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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OFTHE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT

AND BUDGET

STATISTICAL

PROGRAMSOF THE

UNITED STATESGOVERNMENT

FISCAL YEAR

2011

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September 22, 2010

The Honorable Joseph R. BidenPresident o the SenateWashington, DC 20510

Dear Mr. President:

I am writing to transmit the enclosed Statistical Programs o theUnited States Government: Fiscal Year 2011 report, which is required by thePaperwork Reduction Act o 1995.

We cannot govern intelligentlymake policy, manage programs, orevaluate progress toward our goalswithout the data our Federal statisticalsources provide. By placing evidence-driven decisions at the heart o itsagenda, the Obama Administration has re-ocused a spotlight on the Federalstatistical system and the role that Federal statistics play in the policymaking

process. As we aim to tackle longstanding challenges in an era o scarceresources, it is especially critical that we support our ongoing eorts to provideunbiased, reliable, and timely data. Having access to quality, unbiased dataallows us to make reasoned, disciplined decisions about where to target ourresources to get the biggest return or our investment, and to identiy whereweve been spending consistently but yielding underperorming results.

The share o budget resources spent on supporting Federal statisticsis relatively modestabout 0.02 percent o GDP in non-Census years androughly double that in Census yearsbut that unding is leveraged to inormcrucial decisions in a wide variety o spheres. Federal data are used to driveand measure activities ranging rom shaping monetary policy at the FederalReserve (the Federal Reserve relies on employment and price change data

as well as other economic indicators to set monetary policy) to inuencingprogram design and allocation mechanisms (many Federal programs rely ondata such as population estimates, the Consumer Price Index, and Federal

poverty thresholds) to inorming the economic and risk-assessment researchused in regulatory policy and beneft-cost analyses.

OMB looks orward to working closely with the Congress to build a 21stcentury system o statistical measurement or our Nations perormance.

Jerey D. ZientsActing Director

Enclosure

Identical Letter Sent to the Speaker o the House o Representatives

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503

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OneStop Shopping or Federal Statistical Data

Access to the wide array o Federal statistics available to the public isprovided through FedStatson the World Wide Web (www.fedstats.gov).The site oers links to Internet sites developed by individual agencies todisseminate Federal statistics.

The site also includes inormation on Federal policies on privacy,accessibility to the site or persons with disabilities, a set o data accesstools or sophisticated users, andMapStats to acilitate searching or therange o Federal data available or a given U.S. geographic area.

The Appendices to this report include World Wide Web site addresses orthe Federal agencies covered in this report.
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Table o Contents

Introduction 1

CHAPTER 1: Budgets or Statistical Programs

Overview o Statistical Program Budgets .......................................3

Highlights o Congressional Action on the Presidents FY 2010

Budget Request .........................................................................11

Highlights o the FY 2011 Budget Request ................................ 15

Reimbursable Programs .................................................................21

Purchases o Statistical Services ...................................................26

CHAPTER 2: Programs and Program Changes

Health and Saety Statistics ...........................................................33Health ....................................................................................... 33

Saety .......................................................................................43

Social and Demographic Statistics ................................................44

Periodic Demographic Statistics .............................................44

Current Demographic Statistics ............................................... 45

Crime and Justice Statistics .....................................................49

Education Statistics ..................................................................52

Transportation Statistics ..........................................................56

Natural Resources, Energy, and Environment Statistics................58Environment .............................................................................58

Energy and Minerals .............................................................60

Soil, Forest, Fish, Wildlie, and Public Lands ........................61

Economic Statistics ......................................................................63

National Accounts ...................................................................63

Periodic Economic Statistics ................................................ 64

Current Economic Statistics ....................................................65

Labor Statistics ......................................................................68

Agriculture Statistics ...............................................................70Statistics o Income ..................................................................72

CHAPTER 3 Statistical Standards, InteragencyCollaborations, and Future Plans

Interagency Council on Statistical Policy .....................................75

Statistical Community o Practice .................................................76

Statistical Confdentiality and Data Sharing .................................76

Standards and Guidelines or Statistical Surveys .......................... 78

Directive on the Release and Dissemination oStatistical Products ....................................................................79

Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology ............................79

Collaborative Research on Survey Methodology .......................... 80


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Statistical Uses o Administrative Data ......................................... 81

Decennial Census .........................................................................82

Sample Redesign or Demographic Surveys ................................84

Survey o Income and Program Participation ................................ 84

Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics ......................84

Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics ...........................85

Establishing Internationally Comparable Measures o Disability 86

Improving Data Systems on Health and Health Care ..................87

Strengthening Economic Statistics ...............................................88

Measuring Occupational Wage and Employment Growth ............89

Measuring Green Jobs ..................................................................89

Measuring the Service and Construction Sectors .........................90

Improving Foreign Trade Statistics .............................................. 91

Measuring Consumer Spending in the 21st Century .....................92

Updating and Augmenting the Consumer Price Index .................93

North American Industry Classifcation System ...........................94

North American Product Classifcation System ........................... 95

Standard Occupational Classifcation System ..............................95

Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area Delineations ......96

Measuring Relationships in Federal Household Surveys ..............97

Classifcation o Data on Race and Ethnicity ...............................98

Supplemental Poverty Measure ..................................................... 99

Appendix A Direct Funding, Reimbursable Programs,and Purchases, FY 2011 101

Appendix B Principal Statistical Agency Stafng Levels 105

Glossary o Department and Agency Abbreviations 109

Selected Federal Statistical World Wide Web Sites 113

List o Tables

Table 1. Direct Funding or Major Statistical Programs,

FY 20092011 .............................................................5

Table2. Estimated Agency Reimbursements or

Statistical Activities, FY 2011 ................................... 23

Table 3. Estimated Agency Purchases o

Statistical Services, FY 2011 ..................................... 28

Appendix A. Direct Funding, Reimbursable Programs,and Purchases, FY 2011 ..........................................101

Appendix B. Principal Statistical Agency Stafng Levels......................105


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Introduction

Statistical Programs o the United States Government: Fiscal Year 2011outlines the unding proposed or Federal statistical activities in thePresidents budget. The budget requests an estimated $6,827.5 million orstatistical work to be carried out in FY 2011. Excluding cyclical undingor the Decennial Census ($739.2 million), 40 percent o this overall und-ing provides resources or 13 agencies that have statistical activities astheir principal mission. The remaining unding is spread among more than80 other agencies that carry out statistical activities in conjunction withother program missions, such as providing services or enorcing regula-tions.

The inormation in this report covers Federal agencies (inclusive o orga-nizational units that in ofcial nomenclature are institutes, centers, ser-vices, and ofces) that have annual budgets o $500,000 or more or statis-tical activities. This inormation was obtained rom materials supplied tothe Ofce o Management and Budget (OMB) during the budget process,with the agencies providing additional details about their reimbursementsor statistical activities and their purchases o statistical services. Agenciesthat perorm statistical activities in support o nonstatistical missions andprograms supplied additional budget detail or this report.

This report ulflls a responsibility o OMB under the PaperworkReduction Act o 1995 (Section 3504(e)(2) o Title 44, United StatesCode) to prepare an annual report on statistical program unding. Thereport has three chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the eects o Congressionalaction on the Presidents FY 2010 budget request and the undingor statistics proposed in the Presidents FY 2011 budget. Chapter 2highlights program changes or Federal statistical activities proposed inthe Presidents FY 2011 budget. Chapter 3 describes a number o ongoingand new agency and interagency initiatives to improve Federal statistical

programs, including the development and periodic revision o statisticalstandards and guidelines, various collaborations among the statisticalagencies, and selected plans to improve the quality and useulness othe Nations statistical products. In addition to budgetary resources data,the appendices include inormation on stafng levels or the principalstatistical agencies.

The report is available in both electronic orm and a limited number ohard copies. The electronic version can be accessed on the Internet throughthe OMB web site: www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_statpolicy/. The

report is also located at the one-stop shopping site or Federal statisticaldata: www.fedstats.gov/(go to Federal Statistical Policy). At both sitesusers may also access the FY 1997 to FY 2010 versions o the StatisticalPrograms report.
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Please direct any inquiries to Katherine K. Wallman, Chie Statistician,Ofce o Inormation and Regulatory Aairs, Ofce o Management andBudget, Washington, D.C. 20503.


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CHAPTER 1: Budgets or Statistical Programs

This chapter provides inormation about agency budgets or major statisticalprograms or FY 2009, FY 2010, and FY 2011. It highlights the eectso Congressional action on the Presidents FY 2010 budget request orFederal statistical activities and outlines recommended changes in undingor these programs or FY 2011. The chapter also includes inormationabout statistical work perormed by agencies on a reimbursable basis andabout agency purchases o statistical services and products. The budgetinormation or FY 2011 is rom the Presidents budget as submitted tothe Congress and does not reect actual appropriations.

Overview o Statistical Program BudgetsPlease keep the ollowing in mind when reviewing the inormation in thisreport:

Not all Federal spending on statistical activities is included. Thereport covers agencies that have direct unding or statistical activi-ties o at least $500,000 in FY 2009, or estimated direct undingor statistical activities o at least $500,000 in either FY 2010 orFY 2011. Using these criteria, the report includes the budgets or

statistical programs and activities or over 90 agencies (inclusiveo organizational units that in ofcial nomenclature are institutes,centers, services, and ofces).

Changes in an agencys unding or statistical activities can aectwhich surveys an agency maintains in its portolio; the breadth otopics and the sample size o a particular survey; and the accuracyand precision o statistical aggregates estimated rom data.

Funding or statistical activities may increase or decrease as a resulto the cyclical nature o surveys. Such increases or decreases shouldnot be interpreted as changes in agency priorities, but rather as thenormal consequences o the nature o the programs. Agencies alsoexperience increases or decreases in their budgets because they con-duct one-time surveys or studies in a particular fscal year.

Statistical activities are defned to include the ollowing:

collection, processing, or tabulation o statistical data or pub-lication, dissemination, research, analysis, or program manage-ment and evaluation;

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training o statisticians, interviewers, or data processing person-nel;

publication or dissemination o statistical data and studies;

methodological testing or statistical research;

data analysis;

orecasts or projections that are published or otherwise madeavailable or government-wide or public use;

statistical tabulation, dissemination, or publication o data col-lected by others;

construction o secondary data series or development o modelsthat are an integral part o generating statistical series or ore-casts;

management or coordination o statistical operations; and

statistical consulting.

Major statistical programs dier in organizational structure and in

the means by which they are unded. Thirteen agencies are deemedto be principal statistical agencies whose activities are predominate-ly the collection, compilation, processing or analysis o inormationor statistical purposes. For most o the principal statistical agen-cies, unding appears as a line item in the Presidents budget. Somemajor statistical programs, such as labor orce statistics and energystatistics, are carried out by principal statistical agencies (the Bureauo Labor Statistics and the Energy Inormation Administration, re-spectively). In other cases, agencies have statistical programs thatsupport their program planning and evaluation unctions or that are

an outgrowth o their administrative responsibilities. In these cases,the budget or statistical activities is included in the total appropria-tion or that agency, including an allocation o the salaries and oper-ating expenses or the statistical program. In addition, a statisticalprogram is not always executed by the agency that sponsors it. Inthese instances, the work is done on a reimbursable basis by anotherFederal agency or by a state or local government or a private orga-nization under contract.

Whether statistical work is done inside or outside the agency, the

direct unding reects the level o statistical activities in support othe agencys mission. Table 1 presents direct program unding orFY 2009, FY 2010, and FY 2011 or major statistical programs, bydepartment and agency.


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OMB recognizes that its defnition o statistical activity is broadand has been interpreted dierently among agencies that have pro-vided inormation on statistical activities. Some have interpreted

the scope o statistical activity narrowly to include only traditionalsurveys and census statistics. Others have interpreted the defnitionmore broadly to include statistical methods that are used in the col-lection and analysis o scientifc studies and experiments. For FY2011, OMB asked agencies to continue to report essentially as theyhave in the past. In the coming year, prior to the collection o inor-mation or the FY 2012 report, OMB will urther investigate howagencies interpret the defnition o statistical activities and developimproved guidance on what should be included in reports o statisti-cal activities.

Table 1 Direct Funding or Major Statistical Programs, FY 20092011

(In millions o dollars)

Department/Agency 2009Actual2010

Estimate2011

Estimate

AGRICULTURE

Agricultural Research Service ................................ 5.7 5.7 5.7

Economic Research Service .................................... 79.5 82.5 87.2

Food and Nutrition Service ..................................... 20.7 44.8 50.2

Foreign Agricultural Service . .................................. 28.0 28.6 29.9

Forest Service .......................................................... 65.5 71.8 73.0

National Agricultural Statistics Service 1 ................ 151.6 161.8 164.7

Natural Resources Conservation Service ................ 148.7 148.6 150.4

Risk Management Agency ...................................... 4.0 4.0 4.0

COMMERCE

Bureau o Economic Analysis ................................. 86.9 93.4 109.2

Census Bureau ........................................................ 4,168.9 7,254.7 1,297.0Current 2 ............................................................. 263.6 289.0 310.4

Periodic .............................................................. 3,905.3 6,965.7 986.6

Decennial Census3 ....................................... 3,689.0 6,751.1 739.2

Economics and Statistics Administration ................ 3.7 3.8 4.0

International Trade Administration ......................... 6.8 7.3 7.8

National Institute or Standards and Technology .... 1.6 1.9 1.9

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 90.4 109.7 121.0

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and

Inormation Service ....................................... 35.5 46.1 56.7National Marine Fisheries Service .................... 54.9 63.6 64.3

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Estimate2011

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DEFENSE

Army Corps o Engineers ....................................... 4.5 5.3 5.6

Deense Manpower Data Center ............................. 11.4 11.8 11.9

TRICARE Management Activity ............................ 12.4 12.8 13.2

EDUCATION

Institute o Educational Sciences ............................ 587.9 356.5 406.7

National Center or Education Statistics 3, 4 ............ 568.6 322.6 343.2Ofce o Planning, Evaluation, and Policy

Development ....................................................... 10.8 13.9 13.7

Ofce o Postsecondary Education ......................... 7.0 8.8 9.2

Ofce o Special Education and RehabilitativeServices .............................................................. 22.9 32.4 32.3

Program Evaluation, Data Collection, and Analysis.............................................................................. 56.2 49.0 39.4

ENERGY

Energy Inormation Administration ........................ 110.6 110.6 128.8Ofce o Health, Saety, and Security .................... 16.7 16.2 15.8

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration on Aging ......................................... 2.6 2.6 2.6

Administration or Children and Families .............. 59.1 59.6 55.7

Agency or Healthcare Research and Quality .............. 178.6 190.3 285.3

Centers or Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 494.3 522.9 558.4

Agency or Toxic Substance and Disease

Registry .......................................................... 1.4 1.2 1.2Center or Global Health ................................... 35.6 35.6 35.7

National Center or Chronic Disease Preventionand Health Promotion .................................... 91.5 101.1 100.1

National Center or Emerging Zoonotic andInectious Diseases ........................................ 4.1 4.3 4.5

National Center or Environmental Health ............. 20.3 20.1 22.7

National Center or Health Statistics ................. 124.7 138.7 161.9

National Center or HIV/AIDS, ViralHepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease, andTuberculosis Prevention ................................. 161.3 169.1 170.8

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Estimate2011

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National Center or Injury Prevention andControl ........................................................... 3.2 3.2 3.2

National Center on Birth DeectsDevelopmental Disabilities ............................ 2.4 2.6 2.7

National Institute or Occupational Saety andHealth . ............................................................ 29.0 28.8 28.2

Other CDC ........................................................ 0.8 0.4 0.2

Centers or Medicare and Medicaid Services3 ............. 21.9 60.4 22.5

Health Resources and Services Administration ............ 19.6 30.0 33.0

Indian Health Service .............................................. 5.4 5.5 5.7

National Institutes o Health ................................... 950.8 964.4 983.7

National Cancer Institute ................................... 121.8 125.1 129.0

National Center or Complementary andAlternative Medicine ..................................... 11.5 11.5 11.5

National Eye Institute ........................................ 0.5 0.5 0.5

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ............. 129.5 133.0 137.0

National Human Genome Research Institute .... 6.9 5.9 4.4

National Institute on Aging ................................ 12.5 12.5 12.5National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and

Alcoholism ..................................................... 5.6 5.8 5.9

National Institute o Allergy and InectiousDiseases ......................................................... 141.8 145.2 149.9

National Institute o Arthritis andMusculoskeletal and Skin Diseases ............... 0.4 0.4 0.4

National Institute o Biomedical Imaging andBioengineering ............................................... 4.5 4.5 4.5

National Institute o Child Health and Human

Development .................................................. 128.9 132.4 136.3National Institute on Deaness and Other

Communication Disorders ............................. 7.9 8.3 7.3

National Institute o Dental and CranioacialResearch ......................................................... 1.1 0.0 0.4

National Institute o Diabetes and Digestive andKidney Diseases ............................................ 159.2 161.8 161.8

National Institute on Drug Abuse ...................... 111.1 114.1 117.8

National Institute on Environmental HealthSciences ......................................................... 105.0 99.0 101.4

National Institute o General Medical Sciences 0.1 0.2 0.3National Institute o Mental Health ................... 0.9 1.2 1.3

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Estimate2011

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Ofce o the Assistant Secretary or Planning andEvaluation ........................................................... 21.5 22.9 20.0

Ofce o Population Aairs .................................... 9.2 9.8 9.3

Substance Abuse and Mental Health ServicesAdministration .................................................... 128.4 128.1 162.3

HOMELAND SECURITY

Bureau o Customs and Border Protection ............. 42.9 43.4 36.1

Citizenship and Immigration Services5 ................... 7.0 5.4 5.4Coast Guard ............................................................ 0.8 3.1 3.0

Federal Emergency Management Agency .............. 6.1 8.7 9.0

Ofce o Immigration Statistics .............................. 2.6 2.9 3.2

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Ofce o the Assistant Secretary or Housing .............. 4.7 5.0 5.2

Ofce o the Assistant Secretary or PolicyDevelopment and Research ................................. 23.2 49.1 60.1

Ofce o Public and Indian Housing ..................... 9.9 6.0 6.0

INTERIOR

Bureau o Land Management .................................. 2.1 2.1 2.1

Bureau o Ocean Energy Management, Regulation,and Enorcement ................................................. 7.4 7.5 7.6

Bureau o Reclamation ........................................... 9.0 9.3 9.5

Fish and Wildlie Service ........................................ 5.7 5.2 11.4

Geological Survey ................................................... 97.6 103.5 103.5

National Park Service .............................................. 2.8 2.9 2.9

JUSTICE

Bureau o Justice Statistics4 .................................... 52.5 68.4 71.4

Bureau o Prisons .................................................... 10.5 10.8 10.9

Drug Enorcement Administration .......................... 2.8 3.9 4.0

Federal Bureau o Investigation .............................. 9.9 10.1 10.3

National Institute o Justice .................................... 0.0 0.0 10.0

Ofce o Juvenile Justice and DelinquencyPrevention ........................................................... 5.0 3.8 4.7

LABORBureau o Labor Statistics ....................................... 597.2 611.4 645.4

Employment and Training Administration .............. 46.5 49.0 49.8


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Estimate2011

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Mine Saety and Health Administration ................. 2.6 2.7 2.8

Occupational Saety and Health Administration ..... 34.1 34.9 35.0

Ofce o Federal Contract Compliance Programs .. 1.1 1.1 1.5

Wage and Hour Division ......................................... 4.9 5.0 5.2

STATE

Ofce o the United States Global AIDSCoordinator ......................................................... 1.4 1.3 1.5

TRANSPORTATION

Bureau o Transportation Statistics ......................... 27.0 27.0 30.0

Federal Aviation Administration ............................. 8.1 8.2 8.5

Federal Highway Administration ............................ 22.6 18.9 16.6

Federal Motor Carrier Saety Administration ............ 13.8 13.8 14.0

Federal Railroad Administration ............................. 5.1 5.4 7.1

Federal Transit Administration ............................... 5.4 5.3 6.8

Maritime Administration ......................................... 0.6 0.7 0.7

National Highway Trafc Saety Administration ... 41.8 42.2 42.3Ofce o the Secretary o Transportation ................ 1.5 1.5 1.5

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials SaetyAdministration .................................................... 4.2 4.1 4.4

TREASURY

Statistics o Income Division (Internal RevenueService) 6 ............................................................ 41.5 43.1 44.2

VETERANS AFFAIRS

Board o Veterans Appeals ..................................... 3.1 3.7 3.8National Cemetery Administration ......................... 0.8 1.0 1.0

Ofce o Policy and Planning ................................. 10.3 9.1 9.7

National Center or Veterans Analysis andStatistics ......................................................... 2.0 3.3 4.2

Veterans Benefts Administration ............................ 12.3 14.9 16.3

Veterans Health Administration .............................. 84.1 94.4 96.4

OTHER AGENCIES

Agency or International Development ................... 37.8 41.4 40.8

Broadcasting Board o Governors ........................... 13.7 13.2 14.2Consumer Product Saety Commission .................. 22.2 22.7 27.7

Environmental Protection Agency .......................... 117.4 120.9 130.9


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Estimate

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ............. 1.8 2.1 2.3

Institute o Museum and Library Services .............. 2.5 3.0 3.2

National Aeronautics and Space Administration .... 13.2 8.8 10.5

National Science Foundation .................................. 140.3 159.1 168.6

Science Resources Statistics 4 ............................ 45.7 41.9 44.2

Ofce o National Drug Control Policy .................. 5.0 5.4 4.0

Small Business Administration ............................... 1.4 1.1 1.1

Social Security Administration ............................... 58.1 68.8 79.4Ofce o Program Development and Research . 19.2 22.0 23.3

Ofce o Research, Evaluation, and Statistics ... 27.4 28.6 30.6

Ofce o Retirement Policy ............................... 11.6 18.2 25.5

TOTAL ....................................................................... 9,2822 12,4307 6,8275

Total without decennial census ................................... 5,593.2 5,679.5 6,088.3

Notes: Figures in Table 1 have been provided by the agencies and are generallyderived rom total budget authority in the program and fnancing schedule inthe Presidents FY 2011 budget. The names o certain agencies are indented in the

table to indicate that the agency is a component o a larger organizational unit listedabove it and its budget fgures are included in the fgures reported or the larger unit.Components may not add to stated totals because o rounding.

1 National Agricultural Statistics Service totals include unds or the periodic Censuso Agriculture o $37, $38, and $33 million in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively.

2 Salaries and Expenses unds include discretionary and mandatory unds.

3 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act o 2009 (www.recovery.gov) unding isincluded in 2009 totals or the Census Bureau ($1 billion or 2010 Census) and the

National Center or Education Statistics ($250 million or Statewide Data Systemsprogram), and in 2010 totals or the Centers or Medicare and Medicaid Services

($37 million or comparative eectiveness research).4 For comparability across agencies, the ollowing agency amounts include indirectlyappropriated estimated salaries and expenses: Bureau o Justice Statistics ($8, $8,and $9 million); National Center or Education Statistics ($17, $17, and $17 million);and Science Resources Statistics ($7, $7, and $7 million). Amounts in parenthesesater each agency are or 2009, 2010, and 2011 and are rounded to nearest million.5 Citizenship and Immigration Services totals include unds rom both direct undsand ees.6 2010 estimate includes unds o $1.5 million allocated or IT unding in support oSOI activities.
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Highlights o Congressional Action on thePresidents FY 2010 Budget Request

The fgures or FY 2010 in Table 1 reect Congressional action on thePresidents budget request or unding o statistical activities. The ol-lowing are highlights o the eects o these appropriation levels on theprograms o the thirteen principal statistical agencies:

Bureau o Economic Analysis (BEA): The FY 2010 appropriation o$93.4 million was $7.8 million less than the Presidents request. Theappropriation unded core programs as well as two o our new statisticalinitiatives proposed by the President. Specifcally, the appropriationincluded a $3.0 million increase to the base to maintain current programs;

a $1.5 million increase to implement critical improvements to servicesector statistics, particularly fnancial services; and a $2.0 million increaseto restore and improve county-level income and product statistics. Letununded was $4.5 million to develop improved statistics on energy usage,retirement income, and the role o innovation in the national economy,as well as $3.2 million that was to be used to restore the coverage anddetail o the data that BEA collects on multinational company surveysor oreign direct investment statistics. The $3.2 million to restore andimprove the coverage and detail o oreign direct investment statistics wasresubmitted as part o the FY 2011 Presidents budget.

Bureau o Justice Statistics (BJS): The FY 2010 appropriation o $68.4million, including $8.4 million in salaries and expenses not directlyappropriated to BJS, was the same as the Presidents request. In addition,Congress provided that up to one percent o unds made available to theOfce o Justice Programs or ormula grants could be used or researchor statistical purposes by the National Institute o Justice or BJS. Theappropriation included $15.0 million or the continued implementation omajor National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) redesign activities,based largely on the comprehensive report prepared by the Committee onNational Statistics and the Committee on Law and Justice o the NationalAcademy o Sciences. The additional unds will be used to initiate studiesthat explore the redesign o the NCVS screening instrumentation andexamine subnational (small area) estimation, including design and datacollection or testing and analysis in this area.

Bureau o Labor Statistics (BLS): The FY 2010 appropriation o$611.4 million was $0.2 million below the Presidents request. Thisappropriation included a program increase o $8.0 million to identiy greeneconomic activity and produce data on related jobs. This initiative willallow the Quarterly Census o Employment and Wages (QCEW) and theOccupational Employment Statistics (OES) programs to produce regulartabulations o aggregate employment and wages by industry and occupation


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or businesses producing green goods and services. The QCEW programwill publish its frst estimates o green jobs in FY 2012. The initiative alsoincludes OES special employer surveys; the frst one will ask businesses

about their environmentally-riendly production processes and associatedjobs. In addition to these activities, the Employment Projections programwill produce and publish green career inormation. As part o an initiativefrst unded in FY 2009, BLSs Consumer Price Index program will continueto transition to the new design or the housing sample used or the Rentand Owners Equivalent Rent indexes and continue to evaluate methods toreduce small sample bias using retail scanner data.

Bureau o Transportation Statistics (BTS): The FY 2010 appropriationo $27.0 million was $1.0 million below the amount requested by the

President. Funding will support critical travel and reight statisticsprograms, as well as work in geospatial data transportation economics,and the inormation dissemination services o the National TransportationLibrary. In addition, the program received $4.0 million rom the FederalAviation Administrations Operations account as a reimbursable to supportthe aviation statistics program. This program collects and disseminatesairline fnancial, trafc, perormance, and operational data rom 150 U.S.airlines.

Census Bureau: The FY 2010 appropriation o $7,254.7 million was

$150.0 million less than the Presidents request. Fity million dollarso this dierence was due to a Congressional reduction to account orlower mileage reimbursement rates than originally budgeted or decennialcensus operations (the budget or those reimbursements occurred at theheight o the uel price spikes two years ago). The remainder resultedrom a reduction o $100.0 million to budget authority. Funding includes$6,751.1 million or the 2010 Decennial Census Program. In addition,nearly $900 million or decennial census activities is available romplanned carryover unding rom the American Recovery and ReinvestmentAct o 2009. This unding allows the Census Bureau to conduct theenumeration o the population. Specifcally, the Census Bureau isconducting major 2010 Census operations, which include: mailout,receipt, processing o returned census orms; the Nonresponse Follow-Upoperation whereby households not returning a census orm are contactedby census enumerators who collect the inormation; and numerous otheroperations to cover specialized populations such as the military and U.S.territory populations. These operations are supported by an extensive partnership and communications eort. Additionally, unds provided by the FY 2010 appropriation support a Local Employment Dynamicsinitiative, building on internal and external investments in the CensusBureaus innovative pilot program demonstrating the power o linkedlongitudinal business/employee data sets. The FY 2010 appropriationalso supports dissemination o data rom the 2007 Economic Census


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and planning eorts or the 2012 Economic Census and 2012 Censuso Governments. Finally, the FY 2010 appropriation reinstated theCommunity Address Updating System and provided continuing support

or the Census Bureaus ongoing programs.

Economic Research Service (ERS): The FY 2010 appropriation o$82.5 million was the same as the Presidents request. The unding willsupport ERS core programs and research to develop analytical tools andassessments o the economic implications o environmental servicesmarkets design. Agriculture plays a major role in domestic emissionstrading proposals or addressing climate change. ERS research willemphasize design elements o carbon oset markets that will permitcapture o key policy variables critical to providing appropriate guidance

to policy makers.

Energy Inormation Administration (EIA): The FY 2010 appropriationo $110.6 million was $22.5 million less than the Presidents request.This decrease delayed or reduced the ollowing initiatives until 2011 orlater: expanding commercial buildings energy consumption survey andincreasing the requency o the manuacturing energy consumption surveyto ensure statistical reliability; improving integration, scope, and quality oenergy data; researching energy market behavior and its interrelationshipwith fnancial markets; and updating the National Energy Model. In FY

2010, EIA will ocus special attention on our areas: energy end-use data;energy data scope and quality improvements; developing surveys to collectethanol and biodiesel data; and replacing EIAs U.S. energy model.

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS): The FY 2010appropriation o $161.8 million was the same as the Presidentsrequest. In addition to continuing its core programs, 2010 unding willprovide $5.8 million to complete reinstatement o the NASS ChemicalUse Program and $1.6 million or a data series on bio-energy productionand utilization. Within the available Census o Agriculture unding,

NASS will conduct the Census o Horticulture Specialties ollow-onstudy that will provide more in-depth inormation on the horticultureindustry than is available rom the quinquennial Census o Agriculture.In addition, $0.3 million o the Census o Agriculture unding will beused to complete analysis and publish the frst comprehensive NationalOrganic Production Survey o agriculture producers.

National Center or Education Statistics (NCES): The FY 2010 directappropriation o $305.6 million was $6.7 million below the Presidentsrequest. Funding will be used to support technical assistance to states

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education and the participation o preschool children in non-parentaleducation and care arrangements. FY 2010 unding will also providesupport or the National Assessment o Educational Progress to conduct

2010 national U.S. history, civics, and geography assessments and a pilotwriting assessment; prepare or 2011 assessments in reading, math, andwriting; prepare or the 2012 long-term trend assessment, the grade 12economics assessment, and a technology literacy study; and continueanalysis and reporting o prior assessments.

National Center or Health Statistics (NCHS): The FY 2010 appropriationo $138.7 million reected the amount requested in the Presidents budget.Funding will allow NCHS to maintain ull feld operations or the NationalHealth and Nutrition Examination Survey; conduct the National Health

Interview Survey at its current design level o 35,000 households; collecta ull 12-months o core birth and death records to provide the Nationsofcial vital statistics data; conduct selected components o the NationalHealth Care Surveys to reect changing patterns o health care deliveryand public health; reinstate many o the reductions in operational capacitythat have been implemented in the past several years; and enhance thequality and usability o data access tools through improved tutorials.

Ofce o Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (ORES), Social SecurityAdministration: The FY 2010 appropriation o $28.6 million is $2.5

million more than the amount requested in the Presidents budget.ORES will continue to support data collections, principally unded byother Federal agencies, that inorm Social Security-related analyses;improvements to data quality; and expanded data access throughdevelopment o public-use data fles. Funding will also support severalmodeling and Census Bureau survey projects that were originally plannedor 2009, but were delayed until 2010.

Science Resources Statistics (SRS), National Science Foundation:The FY 2010 appropriation o $41.9 million was $0.4 million more than

the Presidents request. In FY 2010, a reduction o $6.0 million or theNational Survey o College Graduates (rom $12.0 million to $6.0 million)reects the major work done on sample redesign in FY 2009. Additionalunds will be spent on continuing development o a Microbusiness R&Dand Innovation survey and or work on exploring how best to collect dataon innovation/technology transer in the academic sector as part o theredesigned Higher Education Research and Development Survey.

Statistics o Income Division (SOI), Internal Revenue Service: The FY2010 appropriation o $43.1 million is the same as the Presidents request.

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records in the Individual Public Use cross-section fle and undertakinga easibility study to develop an Individual Public Use panel data fle.Currently, microdata on compact disks (CD-ROMs) are produced annually

containing detailed inormation obtained rom the individual income taxreturn statistics program with identifable taxpayer inormation omitted tomake the fle available or dissemination to the tax research community.

Highlights o the FY 2011 Budget Request

As shown in Table 1, the FY 2011 budget submitted by the President orstatistical activities covered by this report is estimated at $6,827.5 million.This years proposed budget includes a number o key initiatives designedto improve signifcantly the breadth and quality o inormation on major

segments o the economy and population that currently are not adequatelymeasured. These initiatives include:

producing a new Economic Dashboard that provides quarterly mea-sures o national economic perormance, including quarterly mea-sures o the Gross Domestic Product by industry;

expanding occupational wage and employment statistics to allow orthe examination o occupation-specifc wage employment trends;

increasing the precision o monthly measures o ination;

expanding end-use consumption surveys and energy efciency datathat support development o perormance measurements or energyefciency programs;

completing research and design eorts and initiating the implemen-tation phase or the Nations largest survey o national, multimodalreight movement;

implementing new methodologies or more efcient and higherquality county-level estimates o agricultural commodities;

developing statistics on access to aordable and nutritious localoods in low income communities;

expanding the national geospatial system to improve the accuracyand relevance o census and survey statistics;

increasing the sample size and making other quality improvementsor the American Community Survey to boost the reliability o local

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increasing the timeliness and accuracy o vital records inormationthrough use o modernized electronic registration systems;

expanding the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program to betterinorm policy decisions about evolving trends in the types o drugsused by oenders and their relationship to the crimes being com-mitted;

implementing an ongoing prisoner reentry and recidivism statisticsprogram;

conducting a study o educational assessments to allow states tocompare their students eighth grade mathematics achievement to

that o students in other countries;

implementing a new post-doctorate data collection and estimationsystem to provide improved estimates o oreign post-doctorates andtheir socio-economic, demographic, and work characteristics;

developing and operating microsimulation models that estimate dis-tributional eects o proposed changes in Social Security programs;

providing statistics needed to evaluate and monitor the tax-related provisions o the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act o

2009, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, and PatientProtection and Aordable Care Act;

enhancing the Federal statistical systems use o administrative re-cords data to increase the quality, coverage, and analytical texture ostatistical data series; and

establishing a new voluntary Statistical Community o Practice thatwould acilitate development o standard statistical tools, method-ological protocols, and best practices or the collection, manage-

ment, and dissemination o data by the Federal statistical system.

The ollowing are FY 2011 highlights o ongoing programs and proposed program changes in the thirteen principal statistical agencies and theirassociated costs. Additional details are provided in Chapters 2 and 3 othis report. Appendix B provides inormation on the stafng levels o theprincipal statistical agencies.

Bureau o Economic Analysis: The Presidents budget request or FY2011 o $109.2 million provides unds or core programs, new statistical

initiatives, and the continued restoration and expansion o statistical prod-ucts in the oreign direct investment and regional programs. Specifcally,the request includes $3.3 million to build on work that began in 2009 torestore and improve Foreign Direct Investment Statistics. The FY 2011


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request also includes $5.2 million or a new Economic Dashboard thatwould provide quarterly measures o national economic perormance.Also included are $3.9 million to develop new measures o household

consumption and $1.2 million to construct consistent metrics or energyaccounts between BEA and EIA.

Bureau o Justice Statistics: The Presidents FY 2011 budget proposesa total appropriation o $71.4 million or BJS, including $15.0 millionto support the major multiyear project to redesign the National CrimeVictimization Survey (NCVS), based largely on the comprehensive re-view o the NCVS conducted by the Committee on National Statisticsand the Committee on Law and Justice o the National Academy oSciences. The Presidents budget includes unding or BJS to collect in-

ormation on indigent deense services by contract attorneys and assignedcounsel; to initiate data collection programs in Indian Country; and toestablish a new national statistical program to measure the impact, causes,and characteristics o childhood exposure to violence including data col-lection, analysis, and publication o statistical reports. The Presidents2011 budget also includes a proposal to initiate a new three percent set-aside rom criminal justice grant and reimbursement programs to expandcriminal justice research, evaluation, and statistical data gathering eortsat BJS and the National Institute o Justice.

Bureau o Labor Statistics: The Presidents FY 2011 budget request o$645.4 million includes a program increase o $4.9 million to measure oc-cupational wage and employment growth. This initiative would expandthe Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) sample to include annualdata rom a subset o establishments, allowing year-to-year comparisonso occupational trends in employment and wages. The FY 2011 budgetalso includes $8.8 million to modernize the Consumer Expenditure (CE)survey, improving the quality o data generated by the current survey andthe accuracy o its inputs into the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The re-quest includes $15.0 million to increase by 50 percent the number o CPIcommodity and services price quotes collected in order to reduce the vari-ance o the CPI. In addition, the FY 2011 budget includes $1.0 millionto research how to improve or replace the Telephone Point o PurchaseSurvey that is used to identiy the sample o retail outlets used to initiateand re-price items in the CPI. Also included in the FY 2011 budget is$2.5 million to modiy the CE survey to support the Census Bureau in itsdevelopment o a supplemental statistical poverty measure using CE data.In addition to these initiatives, the FY 2011 budget proposes to intro-duce data collection enhancements or the Current Employment Statistics(CES) to improve response rates or both preliminary and fnal estimates,and to centralize production o state and metropolitan area employmentestimates. By centralizing estimation, BLS can reduce overhead costsand realize a net savings o $5.0 million without adversely aecting data


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quality. The FY 2011 budget also proposes to expand BLSs ability toproduce estimates or local pay areas or the Presidents Pay Agent viaa new model-based approach that utilizes OES and Employment Cost

Index data, while allowing or the elimination o the Locality Pay Surveys(LPS), saving BLS $9.8 million. Savings rom the LPS and CES itemsabove, along with $2.0 million rom the elimination o the InternationalLabor Comparisons program, will partially und the previously mentionedimprovements.

Bureau o Transportation Statistics: The Presidents FY 2011 budgetrequest is $30.0 million, which includes an increase o $2.0 million orthe Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) to complete research and design andbegin the initial implementation phase in 2012. In addition, the budget

requests $4.0 million rom Federal Aviation Administrations Operationsaccount as a reimbursable to support the aviation statistics program.

Census Bureau: The Presidents FY 2011 budget request is $1,297.0million, including $88.5 million in new program investments. TheCensus Bureau will deliver the state-level population totals or apportion-ment o seats in the U.S. House o Representatives and data or use inredistricting eorts in FY 2011. Investments in data improvements in-clude: increasing the sample size o the American Community Survey to3.5 million households (or 2.5 percent o the population), which would

substantially improve the reliability o small area data ($44.2 million);enhancing the Geographic Support System Program to supply the moderngeospatial data to improve the geographical accuracy o Census Bureausurveys ($26.3 million); enhancing the Federal statistical systems abilityto use administrative records data, by partnering with NCHS and ERSto conduct three pilot projects designed to contribute substantive topicalknowledge in health and nutrition policy, enhance existing data integra-tion inrastructure to acilitate more efcient and higher quality recordlinkage, and determine whether administrative records can help reduce thecost o uture decennial censuses ($9.0 million); creating a supplementalpoverty measure to provide analysts and policymakers a more compre-hensive understanding o the scope and depth o economic deprivationamong American amilies and o the eects o policies and programs oneconomic well-being ($5.0 million); and improving the security o theCensus Bureaus inormation technology assets ($4.0 million).

Economic Research Service: The Presidents FY 2011 budget requesto $87.2 million reects a net increase o $4.7 million. Funding o $2.0million is included to establish a Statistical Community o Practice amongFederal statistical agencies, managed through a project management o-

fce housed at ERS, to improve data access, develop tools or data process-ing, and increase the utility and coordination o statistical protocols andtools or Federal data. The budget request also includes an increase o


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$2.0 million or a pilot project designed to enhance the Federal statisticalsystems ability to use administrative records data. ERS will partner withthe Census Bureau, NCHS, states, and the academic sector to better un-

derstand how ood assistance and health care programs work together toprovide a social saety net and improve dietary and health outcomes; howsuch linked data can be used or policy-oriented research and programevaluation; and how administrative records may inorm Federal activitiesto address anticipated data quality and data availability concerns. In ad-dition, the FY 2011 budget request includes a program increase o $2.0million to support collection o inormation on community access to lo-cal oods and $1.0 million to maintain the integrity and confdentiality oERS data at separate secure sites with the ability to control and monitoraccess as ERS physically relocates rom its current location as part oUSDAs consolidation o seven existing leases. These increases are osetby reductions o $3.0 million in lower priority activities.

Energy Inormation Administration: The Presidents FY 2011 budgetrequest o $128.8 million includes an increase o $18.2 million over FY2010 appropriations. Increases in unding would be used to: improve sur-veys o energy use in commercial buildings that will provide more data ontypes o buildings, as well as baseline inormation critical to understand-ing energy use, and support benchmarking and perormance measurementor energy efciency programs ($8.0 million); continue implementationo improvements in data coverage, quality and integration ($3.1 million);upgrade the National Energy Model ($1.8 million); initiate eorts totrack and analyze the adoption o Smart Grid technologies ($1.5 mil-lion); and expand analysis o energy market behavior and data to addressthe interrelationship o energy and fnancial markets ($1.3 million).

National Agricultural Statistics Service: The Presidents FY 2011 bud-get request o $164.7 million reects a net increase o $2.9 million romthe FY 2010 appropriation. This includes $8.0 million in new initiativesbalanced with $5.1 million in reductions to existing programs. Fundingor 2011 includes $5.0 million or implementation o new methodologiesleading to more efcient and higher quality county-level estimates. Anincrease o $0.5 million will be used to develop a comprehensive dataseries on organic production, handling, and distribution, to allow USDAand others to monitor the continued growth, evolution, and understandingo this sector in support o a nutritious domestic and international oodsupply. An increase o $0.8 million would expand the number o statesthat have a cropland data layer and provide NASS the ability to collectadditional data on crop conditions, soil moisture, and/or drought monitor-ing to fll an important inormational gap on remote sensing to measureclimate change. The development o a web-accessible geospatial tool orcrop progress and condition data will aid economic and policy analysisto help agriculture mitigate and adapt to climate change. To support


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Administration priorities and to pay or the increase or county estimates,NASS made several reductions to existing programs: cancellation o thedecennial 2010 Tenure, Ownership, and Transition o Agricultural Land;

elimination the Census o Aquaculture; and elimination o the July Sheepand Goats Inventory survey.

National Center or Education Statistics: The Presidents FY 2011 budget request would provide a total o $343.2 million, including di-rect program unding o $325.8 million to support three major pro-grams: Statistics, Assessment, and Statewide Data Systems. The budgetrequest or the Statistics program includes an increase o $8.5 millionor strategic improvements, including conducting an equating study be-tween the National Assessment o Educational Progress (NAEP) and The

International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) that would allowstates to compare their students eighth grade mathematics achievement tothat o students in other countries. The requested FY 2011 unding or theAssessment program would provide $5.0 million or the Assessment por-tion o the NAEP/TIMSS equating study and would allow NCES to con-duct scheduled 2011 assessments and prepare or uture assessments. Therequested $65.0 million or the Statewide Data Systems program wouldsupport designing, developing, and implementing longitudinal data sys-tems that enable states to use individual student data to enhance educationand close achievement gaps and improve data coordination and quality.

National Center or Health Statistics: The FY 2011 budget requesto $161.9 million is an increase o $23.2 million above the FY 2010unding level. With the increased unding NCHS will ully und allsurveys and sample sizes at the expanded levels unded in FY 2010.NCHS would maintain ull feld operations or the National Health andNutrition Examination Survey; increase the sample o the National HealthInterview Survey to 43,000 households to allow or state and commu-nity estimates or the largest states and some large metropolitan areas;continue to conduct selected components o the National Health CareSurveys and increase the number o physicians and patient records col-lected in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, which will allowstate estimates or a limited number o states i data are combined acrosstwo years; collect at least a ull 12 months o core birth and death datato provide the Nations ofcial vital statistics data; and increase supportor the expansion o the electronic birth records and phase in support orelectronic death records in a ew o the largest jurisdictions to allow or allstates to have implemented electronic birth records in FY 2011.

Ofce o Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Social Security

Administration: The FY 2011 budget request o $30.6 million representsa $2.0 million increase over the FY 2010 unding level. The increase willallow ORES to undertake new research projects that use demographic sta-


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tistics, and support ongoing eorts to develop and operate microsimulationmodels that estimate distributional eects o proposed changes in SocialSecurity programs. The budget request also reects unding or a multiyear

collaboration between the Social Security Administration and the CensusBureau to collect data in a supplement to the 2013 panel o the Survey oIncome and Program Participation (SIPP) on pension plan coverage andretirement plans, unctional limitations and disability, marital histories,and ertility histories. This inormation, in addition to core data that willbe collected in the redesigned SIPP, will be used or model developmentand data analysis o the Social Security, Supplemental Security Income,Qualifed Medicare Benefciary, and Medicare Part-D Low Income Subsidyprograms. ORES unding will continue to support ongoing research andevaluation on the eects o Social Security and income assistance programs,and proposed changes in those programs, on individuals, the economy, andprogram solvency.

Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation: ThePresidents FY 2011 budget request o $44.2 million represents an in-crease o about $2.3 million above the FY 2010 unding level. Increasedunding is requested to begin ull-scale implementation o an academicsector post-doctorate data collection system, to initiate a transition romcurrent online data systems to an alternative that would provide users withaccess to its data through improved and more exible interaces, and toimplement a Microbusiness R&D and Innovation survey or frms withewer than fve employees.

Statistics o Income Division, Internal Revenue Service: The FY 2011budget request o $44.2 million provides an increase o $1.1 million overFY 2010 to maintain current levels o service as well as to support expandedstatistical program requirements necessitated by the American Recoveryand Reinvestment Act, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act,and the Patient Protection and Aordable Care Act.

Reimbursable Programs

Agencies whose missions are primarily or entirely statistical oten per-orm statistical work or others on a reimbursable basis. These reimburse-ments come rom other agencies within the same department or rom otherFederal agencies, state governments, and occasionally the private sector ororeign governments. Sometimes data collected by one agency or its pro-grammatic purposes can be used or a dierent programmatic purposein another agency. Further, some agencies have reimbursable programs(or example, the Deense Manpower Data Center o the Department oDeense) but do not necessarily perorm all the statistical work. Rather,they use part o the reimbursable program money to purchase statisticalwork rom other Federal agencies.


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Table 2 presents a list o agencies that expect to perorm at least $100,000o statistical work on a reimbursable basis or state and local govern-ments, the private sector, and/or other Federal agencies, ranked by the

estimated size o the reimbursable program or FY 2011. As shown inTable 2, o the estimated total o $661.5 million in reimbursable work,an estimated $520.7 million is perormed or other Federal agencies. Alarge portion o the reimbursable work perormed or other Federal agenciesis unded through intradepartmental transers.


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Table2 Estimated Agency Reimbursements or Statistical Activities, FY 2011


Agency DirectFunding

Reim-bursableProgram

State/Local

Govern-ments

Private1Sector

OtherFederal

Agencies

Administration or Children andFamilies ............................................ 55.7 1.2 0.0 0.0 1.2

Economic Research Service ................. 87.2 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0Employment and Training

Administration ................................. 49.8 0.8 0.0 0.0 0.8Energy Inormation Administration ..... 128.8 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.7

Ofce o Research, Evaluation, andStatistics (SSA) ............................... 30.6 0.6 0.0 0.4 0.2International Trade Administration ...... 7.8 0.3 0.1 0.0 0.2Health Resources and Services

Administration ................................. 33.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2National Highway Trafc Saety

Administration ................................. 42.3 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2Federal Railroad Administration .......... 7.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2

TOTAL 5,6433 6614 1192 217 5206

Note: Table presents agencies that expect to perorm at least $100,000 o statisticalwork on a reimbursable basis, ranked by the estimated size o the reimbursable

program. Components may not add to totals because o rounding.

1 Reimbursements rom the private sector also include unds rom oreigngovernments. Three agencies receive unds rom oreign governments: Census ($0.2million), USGS ($1.0 million), and BLS ($0.3 million).

For FY 2011, the Census Bureau has the largest reimbursable program,estimated at $291.2 million. Most o this work ($281.4 million) involvesdata collection and preparation o tabulations or other Federal agencies.In particular, the Census Bureau expects to perorm approximately $100.4million o reimbursable work or the Bureau o Labor Statistics to collectlabor orce, consumer expenditure, time use, and work experience datarom households. Work that the Census Bureau expects to perorm orother agencies includes the Private Schools Survey and the intercensalestimates o poverty or the National Center or Education Statistics; the National Health Interview Survey, the National Hos pital AmbulatoryMedical Care Survey, and the National Hospital Discharge Survey orthe National Center or Health Statistics; the American Housing Survey,the Housing Sales Survey, and the Survey o Market Absorption or the

Department o Housing and Urban Development; the National CrimeVictimization Survey, the Census o Juveniles in Residential Placement,the National Prisoner Statistics Program, the Annual Probation andParole Survey, and the Survey on Sexual Violence or the Bureau o


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Justice Statistics; the Manuacturing Energy Consumption Survey or theEnergy Inormation Administration; and the National Survey o CollegeGraduates or the National Science Foundation. In addition, the Census

Bureau receives unds rom the Agency or International Development,other Federal agencies, oreign government agencies, and internationalorganizations such as the United Nations to conduct demographic,geographic, and socioeconomic studies, and to strengthen statisticaldevelopment around the world through technical assistance, training, andsotware products.

The Water Resources Discipline in the Geological Survey at theDepartment o the Interior has the second largest reimbursable program,estimated at $152.1 million. Among the Federal agencies, the Geological

Survey perorms the largest amount, $108.5 million, in reimbursable workor the states through a Federal-state cooperative program. This program provides or hydrologic data collection and analysis, water resourcesappraisals, and special analytical and interpretive studies in cooperationwith 850 partners rom other Federal, state, and local governmentagencies. The Water Resources Discipline also expects to perorm $38.6million in statistical work or Federal agencies, including hydrologicdata collections and analyses or other agencies in the Departments oAgriculture, Commerce, Deense, Energy, Homeland Security, theInterior, State, and Transportation; the Environmental Protection Agency;and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

A large portion o the reimbursable work in the Department o Health andHuman Services (HHS) is done within the department and is conductedthrough the use o grants, contracts, and interagency agreements. Mosto the reimbursable statistical work perormed by NCHS ($73.8 million)is done or other agencies within HHS ($59.5 million), in particular orother parts o its parent organization, the Centers or Disease Control andPrevention, and or the National Institutes o Health. The National DeathIndex will continue to receive reimbursement rom both CDC and non-Federal sources. Reimbursable work unded by non-Federal entities willalso support the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey andthe National Health Interview Survey.

Intradepartmental transers support much o the reimbursable work o theUSDA agencies. Approximately $17.2 million o NASSs reimbursablework is done or other agencies in USDA. In particular, NASS will receive$8.0 million rom the Economic Research Service or the AgriculturalResource Management Survey. Other USDA agencies reimbursingNASS will be the Farm Service Agency, which provides $6.9 million or

prices received by armers, pulse crop data, and county-level cash rentalrates in support o program administration, and the Risk ManagementAgency, which provides $0.9 million or county estimates o commodity


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production and yield. Funding provided by the Animal and Plant HealthInspection Service will support the national animal health monitoringsystem, and unds rom the Forest Service will provide or the National

Woodland Owner Survey. Funds received rom the Agricultural MarketingService will support collection o milk and pesticide data.

Intradepartmental agreements also support most o the reimbursable workor the Institute o Educational Sciences (IES) and the National Center orEducation Statistics (NCES). IES anticipates receiving $14.6 million toconduct evaluations or other agencies in the Department o Education,including $5.0 million or the Ofce o Innovation and ImprovementsData Quality Initiative, $3.8 million or the Study o Early ChildhoodLanguage Development, $2.8 million or the National Title I Study o

Implementation and Outcomes, $2.0 million or the Study o TeacherQuality Distribution and Measure o Teacher Quality, and $1.5 million orthe evaluation o the Upward Bound program. NCES anticipates receiv-ing approximately $9.3 million rom other agencies or statistical activi-ties, including $4.0 million or obtaining intercensal estimates o povertyor the ED Ofce o Elementary and Secondary Education, $2.0 millionor collection o achievement data or the ED Ofce o Indian Education,and $2.2 million to obtain data on school crime or the ED Ofce o Saeand Drug-Free Schools.

Purchases o Statistical Services

Agencies contract or statistical services with other Federal agencies, stateand local governments, or private sector organizations. Table 3 shows theagencies that have total purchases o at least $1.0 million, ranked by totalpurchases; inormation on agencies with smaller estimated purchases isprovided in Appendix A.

When a contract is a transer o unds to another Federal agency, thecontract is a direct program obligation in the budget o the purchasing

agency and is part o the reimbursable program o the agency providingthe service. Examples o these kinds o purchases o statistical serviceswere given above in the section on reimbursable programs. Agenciessuch as the Institute o Educational Sciences, or example, can purchasemore than their direct unding or statistics allows, because they receivethe dierence rom other Federal agencies under their reimbursableprograms.

Agencies that expect to purchase more than $100 million in statisticalservices in FY 2011 are the Census Bureau ($405.1 million), the National

Center or Education Statistics ($332.2 million), the National Institutes oHealth ($273.8 million), the Centers or Disease Control and Preventionwithout NCHS ($243.4 million), the Bureau o Labor Statistics ($213.1


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million), the National Center or Health Statistics ($138.6), the NationalScience Foundation without SRS ($133.0 million), and the Agency orHealthcare Research and Quality ($104.2).

During FY 2011, Federal agencies covered by this report will purchase anestimated $3,035.7 million in statistical services, as shown in AppendixA. About two-thirds o these services will be purchased rom the privatesector.

The largest purchasers o statistical services rom the state and localgovernments are the Centers or Disease Control and Prevention including NCHS ($197.9 million), Bureau o Labor Statistics ($90.0 million),the National Center or Education Statistics ($64.6 million), and the

Employment and Training Administration ($43.6 million). CDC undsreimburse localities or their cooperation in the reporting o diseases.BLS unds support the cooperative labor orce statistics program. NCESprovides unds to state educational agencies to support development andimplementation o statewide longitudinal data systems or collecting andreporting education data. States also receive unding to support datacollection activities, including the administration o National Assessmento Educational Progress. ETA unds grants to states to collect andanalyze labor market inormation on growth industries and occupations,to catalogue knowledge, skills and abilities required or standard

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Table 3 Estimated Agency Purchases o Statistical Services, FY 2011


Agency DirectFundingTotal

Purchases

State/Local

Govern-ments

Private1

Sector

OtherFederal

Agencies

Census Bureau ................................... 1,297.0 405.1 0.0 403.3 1.8

National Center or EducationStatistics ......................................... 343.2 332.2 64.6 244.7 23.0

National Institutes o Health .............. 983.7 273.8 0.1 251.4 22.3

Centers or Disease Control andPrevention (without NCHS) ........... 396.5 243.4 165.5 65.6 12.4

Bureau o Labor Statistics .................. 645.4 213.1 90.0 21.0 102.1

National Center or Health Statistics 161.9 138.6 32.5 63.9 42.2

National Science Foundation(without SRS)................................. 124.4 133.0 0.0 133.0 0.0

Agency or Healthcare Research andQuality............................................ 285.3 104.2 0.0 94.2 10.0

Institute o Educational Sciences(without NCES) ............................ 63.6 78.7 0.0 78.7 0.0

Bureau o Justice Statistics ................ 71.4 69.2 3.5 36.0 29.7

Veterans Health Administration ......... 96.4 61.2 0.0 60.7 0.5

Ofce o the Assistant Secretary orPolicy Development and Research 60.1 60.1 0.0 12.8 47.3

Energy Inormation Administration ... 128.8 58.7 0.2 56.3 2.1

Administration or Children andFamilies .......................................... 55.7 56.6 0.0 55.4 1.1

Food and Nutrition Service ................ 50.2 50.2 0.0 50.2 0.0

Employment and TrainingAdministration ............................... 49.8 45.6 43.6 2.1 0.0

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration ............................... 121.0 44.0 30.5 13.4 0.0National Agricultural StatisticsService............................................ 164.7 40.6 33.4 0.0 7.2

Environmental Protection Agency ..... 130.9 39.8 9.5 28.8 1.5

Program Evaluation, Data Collection,and Analysis ................................... 39.4 39.2 0.0 5.7 33.4

Agency or InternationalDevelopment .................................. 40.8 38.3 0.0 33.3 5.0

Science Resources Statistics (NSF) ... 44.2 36.7 0.0 24.7 12.1

Social Security Administration

(without ORES) ............................. 48.8 35.8 0.0 28.1 7.7National Highway Trafc Saety

Administration ............................... 42.3 32.8 9.3 20.8 2.7


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OtherFederal

Agencies

Ofce o Special Education andRehabilitative Services ................... 32.3 31.2 21.8 9.4 0.0

Substance Abuse and Mental HealthServices Administration ................. 162.3 28.0 3.9 21.4 2.7

Health Resources and ServicesAdministration ............................... 33.0 28.0 0.0 18.6 9.3

Economic Research Service ............... 87.2 23.1 4.2 3.8 15.0Centers or Medicare and Medicaid

Services .......................................... 22.5 21.6 0.0 21.5 0.0

Bureau o Customs and BorderProtection ....................................... 36.1 19.7 0.0 19.7 0.0

Ofce o Planning, Evaluation, andPolicy Development ...................... 13.7 18.9 0.0 18.9 0.0

Ofce o Research, Evaluation, andStatistics (SSA) .............................. 30.6 17.5 0.0 12.4 5.2

Consumer Product Saety

Commission ................................... 27.7 15.3 0.2 15.1 0.0Federal Highway Administration ....... 16.6 13.5 0.0 11.9 1.6

Broadcasting Board o Governors...... 14.2 13.4 0.0 13.4 0.0

Forest Service ..................................... 73.0 12.9 7.2 4.7 1.0

National Institute o Justice ............... 10.0 10.0 7.0 0.0 3.0

Deense Manpower Data Center ........ 11.9 9.6 0.0 6.4 3.2

Ofce o Postsecondary Education .... 9.2 8.0 0.0 5.0 3.0

Federal Motor Carrier SaetyAdministration ............................... 14.0 7.7 0.9 1.4 5.3

Veterans Benefts Administration ....... 16.3 7.5 0.0 7.5 0.0Federal Aviation Administration ........ 8.5 6.9 0.0 0.0 6.9

Fish and Wildlie Service ................... 11.4 6.5 0.3 0.0 6.2

Federal Transit Administration .......... 6.8 6.5 0.0 5.0 1.5

Bureau o Prisons ............................... 10.9 6.3 6.3 0.0 0.0

Bureau o Transportation Statistics .... 30.0 6.2 0.0 0.0 6.2

Ofce o the Assistant Secretary orPlanning and Evaluation ................ 20.0 6.0 0.0 0.0 6.0

Ofce o Public and Indian Housing . 6.0 6.0 0.0 6.0 0.0

Ofce o Health, Saety, and Security 15.8 5.7 3.8 0.1 1.8

Ofce o Policy and Planning ............ 9.7 5.6 0.0 5.0 0.6

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Agencies

Ofce o Juvenile Justice andDelinquency Prevention ................. 4.7 4.7 0.0 2.9 1.8

Natural Resources ConservationService............................................ 150.4 4.4 2.7 1.7 0.0

Risk Management Agency ................ 4.0 4.0 0.0 4.0 0.0

Ofce o National Drug Control

Policy ............................................. 4.0 4.0 0.0 4.0 0.0International Trade Administration .... 7.8 3.4 0.0 2.1 1.3

Occupational Saety and HealthAdministration ............................... 35.0 3.2 1.6 1.6 0.0

Institute o Museum and LibraryServices .......................................... 3.2 3.2 0.0 1.9 1.3

Federal Emergency ManagementAgency ........................................... 9.0 3.0 0.0 3.0 0.0

Bureau o Reclamation ...................... 9.5 2.8 0.0 0.0 2.8

Citizenship and Immigration Services 5.4 2.8 0.0 2.3 0.5

Coast Guard ....................................... 3.0 2.8 0.0 2.8 0.0

Agricultural Research Service ........... 5.7 2.7 0.0 0.0 2.7

Administration on Aging.................... 2.6 2.6 0.5 2.2 0.0

Ofce o the Assistant Secretary orHousing .......................................... 5.2 2.3 0.0 2.3 0.0

Wage and Hour Division .................... 5.2 2.2 1.7 0.5 0.0

Bureau o Land Management............. 2.1 1.8 0.0 0.0 1.8

Equal Employment OpportunityCommission ................................... 2.3 1.4 0.0 1.4 0.0

Bureau o Economic Analysis ............ 109.2 1.3 0.0 0.0 1.3Ofce o Population Aairs ............... 9.3 1.2 0.0 0.0 1.2

TOTAL 6,5595 3,0310 5447 2,0290 4573

Note: Table presents agencies that reported total purchases o at least $1.0 millionranked by total purchases. Components may not add to totals because o rounding.

1Purchases rom the private sector also include unds to be paid to oreign governments.Three agencies will purchase statistical services rom oreign governments: CDC($20.0 million), NCES ($3.0), and the ITA ($0.1 million).

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to purchase an estimated$2,031.7 million in statistical services rom the private sector during FY 2011. O that total, approximately $1,186.5million (or about 58 percent) in purchases rom the private sector are

made by the ollowing fve agencies: the Census Bureau ($403.3 million);the National Institutes o Health ($251.4 million); the National Center orEducation Statistics ($244.7 million); the National Science Foundationincluding the Science Resources Statistics Division ($157.6 million); andthe Centers or Disease Control and Prevention including the NationalCenter or Health Statistics ($129.5 million). The private sector providesa variety o services, such as survey design, data collection and processing,analysis, program evaluation, preparation o reports, data dissemination,computer services, and methodological research and development.


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CHAPTER 2: Programs and Program Changes

This chapter presents brie descriptions o the statistical activities othe agencies covered in this report. The chapter highlights programchanges or Federal statistical activities or FY 2011 as proposed in thePresidents budget. Hence, there is a particular ocus on new activities,improvements, or reductions in the existing base programs, or any otherimportant changes that aect an agencys statistical program.

For purposes o this discussion, the statistical programs are dividedinto the ollowing categories: Health and Saety Statistics; Social andDemographic Statistics; Natural Resources, Energy, and EnvironmentStatistics; and Economic Statistics.

Health and Saety Statistics

Health

The Global Health Bureau o the Agency or International Development(AID) collects and disseminates data used to plan, monitor, and evaluate population, health, and nutrition programs in developing countries.Statistical activities include: dissemination o survey methods andquestionnaires across countries in order to measure key indicators

including inant and child mortality, ertility, amily planning use,maternal health, child immunization, and malnutrition levels; capacitybuilding o statistical ofces in developing countries to collect, analyze,disseminate, and utilize data to increase the understanding o populationand demographic trends; analysis o implications or development planning and policy making; development o demographic models;and dissemination o inormation through a variety o publications andpresentations.

The Agency or Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the

Department o Health and Human Services (HHS) produces anddisseminates inormation about the cost, quality, access, and medicaleectiveness o health care. AHRQs Medical Expenditures PanelSurveys (MEPS) provide public and private sector decision makers withtimely national estimates o health care use and expenditures; private andpublic health insurance coverage; and the availability, costs, and scope oprivate health insurance benefts. AHRQ prepares analyses o changes inbehavior as a result o market orces or policy changes on health care use,expenditures, and insurance coverage; develops cost/savings estimateso proposed changes in policy; and identifes the impact o changes inpolicy or key subgroups o the population. Statistical activities o AHRQare conducted through the use o grants, contracts, and interagency


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agreements. Intramural statistical activities o AHRQ involve primarilyanalyses using data assembled rom primary and secondary data sources.

The Centers or Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in HHS promotehealth and quality o lie by preventing and controlling disease, injury, anddisability. CDC provides data on morbidity, epidemiologic surveillanceo inectious diseases, chronic diseases, occupational diseases andinjuries, vaccine efcacy, and saety. CDCs top organizationalcomponents include the Ofce o the Director, the National Institute orOccupational Saety and Health, Deputy Ofces and National Centers.Deputy Ofces include: the Ofces o Public Health Preparedness andResponse; State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support; Surveillance,Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services; Non-communicable Diseases,

Injury and Environmental Health; and Inectious Diseases. The Agencyor Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) along with ten National Centers are grouped under the fve Deputy ofces. TheseNational Centers are: Global Health; National Institute or Occupational,Saety and Health; Environmental Health; Injury Prevention and Control;Health Statistics; Birth Deects and Developmental Disabilities; ChronicDisease Prevention and Health Promotion; Immunization and RespiratoryDiseases; Emerging Zoonotic and Inectious Diseases; and HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease and TuberculosisPrevention.

The National Center or Health Statistics (NCHS) is the princi-pal agency that produces general-purpose health data. NCHS isresponsible or the collection, maintenance, analysis, and dis-semination o statistics on the nature and exte

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