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Appendix B: Legislation and Regulations That Govern Federal Statistics
Appendix B: Legislation and Regulations That Govern Federal Statistics
Pages 91-106
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• The 2002 E-Government Act, Section 208, which requires privacy impact assessments for federal data collections and associated guidance (the discussion also covers the 1974 Privacy Act)
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in 1939, when the Budget Bureau was transferred to the Executive Office of the President. The 1942 Federal Reports Act represented another milestone: It codified the authority for the Budget Bureau to coordinate and oversee the work of federal statistical agencies.
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The PRA required OMB, through the chief statistician, to engage in long-range planning to improve federal statistical programs; review statistical budgets; coordinate government statistical functions; establish standards, classifications, and other guidelines for statistical data collection and dissemination; and evaluate statistical program performance. In the 1995 reauthorization and extensive revision of PRA, the most important provision for statistical policy was to authorize the establishment of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (ICSP)
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The guidance outlines the timing and process requirements for all statistical information collection requests in order to obtain OMB approval (which is indicated by an OMB control number on approved survey questionnaires)
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. A few months later, 13 statistical agencies issued a Federal Register notice (67 Federal Register 3846738470, June 4)
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, and the Census Bureau to share individually identifiable business data for statistical purposes. The intent of the subtitle is to reduce respondent burden on businesses; improve the comparability and accuracy of federal economic statistics by permitting these three agencies to reconcile differences among
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. The law provides access to specific tax return items by the Census Bureau for use in its population estimates program and economic census and survey programs, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service for conducting the Census of Agriculture, by the Congressional Budget Office for evaluation of government revenue and expenditure initiatives, and by BEA for producing the National Income and Product Accounts.
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A key provision of the CIPSEA guidance defines statistical agencies or units, which are the only federal agencies that may assign agent status for confidentiality protection purposes to contractors, researchers, or others. The guidance defines a statistical agency or unit as "an agency or organizational unit of the executive branch whose activities are predominantly the collection, compilation, processing, or analysis of information for statistical purposes." Twelve statistical agencies that were enumerated in OMB's 1997 Confidentiality Order are recognized in OMB's CIPSEA implementation guidance as statistical agencies for the purposes of CIPSEA: the members of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy (ICSP)
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. There are specific exceptions allowing the use of personal records without prior consent for statistical purposes by the Census Bureau, for statistical research or reporting when the records are to be transferred in a form that is not individually identifiable, for routine uses within a U.S.
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Succeeding steps are to develop complete system documentation, conduct a risk assessment, put appropriate controls in place to minimize risk, and arrange for an assessment and certification of the adequacy of the controls. FISMA affects federal statistical agencies directly in that each of them must follow the FISMA procedures for its own information system.
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. OMB STATISTICAL POLICY DIRECTIVES The Statistical and Science Policy Office issues and periodically updates a number of directives that pertain to federal agency data collection and dissemination.
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4 -- Release and Dissemination of Statistical Products Produced by Federal Statistical Agencies • Metropolitan Statistical Areas • North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) /Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
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Principal Economic Indicators OMB issued Statistical Policy Directive No. 3 -- Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of Principal Federal Economic Indicators in the 1970s and strengthened it in 1985 (Federal Register, Vol.
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4 -- Release and Dissemination of Statistical Products Produced by Federal Statistical Agencies in 2008 (Federal Register, Vol.
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Standard Occupational Classification The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) is used by federal statistical agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for collecting, calculating, and disseminating data (see http://www.bls.gov/soc/)
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Following an intensive research, testing, and consultation process, OMB issued revised Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity on October 30, 1997 (see http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ fedreg/1997standards.html)
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