Service Annual Survey

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

[Docket No. 990831240-9240-01]

Service Annual Survey

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of consideration.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Census Bureau is considering a proposal to conduct

the 1999 Service Annual Survey (SAS). The results of the service annual

program currently are published on a Standard Industrial Classification

basis. Beginning with the survey year 1999, we will publish data using

the new North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). With

NAICS implementation, SAS will incorporate the previous Transportation

Annual Survey and the Annual Survey of Communication Services into one

service program. There will be an additional 149 new and emerging

industries added to the Service Annual Survey, including Air Couriers,

Publishing, Sound Recording, Waste Management and Remediation Services,

and selected Financial Services. An Information Sector also will be

added to the survey.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before October 25,

1999.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to the Director, U.S. Census

Bureau, Room 2049, Federal Building 3, Washington, DC 20233.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ruth Bramblett, Chief, Current

Services Branch, Service Sector Statistics Division, on (301) 457-2766.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Census Bureau is authorized to conduct

surveys necessary to furnish current data on subjects covered by the

major censuses authorized by Title 13, United States Code, Sections

182, 224, and 225. The SAS will provide continuing and timely national

statistical data for the period between the economic censuses. The next

Economic Census will occur in the year 2002. Data collected in this

survey will be within the general scope, type, and character of those

inquiries covered in the Economic Census.

Beginning with the survey year 1999, we will publish SAS data using

NAICS. The structure of NAICS was developed in a series of meetings

between the United States, Canada, and Mexico in the early to mid-

1990s. NAICS recognizes the rapid changes in both the U.S. and world

economies by providing a means to classify new and emerging

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industries. The system was constructed on a production-oriented, or

supply-based, conceptual framework.

Effective with the 1999 survey, the Census Bureau proposes to

change the SAS survey questionnaires to reflect the many changes

brought about by NAICS. We are expanding the number of form types and

are developing these forms to be more tailored to the industries they

survey. The goal is to maximize industry coverage within our available

resources.

The revision to the SAS will increase industry coverage.

Previously, a single summary report was produced for each of the three

surveys. We will now produce multiple data products and reports by

various sectors.

The SAS will produce estimates of total receipts for all industries

covered and source of receipts and other expanded data items for the

following sectors:

Trucking (484).

Information (51).

Selected industries in Finance and Insurance (52).

Computer Systems Design and Related Services Industry

(5415).

Health and Social Assistance Sector (62) except subsector

624 (Social Assistance).

The SAS will provide dollar volume estimates for specific

industries in the following NAICS sectors:

Transportation and Warehousing (48-49).

Information (51).

Finance and Insurance (52).

Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (53).

Professional Scientific and Technical Services (54).

Administrative and Support, Waste Management and

Remediation Services (56).

Educational Services (61).

Health and Social Assistance (62).

Arts, Entertainment and Recreation (71).

Other Services (81).

The Census Bureau need report only from a limited sample of service

sector firms in the United States. The probability of a firm's

selection is based on its revenue size (estimated from payroll). We

will mail report forms to the firms covered by this survey and require

their submission within thirty days after receipt.

Preliminary information and recommendations received by the Census

Bureau indicate that the data have significant application to the

informational needs of government agencies, the public, and the

service, transportation, information, finance, and other service

industries. The data are not publicly available from nongovernmental or

other governmental sources on a timely and continuing basis.

This survey will be submitted to the Office of Management and

Budget for approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995, Public Law 104-13. Copies of the proposed forms are available

upon request to the Director of the Census Bureau (see ADDRESSES

section).

Dated: August 27, 1999.

Kenneth Prewitt,

Director, Bureau of the Census.

[FR Doc. 99-24862 Filed 9-23-99; 8:45 am]

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