[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 30054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11699]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    DOC has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
clearance the following proposal for collection of information under 
the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: National Employers Survey 2000.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Agency Approval Number: 0607-0787.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement, with change, of an expired 
collection.
    Burden: 6,500 hours.
    Number of Respondents: 18,000.
    Avg Hours Per Response: 21 and one half minutes.
    Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau requests approval to conduct the 
2000 National Employers Survey (NES-2000) which includes a linked 
Employee Survey. The Census Bureau conducted two earlier National 
Employers Surveys (1994 and 1997) and two supplemental Employer surveys 
(1996 and 1998). As with the previous surveys, NES 2000 will be 
conducted on a reimbursable basis through the Department of Education's 
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), and the National 
Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI). Funding will be provided 
by the National Center for Education Statistics and the National 
School-to-Work Office.
    The NES 2000 will provide specific and unique information on 
employers' recruiting, hiring, training, and other work environment and 
human resources practices from both the employer and employee 
perspectives. The NES 2000 will provide the Census Bureau with 
information on formal and informal training programs and participation 
by establishments in school-to-work programs of various types.
    This data collection effort will provide, for the first-time, 
information collected from employees of a sample of the employer 
establishments. Employee histories and employee perceptions of training 
programs and their working environment will be collected directly from 
employees. The information from these employees will be linked to the 
employer information enabling analysts to identify those areas where 
employee and employer views are similar and where they are different.
    The information from the linked surveys will help the sponsors and 
other concerned organizations to determine how our Nation's firms and 
schools can improve their effectiveness through improved education, 
recruiting and hiring, training, and school-to-work programs.
    The NES 2000 will incorporate a telephone survey of 3,000 business 
establishments that completed the telephone interview for NES-III, the 
1997 survey. As we conduct the telephone survey, we will ask employers 
to volunteer to participate in the employee survey. The survey of 
employees will cover up to 15,000 employees. Employers who volunteer to 
participate in the employee survey will receive 30 employee 
questionnaires and simple instructions on how to forward the 
questionnaires to a sample of their employees. The employees will then 
complete the questionnaires and mail them back to the Census Bureau.
    Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: One-time.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Legal Authority: Title 13 USC, Section 182; National Education 
Statistics Act, Chapter 71, Title 20.
    OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter, (202) 395-5103.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Linda Engelmeier, DOC Forms Clearance Officer, 
(202) 482-3272, Department of Commerce, room 5033, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 
[email protected]).
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk Officer, room 10201, New Executive Office 
Building, Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: May 5, 2000.
Madeleine Clayton,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-11699 Filed 5-9-00; 8:45 am]
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