[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 19 (Monday, January 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5486-5487]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-01719]


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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; Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD)

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite 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 public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on November 14, 2023 during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce.
    Title: Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD).
    OMB Control Number: 0607-1001.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission, request for a revision of a 
currently approved collection.
    Number of Respondents: 54.
    Average Hours Per Response: No more than 8 hours required to 
identify and send/post required data sets.
    Burden Hours: 1728 hours.
    Needs and Uses: The data products developed by the LEHD program 
provide statistics on employment, earnings, and job flows at detailed 
levels of geography and industry and for different demographic groups. 
The potential and realized uses of these data products and their 
supporting dissemination tools are far-reaching, both for unraveling 
many important questions in economic research and for the provision of 
new statistical products. Over the first five months of 2017, the 
Census Bureau received more than 105,000 visits to its LEHD 
dissemination tools. A few examples of novel use of LEHD data include:

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     The New Jersey State Data Center used OnTheMap for 
Emergency Management to quickly learn the impact of hurricane Sandy 
with regards to identification of Federal Disaster Declaration Areas 
and its effects on communities (i.e., population and workforce).
     The State of Nevada has used the Job-to-Job Flows data 
product to understand the migration of its workforce that supports the 
hotel industry.
     The Philadelphia Center City District used LEHD data to 
understand the details of the area's workforce and economy in order to 
monitor the effectiveness of economic programs and policy initiatives.
    Additional examples of how the LEHD data products and supporting 
dissemination tools have been used can be found at the LEHD website: 
https://lehd.ces.census.gov/led_in_action/.
    Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions; State, local, or 
Tribal government; Federal Government.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary via a Memorandum of 
Understanding (MOU).
    Legal Authority: The authority to conduct the LEHD program is 13 
U.S.C. 6. Confidentiality of all collected data is assured by 13 U.S.C. 
9.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0607-1001.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-01719 Filed 1-26-24; 8:45 am]
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