Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey

Published date27 April 2021
Record Number2021-08757
SectionNotices
CourtCommerce Department,U.s. Census Bureau
Federal Register, Volume 86 Issue 79 (Tuesday, April 27, 2021)
[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 27, 2021)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 22135-22136]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2021-08757]
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                DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                U.S. Census Bureau
                Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
                Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
                Request; Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey
                 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 February 17, 2021 during a 60-day comment period.
                This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
                 Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
                 Title: Manufacturers' Unfilled Orders Survey.
                 OMB Control Number: 0607-0561.
                 Form Number(s): MA-3000.
                 Type of Request: Regular submission, Request for an Extension,
                without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection.
                 Number of Respondents: 6,000.
                 Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes.
                 Burden Hours: 3,000.
                 Needs and Uses: The data collected in the Manufacturers' Unfilled
                Orders (M3UFO) Survey will be used to benchmark the new and unfilled
                orders information published in the monthly Manufacturers' Shipments,
                Inventories, and Orders (M3) Survey. The M3 Survey collects monthly
                data on the value of shipments, inventories, and new and unfilled
                orders from manufacturing companies. The orders, as well as the
                shipments and inventory data, are valuable tools for analysts of
                business cycle conditions. The data are used by the Bureau of Economic
                Analysis, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Federal Reserve Board,
                the Conference Board, as well as businesses, trade associations, and
                the media.
                 The monthly M3 Survey estimates are based on a panel of
                approximately 5,000 reporting units that represent approximately 3,100
                companies and provide an indication of month-to-month change for the
                Manufacturing Sector. These reporting units may be divisions of
                diversified large companies, large homogenous companies, or single-unit
                manufacturers. The M3 estimates are periodically benchmarked to
                comprehensive data on the manufacturing sector from the Annual Survey
                of Manufactures (ASM), the Economic Census (shipments and inventories)
                and the M3UFO Survey, which is the subject of this notice. To obtain
                more accurate M3 estimates of unfilled orders, which are also used in
                deriving M3 estimates of new orders, we conduct the M3UFO Survey
                annually to be used as the source for benchmarking M3 unfilled orders
                data.
                 Additionally, the M3UFO data are used to determine which North
                American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries continue to
                maintain unfilled orders; this is done in order to minimize burden on
                businesses by only requesting unfilled orders as part of the monthly M3
                Survey for industries that still maintain unfilled orders.
                 Unfilled orders data are not currently collected in the ASM or the
                Economic
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                Census. Research is currently being conducted on the feasibility of
                adding M3UFO questions to the ASM for Survey Year 2021 at the
                establishment levels.
                 There are no changes to the MA-3000 form, which is used to conduct
                the M3UFO survey.
                 Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
                 Frequency: Annually.
                 Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
                 Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C., Sections 131 and 182.
                 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 0607-0561.
                Sheleen Dumas,
                Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
                Officer, Commerce Department.
                [FR Doc. 2021-08757 Filed 4-26-21; 8:45 am]
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