February 26, 2009
MEMORANDUM FOR: Reviewer of 1220-0134
FROM: RICHARD CLAYTON, Chief
Division of Administrative Statistics and Labor Turnover
Bureau of Labor Statistics
SUBJECT: Information
Collection Budget Report Correction
for the Multiple Worksite
Report (MWR) and the
Report of Federal Employment and Wages
(RFEW)
The MWR is for non-federal businesses subject to State Unemployment Insurance laws and the RFEW is for federal establishments covered under the Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees program. Both are essentially the same and the forms are designed to collect employment and wages data for each establishment of a multi-establishment employer. The survey is a census and the slight increase of total hours requested, from 194,439 hours to 196,201 hours, is due to the availability of more recent information on the expansion in the total number of businesses in the U.S. economy with multiple-worksite locations.
The burden hours of 194,439 were based on record counts from the 2007/1 Quarterly Unemployment Insurance Address Files. Using more current information results in the following estimate for the FY 2009 burden-hour projections:
Multiple Worksite Employer Respondents for States with mandatory reporting:
a. Number of respondents: 72,679
b. Frequency of response: Quarterly
c. Estimated time per response 22.2 minutes
d. Annual burden: 107,565 Hours
e. Estimation of burden: Based on 2008/1 Quarterly Unemployment
Insurance Address Files Record Counts
Multiple Worksite Employer Respondents for States with voluntary reporting:
a. Number of respondents: 56,818
b. Frequency of response: Quarterly
c. Estimated time per response 22.2 minutes
d. Annual burden: 84,091 Hours
e. Estimation of burden: Based on 2008/1 Quarterly Unemployment
Insurance Address Files Record Counts
Federal Respondents:
a. Number of respondents: 3,071
b. Frequency of response: Quarterly
c. Estimated time per response 22.2 minutes
d. Annual burden: 4,545 Hours
e. Estimation of burden: Based on 2008/1 QCEW micro data
The following is an annual summary of responses and burden hours:
Responses Burden Hours
Report of Federal Employment Wages 12,284 4,545
Multiple Worksite Report (mandatory) 290,716 107,565
Multiple Worksite Report (voluntary) 227,272 84,091
Total 530,272 196,201
Current OMB approval for the MWR and RFEW is scheduled to expire March 31, 2010.
If you have any questions about this request, please contact Richard Clayton at 202-691-6515 or e-mail at Clayton.Rick@bls.gov or Michael Searson at 202-691-6469 or e-mail at Searson.Michael@bls.gov.
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| File Title | Outline of the Incentive Experiment |
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| Last Modified By | Jake Kane |
| File Modified | 2009-02-26 |
| File Created | 2009-02-26 |