[Analytical Perspectives]
[Crosscutting Programs]
[4. Strengthening Federal Statistics]
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                  4.  STRENGTHENING FEDERAL STATISTICS

  Federal statistical programs produce key information to inform public 
and private decision makers about a range of topics of interest, 
including the economy, the population, agriculture, crime, education, 
energy, the environment, health, science, and transportation. The 
ability of governments, businesses, and citizens to make appropriate 
decisions about budgets, employment, investments, taxes, and a host of 
other important matters depends critically on the ready availability of 
relevant, accurate, and timely Federal statistics.
  The Federal statistical community remains on alert for opportunities 
to strengthen these measures of our Nation's performance. For example, 
during 2005, Federal statistical agencies accelerated the release of 
Gross State Product by one year and released for the first time local 
area employee compensation by industry (BEA); published for the first 
time a price index for U.S. imports of goods from China (BLS); 
implemented the American Community Survey at its full level of three 
million addresses nationwide to provide detailed population data every 
month instead of once every 10 years (Census Bureau); presented primary 
information about the economic well-being of America's farmers and farm 
households from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey via an easy-
to-use web-based delivery tool (ERS and NASS); and undertook the first 
data-sharing project under the Confidential Information Protection and 
Statistical Efficiency Act to improve understanding of international 
research and development investment activities of multinational 
corporations (BEA, Census Bureau, and NSF's SRS). During 2006, the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics will sponsor a new survey of businesses to 
estimate their exposure to and the consequences of computer crime, while 
the National Center for Health Statistics will field the National Survey 
of Ambulatory Surgery for the first time since 1996 to provide more 
comprehensive data on surgical procedures--many of which have moved from 
inpatient to outpatient settings.
  For Federal statistical programs to effectively benefit their wide 
range of users, the underlying data systems must be viewed as credible. 
In order to foster this credibility, Federal statistical programs seek 
to adhere to high quality standards and to maintain integrity and 
efficiency in the production of data. As the collectors and providers of 
these basic statistics, the responsible agencies act as data stewards--
balancing public and private decision makers' needs for information with 
legal and ethical obligations to minimize reporting burden, respect 
respondents' privacy, and protect the confidentiality of the data 
provided to the Government. This chapter discusses the development of 
standards that principal statistical programs use to assess their 
performance and presents highlights of their 2007 budget proposals.

                          Performance Standards

  Statistical programs maintain the quality of their data or information 
products as well as their credibility by setting high performance 
standards for their activities. The statistical agencies and statistical 
units represented on the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy 
(ICSP) have collaborated on developing an initial set of common 
performance standards for use under the Government Performance and 
Results Act and in completing the Administration's Program Assessment 
Rating Tool (PART). Federal statistical agencies have agreed that there 
are six conceptual dimensions within two general areas of focus that are 
key to measuring and monitoring statistical programs. The first area of 
focus is Product Quality, encompassing the traditional dimensions of 
relevance, accuracy, and timeliness. The second area of focus is Program 
Performance, encompassing the dimensions of cost, dissemination, and 
mission achievement.
  Statistical agencies historically have focused on measuring 
performance in the area of product quality, especially dimensions of 
accuracy and timeliness that are most amenable to quantitative 
measurement. Relevance, also an accepted measure of quality, can be 
either a qualitative description of the usefulness of products or a 
quantitative measure such as a customer satisfaction score. Relevance is 
more difficult to measure, and the indicators that do exist are more 
varied.
  Program performance standards form the basis for evaluating 
effectiveness. They address questions such as: Are taxpayer dollars 
spent most effectively? Are products made available to those who need 
them? Are agencies meeting their mission requirements or making it 
possible for other agencies to meet their missions? The indicators 
available to measure program performance for statistical activities 
currently are less well developed.
  Product quality and program performance standards are designed to 
serve as indicators when answering specific questions in the 
Administration's PART process. Chart 4-1 presents each principal Federal 
statistical agency's assessment of the status of its current and planned 
use of indicators on the six dimensions. During the past year, four 
agencies (BTS, EIA, NASS, and SRS) have completed development of their 
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indicators. With the exception of cost indicators, where three agencies 
(ERS, NCES, and NCHS) are still planning their measures, the ICSP 
agencies have now developed performance measures for all six dimensions. 
Use of the indicators may be for internal management, strategic 
planning, or annual performance reporting. The dimensions shown in the 
chart reflect an overall set of indicators for statistical activities, 
but the specific measures vary among the individual programs depending 
on their unique characteristics and requirements. Annual performance 
reports and PARTs provide these specific measures, as well as additional 
information about performance goals and targets and whether a program is 
meeting, or making measurable progress toward meeting, its performance 
goals. The examples below illustrate different ways agencies track their 
performance on each dimension.


Description of Dimensions

 
 
 
 
Product Quality
 
Relevance: Qualitative or quantitative descriptions of the degree to which products and
 services are useful to users and responsive to users' needs.
 
Accuracy: Qualitative or quantitative measure of important features of correctness,
 validity, and reliability of data and information products measured as degree of closeness
 to target values.
 
Timeliness: Qualitative or quantitative measure of the timing of information releases.
 
Program Performance
 
Cost: Quantitative measure of the dollar amount used to produce data products and services.
 
Dissemination: Qualitative or quantitative information on the availability, accessibility,
 and distribution of products and services.
 
Mission Achievement: Qualitative or quantitative information about the effect of, or
 satisfaction with, statistical programs.
 

Key to Statistical Agencies

 
 
 
 
BEA = Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce
BJS = Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice
BLS = Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor
BTS = Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Department of Transportation
Census = Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
EIA = Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy
ERS = Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
NASS = National Agricultural Statistics Service, Department of Agriculture
NCES = National Center for Education Statistics, Department of Education
NCHS = National Center for Health Statistics, Department of Health and Human Services
ORES = Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Social Security Administration
SOI = Statistics of Income, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury
SRS = Division of Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation
 


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  Product Quality: Statistical agencies agree that product quality 
encompasses many attributes, including (but not limited to) relevance, 
accuracy, and timeliness. The basic measures in this group relate to the 
quality of specific products, thereby providing actionable information 
to managers. These are ``outcome-oriented'' measures and are key to the 
usability of information products. Statistical agencies or units 
establish targets and monitor how well targets are met. In some sense, 
relevance relates to ``doing the right things,'' while accuracy and 
timeliness relate to ``doing things right.''

             Relevance: Qualitative or quantitative descriptions of the 
          degree to which products and services are useful and 
          responsive to users' needs. Relevance of data products and 
          analytic reports may be monitored through a professional 
          review process and ongoing contacts with data users. Product 
          relevance may be indicated by customer satisfaction with 
          product content, information from customers about product use, 
          demonstration of product improvements, comparability with 
          other data series, agency responses to customer suggestions 
          for improvement, new or customized products or services, 
          frequency of use, or responses to data requests from users 
          (including policy makers). Through a variety of professional 
          review activities, agencies maintain the relevance and 
          validity of their products, and encourage data users and other 
          stakeholders to contribute to the agencies' data collection 
          and dissemination programs. Striving for relevance requires 
          monitoring to ensure that information systems anticipate 
          change and evolve to appropriately measure our dynamic society 
          and economy.

             Accuracy: Qualitative or quantitative measures of important 
          features of correctness, validity, and reliability of data and 
          information products measured as degree of closeness to target 
          values. For statistical data, accuracy may be defined as the 
          degree of closeness to the target value and measured as 
          sampling error and various aspects of nonsampling error (e.g., 
          response rates, size of revisions, coverage, edit 
          performance). For analysis products, accuracy may be the 
          quality of the reasoning, reasonableness of assumptions, and 
          clarity of the exposition, typically measured and monitored 
          through review processes. In addition, accuracy is assessed 
          and improved by internal reviews, comparisons of data among 
          different surveys, linkages of survey data to administrative 
          records, redesigns of surveys, or expansions of sample sizes.

             Timeliness: Qualitative or quantitative measure of timing 
          of information releases. Timeliness may be measured as time 
          from the close of the reference period to the release of 
          information, or customer satisfaction with timeliness. 
          Timeliness may also be measured as how well agencies meet 
          scheduled and publicized release dates, expressed as a percent 
          of release dates met.

  Program Performance:  Statistical agencies agree that program 
performance encompasses balancing the dimensions of cost, dissemination, 
and mission accomplishment for the agency as a whole; operating 
efficiently and effectively; ensuring that customers receive the 
information they need; and serving the information needs of the Nation. 
Costs of products or programs may be used to develop efficiency 
measures. Dissemination involves making sure customers receive the 
information they need via the most appropriate mechanisms. Mission 
achievement means that the information program makes a difference. 
Hence, three key dimensions are being used to indicate program 
performance: cost (input), dissemination (output), and mission 
achievement (outcome).

             Cost: Quantitative measure of the dollar amount to produce 
          data products or services. The development and use of 
          financial performance measures within the Federal Government 
          is an established goal; the intent of such measures is to 
          determine the ``true costs'' of various programs or 
          alternative modes of operation at the Federal level. Examples 
          of cost data include full costs of products or programs, 
          return on investment, dollar value of efficiencies, and ratios 
          of cost to products distributed.

             Dissemination: Qualitative or quantitative information on 
          the availability, accessibility, and distribution of products 
          and services. Most agencies have goals to improve product 
          accessibility, particularly through the Internet. Typical 
          measures include: on-demand requests fulfilled, product 
          downloads, degree of accessibility, customer satisfaction with 
          ease of use, number of participants at user conferences, 
          citations of agency data in the media, number of Internet user 
          sessions, number of formats in which data are available, 
          amount of technical support provided to data users, exhibits 
          to inform the public about information products, issuance of 
          newsletters describing products, usability testing of web 
          sites, and assessing compliance with Section 508 of the 
          Rehabilitation Act, which requires Federal agencies to make 
          their electronic and information technology accessible to 
          people with disabilities.

             Mission Achievement: Qualitative or quantitative 
          information about the effect of, or satisfaction with, 
          statistical programs. For Government statistical programs, 
          this dimension responds to the question--have we achieved our 
          objectives and met the expectations of our stakeholders? Under 
          this dimension, statistical programs document their 
          contributions to the goals and missions of parent departments 
          and other agencies, the Administration, the Congress, and 
          information users in the private sector and the general 
          public. For statistical programs, this broad dimension 
          involves meeting recognized societal information needs; it 
          also addresses the linkage between statistical outputs and 
          programmatic outcomes.


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            However, identifying this linkage is far from 
          straightforward. It is frequently difficult to trace the 
          effects of information products on the public good. Such 
          products often are necessary intermediate inputs in the 
          creation of high visibility information whose societal benefit 
          is clearly recognized. For example, the economic statistics 
          produced by a variety of agencies are directly used by the 
          Bureau of Economic Analysis in the calculation of the Gross 
          Domestic Product (GDP), which analysts universally use to 
          assess changes in the level of domestic economic activity. 
          Similarly, statistics from specific surveys are directly used 
          by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the calculation of the 
          Consumer Price Index (CPI), which is widely used in diverse 
          applications, such as indexing pensions for retirees. As a 
          result, a number of statistical agencies can claim credit for 
          contributing to the GDP and/or the CPI and to the many uses of 
          these information products. In addition, statistics produced 
          by Federal agencies are used to track the performance of 
          programs managed by their parent or other organizations 
          related to topics such as crime, education, energy, the 
          environment, health, science, and transportation.

            Moreover, beyond the direct and focused uses of statistical 
          products, the statistical agencies and their programs serve a 
          diverse and dispersed set of data users working on a broad 
          range of applications. Users include government policy makers 
          at the Federal, State, and local levels, business leaders, 
          households, academic researchers, analysts at public policy 
          institutes and trade groups, marketers and planners in the 
          private sector, and many others. Information produced by 
          statistical agencies often is combined with other information 
          for use in the decision-making process. Thus, the relationship 
          between program outputs and their beneficial uses and outcomes 
          is often complex and difficult to track. Consequently, 
          agencies use both qualitative and quantitative indicators to 
          make this linkage as explicit as feasible.

            In the absence of preferred quantitative indicators, 
          qualitative narratives can indicate how statistical agency 
          products contribute to and evaluate progress toward important 
          goals established for government or private programs. In 
          particular, narratives can highlight how statistical agencies 
          measure the Nation's social and economic structure, and how 
          the availability of the information influences changes in 
          policies and programs. These narratives contribute to 
          demonstrating mission accomplishment, particularly in response 
          to questions in Section I of the PART, ``program purpose and 
          design.'' Narratives may describe statistical information's 
          effects on measuring agency policy or change of policy, 
          supporting research focused on policy issues, informing debate 
          on policy issues, or providing in-house consulting support.

            In addition to narratives, quantitative measures may be used 
          to reflect mission achievement. For example, customer 
          satisfaction with the statistical agency or unit indicates if 
          the agency or unit has met the expectations of its 
          stakeholders.

  Of the 14 principal Federal statistical agencies that are members of 
the ICSP, nine agencies have programs that have been assessed using the 
PART process. Most of these agencies' programs have received PART 
summary ratings of Effective or Moderately Effective, as shown in Chart 
4-2. While recognizing the strength of the Energy Information 
Administration's purpose and management, EIA received a rating of 
``Results Not Demonstrated'' for two key reasons. As part of its 2004 
strategic planning, EIA had begun to reassess its performance measures. 
As a result, EIA had not yet adopted new measures, nor established 
baselines and targets for the new measures. Also, EIA had no recurring 
independent evaluation of its entire program. EIA is working to 
establish these measures, targets, and baselines. In addition, in FY 
2005 EIA initiated an independent Expert Study Team to review and assess 
EIA's entire information program. This team is scheduled to provide its 
report to EIA in spring 2006. As additional ICSP agencies have an 
opportunity to undergo the PART process, the agencies plan to continue 
to use the results of the collaborative performance standards 
development effort to help maintain and extend their generally favorable 
assessments.

  Chart 4-2.  Most Recent PART Summary Ratings for Statistical Programs
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                                                Summary Rating
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Bureau of Economic Analysis          Effective
 
Bureau of Justice Statistics         Effective
 
Bureau of Labor Statistics           Effective
 
Census Bureau
  Current Demographic Statistics     Effective
  Decennial Census                   Moderately Effective
  Intercensal Demographic Estimates  Moderately Effective
  Survey Sample Redesign             Effective
  Economic Census                    Effective
  Current Economic Statistics/       Moderately Effective
   Census of Governments
 
Economic Research Service            Effective
 
Energy Information Administration    Results Not Demonstrated
 
National Agricultural Statistics     Moderately Effective
 Service
 
National Center for Education
 Statistics
  Statistics                         Effective
  Assessment                         Effective
 
National Center for Health           Moderately Effective
 Statistics
------------------------------------------------------------------------


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               Highlights of 2007 Program Budget Proposals

  The programs that provide essential statistical information for use by 
governments, businesses, researchers, and the public are carried out by 
some 70 agencies spread across every department and several independent 
agencies. Approximately 40 percent of the funding for these programs 
provides resources for 13 agencies or units that have statistical 
activities as their principal mission. (Please see Table 4-1.) The 
remaining funding supports work in 60-plus agencies or units that carry 
out statistical activities in conjunction with other missions such as 
providing services or enforcing regulations. More comprehensive budget 
and program information about the Federal statistical system will be 
available in OMB's annual report, Statistical Programs of the United 
States Government, Fiscal Year 2007, when it is published later this 
year. The following highlights elaborate on the Administration's 
proposals to strengthen the programs of the principal Federal 
statistical agencies.

  Bureau of Economic Analysis: Funding is requested to: (1) complete 
BEA's five-year program to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the 
National Income and Product Accounts, including acquiring and 
incorporating real-time data into the accounts to provide more current 
and reliable estimates and accelerating the release of gross state 
product and metropolitan personal income; (2) augment the scope of the 
international economic accounts by improving the comprehensiveness of 
international service statistics; (3) continue to update the input-
output accounts and industry estimates; and (4) improve and enhance 
regional economic statistics.
  Bureau of Justice Statistics: Funding is requested to provide for 
BJS's core statistical programs, including: (1) sample restoration for 
the National Crime Victimization Survey to support estimates of annual 
rates of change in most types of violent crime; (2) cybercrime 
statistics on the incidence, magnitude, and consequences of electronic 
and computer crime to households and businesses; (3) law enforcement 
data from over 3,000 agencies on the organization and administration of 
police and sheriffs' departments; (4) nationally representative 
prosecution data on resources, policies, and practices of local 
prosecutors; (5) court and sentencing statistics, including Federal and 
State case processing data; and (6) data on correctional populations and 
facilities from Federal, State, and local governments.
  Bureau of Labor Statistics: Funding is requested to support program 
operations to measure the economy through producing, disseminating, and 
improving BLS economic measures, including activities to: (1) begin 
updating continuously the housing and geographic area samples in the 
Consumer Price Index (CPI), which will improve the accuracy and 
timeliness of the CPI; (2) continue to modernize the computing systems 
for monthly processing of the Producer Price Index (PPI) and U.S. Import 
and Export Price Indexes (IPP); and (3) expand the Business Employment 
Dynamics data within the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages to 
cover State level measures of gross job gains and gross job losses.
  Bureau of Transportation Statistics: Funding is requested to: (1) 
conduct the Commodity Flow Survey, a major national benchmark survey of 
shippers; (2) release monthly trade statistics on the commodities and 
mode of transportation used with our largest trading partners; (3) 
produce a core set of economic data and indicators including the 
Government Transportation Financial Report, multi-factor productivity 
measures, the State Transit Expenditure Survey, the Transportation 
Services Index, and the Air Travel Price Index; (4) produce and release 
the National Transportation Atlas Data Base, a compendium of national 
geospatial transportation data; (5) provide statistics in reference 
reports such as the Annual Report to Congress, the Pocket Guide to 
Transportation, the National Transportation Statistics Report, and the 
Transportation Services Index; and (6) carry out a national 
transportation information needs assessment, a new Congressional mandate 
to prioritize transportation data needs and data collections, and 
estimate their implementation costs.
  Census Bureau: Funding is requested for the Census Bureau's ongoing 
economic and demographic programs and for a re-engineered 2010 Census. 
For the Census Bureau's economic and demographic programs, funding is 
requested to: (1) develop the collection instruments and processing 
systems for the 2007 Economic Census; (2) collect and process data in 
the organization phase of the Census of Governments, prepare and 
initiate data collection and processing in the employment phase, and 
collect and process data for the start of the finance phase; and (3) 
design a new data collection system on income and wealth dynamics that 
will meet the policy and operational needs of the country and replace 
the Survey of Income and Program Participation. For 2010 Census 
planning, funding is requested to continue to: (1) conduct planning, 
testing, and development activities to support a re-engineered 2010 
Census; (2) improve the accuracy of map feature locations for an 
additional 690 counties; and (3) continue to conduct the American 
Community Survey program to provide small area demographic data on an 
ongoing basis rather than waiting for once-a-decade censuses.
  Economic Research Service: Funding is requested to: (1) implement an 
Agricultural and Rural Development Information System, a comprehensive 
data collection and research program to ensure that sufficient data will 
consistently be available to monitor the changing economic health and 
structure of the farm and rural economies and to assess the economic 
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farm and non-farm households in rural areas; and (2) extend ERS's 
integrated and comprehensive data and analysis framework, the Consumer 
Data and Information System, to include data on the consumption of food 
away from home, which will improve the ability of policy officials to 
understand, monitor, track, and identify changes in food supply and 
consumption patterns.
  Energy Information Administration: Funding is requested to continue 
ongoing operations to: (1) maintain critical energy data coverage, 
analysis, and forecasting; (2) increase global oil and gas data and 
modeling capabilities through EIA's International Oil and Gas Markets 
and Energy Security Initiative, which will provide the basis for an 
enhanced global dialogue on the development and use of these key energy 
resources; (3) improve data reliability and statistical accuracy through 
EIA's Energy Data Quality Improvements Initiative, which will redesign 
key petroleum and natural gas surveys whose data drive investment and 
trade decisions, improve market function, and lead to efficient pricing; 
and (4) improve the ability to assess and forecast supply, demand, and 
technology trends affecting U.S. and world energy markets through the 
U.S. Energy Model Replacement Initiative.
  National Agricultural Statistics Service: Funding is requested to: (1) 
continue restoration and modernization of the agricultural estimates 
program to ensure State, regional, and national level agricultural 
estimates of sufficient precision, quality, and detail to meet the needs 
of a broad customer base; and (2) finalize preparations for data 
collection associated with the 2007 Census of Agriculture, including 
collection of data to measure coverage of the mailing list and the 
preparation of all materials for data collection in 2008.
  National Center for Education Statistics: Funding is requested to 
support: (1) on-going longitudinal studies, including the Early 
Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth and Kindergarten Cohorts and the 
Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002; (2) the Common Core of Data, 
which collects information on enrollment, completions, and finances from 
public elementary and secondary institutions; (3) the Integrated 
Postsecondary Education Data System, which collects information on 
enrollment, completions, and finances from postsecondary institutions; 
(4) the National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey, a comprehensive study 
that examines how students and their families pay for postsecondary 
education; (5) U.S. participation in international assessments that 
compare educational achievement in the United States with that in other 
countries; (6) the Schools and Staffing Survey, which provides 
information on public and private schools, the principals who head these 
schools, and the teachers who work in them; (7) a new longitudinal study 
that will follow an eighth grade cohort through the year following 
timely high school completion, and (8) expansion of the National 
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only nationally 
representative and continuing assessment of what American students know 
and can do, to produce State estimates for grade 12.
  National Center for Health Statistics: Funding is requested to: (1) 
continue data collection, analysis, and release for key national health 
data systems including the National Vital Statistics System, National 
Health Interview Survey, National Health and Nutrition Examination 
Survey, and National Health Care Survey; (2) continue gains in 
timeliness by implementing systems improvements in data collection and 
processing; (3) complete efforts to expand the content of surveys, 
particularly those addressing the health care delivery system; (4) 
implement the sample redesign for the National Health Interview Survey, 
NCHS' largest population survey; and (5) work collaboratively with 
States and other agencies on upgrading the technology for collecting 
data from State birth and death certificates.
  Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, SSA: Funding is 
requested to: (1) continue a strategic planning project to modernize 
ORES' processes for developing and disseminating data from the agency's 
major administrative data files for statistical purposes, (2) support 
outside surveys and linkage of Social Security Administration (SSA) 
administrative data to surveys, (3) create a new public-use file of 
administrative data on earnings histories and benefits for a sample of 
Social Security Numbers, and (4) evaluate the usefulness and 
confidentiality protection of a file being developed for public use that 
synthesizes data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation 
that is linked to SSA administrative records.
  Science Resources Statistics Division, NSF: Funding is requested to: 
(1) improve the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, and accessibility of 
SRS statistical products, including the suite of research and 
development surveys; (2) extend the data, tools, and knowledge needed to 
develop, on an internationally comparable basis, a new set of science 
metrics in order to evaluate reliably the returns from past research and 
development investments and to forecast, within tolerable margins of 
error, likely returns from future investments; and (3) gather additional 
data on postdoctorate positions to address a major gap in Science and 
Engineering personnel data.

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  Statistics of Income Division, IRS: Funding is requested to: (1) 
maintain and modernize tax data collection systems, including developing 
interfaces with modern electronic tax return filing systems; (2) 
implement a databank repository for SOI and IRS population file data to 
more efficiently build longitudinal databases and enable sub-national 
estimates; (3) examine means to more effectively mask individual records 
to minimize the possibility of identification in the Individual Public 
Use Sample files; and (4) modernize and expedite dissemination of data 
and publications, including enhancement of products and features on the 
www.irs.gov/taxstats website.

                                     

                    Table 4-1.  2005-2007 BUDGET AUTHORITY FOR PRINCIPAL STATISTICAL AGENCIES
                                            (in millions of dollars)
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                                                                                                Estimate
                                                                               2005    -------------------------
                                                                              Actual      2006 \1\       2007
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Bureau of Economic Analysis \2\..........................................          73           76           76
 
Bureau of Justice Statistics \3\.........................................          47           46           60
 
Bureau of Labor Statistics...............................................         529          537          563
 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics......................................          26           27           27
 
Census Bureau \4\........................................................         765          822          898
  Salaries and Expenses \4\..............................................         216          216          204
  Periodic Censuses and Programs.........................................         549          606          694
 
Economic Research Service \5\............................................          74           75           83
 
Energy Information Administration........................................          84           85           90
 
National Agricultural Statistics Service \6\.............................         128          139          153
 
National Center for Education Statistics.................................         185          183          190
  Statistics.............................................................          91           90           93
  Assessment.............................................................          89           88           92
  National Assessment Governing Board....................................           5            5            5
 
National Center for Health Statistics \7\................................         109          109          109
 
Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, SSA......................          17           19           17
 
Science Resources Statistics Division, NSF...............................          31           33           36
 
Statistics of Income Division, IRS.......................................          38           41           41
 
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\1\ Reflects any recissions.
\2\ 2005 figure includes $2 million for a NAPA study of off-shoring.
\3\ The 2005 and 2006 figures include funds for management and administrative costs that were previously
  displayed separately.
\4\ Includes Mandatory Appropriations of $20 million for each year for the Survey of Program Dynamics and
  collection of data related to the allocation to States of State Chidren's Health Insurance Program funds.
\5\ 2007 funding assumes the reallocation of $350,000 provided in 2006 for a comprehensive report on the
  economic development and current status of the sheep industry in the United States. Funding for that purpose
  will not be needed in 2007.
\6\ Includes funds for the periodic Census of Agriculture of $22, $29, and $37 million in 2005, 2006, and 2007,
  respectively. The 2007 estimate includes an increase of $7.25 million due to cyclical activities for the
  Census of Agriculture.
\7\ All funds from the Public Health Service Evaluation Fund. Administrative costs for NCHS that previously were
  displayed as part of the NCHS budget line are now reflected in two consolidated CDC-wide budget lines for
  management and administrative costs.