[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 236 (Friday, December 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63061-63062]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29977]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Proposed Information Collection Request Submitted for Public
Comment and Recommendations; Multiple Worksite Report and Report of
Federal Employment and Wages
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be
provided in the desired format, reporting burden is minimized,
reporting forms are clearly understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. Currently, the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments concerning the
proposed extension of the ``Multiple Worksite Report.'' A copy of the
proposed information collection request (ICR) can be obtained by
contacting the individual listed below in the address section of this
notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before February 6,
1996.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Karin G. Kurz, BLS Clearance Officer,
Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 3255,
2 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20212.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ms. Kurz on 202-606-7628 (this is not a toll free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The ES-202 Program is a Federal/State cooperative effort which
compiles monthly employment and quarterly wage data. These data are
collected from State Quarterly Contribution Reports submitted to State
Employment Security Agencies (SESAs) by employers subject to State
Unemployment Insurance (UI) laws. The ES-202 Report, produced for
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each calendar quarter, is a summary of these employer (micro-level)
data by industry at the county level. Similar data for Federal
Government employees covered by the Unemployment Compensation for
Federal Employees (UCFE) Program are also included in each State
report. These data are submitted by all 50 States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) which then summarizes these macro-level data to
produce totals for the States and the Nation. The ES-202 Report
provides a virtual census of nonagricultural employees and their wages,
with about 47 percent of the workers in agriculture covered as well.
As part of the ES-202 Program, the States also send micro-level
employment and wages data, supplemented with the names and addresses of
employers, to BLS. These States' data are used to create a BLS sampling
frame, known as the Business Establishment List. This file represents
one of the best sources of detailed industrial and geographical data on
employers and is used as the sampling frame for most BLS surveys. The
Business Establishment List includes the individual employer employment
and wages data along with associated business identification
information that is maintained by each State to administer the UI
program as well as the UCFE program.
For employers having only a single physical location (worksite) in
the State and, thus, operating under a single assigned industrial and
geographical code, the data from the States' UI accounting file are
sufficient for statistical purposes. Such data, however, are inadequate
for statistical purposes for those employers having multiple
establishments or engaged in different industrial activities within the
State. In such cases, the employer's Quarterly Contributions Report may
reflect only Statewide employment and wages and is not disaggregated by
establishment or worksite. Although this level of data is sufficient
for many purposes of the UI Program, more detailed information is
required to create a sampling frame and meet the needs of several
ongoing Federal/State statistical programs. As a result of the Multiple
Worksite Report, improved establishment business identification data
elements have been incorporated into and maintained on the Business
Establishment List. Establishment identification data elements in the
Business Establishment List include a physical location address,
secondary name (division, trade name, subsidiary, etc.), and reporting
unit description (store number, plant name or number, etc.) for each
worksite of multi-establishment employers.
Employers with more than one establishment reporting under the same
U.I. account number within a State are requested to complete the
Multiple Worksite Report if the sum of the employment in all of their
secondary establishments is 10 or greater. The primary worksite is
defined as the establishment with the greatest number of employees.
Upon receipt of the first Multiple Worksite Report form, each employer
is requested to supply business location identification information.
Thereafter, this reported information is computer-printed on the
Multiple Worksite Report each quarter. The employer is requested to
verify the accuracy of this business identification information and
provide only the employment and wages for each worksite for that
quarter. By using a standardized form, the reporting burden on many
large employers, especially those engaged in multiple economic
activities at various locations across numerous States, has been
reduced.
Comparable to the Multiple Worksite Report, the function of the
Report of Federal Employment and Wages is to collect employment and
wage data for each installation of a federal agency. The Report of
Federal Employment and Wage aids in the development and maintenance of
business identification information by installation. The Report of
Federal Employment and Wages was modeled after the Multiple Worksite
Report and is used only to collect data from Federal agencies covered
by the UCFE program.
II. Current Actions
No other standardized report is available to collect current
establishment-level employment and wages data by SESAs for statistical
purposes each quarter. Also, no other standardized report currently is
available to collect installation-level Federal employment and wages
data by SESAs for statistical purposes.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has taken steps to help reduce
employer reporting burden by developing a standardized format for
employers to use to send these data to the States in an electronic
medium. The Bureau also established an Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI) Collection Center to improve and expedite the Multiple Worksite
Report collection process. Employers who complete the Multiple Worksite
Report for multi-location businesses can now submit employment and
wages information on any electronic medium (tape, cartridge, diskette,
or computer-to-computer) directly to the data collection center, in
lieu of each State agency. The data collection center then distributes
the appropriate data to each State.
Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: Multiple Worksite Report (MWR) and Report of Federal
Employment and Wages (RFEW).
OMB Number: 1220-0134.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit institutions, not
for-profit institutions, Federal Government, and State, local or
tribunal government.
Number of Respondents: 117,911.
Estimated Time Per Response: 22.2 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 174.508 hours.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the ICR; they also will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of December, 1995.
W. Stuart Rust, Jr.,
Acting Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
[FR Doc. 95-29977 Filed 12-7-95; 8:45 am]
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