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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 164 / Friday, August 27, 2021 / Notices
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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 October 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by email to Thomas.J.Smith@census.gov.
Please reference 2022 Economic Census in the subject line of your comments.
You may also submit comments, identified by Docket Number USBC
20210020, to the Federal e-Rulemaking 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 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 Kimberly Moore, Chief, Economy-Wide Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau by phone 301 7637643, or by email at kimberly.p.moore@census.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract The Census Bureau is the preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. The Economic Census, conducted under authority of Title 13
United States Code, is the U.S.
Governments most comprehensive fiveyear measure of American business and the economy. It features the primary source of facts about the structure and functioning of the Nations economy, comprised of the 50 states, offshore areas, and the District of Columbia collectively referred to as Stateside as well as Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa, collectively referred to as Island Areas and features unique industry and geographic detail.
Economic Census statistics serve as part of the framework for the national accounts and provide essential information for government, business, and the public.

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The 2022 Economic Census, both Stateside and Island Areas, covering the Agriculture; Mining; Utilities;
Construction; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade; Retail Trade; Transportation and Warehousing; Information; Finance and Insurance; Real Estate and Rental and Leasing; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises;
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Educational Services; Health Care and Social Assistance; Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation; Accommodation and Food Services; Other Services except Public Administration Sectors as defined by the North American Industry Classification System NAICS will measure the economic activity of nearly 8 million employer establishments. The inclusion of the Agriculture sector is new for the 2022 Economic Census and will account for Agriculture Support Activities, NAICS Industry Groups 1151
and 1152 only. The information collected from establishments in these sectors of the economic census will produce basic statistics by industry for number of establishments, value of shipments/receipts/revenue/sales, payroll, and employment. It will also yield a variety of industry-specific statistics, including materials consumed, detailed supplies and fuels consumed, electric energy consumed, depreciable assets, selected purchased services, inventories, capital expenditures, value of shipments/
receipts/revenue/sales by product line as defined by the North American Product Classification System NAPCS, type of operation, size of establishments, and other industryspecific measures.
The scope of the Island Areas component of the Economic Census is roughly equivalent to that of the Stateside component and is the only source of economic data collected for the Island Areas. While the Island Areas component collects the same sector level data as the Stateside portion, the data published are at a less detailed NAICS level with some additional exclusions.
II. Method of Collection Establishments in the Economic Census will be selected from the Census Bureaus Business Register. The Census Bureaus Business Register provides a current and comprehensive database of U.S. business establishments and companies for statistical program use.
To be eligible for selection, an establishment will be required to satisfy the following conditions: i It must be classified in one of the sectors listed
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above; ii it must be an active operating establishment of a multi-establishment firm i.e., a firm that operates at more than one physical location, or it must be a single-establishment firm i.e., a firm operating at only one physical location with payroll; and iii it must be located in one of the 50 states, offshore areas, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or American Samoa.
Initial contact with respondents will be a mailed letter directing them to report online. No form will be mailed except for establishments located in the Island Areas where single-establishment firms will be eligible to request a paper questionnaire. Establishments will respond using a response-driven electronic reporting instrument that includes skip patterns and will display survey paths specific to the establishments primary business activity. The sampling procedure will distinguish the following groups of establishments for collection:
1. Establishments of MultiEstablishment Firms Selection procedures will assign all active establishments of multiestablishment firms to the mail component of the universe, except for those in industries classified as consolidated reporters. In these selected industries, where activities are not easily attributable to individual locations or establishments, firms will be asked to report their basic data for several establishments at a nation-wide level on an electronic consolidated report paths.
2. Single-Establishment Firms With Payroll For the Stateside component, all single-establishment firms having 2022
payroll from Federal administrative records will be included in the sampling frame. We will use a NAICSby-state stratified sample design for selecting a sample of singleestablishment firms. The largest singleestablishment firms based on 2022
payroll will be selected with certainty.
Those single-establishment firms that are not selected with certainty are selected using a probability sample.
Using a NAICS-by-state stratified sample should produce reliable estimates for various characteristics at detailed NAICS-by-state levels.
The remaining single-establishment firms with payroll that are not selected into the sample will be represented in the Economic Census by data from Federal administrative records, or by weighting the responses of the sampled
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