US Census Bureaursquos Budget Estimates As Presented to Congress April 2013

Fiscal Year 2014

Exhibit 1 Department of Commerce

US Census Bureau BUDGET ESTIMATES FISCAL YEAR 2014

CONGRESSIONAL SUBMISSION

Table of Contents

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2 Organization Chart CEN-1 3 Executive Summary CEN-3 3A Annual Performance Plan CEN-11 Salaries and Expenses 5 Summary of resource requirements (Discretionary) CEN-31 5 Summary of resource requirements (Mandatory) CEN-32 7 Summary of financing CEN-33 9 Justification of adjustments to base CEN-34 Current surveys and statistics 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-38 12-15 Program Justification CEN-41 Survey of program dynamics 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-76 12-15 Program Justification CEN-77 State childrenrsquos health insurance program 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-78 12-15 Program Justification CEN-79 16 Summary of requirements by object class (Discretionary) CEN-81 16 Summary of requirements by object class (Mandatory) CEN-83 33 Appropriations Language and Code Citations CEN-85 Periodic Censuses and Programs 5 Summary of resource requirements CEN-87 7 Summary of financing CEN-89 9 Justification of adjustments to base CEN-90 Economic statistics programs 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-94 12-15 Program Justification CEN-96 Demographic statistics programs 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-116 12-15 Program Justification CEN-119

Exhibit Page Number Exhibit Number Demographic surveys sample redesign 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-147 12-15 Program Justification CEN-148 Geographic support 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-153 12-15 Program Justification CEN-154 Data processing systems 10 Program and Performance direct obligations CEN-161 12-15 Program Justification CEN-162 16 Summary of requirements by object class CEN-163 33 Appropriations Language and Code Citations CEN-165 Working Capital Fund 5 Summary of resource requirements CEN-167 7A Summary of financing ndash Reimbursable CEN-169 7B Summary of financing ndash Appropriated CEN-170 12-15 Program Justification CEN-171 Bureau Exhibits 34 Consulting and related services CEN-173 35 Periodicals pamphlets and audiovisual products CEN-174 36 Average grade and salary CEN-175

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Exhibit 3

US Census Bureau Executive Summary

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget request reflects the resources needed for the US Census Bureau to support the Department of Commercersquos Science and Information general goal 14 ldquoEnable informed decision-making t hrough an expanded understanding of the US economy society and environment by providing timely relevant trusted and accurate data standards and servicesrdquo The Census Bureau serves as the leading s ource of quality data about the nations people and economy We honor privacy protect confidentiality share our expertise globally and conduct our work openly We are guided on this mission by scientific objectivity our strong and capable workforce our devotion to research-based innovation and our abiding commitment to our customers Budget and Financial Management Discretionary Domestic Spending The Census Bureau requests appropriations for domestic discretionary spending totaling $9825 million Mandatory Domestic Spending The Census Bureau expects to receive a total $300 million in mandatory domestic spending in FY 2014 for the State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program and the Survey of Program Dynamics Reimbursable Program Funding The Census Bureau anticipates that it will receive $2687 million in reimbursable funding from other Federal and non-Federal organizations to perform work for those entities FY 2014 Program Changes The requested funding r eflects the resources needed to implement program enhancements and cyclical changes in operational requirements between FY 2013 and FY 2014 for the Economic Studies Program the Current Population Survey the Survey of Income and Program Participation the Economic Census and the Census of Governments the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census and Geographic Support bull Expanding Research Opportunities Related to Federal Programs (Base Funding ( Economic Studies)

69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 15 FTE and $35 million) This increase will be used to enhance the Census Bureaus Research Data Center Network to support the evaluation of federal government programs The project will acquire and improve new program data and provide infrastructural support for related research

bull Improving Analyses of Federal Programs through Better Measures of Outcomes (Base Funding (Economic Studies) 69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 2 FTE and $03 million) The increase will be used to analyze federal programs designed to assist US businesses using rigorous statistical and econometric methods and microdata from the Census Bureau combined with data from other agencies

bull Current Population Survey(CPS) (Base Funding 129 FTE and $111 million Program Change 37

FTE and $50 million) The Census Bureau proposes an increase of $50 million to support the

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development of a supplemental statistical poverty measure from the Current Population Survey to complement the current official measure

bull Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (Base Funding 453 FTE and $507 million Program Change -106 FTE and -$77 million) The Census Bureau request includes a planned reduction of $2 million to reflect completion of the FY 2013 Event History Calendar field test as part of the SIPP improvements initiated in FY 2008 as well as a $5 million reduction to administrative savings based on the re-designed SIPP being in the field in FY 2014 and the reduction of headquarters staffing related to household s urveys This program change includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Economic Census (Base Funding 961 FTE and $1387 million Program Change -284 FTE and -$209 million) The Census Bureau conducts the economic census every five years It is integral to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and industry inputs and outputs It provides decision-makers with comprehensive detailed and authoritative facts about the structure and functioning of the US economy It is the foundation of the Nationrsquos economic statistics programs providing c ore information on virtually all non-farm businesses and related data on business expenditures commodity flows minority and women-owned businesses and other topics Fiscal Year 2014 is the fifth year of the six-year 2012 Economic Census funding cycle The focus of activity for FY 2014 is completing data collection industry analytical review and review and publication of the advance report and 70 of the industry reports Data collection and review will continue for the Survey of Business Owners This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $23 million for administrative savings

bull Census of Governments (Base Funding 74 FTE and $115 million Program Change -5 FTE and -$17 million) The Census Bureau conducts a census of governments every five years Like the Economic Census it is integral to BEArsquos estimates of GDP It is the only source of comprehensive and uniformly classified data on the economic activities of more than 90000 state and local governments which account for about 12 percent of GDP and nearly 16 percent of the US workforce Fiscal Year 2014 is the final year in the five-year cycle of the 2012 Census of Governments Activities are focused on completing data processing developing data products and disseminating information from the census This program change includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull 2010 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 291 FTE and $555 million Program Change -291 FTE and -$555 million) This program change reflects the completion of the 2010 Census The base funding for the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull 2020 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 3265 FTE and $3323 million Program Change 382 FTE and $1542 million) Fiscal Year 2014 is the third year of funding for the three-year Research and Testing phase of the 2020 Census The FY 2014 budget request expands and supports the research and testing phase for the 2020 Decennial Census Program The focus of FY 2014 activities will be to support the research and testing infrastructure allowing us to effectively test (1) new enumeration methods (2) new processes to support field operations (3) more cost-effective IT systems and (4) address and spatial frame-related methods needed for the 2020 Census to supplement research being carried out in the geographic support program By the end of FY 2014 key preliminary design decision(s) for the 2020 Census will be made in preparation for acquisitions and systems development beginning in FY 2015 Additionally focus will be on continued implementation of program management and systems engineering activities to ensure effective management and technicaloperational cohesion of research and testing projects Consequently the research and testing agenda (supported by strong program and risk management

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and systems engineering) addresses the major cost and quality drivers in the census critical to achieving the strategic vision and goals This program change includes a decrease of 6 FTE and $47 million for administrative savings Additionally the funding f or the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull Geographic Support (Base Funding 402 FTE and $662 million Program Change -72 FTE and -$106 million) The Census Bureau requests a decrease that limits two major geographic partnership programs the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) and the evaluation of partner supplied files as part of the Geographic Support System This FY 2014 budget request is the result of a review of both ongoing and cyclical programs necessary to achieve the Department of Commerce and Census Bureau goals Difficult choices were made in balancing program needs and fiscal constraints in order to fund higher priority programs This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $06 million for administrative savings

Administrative Savings The Administration continues to pursue an aggressive government-wide effort to curb non-essential administrative spending c alled the Administrative Efficiency Initiative In or der to be good stewards of taxpayer money the Federal Government should continue to seek ways to improve the efficiency of programs without reducing their effectiveness Since FY 2012 the Census Bureau has contributed to this effort realizing nearly $25 million in administrative savings in FY 2012 and FY 2013 The FY 2014 Presidentrsquos Budget continues these efforts The Census Bureau will pursue cost savings related to Information Technology spending and the budget contains $96 million in budget reductions reflecting these plans In addition the Census Bureau continues to pursue reductions in travel spending In FY 2014 the Census Bureau plans to reduce travel spending by an additional $16 million These savings combined with the $25 million in savings previously realized will bring the Census Bureaursquos total administrative savings to $359 million Realignment of Base Information Technology (IT) Resources to Improve Operational Efficiency Reduce Costs and Strengthen Mission Capabilities The Census Bureau is committed to improving operational efficiency reducing c osts and strengthening mission capabilities by implementing enterprise shared services and enterprise processing solutions for our diverse survey and census programs This commitment has its foundation in an IT strategy that aligns with is consistent with and supports OMB directives The Census Bureau is breaking t he paradigm of developing expensive customized processing systems solutions and technologies for each of our major programs The Census Bureau has been incrementally developing enterprise solutions that can support current economic and demographic surveys reimbursable surveys the American Community Survey the 2017 Economic Census and be scalable for use in the 2020 Census The development and implementation of flexible adaptive survey designs and the related processing infrastructure i s a multi-year process but one that promises major payoffs later in the decade Central to these efforts the Census Bureau has been working on the creation and execution of an IT Infrastructure Roadmap that guides the ldquoAs Isrdquo and ldquoTo Berdquo Enterprise Architecture (EA) The Census Bureau is creating shared and reusable IT services that are foundational to the business and technical

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architecture and infrastructure needed to support all of our surveys and censuses including t he 2020 Census and the 2017 Economic Census The Census Bureaursquos shared services or enabling platforms include enterprise solutions for internet data collection data capture and survey collection and processing In addition we are researching capabilities and requirements associated with a Mobile Computing Infrastructure that can support the use of multiple mobile devices for use by enumerators in collecting information from households and institutions These efforts have realized or are estimated to achieve $81 million in cost avoidance savings and efficiencies from FY 2011 through FY 2014 - costs that otherwise would be reflected in our IT budget requests In addition to the overall cost reductions described in the section on Administrative Savings above In FY 2014 the Census Bureau is realigning $371 million in existing IT resources from across the Census Bureaursquos programs to several enterprise-wide efforts that will allow it to maintain the momentum built over the last few years including bull Shared IT Services ($73 million) Reinvestment of these funds will support and expand enterprise

shared services currently used across the Census Bureau in the areas of Virtual Desktop Integration in support of the Governmentrsquos efforts to enhance telework opportunities SharePoint for collaboration and content management SAS and Data Management

bull Cloud Computing ($111 million) This reinvestment would support continued infrastructure

consolidation and virtualization infrastructure utilization and capacity management hybrid cloud development and integration and end user self-provisioning of infrastructure platforms and hardware

bull Mobile Computing ($98 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise mobile application

and web development and testing mobile enterprise architecture mobile device management ldquobring your ownrdquo device and execution of the Governmentrsquos digital strategy

bull Data Management and Internet Data Collection ($38 million) Reinvestment will occur in enterprise

solutions for data collection enterprise storage and data backup data acquisition data analytics and data access and dissemination

bull Security ($20 million) These funds would support the IT Security and Risk Management Framework and automation of required security controls The Return on Investment (ROI) of the Census Bureaursquos Risk Management Program is focused on m aking the security assessment and accreditation of systems more efficient saving program area resouces by performing design time analysis of new systems to ensure security requirements are met up front Moving this activity to the beginning of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) can reduce program area costs for this remediation of security findings by a factor of 30 The development of automated security content to assess compliance with secure configuration settings and security controls requirements will reduce the overall cost of performing manual security assessments and continuous monitoring by over 20 percent

bull Enterprise Architecture and Innovation ($31 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise architecture to assist program areas with development of service oriented architecture and in the Census Bureaursquos Center for Applied Technology to support program areas in needed research prototyping and evaluation of new technologies

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Other Program Highlights The Census Bureau programs described below provide important data about the Nationrsquos population and economy on an ongoing basis Wherever possible the Census Bureau seeks to improve the functioning of these programs within existing f unds

bull Business Statistics (329 FTE and $426 million) The business statistics programs measure the economic activity of the distribution and service trade sectors in the United States The data provide principal economic performance indicators including m onthly and annual data for the retail and wholesale sectors and quarterly and annual data for the fast growing service sector of the national economy These sectors account for nearly 70 percent of US economic activity Together the business statistics programs provide the primary source of up-to-date facts on the structure and functioning of the distributive trades and service sectors of the economy and provide timely updates to data collected in the economic census The principal economic indicator series are closely followed and widely used by policymakers in the public and private sectors and move financial markets The data in conjunction with other economic data collected by the Census Bureau are vital to effective economic policy decisions by business and government The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $91 thousand for administrative savings

bull Construction Statistics (115 FTE and $128 million) The construction statistics programs provide national performance indicators for the construction sector of the economy The programs cover activities such as residential building permit authorizations housing starts characteristics and prices of new housing and value of construction put in place The data are vital to understanding the economic and social aspects of construction activity in the US are pertinent to the national economic and social needs of the US population and provide a basis for effective policy making at all levels of government and in the private sector The programs supplement the data collected in the economic census Since construction activities are particularly sensitive to the level of interest rates these data are an important indicator of how changes in interest rates are affecting the economy The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull Manufacturing Statistics (157 FTE and $209 million) The manufacturing statistics programs measure the overall performance of the US manufacturing sector and the investment behavior of all US businesses The data provide key national performance indicators for the sector of the economy that provides 12 percent of the Nationrsquos employment The m anufacturing sector also supplies the export markets which have become increasingly important to the overall health of our Nationrsquos economy These programs which supplement data collected in the economic census provide the monthly quarterly and annual data that are vital to policymakers in both the public and private sectors for analysis of the business cycle and domestic production They provide key information on major labor capital and manufacturing material inputs and outputs as well as capital investment by US businesses and data on industrial research and development manufacturing capacity utilization and energy use The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $51 thousand for administrative savings

bull General Economic Statistics (327 FTE and $595 million) (amount includes program changes described above) The general economic statistics programs provide information that is essential to understanding t he changing economic structure of the United States In addition the Business Register and parallel classification activities also provide the infrastructure for the current and periodic economic programs that produce national statistical profiles of all sectors of the economy In addition to the program changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull Foreign Trade S tatistics (200 FTE and $348 million) The foreign trade statistics programs provide official monthly statistics on imports exports and balance of trade for all types of merchandise moving between the United States and its international trading partners The trade statistics are a principal economic indicator for the United States and are released within 40 to 45 days after the reference month The Census Bureau is the primary source of this comprehensive monthly data that provide national performance indicators vital to understanding our economy as well as our economic relationship with the rest of the world The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $73 thousand for administrative savings

bull Government Statistics (85 FTE and $120 million) The government statistics programs provide current statistical information on revenues expenditures debt and financial assets for more than 90000 state and local governments The programs provide data in the areas of public employment and payroll as well as Federal government programmatic expenditures on a geographic basis The data are vital to measuring the government sector of the national economy understanding the flow of public funds throughout the country and for administering public programs The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $26 thousand for administrative savings

bull Household Surveys (528 FTE and $616 million ndash amount includes program changes for CPS and SIPP described earlier) The household surveys program includes the full array of operations and services associated with large scale data collection including preparation of the sample and survey materials collection of the data by field representatives data processing and estimation production and quality control of monthly quarterly and annual data products and data dissemination of tabulations and public-use micro-data via the Internet and other media In addition to the pr ogram changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $08 million for administrative savings

bull Population and Housing A nalyses (61 FTE and $91 million) The population and housing analyses program uses a variety of approaches to create value-added information for policy makers and program managers refining t he statistical data collected in surveys into insightful and useful information This program increases the knowledge base with varied sources of information adds context and perspective to survey data and maintains the statistical infrastructure through compilation of records and development and maintenance of standards The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

bull Survey Development and Data Services (16 FTE and $26 million) The survey development and data services program funds research into survey design and estimation time series analysis error reduction privacy protection and special experimental and evaluation studies These activities continually improve the Census Bureaursquos surveys and censuses The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $6 thousand for administrative savings

bull Intercensal Demographic Estimates (62 FTE and $99 million) The intercensal demographic

estimates program assists elected officials and government program managers in allocating hundreds of billions of dollars each year by giving t hem updated estimates of the United States population for the country states counties cities and townships Through this legislatively required program policymakers and program managers are able to better understand their populationrsquos size as well as its basic characteristics like age sex race and Hispanic origin and estimates of the number of housing units in the years between the decennial censuses Since the United States population grows and changes between decennial censuses ndash and governments base many of their funding decisions on the size and basic characteristics of the population ndash effective and efficient government requires these updated estimates The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull American Community Survey (2785 FTE and $2418 million - amount included in 2020 Decennial Census Program amount shown earlier) The American Community Survey (ACS) sent monthly to a small percentage of the population collects detailed information on the characteristics of population and housing on an ongoing basis These data previously were collected only in census years in conjunction with the decennial census After years of development and testing the Census Bureau implemented the ACS nationwide in 2005 The ACS allows Federal agencies state governments tribal officials and local customers to make decisions based on current information rather than on data collected nine or more years ago The Census Bureau will continue to refine the process and ensure that it is in place to produce tract-level data (in general areas with populations between 1500 and 8000) similar to the Census 2000 long-form (detailed characteristics) data in conjunction with the 2010 Census short-form (basic characteristics) data The Census Bureau releases the estimates from the ACS Program each year based on the previous yearrsquos data collection The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 4 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign (56 FTE and $96 million) The objective of the

Demographic surveys sample redesign program is to with the existence of a continually updated Master Address File (MAF) and the continued availability of ACS data take advantage of an opportunity to reduce future survey costs by improving our approach to designing and selecting samples for the major national household surveys The Census Bureaus plan is to implement future redesign samples based on the availability of MAF and ACS information After the next coordinated sample redesign the Census Bureau will allow sponsoring agencies the option to redesign survey samples at any time during the decade not just once every ten years after the Decennial Census The major goal of the Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign Program is to minimize total survey costs for the desired level of reliability The FY 20 14 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $03 million for administrative savings

bull Data processing systems (0 FTE and $371 million) The data processing systems activity funds

information technology services supporting Census Bureau enterprise needs Economies of scale are achieved through centralized information technology contracts and services in accordance with Department of Commerce guidelines and a comprehensive Information Technology Plan This saves taxpayers money while helping the Census Bureau to accomplish its mission

Mandatory Demographic Programs The following mandatory funding f or demographic programs is anticipated in FY 2014 bull Survey of Program Dynamics (32 FTE and $100 million)

This program provides socioeconomic data and information which can be used by Federal and state public policymakers to evaluate the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 that established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

bull State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program (131 FTE and $200 million) This program provides statistically reliable annual data for each state on the number of low-income children who do not have health insurance coverage These data are used to allocate funds to states

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SUMMARY OF RESOURCES The following summa ry provides a comparison between the FY 2013 Continuin g Resolution (Annualized) and

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FY 2013

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Expenses 1873 $254887 1818 $256048 (55) 1161

Periodic Censuses amp Programs 4659 $655223 4841 $726436 182 $71213

Total Discretionary

Budget Authority 6532 $910110 6659 $982484 127 $72374

Mandatory Appropriations 163 $30000 163 $30000 0 0

Total Budget

Authority 6695 $940110 6822 $1012484 127 $72374 Working Capital

Fund1 3412 $334042 2866 $268693 (546) ($65349) Total Available 10107 $1274152 9688 $1281177 (419) $7025 1Reflects estimated le vel of reimbursable work for Census Bureau services to ot her government agencies and

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Reimbursable Programs

The Census Bureau also conducts work on a reimbursable funding basis for other Federal agencies such as the collection of labor force and consumer expenditure data for the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on experience of crime for the Department of Justice education data for the Department of Education health measures for the Department of Health and Human Services and housing data for the Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Table of Contents

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US Census Bureau Executive Summary

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget request reflects the resources needed for the US Census Bureau to support the Department of Commercersquos Science and Information general goal 14 ldquoEnable informed decision-making t hrough an expanded understanding of the US economy society and environment by providing timely relevant trusted and accurate data standards and servicesrdquo The Census Bureau serves as the leading s ource of quality data about the nations people and economy We honor privacy protect confidentiality share our expertise globally and conduct our work openly We are guided on this mission by scientific objectivity our strong and capable workforce our devotion to research-based innovation and our abiding commitment to our customers Budget and Financial Management Discretionary Domestic Spending The Census Bureau requests appropriations for domestic discretionary spending totaling $9825 million Mandatory Domestic Spending The Census Bureau expects to receive a total $300 million in mandatory domestic spending in FY 2014 for the State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program and the Survey of Program Dynamics Reimbursable Program Funding The Census Bureau anticipates that it will receive $2687 million in reimbursable funding from other Federal and non-Federal organizations to perform work for those entities FY 2014 Program Changes The requested funding r eflects the resources needed to implement program enhancements and cyclical changes in operational requirements between FY 2013 and FY 2014 for the Economic Studies Program the Current Population Survey the Survey of Income and Program Participation the Economic Census and the Census of Governments the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census and Geographic Support bull Expanding Research Opportunities Related to Federal Programs (Base Funding ( Economic Studies)

69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 15 FTE and $35 million) This increase will be used to enhance the Census Bureaus Research Data Center Network to support the evaluation of federal government programs The project will acquire and improve new program data and provide infrastructural support for related research

bull Improving Analyses of Federal Programs through Better Measures of Outcomes (Base Funding (Economic Studies) 69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 2 FTE and $03 million) The increase will be used to analyze federal programs designed to assist US businesses using rigorous statistical and econometric methods and microdata from the Census Bureau combined with data from other agencies

bull Current Population Survey(CPS) (Base Funding 129 FTE and $111 million Program Change 37

FTE and $50 million) The Census Bureau proposes an increase of $50 million to support the

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development of a supplemental statistical poverty measure from the Current Population Survey to complement the current official measure

bull Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (Base Funding 453 FTE and $507 million Program Change -106 FTE and -$77 million) The Census Bureau request includes a planned reduction of $2 million to reflect completion of the FY 2013 Event History Calendar field test as part of the SIPP improvements initiated in FY 2008 as well as a $5 million reduction to administrative savings based on the re-designed SIPP being in the field in FY 2014 and the reduction of headquarters staffing related to household s urveys This program change includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Economic Census (Base Funding 961 FTE and $1387 million Program Change -284 FTE and -$209 million) The Census Bureau conducts the economic census every five years It is integral to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and industry inputs and outputs It provides decision-makers with comprehensive detailed and authoritative facts about the structure and functioning of the US economy It is the foundation of the Nationrsquos economic statistics programs providing c ore information on virtually all non-farm businesses and related data on business expenditures commodity flows minority and women-owned businesses and other topics Fiscal Year 2014 is the fifth year of the six-year 2012 Economic Census funding cycle The focus of activity for FY 2014 is completing data collection industry analytical review and review and publication of the advance report and 70 of the industry reports Data collection and review will continue for the Survey of Business Owners This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $23 million for administrative savings

bull Census of Governments (Base Funding 74 FTE and $115 million Program Change -5 FTE and -$17 million) The Census Bureau conducts a census of governments every five years Like the Economic Census it is integral to BEArsquos estimates of GDP It is the only source of comprehensive and uniformly classified data on the economic activities of more than 90000 state and local governments which account for about 12 percent of GDP and nearly 16 percent of the US workforce Fiscal Year 2014 is the final year in the five-year cycle of the 2012 Census of Governments Activities are focused on completing data processing developing data products and disseminating information from the census This program change includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull 2010 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 291 FTE and $555 million Program Change -291 FTE and -$555 million) This program change reflects the completion of the 2010 Census The base funding for the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull 2020 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 3265 FTE and $3323 million Program Change 382 FTE and $1542 million) Fiscal Year 2014 is the third year of funding for the three-year Research and Testing phase of the 2020 Census The FY 2014 budget request expands and supports the research and testing phase for the 2020 Decennial Census Program The focus of FY 2014 activities will be to support the research and testing infrastructure allowing us to effectively test (1) new enumeration methods (2) new processes to support field operations (3) more cost-effective IT systems and (4) address and spatial frame-related methods needed for the 2020 Census to supplement research being carried out in the geographic support program By the end of FY 2014 key preliminary design decision(s) for the 2020 Census will be made in preparation for acquisitions and systems development beginning in FY 2015 Additionally focus will be on continued implementation of program management and systems engineering activities to ensure effective management and technicaloperational cohesion of research and testing projects Consequently the research and testing agenda (supported by strong program and risk management

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and systems engineering) addresses the major cost and quality drivers in the census critical to achieving the strategic vision and goals This program change includes a decrease of 6 FTE and $47 million for administrative savings Additionally the funding f or the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull Geographic Support (Base Funding 402 FTE and $662 million Program Change -72 FTE and -$106 million) The Census Bureau requests a decrease that limits two major geographic partnership programs the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) and the evaluation of partner supplied files as part of the Geographic Support System This FY 2014 budget request is the result of a review of both ongoing and cyclical programs necessary to achieve the Department of Commerce and Census Bureau goals Difficult choices were made in balancing program needs and fiscal constraints in order to fund higher priority programs This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $06 million for administrative savings

Administrative Savings The Administration continues to pursue an aggressive government-wide effort to curb non-essential administrative spending c alled the Administrative Efficiency Initiative In or der to be good stewards of taxpayer money the Federal Government should continue to seek ways to improve the efficiency of programs without reducing their effectiveness Since FY 2012 the Census Bureau has contributed to this effort realizing nearly $25 million in administrative savings in FY 2012 and FY 2013 The FY 2014 Presidentrsquos Budget continues these efforts The Census Bureau will pursue cost savings related to Information Technology spending and the budget contains $96 million in budget reductions reflecting these plans In addition the Census Bureau continues to pursue reductions in travel spending In FY 2014 the Census Bureau plans to reduce travel spending by an additional $16 million These savings combined with the $25 million in savings previously realized will bring the Census Bureaursquos total administrative savings to $359 million Realignment of Base Information Technology (IT) Resources to Improve Operational Efficiency Reduce Costs and Strengthen Mission Capabilities The Census Bureau is committed to improving operational efficiency reducing c osts and strengthening mission capabilities by implementing enterprise shared services and enterprise processing solutions for our diverse survey and census programs This commitment has its foundation in an IT strategy that aligns with is consistent with and supports OMB directives The Census Bureau is breaking t he paradigm of developing expensive customized processing systems solutions and technologies for each of our major programs The Census Bureau has been incrementally developing enterprise solutions that can support current economic and demographic surveys reimbursable surveys the American Community Survey the 2017 Economic Census and be scalable for use in the 2020 Census The development and implementation of flexible adaptive survey designs and the related processing infrastructure i s a multi-year process but one that promises major payoffs later in the decade Central to these efforts the Census Bureau has been working on the creation and execution of an IT Infrastructure Roadmap that guides the ldquoAs Isrdquo and ldquoTo Berdquo Enterprise Architecture (EA) The Census Bureau is creating shared and reusable IT services that are foundational to the business and technical

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architecture and infrastructure needed to support all of our surveys and censuses including t he 2020 Census and the 2017 Economic Census The Census Bureaursquos shared services or enabling platforms include enterprise solutions for internet data collection data capture and survey collection and processing In addition we are researching capabilities and requirements associated with a Mobile Computing Infrastructure that can support the use of multiple mobile devices for use by enumerators in collecting information from households and institutions These efforts have realized or are estimated to achieve $81 million in cost avoidance savings and efficiencies from FY 2011 through FY 2014 - costs that otherwise would be reflected in our IT budget requests In addition to the overall cost reductions described in the section on Administrative Savings above In FY 2014 the Census Bureau is realigning $371 million in existing IT resources from across the Census Bureaursquos programs to several enterprise-wide efforts that will allow it to maintain the momentum built over the last few years including bull Shared IT Services ($73 million) Reinvestment of these funds will support and expand enterprise

shared services currently used across the Census Bureau in the areas of Virtual Desktop Integration in support of the Governmentrsquos efforts to enhance telework opportunities SharePoint for collaboration and content management SAS and Data Management

bull Cloud Computing ($111 million) This reinvestment would support continued infrastructure

consolidation and virtualization infrastructure utilization and capacity management hybrid cloud development and integration and end user self-provisioning of infrastructure platforms and hardware

bull Mobile Computing ($98 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise mobile application

and web development and testing mobile enterprise architecture mobile device management ldquobring your ownrdquo device and execution of the Governmentrsquos digital strategy

bull Data Management and Internet Data Collection ($38 million) Reinvestment will occur in enterprise

solutions for data collection enterprise storage and data backup data acquisition data analytics and data access and dissemination

bull Security ($20 million) These funds would support the IT Security and Risk Management Framework and automation of required security controls The Return on Investment (ROI) of the Census Bureaursquos Risk Management Program is focused on m aking the security assessment and accreditation of systems more efficient saving program area resouces by performing design time analysis of new systems to ensure security requirements are met up front Moving this activity to the beginning of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) can reduce program area costs for this remediation of security findings by a factor of 30 The development of automated security content to assess compliance with secure configuration settings and security controls requirements will reduce the overall cost of performing manual security assessments and continuous monitoring by over 20 percent

bull Enterprise Architecture and Innovation ($31 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise architecture to assist program areas with development of service oriented architecture and in the Census Bureaursquos Center for Applied Technology to support program areas in needed research prototyping and evaluation of new technologies

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Other Program Highlights The Census Bureau programs described below provide important data about the Nationrsquos population and economy on an ongoing basis Wherever possible the Census Bureau seeks to improve the functioning of these programs within existing f unds

bull Business Statistics (329 FTE and $426 million) The business statistics programs measure the economic activity of the distribution and service trade sectors in the United States The data provide principal economic performance indicators including m onthly and annual data for the retail and wholesale sectors and quarterly and annual data for the fast growing service sector of the national economy These sectors account for nearly 70 percent of US economic activity Together the business statistics programs provide the primary source of up-to-date facts on the structure and functioning of the distributive trades and service sectors of the economy and provide timely updates to data collected in the economic census The principal economic indicator series are closely followed and widely used by policymakers in the public and private sectors and move financial markets The data in conjunction with other economic data collected by the Census Bureau are vital to effective economic policy decisions by business and government The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $91 thousand for administrative savings

bull Construction Statistics (115 FTE and $128 million) The construction statistics programs provide national performance indicators for the construction sector of the economy The programs cover activities such as residential building permit authorizations housing starts characteristics and prices of new housing and value of construction put in place The data are vital to understanding the economic and social aspects of construction activity in the US are pertinent to the national economic and social needs of the US population and provide a basis for effective policy making at all levels of government and in the private sector The programs supplement the data collected in the economic census Since construction activities are particularly sensitive to the level of interest rates these data are an important indicator of how changes in interest rates are affecting the economy The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull Manufacturing Statistics (157 FTE and $209 million) The manufacturing statistics programs measure the overall performance of the US manufacturing sector and the investment behavior of all US businesses The data provide key national performance indicators for the sector of the economy that provides 12 percent of the Nationrsquos employment The m anufacturing sector also supplies the export markets which have become increasingly important to the overall health of our Nationrsquos economy These programs which supplement data collected in the economic census provide the monthly quarterly and annual data that are vital to policymakers in both the public and private sectors for analysis of the business cycle and domestic production They provide key information on major labor capital and manufacturing material inputs and outputs as well as capital investment by US businesses and data on industrial research and development manufacturing capacity utilization and energy use The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $51 thousand for administrative savings

bull General Economic Statistics (327 FTE and $595 million) (amount includes program changes described above) The general economic statistics programs provide information that is essential to understanding t he changing economic structure of the United States In addition the Business Register and parallel classification activities also provide the infrastructure for the current and periodic economic programs that produce national statistical profiles of all sectors of the economy In addition to the program changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull Foreign Trade S tatistics (200 FTE and $348 million) The foreign trade statistics programs provide official monthly statistics on imports exports and balance of trade for all types of merchandise moving between the United States and its international trading partners The trade statistics are a principal economic indicator for the United States and are released within 40 to 45 days after the reference month The Census Bureau is the primary source of this comprehensive monthly data that provide national performance indicators vital to understanding our economy as well as our economic relationship with the rest of the world The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $73 thousand for administrative savings

bull Government Statistics (85 FTE and $120 million) The government statistics programs provide current statistical information on revenues expenditures debt and financial assets for more than 90000 state and local governments The programs provide data in the areas of public employment and payroll as well as Federal government programmatic expenditures on a geographic basis The data are vital to measuring the government sector of the national economy understanding the flow of public funds throughout the country and for administering public programs The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $26 thousand for administrative savings

bull Household Surveys (528 FTE and $616 million ndash amount includes program changes for CPS and SIPP described earlier) The household surveys program includes the full array of operations and services associated with large scale data collection including preparation of the sample and survey materials collection of the data by field representatives data processing and estimation production and quality control of monthly quarterly and annual data products and data dissemination of tabulations and public-use micro-data via the Internet and other media In addition to the pr ogram changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $08 million for administrative savings

bull Population and Housing A nalyses (61 FTE and $91 million) The population and housing analyses program uses a variety of approaches to create value-added information for policy makers and program managers refining t he statistical data collected in surveys into insightful and useful information This program increases the knowledge base with varied sources of information adds context and perspective to survey data and maintains the statistical infrastructure through compilation of records and development and maintenance of standards The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

bull Survey Development and Data Services (16 FTE and $26 million) The survey development and data services program funds research into survey design and estimation time series analysis error reduction privacy protection and special experimental and evaluation studies These activities continually improve the Census Bureaursquos surveys and censuses The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $6 thousand for administrative savings

bull Intercensal Demographic Estimates (62 FTE and $99 million) The intercensal demographic

estimates program assists elected officials and government program managers in allocating hundreds of billions of dollars each year by giving t hem updated estimates of the United States population for the country states counties cities and townships Through this legislatively required program policymakers and program managers are able to better understand their populationrsquos size as well as its basic characteristics like age sex race and Hispanic origin and estimates of the number of housing units in the years between the decennial censuses Since the United States population grows and changes between decennial censuses ndash and governments base many of their funding decisions on the size and basic characteristics of the population ndash effective and efficient government requires these updated estimates The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull American Community Survey (2785 FTE and $2418 million - amount included in 2020 Decennial Census Program amount shown earlier) The American Community Survey (ACS) sent monthly to a small percentage of the population collects detailed information on the characteristics of population and housing on an ongoing basis These data previously were collected only in census years in conjunction with the decennial census After years of development and testing the Census Bureau implemented the ACS nationwide in 2005 The ACS allows Federal agencies state governments tribal officials and local customers to make decisions based on current information rather than on data collected nine or more years ago The Census Bureau will continue to refine the process and ensure that it is in place to produce tract-level data (in general areas with populations between 1500 and 8000) similar to the Census 2000 long-form (detailed characteristics) data in conjunction with the 2010 Census short-form (basic characteristics) data The Census Bureau releases the estimates from the ACS Program each year based on the previous yearrsquos data collection The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 4 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign (56 FTE and $96 million) The objective of the

Demographic surveys sample redesign program is to with the existence of a continually updated Master Address File (MAF) and the continued availability of ACS data take advantage of an opportunity to reduce future survey costs by improving our approach to designing and selecting samples for the major national household surveys The Census Bureaus plan is to implement future redesign samples based on the availability of MAF and ACS information After the next coordinated sample redesign the Census Bureau will allow sponsoring agencies the option to redesign survey samples at any time during the decade not just once every ten years after the Decennial Census The major goal of the Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign Program is to minimize total survey costs for the desired level of reliability The FY 20 14 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $03 million for administrative savings

bull Data processing systems (0 FTE and $371 million) The data processing systems activity funds

information technology services supporting Census Bureau enterprise needs Economies of scale are achieved through centralized information technology contracts and services in accordance with Department of Commerce guidelines and a comprehensive Information Technology Plan This saves taxpayers money while helping the Census Bureau to accomplish its mission

Mandatory Demographic Programs The following mandatory funding f or demographic programs is anticipated in FY 2014 bull Survey of Program Dynamics (32 FTE and $100 million)

This program provides socioeconomic data and information which can be used by Federal and state public policymakers to evaluate the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 that established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

bull State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program (131 FTE and $200 million) This program provides statistically reliable annual data for each state on the number of low-income children who do not have health insurance coverage These data are used to allocate funds to states

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SUMMARY OF RESOURCES The following summa ry provides a comparison between the FY 2013 Continuin g Resolution (Annualized) and

the FY 2014 Estimate (Budget Authority in Thousands)

FY 2013

Salaries amp

CR (Annualized) FY 2014 Estimate Difference FTE Amount FTE Amount FTE Amount

Expenses 1873 $254887 1818 $256048 (55) 1161

Periodic Censuses amp Programs 4659 $655223 4841 $726436 182 $71213

Total Discretionary

Budget Authority 6532 $910110 6659 $982484 127 $72374

Mandatory Appropriations 163 $30000 163 $30000 0 0

Total Budget

Authority 6695 $940110 6822 $1012484 127 $72374 Working Capital

Fund1 3412 $334042 2866 $268693 (546) ($65349) Total Available 10107 $1274152 9688 $1281177 (419) $7025 1Reflects estimated le vel of reimbursable work for Census Bureau services to ot her government agencies and

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Reimbursable Programs

The Census Bureau also conducts work on a reimbursable funding basis for other Federal agencies such as the collection of labor force and consumer expenditure data for the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on experience of crime for the Department of Justice education data for the Department of Education health measures for the Department of Health and Human Services and housing data for the Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Exhibit 3

US Census Bureau Executive Summary

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget request reflects the resources needed for the US Census Bureau to support the Department of Commercersquos Science and Information general goal 14 ldquoEnable informed decision-making t hrough an expanded understanding of the US economy society and environment by providing timely relevant trusted and accurate data standards and servicesrdquo The Census Bureau serves as the leading s ource of quality data about the nations people and economy We honor privacy protect confidentiality share our expertise globally and conduct our work openly We are guided on this mission by scientific objectivity our strong and capable workforce our devotion to research-based innovation and our abiding commitment to our customers Budget and Financial Management Discretionary Domestic Spending The Census Bureau requests appropriations for domestic discretionary spending totaling $9825 million Mandatory Domestic Spending The Census Bureau expects to receive a total $300 million in mandatory domestic spending in FY 2014 for the State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program and the Survey of Program Dynamics Reimbursable Program Funding The Census Bureau anticipates that it will receive $2687 million in reimbursable funding from other Federal and non-Federal organizations to perform work for those entities FY 2014 Program Changes The requested funding r eflects the resources needed to implement program enhancements and cyclical changes in operational requirements between FY 2013 and FY 2014 for the Economic Studies Program the Current Population Survey the Survey of Income and Program Participation the Economic Census and the Census of Governments the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census and Geographic Support bull Expanding Research Opportunities Related to Federal Programs (Base Funding ( Economic Studies)

69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 15 FTE and $35 million) This increase will be used to enhance the Census Bureaus Research Data Center Network to support the evaluation of federal government programs The project will acquire and improve new program data and provide infrastructural support for related research

bull Improving Analyses of Federal Programs through Better Measures of Outcomes (Base Funding (Economic Studies) 69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 2 FTE and $03 million) The increase will be used to analyze federal programs designed to assist US businesses using rigorous statistical and econometric methods and microdata from the Census Bureau combined with data from other agencies

bull Current Population Survey(CPS) (Base Funding 129 FTE and $111 million Program Change 37

FTE and $50 million) The Census Bureau proposes an increase of $50 million to support the

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development of a supplemental statistical poverty measure from the Current Population Survey to complement the current official measure

bull Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (Base Funding 453 FTE and $507 million Program Change -106 FTE and -$77 million) The Census Bureau request includes a planned reduction of $2 million to reflect completion of the FY 2013 Event History Calendar field test as part of the SIPP improvements initiated in FY 2008 as well as a $5 million reduction to administrative savings based on the re-designed SIPP being in the field in FY 2014 and the reduction of headquarters staffing related to household s urveys This program change includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Economic Census (Base Funding 961 FTE and $1387 million Program Change -284 FTE and -$209 million) The Census Bureau conducts the economic census every five years It is integral to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and industry inputs and outputs It provides decision-makers with comprehensive detailed and authoritative facts about the structure and functioning of the US economy It is the foundation of the Nationrsquos economic statistics programs providing c ore information on virtually all non-farm businesses and related data on business expenditures commodity flows minority and women-owned businesses and other topics Fiscal Year 2014 is the fifth year of the six-year 2012 Economic Census funding cycle The focus of activity for FY 2014 is completing data collection industry analytical review and review and publication of the advance report and 70 of the industry reports Data collection and review will continue for the Survey of Business Owners This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $23 million for administrative savings

bull Census of Governments (Base Funding 74 FTE and $115 million Program Change -5 FTE and -$17 million) The Census Bureau conducts a census of governments every five years Like the Economic Census it is integral to BEArsquos estimates of GDP It is the only source of comprehensive and uniformly classified data on the economic activities of more than 90000 state and local governments which account for about 12 percent of GDP and nearly 16 percent of the US workforce Fiscal Year 2014 is the final year in the five-year cycle of the 2012 Census of Governments Activities are focused on completing data processing developing data products and disseminating information from the census This program change includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull 2010 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 291 FTE and $555 million Program Change -291 FTE and -$555 million) This program change reflects the completion of the 2010 Census The base funding for the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull 2020 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 3265 FTE and $3323 million Program Change 382 FTE and $1542 million) Fiscal Year 2014 is the third year of funding for the three-year Research and Testing phase of the 2020 Census The FY 2014 budget request expands and supports the research and testing phase for the 2020 Decennial Census Program The focus of FY 2014 activities will be to support the research and testing infrastructure allowing us to effectively test (1) new enumeration methods (2) new processes to support field operations (3) more cost-effective IT systems and (4) address and spatial frame-related methods needed for the 2020 Census to supplement research being carried out in the geographic support program By the end of FY 2014 key preliminary design decision(s) for the 2020 Census will be made in preparation for acquisitions and systems development beginning in FY 2015 Additionally focus will be on continued implementation of program management and systems engineering activities to ensure effective management and technicaloperational cohesion of research and testing projects Consequently the research and testing agenda (supported by strong program and risk management

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and systems engineering) addresses the major cost and quality drivers in the census critical to achieving the strategic vision and goals This program change includes a decrease of 6 FTE and $47 million for administrative savings Additionally the funding f or the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull Geographic Support (Base Funding 402 FTE and $662 million Program Change -72 FTE and -$106 million) The Census Bureau requests a decrease that limits two major geographic partnership programs the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) and the evaluation of partner supplied files as part of the Geographic Support System This FY 2014 budget request is the result of a review of both ongoing and cyclical programs necessary to achieve the Department of Commerce and Census Bureau goals Difficult choices were made in balancing program needs and fiscal constraints in order to fund higher priority programs This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $06 million for administrative savings

Administrative Savings The Administration continues to pursue an aggressive government-wide effort to curb non-essential administrative spending c alled the Administrative Efficiency Initiative In or der to be good stewards of taxpayer money the Federal Government should continue to seek ways to improve the efficiency of programs without reducing their effectiveness Since FY 2012 the Census Bureau has contributed to this effort realizing nearly $25 million in administrative savings in FY 2012 and FY 2013 The FY 2014 Presidentrsquos Budget continues these efforts The Census Bureau will pursue cost savings related to Information Technology spending and the budget contains $96 million in budget reductions reflecting these plans In addition the Census Bureau continues to pursue reductions in travel spending In FY 2014 the Census Bureau plans to reduce travel spending by an additional $16 million These savings combined with the $25 million in savings previously realized will bring the Census Bureaursquos total administrative savings to $359 million Realignment of Base Information Technology (IT) Resources to Improve Operational Efficiency Reduce Costs and Strengthen Mission Capabilities The Census Bureau is committed to improving operational efficiency reducing c osts and strengthening mission capabilities by implementing enterprise shared services and enterprise processing solutions for our diverse survey and census programs This commitment has its foundation in an IT strategy that aligns with is consistent with and supports OMB directives The Census Bureau is breaking t he paradigm of developing expensive customized processing systems solutions and technologies for each of our major programs The Census Bureau has been incrementally developing enterprise solutions that can support current economic and demographic surveys reimbursable surveys the American Community Survey the 2017 Economic Census and be scalable for use in the 2020 Census The development and implementation of flexible adaptive survey designs and the related processing infrastructure i s a multi-year process but one that promises major payoffs later in the decade Central to these efforts the Census Bureau has been working on the creation and execution of an IT Infrastructure Roadmap that guides the ldquoAs Isrdquo and ldquoTo Berdquo Enterprise Architecture (EA) The Census Bureau is creating shared and reusable IT services that are foundational to the business and technical

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architecture and infrastructure needed to support all of our surveys and censuses including t he 2020 Census and the 2017 Economic Census The Census Bureaursquos shared services or enabling platforms include enterprise solutions for internet data collection data capture and survey collection and processing In addition we are researching capabilities and requirements associated with a Mobile Computing Infrastructure that can support the use of multiple mobile devices for use by enumerators in collecting information from households and institutions These efforts have realized or are estimated to achieve $81 million in cost avoidance savings and efficiencies from FY 2011 through FY 2014 - costs that otherwise would be reflected in our IT budget requests In addition to the overall cost reductions described in the section on Administrative Savings above In FY 2014 the Census Bureau is realigning $371 million in existing IT resources from across the Census Bureaursquos programs to several enterprise-wide efforts that will allow it to maintain the momentum built over the last few years including bull Shared IT Services ($73 million) Reinvestment of these funds will support and expand enterprise

shared services currently used across the Census Bureau in the areas of Virtual Desktop Integration in support of the Governmentrsquos efforts to enhance telework opportunities SharePoint for collaboration and content management SAS and Data Management

bull Cloud Computing ($111 million) This reinvestment would support continued infrastructure

consolidation and virtualization infrastructure utilization and capacity management hybrid cloud development and integration and end user self-provisioning of infrastructure platforms and hardware

bull Mobile Computing ($98 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise mobile application

and web development and testing mobile enterprise architecture mobile device management ldquobring your ownrdquo device and execution of the Governmentrsquos digital strategy

bull Data Management and Internet Data Collection ($38 million) Reinvestment will occur in enterprise

solutions for data collection enterprise storage and data backup data acquisition data analytics and data access and dissemination

bull Security ($20 million) These funds would support the IT Security and Risk Management Framework and automation of required security controls The Return on Investment (ROI) of the Census Bureaursquos Risk Management Program is focused on m aking the security assessment and accreditation of systems more efficient saving program area resouces by performing design time analysis of new systems to ensure security requirements are met up front Moving this activity to the beginning of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) can reduce program area costs for this remediation of security findings by a factor of 30 The development of automated security content to assess compliance with secure configuration settings and security controls requirements will reduce the overall cost of performing manual security assessments and continuous monitoring by over 20 percent

bull Enterprise Architecture and Innovation ($31 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise architecture to assist program areas with development of service oriented architecture and in the Census Bureaursquos Center for Applied Technology to support program areas in needed research prototyping and evaluation of new technologies

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Other Program Highlights The Census Bureau programs described below provide important data about the Nationrsquos population and economy on an ongoing basis Wherever possible the Census Bureau seeks to improve the functioning of these programs within existing f unds

bull Business Statistics (329 FTE and $426 million) The business statistics programs measure the economic activity of the distribution and service trade sectors in the United States The data provide principal economic performance indicators including m onthly and annual data for the retail and wholesale sectors and quarterly and annual data for the fast growing service sector of the national economy These sectors account for nearly 70 percent of US economic activity Together the business statistics programs provide the primary source of up-to-date facts on the structure and functioning of the distributive trades and service sectors of the economy and provide timely updates to data collected in the economic census The principal economic indicator series are closely followed and widely used by policymakers in the public and private sectors and move financial markets The data in conjunction with other economic data collected by the Census Bureau are vital to effective economic policy decisions by business and government The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $91 thousand for administrative savings

bull Construction Statistics (115 FTE and $128 million) The construction statistics programs provide national performance indicators for the construction sector of the economy The programs cover activities such as residential building permit authorizations housing starts characteristics and prices of new housing and value of construction put in place The data are vital to understanding the economic and social aspects of construction activity in the US are pertinent to the national economic and social needs of the US population and provide a basis for effective policy making at all levels of government and in the private sector The programs supplement the data collected in the economic census Since construction activities are particularly sensitive to the level of interest rates these data are an important indicator of how changes in interest rates are affecting the economy The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull Manufacturing Statistics (157 FTE and $209 million) The manufacturing statistics programs measure the overall performance of the US manufacturing sector and the investment behavior of all US businesses The data provide key national performance indicators for the sector of the economy that provides 12 percent of the Nationrsquos employment The m anufacturing sector also supplies the export markets which have become increasingly important to the overall health of our Nationrsquos economy These programs which supplement data collected in the economic census provide the monthly quarterly and annual data that are vital to policymakers in both the public and private sectors for analysis of the business cycle and domestic production They provide key information on major labor capital and manufacturing material inputs and outputs as well as capital investment by US businesses and data on industrial research and development manufacturing capacity utilization and energy use The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $51 thousand for administrative savings

bull General Economic Statistics (327 FTE and $595 million) (amount includes program changes described above) The general economic statistics programs provide information that is essential to understanding t he changing economic structure of the United States In addition the Business Register and parallel classification activities also provide the infrastructure for the current and periodic economic programs that produce national statistical profiles of all sectors of the economy In addition to the program changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull Foreign Trade S tatistics (200 FTE and $348 million) The foreign trade statistics programs provide official monthly statistics on imports exports and balance of trade for all types of merchandise moving between the United States and its international trading partners The trade statistics are a principal economic indicator for the United States and are released within 40 to 45 days after the reference month The Census Bureau is the primary source of this comprehensive monthly data that provide national performance indicators vital to understanding our economy as well as our economic relationship with the rest of the world The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $73 thousand for administrative savings

bull Government Statistics (85 FTE and $120 million) The government statistics programs provide current statistical information on revenues expenditures debt and financial assets for more than 90000 state and local governments The programs provide data in the areas of public employment and payroll as well as Federal government programmatic expenditures on a geographic basis The data are vital to measuring the government sector of the national economy understanding the flow of public funds throughout the country and for administering public programs The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $26 thousand for administrative savings

bull Household Surveys (528 FTE and $616 million ndash amount includes program changes for CPS and SIPP described earlier) The household surveys program includes the full array of operations and services associated with large scale data collection including preparation of the sample and survey materials collection of the data by field representatives data processing and estimation production and quality control of monthly quarterly and annual data products and data dissemination of tabulations and public-use micro-data via the Internet and other media In addition to the pr ogram changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $08 million for administrative savings

bull Population and Housing A nalyses (61 FTE and $91 million) The population and housing analyses program uses a variety of approaches to create value-added information for policy makers and program managers refining t he statistical data collected in surveys into insightful and useful information This program increases the knowledge base with varied sources of information adds context and perspective to survey data and maintains the statistical infrastructure through compilation of records and development and maintenance of standards The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

bull Survey Development and Data Services (16 FTE and $26 million) The survey development and data services program funds research into survey design and estimation time series analysis error reduction privacy protection and special experimental and evaluation studies These activities continually improve the Census Bureaursquos surveys and censuses The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $6 thousand for administrative savings

bull Intercensal Demographic Estimates (62 FTE and $99 million) The intercensal demographic

estimates program assists elected officials and government program managers in allocating hundreds of billions of dollars each year by giving t hem updated estimates of the United States population for the country states counties cities and townships Through this legislatively required program policymakers and program managers are able to better understand their populationrsquos size as well as its basic characteristics like age sex race and Hispanic origin and estimates of the number of housing units in the years between the decennial censuses Since the United States population grows and changes between decennial censuses ndash and governments base many of their funding decisions on the size and basic characteristics of the population ndash effective and efficient government requires these updated estimates The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull American Community Survey (2785 FTE and $2418 million - amount included in 2020 Decennial Census Program amount shown earlier) The American Community Survey (ACS) sent monthly to a small percentage of the population collects detailed information on the characteristics of population and housing on an ongoing basis These data previously were collected only in census years in conjunction with the decennial census After years of development and testing the Census Bureau implemented the ACS nationwide in 2005 The ACS allows Federal agencies state governments tribal officials and local customers to make decisions based on current information rather than on data collected nine or more years ago The Census Bureau will continue to refine the process and ensure that it is in place to produce tract-level data (in general areas with populations between 1500 and 8000) similar to the Census 2000 long-form (detailed characteristics) data in conjunction with the 2010 Census short-form (basic characteristics) data The Census Bureau releases the estimates from the ACS Program each year based on the previous yearrsquos data collection The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 4 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign (56 FTE and $96 million) The objective of the

Demographic surveys sample redesign program is to with the existence of a continually updated Master Address File (MAF) and the continued availability of ACS data take advantage of an opportunity to reduce future survey costs by improving our approach to designing and selecting samples for the major national household surveys The Census Bureaus plan is to implement future redesign samples based on the availability of MAF and ACS information After the next coordinated sample redesign the Census Bureau will allow sponsoring agencies the option to redesign survey samples at any time during the decade not just once every ten years after the Decennial Census The major goal of the Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign Program is to minimize total survey costs for the desired level of reliability The FY 20 14 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $03 million for administrative savings

bull Data processing systems (0 FTE and $371 million) The data processing systems activity funds

information technology services supporting Census Bureau enterprise needs Economies of scale are achieved through centralized information technology contracts and services in accordance with Department of Commerce guidelines and a comprehensive Information Technology Plan This saves taxpayers money while helping the Census Bureau to accomplish its mission

Mandatory Demographic Programs The following mandatory funding f or demographic programs is anticipated in FY 2014 bull Survey of Program Dynamics (32 FTE and $100 million)

This program provides socioeconomic data and information which can be used by Federal and state public policymakers to evaluate the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 that established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

bull State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program (131 FTE and $200 million) This program provides statistically reliable annual data for each state on the number of low-income children who do not have health insurance coverage These data are used to allocate funds to states

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SUMMARY OF RESOURCES The following summa ry provides a comparison between the FY 2013 Continuin g Resolution (Annualized) and

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CR (Annualized) FY 2014 Estimate Difference FTE Amount FTE Amount FTE Amount

Expenses 1873 $254887 1818 $256048 (55) 1161

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Authority 6695 $940110 6822 $1012484 127 $72374 Working Capital

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The Census Bureau also conducts work on a reimbursable funding basis for other Federal agencies such as the collection of labor force and consumer expenditure data for the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on experience of crime for the Department of Justice education data for the Department of Education health measures for the Department of Health and Human Services and housing data for the Department of Housing and Urban Development

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pol

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US Census Bureau Executive Summary

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 budget request reflects the resources needed for the US Census Bureau to support the Department of Commercersquos Science and Information general goal 14 ldquoEnable informed decision-making t hrough an expanded understanding of the US economy society and environment by providing timely relevant trusted and accurate data standards and servicesrdquo The Census Bureau serves as the leading s ource of quality data about the nations people and economy We honor privacy protect confidentiality share our expertise globally and conduct our work openly We are guided on this mission by scientific objectivity our strong and capable workforce our devotion to research-based innovation and our abiding commitment to our customers Budget and Financial Management Discretionary Domestic Spending The Census Bureau requests appropriations for domestic discretionary spending totaling $9825 million Mandatory Domestic Spending The Census Bureau expects to receive a total $300 million in mandatory domestic spending in FY 2014 for the State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program and the Survey of Program Dynamics Reimbursable Program Funding The Census Bureau anticipates that it will receive $2687 million in reimbursable funding from other Federal and non-Federal organizations to perform work for those entities FY 2014 Program Changes The requested funding r eflects the resources needed to implement program enhancements and cyclical changes in operational requirements between FY 2013 and FY 2014 for the Economic Studies Program the Current Population Survey the Survey of Income and Program Participation the Economic Census and the Census of Governments the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census and Geographic Support bull Expanding Research Opportunities Related to Federal Programs (Base Funding ( Economic Studies)

69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 15 FTE and $35 million) This increase will be used to enhance the Census Bureaus Research Data Center Network to support the evaluation of federal government programs The project will acquire and improve new program data and provide infrastructural support for related research

bull Improving Analyses of Federal Programs through Better Measures of Outcomes (Base Funding (Economic Studies) 69 FTE and $173 million Program Change 2 FTE and $03 million) The increase will be used to analyze federal programs designed to assist US businesses using rigorous statistical and econometric methods and microdata from the Census Bureau combined with data from other agencies

bull Current Population Survey(CPS) (Base Funding 129 FTE and $111 million Program Change 37

FTE and $50 million) The Census Bureau proposes an increase of $50 million to support the

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development of a supplemental statistical poverty measure from the Current Population Survey to complement the current official measure

bull Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) (Base Funding 453 FTE and $507 million Program Change -106 FTE and -$77 million) The Census Bureau request includes a planned reduction of $2 million to reflect completion of the FY 2013 Event History Calendar field test as part of the SIPP improvements initiated in FY 2008 as well as a $5 million reduction to administrative savings based on the re-designed SIPP being in the field in FY 2014 and the reduction of headquarters staffing related to household s urveys This program change includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Economic Census (Base Funding 961 FTE and $1387 million Program Change -284 FTE and -$209 million) The Census Bureau conducts the economic census every five years It is integral to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and industry inputs and outputs It provides decision-makers with comprehensive detailed and authoritative facts about the structure and functioning of the US economy It is the foundation of the Nationrsquos economic statistics programs providing c ore information on virtually all non-farm businesses and related data on business expenditures commodity flows minority and women-owned businesses and other topics Fiscal Year 2014 is the fifth year of the six-year 2012 Economic Census funding cycle The focus of activity for FY 2014 is completing data collection industry analytical review and review and publication of the advance report and 70 of the industry reports Data collection and review will continue for the Survey of Business Owners This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $23 million for administrative savings

bull Census of Governments (Base Funding 74 FTE and $115 million Program Change -5 FTE and -$17 million) The Census Bureau conducts a census of governments every five years Like the Economic Census it is integral to BEArsquos estimates of GDP It is the only source of comprehensive and uniformly classified data on the economic activities of more than 90000 state and local governments which account for about 12 percent of GDP and nearly 16 percent of the US workforce Fiscal Year 2014 is the final year in the five-year cycle of the 2012 Census of Governments Activities are focused on completing data processing developing data products and disseminating information from the census This program change includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull 2010 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 291 FTE and $555 million Program Change -291 FTE and -$555 million) This program change reflects the completion of the 2010 Census The base funding for the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull 2020 Decennial Census Program (Base Funding 3265 FTE and $3323 million Program Change 382 FTE and $1542 million) Fiscal Year 2014 is the third year of funding for the three-year Research and Testing phase of the 2020 Census The FY 2014 budget request expands and supports the research and testing phase for the 2020 Decennial Census Program The focus of FY 2014 activities will be to support the research and testing infrastructure allowing us to effectively test (1) new enumeration methods (2) new processes to support field operations (3) more cost-effective IT systems and (4) address and spatial frame-related methods needed for the 2020 Census to supplement research being carried out in the geographic support program By the end of FY 2014 key preliminary design decision(s) for the 2020 Census will be made in preparation for acquisitions and systems development beginning in FY 2015 Additionally focus will be on continued implementation of program management and systems engineering activities to ensure effective management and technicaloperational cohesion of research and testing projects Consequently the research and testing agenda (supported by strong program and risk management

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and systems engineering) addresses the major cost and quality drivers in the census critical to achieving the strategic vision and goals This program change includes a decrease of 6 FTE and $47 million for administrative savings Additionally the funding f or the American Community Survey is transferred to the 2020 Decennial Census Program

bull Geographic Support (Base Funding 402 FTE and $662 million Program Change -72 FTE and -$106 million) The Census Bureau requests a decrease that limits two major geographic partnership programs the Boundary and Annexation Survey (BAS) and the evaluation of partner supplied files as part of the Geographic Support System This FY 2014 budget request is the result of a review of both ongoing and cyclical programs necessary to achieve the Department of Commerce and Census Bureau goals Difficult choices were made in balancing program needs and fiscal constraints in order to fund higher priority programs This program change includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $06 million for administrative savings

Administrative Savings The Administration continues to pursue an aggressive government-wide effort to curb non-essential administrative spending c alled the Administrative Efficiency Initiative In or der to be good stewards of taxpayer money the Federal Government should continue to seek ways to improve the efficiency of programs without reducing their effectiveness Since FY 2012 the Census Bureau has contributed to this effort realizing nearly $25 million in administrative savings in FY 2012 and FY 2013 The FY 2014 Presidentrsquos Budget continues these efforts The Census Bureau will pursue cost savings related to Information Technology spending and the budget contains $96 million in budget reductions reflecting these plans In addition the Census Bureau continues to pursue reductions in travel spending In FY 2014 the Census Bureau plans to reduce travel spending by an additional $16 million These savings combined with the $25 million in savings previously realized will bring the Census Bureaursquos total administrative savings to $359 million Realignment of Base Information Technology (IT) Resources to Improve Operational Efficiency Reduce Costs and Strengthen Mission Capabilities The Census Bureau is committed to improving operational efficiency reducing c osts and strengthening mission capabilities by implementing enterprise shared services and enterprise processing solutions for our diverse survey and census programs This commitment has its foundation in an IT strategy that aligns with is consistent with and supports OMB directives The Census Bureau is breaking t he paradigm of developing expensive customized processing systems solutions and technologies for each of our major programs The Census Bureau has been incrementally developing enterprise solutions that can support current economic and demographic surveys reimbursable surveys the American Community Survey the 2017 Economic Census and be scalable for use in the 2020 Census The development and implementation of flexible adaptive survey designs and the related processing infrastructure i s a multi-year process but one that promises major payoffs later in the decade Central to these efforts the Census Bureau has been working on the creation and execution of an IT Infrastructure Roadmap that guides the ldquoAs Isrdquo and ldquoTo Berdquo Enterprise Architecture (EA) The Census Bureau is creating shared and reusable IT services that are foundational to the business and technical

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architecture and infrastructure needed to support all of our surveys and censuses including t he 2020 Census and the 2017 Economic Census The Census Bureaursquos shared services or enabling platforms include enterprise solutions for internet data collection data capture and survey collection and processing In addition we are researching capabilities and requirements associated with a Mobile Computing Infrastructure that can support the use of multiple mobile devices for use by enumerators in collecting information from households and institutions These efforts have realized or are estimated to achieve $81 million in cost avoidance savings and efficiencies from FY 2011 through FY 2014 - costs that otherwise would be reflected in our IT budget requests In addition to the overall cost reductions described in the section on Administrative Savings above In FY 2014 the Census Bureau is realigning $371 million in existing IT resources from across the Census Bureaursquos programs to several enterprise-wide efforts that will allow it to maintain the momentum built over the last few years including bull Shared IT Services ($73 million) Reinvestment of these funds will support and expand enterprise

shared services currently used across the Census Bureau in the areas of Virtual Desktop Integration in support of the Governmentrsquos efforts to enhance telework opportunities SharePoint for collaboration and content management SAS and Data Management

bull Cloud Computing ($111 million) This reinvestment would support continued infrastructure

consolidation and virtualization infrastructure utilization and capacity management hybrid cloud development and integration and end user self-provisioning of infrastructure platforms and hardware

bull Mobile Computing ($98 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise mobile application

and web development and testing mobile enterprise architecture mobile device management ldquobring your ownrdquo device and execution of the Governmentrsquos digital strategy

bull Data Management and Internet Data Collection ($38 million) Reinvestment will occur in enterprise

solutions for data collection enterprise storage and data backup data acquisition data analytics and data access and dissemination

bull Security ($20 million) These funds would support the IT Security and Risk Management Framework and automation of required security controls The Return on Investment (ROI) of the Census Bureaursquos Risk Management Program is focused on m aking the security assessment and accreditation of systems more efficient saving program area resouces by performing design time analysis of new systems to ensure security requirements are met up front Moving this activity to the beginning of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) can reduce program area costs for this remediation of security findings by a factor of 30 The development of automated security content to assess compliance with secure configuration settings and security controls requirements will reduce the overall cost of performing manual security assessments and continuous monitoring by over 20 percent

bull Enterprise Architecture and Innovation ($31 million) The Census Bureau will reinvest in enterprise architecture to assist program areas with development of service oriented architecture and in the Census Bureaursquos Center for Applied Technology to support program areas in needed research prototyping and evaluation of new technologies

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Other Program Highlights The Census Bureau programs described below provide important data about the Nationrsquos population and economy on an ongoing basis Wherever possible the Census Bureau seeks to improve the functioning of these programs within existing f unds

bull Business Statistics (329 FTE and $426 million) The business statistics programs measure the economic activity of the distribution and service trade sectors in the United States The data provide principal economic performance indicators including m onthly and annual data for the retail and wholesale sectors and quarterly and annual data for the fast growing service sector of the national economy These sectors account for nearly 70 percent of US economic activity Together the business statistics programs provide the primary source of up-to-date facts on the structure and functioning of the distributive trades and service sectors of the economy and provide timely updates to data collected in the economic census The principal economic indicator series are closely followed and widely used by policymakers in the public and private sectors and move financial markets The data in conjunction with other economic data collected by the Census Bureau are vital to effective economic policy decisions by business and government The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $91 thousand for administrative savings

bull Construction Statistics (115 FTE and $128 million) The construction statistics programs provide national performance indicators for the construction sector of the economy The programs cover activities such as residential building permit authorizations housing starts characteristics and prices of new housing and value of construction put in place The data are vital to understanding the economic and social aspects of construction activity in the US are pertinent to the national economic and social needs of the US population and provide a basis for effective policy making at all levels of government and in the private sector The programs supplement the data collected in the economic census Since construction activities are particularly sensitive to the level of interest rates these data are an important indicator of how changes in interest rates are affecting the economy The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $21 thousand for administrative savings

bull Manufacturing Statistics (157 FTE and $209 million) The manufacturing statistics programs measure the overall performance of the US manufacturing sector and the investment behavior of all US businesses The data provide key national performance indicators for the sector of the economy that provides 12 percent of the Nationrsquos employment The m anufacturing sector also supplies the export markets which have become increasingly important to the overall health of our Nationrsquos economy These programs which supplement data collected in the economic census provide the monthly quarterly and annual data that are vital to policymakers in both the public and private sectors for analysis of the business cycle and domestic production They provide key information on major labor capital and manufacturing material inputs and outputs as well as capital investment by US businesses and data on industrial research and development manufacturing capacity utilization and energy use The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $51 thousand for administrative savings

bull General Economic Statistics (327 FTE and $595 million) (amount includes program changes described above) The general economic statistics programs provide information that is essential to understanding t he changing economic structure of the United States In addition the Business Register and parallel classification activities also provide the infrastructure for the current and periodic economic programs that produce national statistical profiles of all sectors of the economy In addition to the program changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull Foreign Trade S tatistics (200 FTE and $348 million) The foreign trade statistics programs provide official monthly statistics on imports exports and balance of trade for all types of merchandise moving between the United States and its international trading partners The trade statistics are a principal economic indicator for the United States and are released within 40 to 45 days after the reference month The Census Bureau is the primary source of this comprehensive monthly data that provide national performance indicators vital to understanding our economy as well as our economic relationship with the rest of the world The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $73 thousand for administrative savings

bull Government Statistics (85 FTE and $120 million) The government statistics programs provide current statistical information on revenues expenditures debt and financial assets for more than 90000 state and local governments The programs provide data in the areas of public employment and payroll as well as Federal government programmatic expenditures on a geographic basis The data are vital to measuring the government sector of the national economy understanding the flow of public funds throughout the country and for administering public programs The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $26 thousand for administrative savings

bull Household Surveys (528 FTE and $616 million ndash amount includes program changes for CPS and SIPP described earlier) The household surveys program includes the full array of operations and services associated with large scale data collection including preparation of the sample and survey materials collection of the data by field representatives data processing and estimation production and quality control of monthly quarterly and annual data products and data dissemination of tabulations and public-use micro-data via the Internet and other media In addition to the pr ogram changes described above the FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 3 FTE and $08 million for administrative savings

bull Population and Housing A nalyses (61 FTE and $91 million) The population and housing analyses program uses a variety of approaches to create value-added information for policy makers and program managers refining t he statistical data collected in surveys into insightful and useful information This program increases the knowledge base with varied sources of information adds context and perspective to survey data and maintains the statistical infrastructure through compilation of records and development and maintenance of standards The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

bull Survey Development and Data Services (16 FTE and $26 million) The survey development and data services program funds research into survey design and estimation time series analysis error reduction privacy protection and special experimental and evaluation studies These activities continually improve the Census Bureaursquos surveys and censuses The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of $6 thousand for administrative savings

bull Intercensal Demographic Estimates (62 FTE and $99 million) The intercensal demographic

estimates program assists elected officials and government program managers in allocating hundreds of billions of dollars each year by giving t hem updated estimates of the United States population for the country states counties cities and townships Through this legislatively required program policymakers and program managers are able to better understand their populationrsquos size as well as its basic characteristics like age sex race and Hispanic origin and estimates of the number of housing units in the years between the decennial censuses Since the United States population grows and changes between decennial censuses ndash and governments base many of their funding decisions on the size and basic characteristics of the population ndash effective and efficient government requires these updated estimates The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $02 million for administrative savings

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bull American Community Survey (2785 FTE and $2418 million - amount included in 2020 Decennial Census Program amount shown earlier) The American Community Survey (ACS) sent monthly to a small percentage of the population collects detailed information on the characteristics of population and housing on an ongoing basis These data previously were collected only in census years in conjunction with the decennial census After years of development and testing the Census Bureau implemented the ACS nationwide in 2005 The ACS allows Federal agencies state governments tribal officials and local customers to make decisions based on current information rather than on data collected nine or more years ago The Census Bureau will continue to refine the process and ensure that it is in place to produce tract-level data (in general areas with populations between 1500 and 8000) similar to the Census 2000 long-form (detailed characteristics) data in conjunction with the 2010 Census short-form (basic characteristics) data The Census Bureau releases the estimates from the ACS Program each year based on the previous yearrsquos data collection The FY 2014 estimate includes a decrease of 4 FTE and $07 million for administrative savings

bull Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign (56 FTE and $96 million) The objective of the

Demographic surveys sample redesign program is to with the existence of a continually updated Master Address File (MAF) and the continued availability of ACS data take advantage of an opportunity to reduce future survey costs by improving our approach to designing and selecting samples for the major national household surveys The Census Bureaus plan is to implement future redesign samples based on the availability of MAF and ACS information After the next coordinated sample redesign the Census Bureau will allow sponsoring agencies the option to redesign survey samples at any time during the decade not just once every ten years after the Decennial Census The major goal of the Demographic Surveys Sample Redesign Program is to minimize total survey costs for the desired level of reliability The FY 20 14 estimate includes a decrease of 1 FTE and $03 million for administrative savings

bull Data processing systems (0 FTE and $371 million) The data processing systems activity funds

information technology services supporting Census Bureau enterprise needs Economies of scale are achieved through centralized information technology contracts and services in accordance with Department of Commerce guidelines and a comprehensive Information Technology Plan This saves taxpayers money while helping the Census Bureau to accomplish its mission

Mandatory Demographic Programs The following mandatory funding f or demographic programs is anticipated in FY 2014 bull Survey of Program Dynamics (32 FTE and $100 million)

This program provides socioeconomic data and information which can be used by Federal and state public policymakers to evaluate the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 that established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

bull State Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program (131 FTE and $200 million) This program provides statistically reliable annual data for each state on the number of low-income children who do not have health insurance coverage These data are used to allocate funds to states

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SUMMARY OF RESOURCES The following summa ry provides a comparison between the FY 2013 Continuin g Resolution (Annualized) and

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FY 2013

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CR (Annualized) FY 2014 Estimate Difference FTE Amount FTE Amount FTE Amount

Expenses 1873 $254887 1818 $256048 (55) 1161

Periodic Censuses amp Programs 4659 $655223 4841 $726436 182 $71213

Total Discretionary

Budget Authority 6532 $910110 6659 $982484 127 $72374

Mandatory Appropriations 163 $30000 163 $30000 0 0

Total Budget

Authority 6695 $940110 6822 $1012484 127 $72374 Working Capital

Fund1 3412 $334042 2866 $268693 (546) ($65349) Total Available 10107 $1274152 9688 $1281177 (419) $7025 1Reflects estimated le vel of reimbursable work for Census Bureau services to ot her government agencies and

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The Census Bureau also conducts work on a reimbursable funding basis for other Federal agencies such as the collection of labor force and consumer expenditure data for the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on experience of crime for the Department of Justice education data for the Department of Education health measures for the Department of Health and Human Services and housing data for the Department of Housing and Urban Development

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