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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 143 / Thursday, July 29, 2021 / Notices comment, you should be aware that your entire commentincluding your personal identifying informationmay be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Management and Organizational Practices Survey MOPS 2021
Census Bureau, Commerce.
Notice of information collection, request for comment.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act PRA of 1995, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our information collection requirements and minimize the publics reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment on the proposed reinstatement, with change, of the Management and Organizational Practices Survey, prior to the submission of the information collection request ICR to OMB for approval.
DATES: To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before September 27, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by email to Thomas.J.Smith@census.gov.
Please reference Management and Organizational Practices Survey MOPS
2021 in the subject line of your comments. You may also submit comments, identified by Docket Number USBC20210018, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http
www.regulations.gov. All comments received are part of the public record.
No comments will be posted to http
www.regulations.gov for public viewing until after the comment period has
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closed. Comments will generally be posted without change. All Personally Identifiable Information for example, name and address voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information. You may submit attachments to electronic comments in Microsoft Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF
file formats.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or specific questions related to collection activities should be directed to Marlo Thornton, Assistant Division Chief, Economy-Wide Statistics Division, at marlo.n.thornton@census.gov or 301
7637170.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract The Census Bureau plans to conduct the Management and Organizational Practices Survey MOPS for survey year 2021; the survey was previously conducted for survey years 2010 and 2015. The survey will be conducted as a joint project by the Census Bureau, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. The MOPS will utilize the Annual Survey of Manufactures ASM mail-out sample and will collect information on management and organizational practices at the establishment level. The Census Bureau has conducted the ASM
since 1949 to provide key measures of manufacturing activity during intercensal periods. In years that we conduct the Economic Census, years ending in 2 and 7, we do not mail the ASM but collect the data as part of the Economic Census covering the Manufacturing Sector. The ASM is an integral part of the Federal Governments statistical program, furnishing up-to date estimates of employment and payroll, hours and wages of production workers, value added by manufacture, cost of materials, value of shipments, inventories, and expenditures for both plant and equipment and structures. The data obtained from the MOPS will allow the Census Bureau to estimate a firms stock of management and organizational assets, specifically the use of decentralized decision rights and establishment performance data such as production targets in decision-making.
These data will provide information on investments in management and organizational practices, which will
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lead to a better understanding of the benefits from these investments when measured in terms of firm productivity or firm market value. This survey on management and organizational practices will provide information on the dimensions of organizational capital for this sector not currently available elsewhere. This clearance request will be for the survey year 2021. The Census Bureau plans to make the following changes to the 2015 MOPS content for the 2021 survey:
Add a new purchased services module on the establishments use of its own employees, contractors, temporary staff, or leased workers for select business expenses.
Update the data and decisionmaking module by removing five of the six questions, maintaining a question asking who decides what data to collect for continuity, and adding nine questions focused on the frontier uses of data to inform artificial intelligence.
Add three questions to the background characteristics module on the establishments use of an external Certified Public Accountant.
Simplify questions on the location of decision-making in multi-location firms in the organization module by combining them into a single table and removing write-in responses.
Remove four forecasting questions in the uncertainty module.
Remove two questions related to the establishments background characteristics.
Remove all questions about a fiveyear recall period.
II. Method of Collection The 2021 MOPS will be mailed separately from the 2021 ASM and will utilize an entirely electronic collection.
Unlike the ASM that mails to the headquarters of companies with multiple locations, the MOPS will be mailed directly to the individual establishments. Initial contact with respondents will be a mailed letter directing them to report online.
Respondents will report electronically through the Census Bureaus Centurion online reporting system. The sample for the 2021 MOPS will consist of the approximately 50,000 establishments in the 2021 ASM mail-out sample. The mail-out sample for the ASM is redesigned at 5-year intervals beginning the second survey year after the Economic Census. For the 2019 ASM, a new probability sample was selected from a frame of approximately 100,000
manufacturing establishments in the 2017 Economic Census that had paid employees, were located in the United States, and were associated with multi-

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