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Appendix B: Organization of the Federal Statistical System
Appendix B: Organization of the Federal Statistical System
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, the principal statistical agencies, and a selection of major statistical programs housed or sponsored by other agencies. OVERVIEW Budget For fiscal 2012 OMB estimated $6.2 billion in direct funding for government statistical programs in 129 agencies with directly funded statistical activities of $500,000 or more (U.S.
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. 2The 14 agencies are the Bureau of Economic Analysis; Bureau of Justice Statistics; Bureau of Labor Statistics; Bureau of Transportation Statistics; Census Bureau; Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture; Energy Information Administration; National Agricultural Statistics Service; National Center for Education Statistics; National Center for Health Statistics; National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics; Office of Environmental Information of the Environmental Protection Agency; Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics of the Social Security Administration; and the Statistics of Income Division of the Internal Revenue Service.
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For example, the prices and cost-of-living programs of the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- including the Consumer Price Index (CPI) , the Producer Price Index, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and related activities -- had an estimated budget authority of $206 million in fiscal 2012.3 Output from the CPI component of the program is used for annual cost-of-living adjustments to payments for retirees and other beneficiaries under the Social Security Program, which provided $65.4 billion in benefits to 56.8 million people in December 2011:4 a difference of 1 percentage point in the CPI amounts to almost $8 billion in additional (or reduced)
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For example, the American Housing Survey, sponsored by the Office of Policy Development and Research in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and conducted by the Census Bureau, provides valuable data on housing condition and housing finance with which to inform housing policy (see National Research Council, 2008b)
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, which includes the Statistical and Science Policy Office headed by the chief statistician of the United States, a senior executive civil service position. OIRA also includes the clearance officers who review individual survey and other information requests from most agencies: staff of the Statistical and Science Policy Office clear information requests from many of the principal statistical agencies and consult with the OIRA desk officers for the other agencies.
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104 FIGURE B-1 Organization of principal federal statistical agencies and programs, by department, 2013. See text for discussion.
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APPENDIX B 105 FIGURE B-2 Members of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy: Organizational location and relevant congressional appropriations subcommittee based on subcommittee jurisdictions in the 113th Congress.
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establishes statistical policies and standards, identifies priorities for improving programs, evaluates statistical programs for compliance with OMB guidance, reviews statistical agency budgets, approves information collections for many of the principal statistical agencies, provides guidance to OIRA desk officers who review statistical information requests from other federal agencies, and coordinates U.S. participation in international statistical activities.
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, which is headed by the Under Secretary for Economic A ffairs. The BEA director is a career senior executive service appointee, and the agency has a full-time staff of about 485 people and direct funding in fiscal 2012 of $92.2 million.
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BJS publishes annual statistics on criminal victimization, populations under correctional supervision, law enforcement management and administration, and case processing in the state and federal courts. Its periodic data series cover the administration of law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities, prosecutorial practices and policies, state court case processing, felony convictions, criminal justice expenditure and employment, civil case processing in state courts, and special studies on other criminal justice topics.
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It is responsible for the production of some of the nation's most sensitive and important economic data, including unemployment statistics and consumer and producer price indexes, which are closely watched by the public, Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, business, and labor. The BLS commissioner is a presidential appointee, subject to Senate confirmation, for a fixed term of 4 years; the agency has a full-time staff of about 2,050 people and direct funding in fiscal 2012 of $609 million.
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RITA also includes the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office; the Office of Research, Development, and Technology; the Transportation Safety Institute; and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. BTS's director is a career senior executive service appointee who reports to the head of RITA.
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The director of the Census Bureau is appointed by the President with Senate confirmation for a fixed 5-year term (that can be renewed once) to begin in years ending in 2 and 7.5 The bureau has about 6,840 full-time staff, excluding staff hired for the decennial census, and direct funding in fiscal 2012 of $964.8 million including $446.1 million for the decennial census.
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. The administrator of ERS is a career senior executive service appointee; the agency has a full-time staff of about 355 and fiscal 2012 direct funding of $77.7 million.
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. The administrator of NASS is a career senior executive service appointee; NASS has about 1,200 full-time staff and direct funding of $158.6 million in fiscal 2012.
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NASS collaborates with state departments of agriculture and land-grant universities to meet state, local, and national needs for agricultural statistics. Through cooperative agreements going back as far as 1917 and memoranda of understanding, NASS also provides data collection and statistical services to other federal agencies and provides statistics to the public through trust fund agreements with private producer organizations when federal funding is inadequate.
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However, only 2 years later the department was abolished and the renamed Office of Education was transferred to the Department of the Interior, where it remained through 1939. The Office of Education was part of the newly created Federal Security Agency from 1939 to 1953, when it was made part of the newly created Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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. The NCHS director is a career senior executive service appointee; NCHS has a full-time staff of about 470 people and direct funding of $139 million in fiscal 2012.
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. Its director is a career senior executive service appointee; it has a full-time staff of about 45 people and direct funding in fiscal 2012 of $44 million.
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The director is a career senior executive service appointee and leads a full-time staff of approximately 150 employees with direct funding of $38.6 million in fiscal 2012. SOI's history traces back to the enactment of authority to levy indi vidual income taxes in the 16th amendment to the U.S.
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Selected tax return data are also available, under strict confidentiality protection provisions, for use by the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service in structuring censuses and national economic accounts and conducting related statistical activities authorized by law. (See discussion in Appendix A of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act.)
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Households are in a MEPS panel for five rounds of interviewing that cover 2 years, so that patterns of medical care and expenditures can be observed over time; a new household panel begins every year. Data for the MEPS household and medical provider surveys are collected by private contractors; the household survey sample of about 14,000 households per year is drawn from the NCHS National Health Interview Survey.
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For the general estimates component, which covers a larger sample of crashes, only basic information is recorded from the police accident reports. The NASS infrastructure is also used for special studies and surveys, such as the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey, conducted in 2005–2007,
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, which is part of the National Institutes of Health of HHS. It is the nation's primary data system for collecting data on the incidence and prevalence of substance abuse and adverse health consequences associated with drug abuse from the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States for people aged 12 and older.
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It is conducted by the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan with funding from a consortium of agencies. Originally, PSID was funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity; currently, the study's major funding source is the National Science Foundation, with substantial additional funding from the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of HHS, the Economic Research Service of USDA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Labor, and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis.
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124 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES FOR A FEDERAL STATISTICAL AGENCY i nternational comparisons with panel data from other countries; neighborhood effects on family well-being (using data files augmented with censusbased characteristics of sample members' communities) ; and long-term trends in marital and fertility histories and living arrangements.
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