com
men
datio
ns o
n re
sear
ch th
at c
an im
prov
e AC
S es
timat
es o
f sm
all p
opul
atio
ns.
The
grou
p w
as
char
ted
in e
arly
spr
ing
of 2
013.
The
y ha
ve tw
o fo
rmal
mee
tings
with
the
Cen
sus
Bure
au a
yea
r, in
the
sprin
g an
d fa
ll. T
he N
AC W
orki
ng G
roup
con
duct
s co
nfer
ence
cal
ls b
etw
een
thes
e fo
rmal
mee
tings
to a
chie
ve th
eir o
bjec
tives
. The
gro
up s
ubm
itted
thei
r rec
omm
enda
tions
dur
ing
thei
r 201
4 sp
ring
mee
ting.
S
ectio
n 8.
4:
Hyp
erlin
ks
For i
nfor
mat
ion
abou
t the
CN
STAT
eva
luat
ion
and
NAS
pan
el m
embe
rs, p
leas
e se
e ht
tp://
site
s.na
tiona
laca
dem
ies.
org/
DBA
SSE/
CN
STAT
/Cur
rent
Proj
ects
/DBA
SSE_
0712
03
Sec
tion
8.5:
D
ata
Val
idat
ion
and
Ver
ifica
tion
Th
e FY
201
4 Su
mm
ary
of P
erfo
rman
ce a
nd F
inan
ce In
form
atio
n in
clud
es in
the
Secr
etar
y’s
Stat
emen
t, an
ass
essm
ent o
f the
relia
bilit
y an
d co
mpl
eten
ess
of th
e D
epar
tmen
t’s p
erfo
rman
ce d
ata.
The
Dat
a Va
lidat
ion
and
Verif
icat
ion
info
rmat
ion
is s
how
n w
ith e
ach
perfo
rman
ce in
dica
tor i
n Se
ctio
n 4.
3.
Sec
tion
8.6:
Lo
wer
-Prio
rity
Pro
gram
Act
iviti
es
The
Pres
iden
t’s B
udge
t ide
ntifi
es th
e lo
wer
-prio
rity
prog
ram
act
iviti
es, w
here
app
licab
le, a
s re
quire
d un
der t
he G
PRA
Mod
erni
zatio
n Ac
t, 31
U.S
.C. 1
115(
b)(1
0).
The
publ
ic c
an a
cces
s th
e vo
lum
e at
: http
://w
ww
.whi
teho
use.
gov/
omb/
budg
et.
CEN - 185
TH
IS P
AG
E I
NT
EN
TIO
NA
LL
Y L
EF
T B
LA
NK
CEN - 186
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