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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 125 / Friday, July 2, 2021 / Notices regular mail related to security screening, respondents are encouraged to send comments electronically see ADDRESSES, below. This proposed revision to NAICS would become effective in the U.S. for publication of establishment data that refer to periods beginning on or after January 1, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments through www.regulations.gova Federal EGovernment website that allows the public to find, review, and submit comments on documents that agencies have published in the Federal Register and that are open for comment. Enter USBC20210004 in quotes in the search box and follow the instructions for submitting comments. Comments received by the date specified above will be included as part of the official record. Please include the Docket ID
USBC20210004 and the phrase North American Industry Classification System NAICSUpdates for 2022 at the beginning of your comments. Please also indicate which ECPC
recommendation described in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION of this notice is addressed in your comments.
Comments submitted in response to this notice may be made available to the public and subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. For this reason, please do not include in your comments information of a confidential nature, such as sensitive personal information or proprietary information.
If you send an email comment, your email address will be automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket; however, www.regulations.gov does include the option of commenting anonymously. Please note that responses to this public comment request containing any routine notice about the confidentiality of the communication will be treated as public comments that may be made available to the public notwithstanding the inclusion of the routine notice.
Electronic Availability: Federal Register notices are available electronically at www.federalregister.gov/. This document is also available on the NAICS website at www.census.gov/
naics. This site contains previous NAICS United States Federal Register notices, ECPC Issues Papers, ECPC
Reports, the structures, industry definitions, and related documents for previous versions of NAICS United States.
Public Review Procedure: All comments and proposals received in response to this notice will be available for public inspection. OMB will publish
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resulting from this notice in the Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about this request for comments, contact Kerrie Leslie, Office of Management and Budget, 9215 New Executive Office Building, 725 17th St.
NW, Washington, DC 20503, telephone 202 3951093.
NAICS classification staff may be reached by email at econ.naics2022@
census.gov. Please note: Communication through this email will not be included in the record for USBC20210004.
Comments should be submitted through www.regulations.gov, as described in the ADDRESSES section above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB
published a notification of intention to revise portions of NAICS in a February 26, 2020, Federal Register notice 85 FR
1112011124. That notice solicited comments on the advisability of revising the NAICS 2017 structure for 2022: 1
To identify new and emerging industries, 2 to solicit comments on the NAICS treatment of Electronic Shopping in Retail Trade, 3 to solicit comments on the concept of internet Publishing and Broadcasting and the potential to eliminate the industry in NAICS 2022, 4 to solicit comments on a proposed revision to OMBs Statistical Policy Directive No. 8, Standard Industrial Classification of Establishments, 5 to solicit comments on the advisability of withdrawing OMB
Statistical Policy Directive No. 9, Standard Industrial Classification of Enterprises, and 6 to make required changes for errors and omissions in NAICS 2017. The deadline for submitting comments was April 27, 2020.
After considering all proposals from the public, consulting with U.S. data users and industry groups, and undertaking extensive discussions with Statistics Canada and Mexicos Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Geografa INEGI, the ECPC recommends that NAICS United States 2022 incorporate changes as shown in Parts III and IV of this notice.
Following a thorough process of development and discussions by the ECPC, with maximum possible public input, OMB seeks comment on the advisability of revising NAICS to incorporate the changes published in this notice. The revised NAICS would be employed in relevant data collections by all U.S. statistical agencies beginning with reference year 2022.
I: Background of NAICS
NAICS is a system for classifying establishments individual business
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locations by type of economic activity.
Its purposes are: 1 To facilitate the collection, tabulation, presentation, and analysis of data relating to establishments, and 2 to promote uniformity and comparability in the presentation and analysis of statistical data describing the North American economy. Federal statistical agencies use NAICS to collect and/or publish data by industry. It is also widely used by State agencies, trade associations, private businesses, and other organizations.
Mexicos Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Geografa INEGI, Statistics Canada, and the United States Office of Management and Budget OMB, through the ECPC, collaborated on NAICS to make the industry statistics produced by the three countries comparable. NAICS is the first industry classification system developed in accordance with a single principle of aggregation, i.e., producing units that use similar production processes should be grouped together in the classification.
NAICS also reflects changes in technology and in the growth and diversification of services in recent decades. Industry statistics presented using NAICS 2017 are extensively comparable with statistics compiled according to the latest revision of the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities ISIC, Revision 4.
For these three countries, NAICS
provides a consistent framework for the collection, tabulation, presentation, and analysis of industry statistics used by government policy analysts, by academics and researchers, by the business community, and by the public.
Please note that NAICS is designed and maintained solely for statistical purposes to improve and keep current this Federal statistical standard.
Consequently, although the classification may also be used for various nonstatistical purposes e.g., for administrative, regulatory, or taxation functions, the requirements of government agencies or private users that choose to use NAICS for nonstatistical purposes play no role in its development or revision.
Four principles that guide NAICS
development are:
1 NAICS is erected on a productionoriented conceptual framework. This means that producing units that use the same or similar production processes are grouped together in NAICS.
2 NAICS gives special attention to developing production-oriented classifications for a new and emerging industries, b service industries in general, and c industries engaged in
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