Bureau of Labor Statistics Report to the Office of Management and Budget On Implementation of The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act

This report is being issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Implementation Guidance for Title 5 of the E-Government Act, the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) (72 Federal Register 33362, June 15, 2007). CIPSEA establishes strong confidentiality protections for information acquired by the BLS for exclusively statistical purposes. In accordance with CIPSEA, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics is responsible for protecting the confidentiality of individually identifiable information acquired for statistical purposes by ensuring adherence to safeguard principles, including implementing appropriate measures to assure the physical and electronic security of confidential data. In turn the Secretary of Labor is responsible for enabling, supporting, and facilitating the BLS in carrying out its responsibilities under CIPSEA. Among other things, CIPSEA strictly limits who may have access to protected data, sets criminal fines and penalties for knowing and willful disclosures of confidential information to unauthorized persons, and explicitly exempts protected statistical information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. CIPSEA also authorizes BLS, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), and the U.S. Census Bureau (Census) to share confidential business data under the conditions set out in 44 U.S.C. 3576 for the purposes of improving the Nation's economic statistical system.

As directed by OMB, this report covers Calendar Year 2023 (CY 2023), addressing which BLS statistical programs have issued CIPSEA confidentiality pledges in the collection of data from respondents, the conditions under which the BLS has designated agents for access to confidential data for statistical activities, and the data sharing arrangements that the BLS has entered into with BEA and Census.

BLS Use of the CIPSEA Confidentiality Pledge

During CY 2023, the following BLS surveys acquired data using a CIPSEA pledge of confidentiality. A copy of the pledge used for each survey is attached to this report.

• Producer Price Index – OMB Number 1220-0008
• Report on Employment, Payroll, and Hours – OMB Number 1220-0011
• International Price Program – U.S. Export & Import Price Indices – OMB Number 1220-0025
• Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey – OMB Number 1220-0039
• Report on Occupational Employment – OMB Number 1220-0042
• Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses – OMB Number 1220-0045
• Local Area Unemployment Statistics (Labor Market Information Cooperative Agreement) – OMB Number 1220-0079
• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (Labor Market Information Cooperative Agreement) – OMB Number 1220-0079
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) – OMB Number 1220-0109
• Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries – OMB Number 1220-0133
• Cognitive and Psychological Research – OMB Number 1220-0141
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) – OMB Number 1220-0157
• Consumer Price Index Housing Survey – OMB Number 1220-0163
• National Compensation Survey – OMB Number 1220-0164
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) – OMB Number 1220-0170
• Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS) production – OMB Number 1220-0189
• Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages Business Supplement – OMB Number 1220-0198

BLS Use of the Agents Provision in CIPSEA

During CY 2023, BLS had 534 active written agreements authorizing the designation of agents. Under these agreements, a total of 4,650 agents were designated to work under the supervision and/or control of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics and the Commissioner’s designees to fulfill the independent non-partisan statistical activities of the BLS. These include contracts with private vendors, Cooperative Agreements with State partners, Letters of Agreement with academic institutions and other non-profit organizations, and Memoranda of Understanding with government agencies. A copy of the standard BLS Agent Agreement and the standard BLS written agreement template are attached to this report.

1. Contracts with Private Vendors

BLS has designated 1,570 agents working under approximately 31 contracts with private vendors. These “contractor agents” perform a range of statistical activities and general support for the agency operations. Onsite work is performed under 17 of these contracts at the BLS National or Regional Offices (including approved telework locations which were utilized almost exclusively due to the pandemic) and involve 896 contractor agents. The majority of these agents are involved in providing IT support, administrative services, as well as research and analysis consultation. Offsite work is performed under 14 of these contracts and involve 674 contractor agents. The majority of these agents are involved in administering the National Longitudinal Surveys under the direction of the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics. Other offsite agents provide survey and statistical methodology research services for BLS surveys such as complex sample design; measurement of sampling and non-sampling errors; questionnaire design, development, and evaluation; interviewer training; and nonresponse bias analysis.

2. Cooperative Agreements with State Partners

BLS has designated 2,167 agents working under Cooperative Agreements for 2023. In CY 2023, BLS entered into 110 Cooperative Agreements with 50 States and 4 Territories. Like contractor agents, “State partner agents” perform a range of statistical activities including data collection, data processing, analysis, and IT support (designing and maintaining systems for handling or storage of data). All of the Cooperative Agreements involve work offsite as well as work at State facilities.

3. Letters of Agreement with Academic Institutions and Other Non-profit Organizations

BLS has designated 381 agents working under 278 different Letters of Agreement (LOAs). “Researcher agent” activities under these agreements include exclusively statistical research and analysis. Of these LOAs, 49 are for work onsite at the BLS National Office and involve 67 researcher agents; 229 are for work offsite at the researcher agent’s institution/organization and involve 314 researcher agents.

4. Memoranda of Understanding with Government Agencies

BLS has designated 532 agents working under 115 different Memoranda of Understanding (MOU). Researcher agent activities under these agreements include exclusively statistical research and analysis. Of these MOUs, 9 are for work onsite at the BLS National Office and involve 32 researcher agents; 106 are for work offsite at the outside government agency and involve 500 researcher agents. ¹.

BLS Use of Data Sharing Provisions under Subtitle B of CIPSEA

During CY 2023, the BLS has been engaged with the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau (Census) in multiple business data sharing initiatives. Below is a summary of the data sharing activities the BLS has entered into with BEA and Census, including the statistical purposes for sharing data and anticipated improvements in efficiency from each data sharing arrangement.

Data Sharing Initiatives between BLS and BEA

1. BLS continues to collaborate with BEA to provide BEA with unpublished aggregates and selected establishment reports from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) data for use by BEA for developing the wage and salary component of the National Personal Income and Gross Domestic Product statistics. Access to the QCEW data from the BLS allows BEA to acquire processed employment and wage data from a centralized location without having to enter into data access arrangements with each of the States, thus reducing burden.

2. BLS continues to collaborate with BEA to share Consumer Price Index (CPI) data within the U.S. to develop inter-area price indexes to permit comparisons of price levels between local areas. BEA uses data from the CPI Commodities and Services (C&S) Survey and the CPI Housing Survey to develop and produce real, price-adjusted estimates of personal income for states and select metropolitan areas. This data sharing arrangement provides an efficient source of reliable data for the purposes of constructing consistent and empirically useful inter-area price indexes.

3. BLS continues to collaborate with BEA to share data from the BLS QCEW and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey (OEWS); and from BEA the benchmark and annual surveys of direct investment, which collect information on the financing and operations of U.S. parent companies, their foreign affiliates, and U.S. affiliates of foreign companies; quarterly direct investment surveys, which collect information on transactions and positions between parents and affiliates; a new investments survey, which collects information on new foreign direct investments in the United States; and benchmark, annual and quarterly surveys of U.S. international trade in services. Work will include any project, task, tabulation, simulation, comparison, analysis, research, or other activity determined to be relevant, appropriate, and potentially useful by BEA and BLS. The agencies expect to perform work to determine the feasibility of linking BEA and BLS data for the purpose of developing detailed industry-level estimates of the employment, payroll, and occupational structure of foreign-owned U.S. companies or of U.S. companies that own foreign affiliates. This data sharing arrangement will provide an evaluation of the potential to augment and enhance the economic statistics currently published by the two statistical agencies. It will allow an analysis of data quality issues, promoting the continued effective use of these data, and disseminating these data to a wider audience and will increase understanding of the economic impact of off-shoring on the U.S. economy.

4. BLS continues to collaborate with BEA to provide access to a file that includes all employment, mean wages, percentile wages (10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th), and wage ranges for all major occupational groups by industry and State. The occupations are coded at the 2-digit Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) major group level, and the industries are coded at the 4-digit North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) level. BEA is using the data to improve the accuracy of its estimates of employer contributions to Social Security. BEA uses the data to improve upon its current methodology, which involves using industry-wide averages from the BLS QCEW to determine taxable wages. The methodology relying on QCEW data overestimates actual taxable wages. The application of OEWS wage ranges to QCEW data should provide detailed insight into workers’ actual salaries that cannot be determined by simple averages. This will provide more accurate taxable wage estimates.

5. BLS provides BEA access to unpublished historical International Price Program (IPP) data for statistical analysis. The IPP calculates and publishes all merchandise goods and some services Import and Export Price Indexes. These are monthly price indexes that present price change of a representative basket of products that are imported to and exported from the U.S. by U.S. companies that engage in international trade. The top-level price indexes and the sub-indexes that comprise the U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes for all merchandise goods are a Principal Federal Economic Indicator. The business data provided by the BLS will include price indexes that support published months of the Import and Export Price Indexes, but which themselves are not published.

6. BEA provides BLS access to unpublished Gross Domestic Project (GDP) by state and county estimates, which the BLS Industry Productivity Studies Program will use as inputs to improve the accuracy of BLS state and metropolitan area productivity measures.

Data Sharing Initiatives between BLS and Census

1. BLS and Census continue to collaborate on the industry code matching project. Census identifies businesses for which its Business Register (BR) needs industrial classifications, and the BLS supplies classifications, when available, from its BR. Census maintains the BR, which serves primarily as an enumeration list for 5-year economic censuses, as a source of sampling frames for more frequent business surveys, and as a basis for statistical tabulations. Accurate and timely industrial classifications are essential to these basic purposes, because they are a principal factor in determining the scope and coverage of survey frames and in structuring efficient samples. Industrial classifications strongly affect the accuracy and effectiveness of data collection, survey processing, and statistical estimation and aggregation. The most important benefits of this project accrue to businesses that are relieved of unnecessary response burden previously imposed by the Census’ direct collections done expressly to maintain BR and the Annual Survey of Manufacturers ². industrial classifications. Census’ use of BLS industrial classifications for resolving classification discrepancies works to promote consistency between the Federal statistical system’s principal business lists and thereby to improve the comparability of statistical products that depend on those lists. The Census use of BLS industrial classifications makes Federal statistical programs less duplicative and more cost-effective overall.

   ² Census recently combined seven surveys into the new Annual Integrated Economic Survey -- https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/aies/about.html. Several of the Census surveys referenced in this section are included in this new Survey. These individual surveys continue to be identified as standalone surveys in this report since this is how they are identified in the respective MOUs that are currently in effect with Census.

2. BLS and Census continue to share selected business data of multi-location companies. These multi-location data will enable both agencies to accrue efficiencies. In general, the BLS will provide Census with multi-location company data from the QCEW for States that authorize the release of confidential microdata. Census will provide BLS with multi-location company data that are free of Title 26 restrictions. Census also will provide multi-location data from the Economic Census, with updates from the Annual Company Organization Survey, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and the Service Annual Surveys.

3. BLS and Census are investigating the feasibility of using the Census Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data to improve state-level BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data and will model sub-state JOLTS estimates. The goal of the project is to develop jointly produced experimental sub-state JOLTS statistics published at the Metropolitan Statistical Area level for three mutually agreeable states; as well as a research paper documenting the methodology. These experimental estimates will be dually posted on the BLS and Census websites with a correlated release to the public. In addition, BLS will use the data for research on hires and separations, and employment dynamics and geographic mobility after natural disasters. The goal of the additional research is research papers with no largescale publication of tables. Census staff will use the JOLTS microdata to study the correspondence between quits and layoffs in JOLTS and separations in Census Job-to-Job (J2J) Flows data to better understand how many J2J transitions in the LEHD data are driven by quits versus layoffs.

4. BLS and Census completed work investigating the feasibility of matching BLS OEWS data to the Census’ business data. Census and BLS designed, conducted, and summarized data analyses and disseminated findings regarding the feasibility of matching the OEWS to the Census’ business data (specifically, the Business Register/Longitudinal Business Database, Annual Survey of Manufactures, and Census of Manufactures data). This joint research project has now entered into its second phase of matching BLS OEWS data to the Census’ business data, the LEHD data, and IRS W-2 data with the ultimate goal of improving and expanding the joint BLS and Census data product, “Dispersion Statistics on Productivity.”

5. BLS provides Census access to unpublished historical IPP data for statistical analysis. The IPP calculates and publishes all merchandise goods and some services Import and Export Price Indexes. These are monthly price indexes that present price change of a representative basket of products that are imported to and exported from the U.S. by U.S. companies that engage in international trade. The top-level price indexes and the sub-indexes that comprise the U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes for all merchandise goods are a Principal Federal Economic Indicator. On an as available basis, the business data provided by the BLS will include price indexes that support published months of the Import and Export Price Indexes, but which themselves are not published.

6. The BLS provided the Census Demographic Statistical Methods Division (DSMD) with access to confidential information from the QCEW for years 2011 through 2020. The Census DSMD will use the employment and wage data in their Primary Sampling Unit (PSU) research. The QCEW confidential information will give Census DSMD more flexibility to optimize their stratifications than if they only use the employment and wage estimates from the American Community Survey. Census DSMD is conducting a sample redesign for its surveys in which they will update the county boundaries after the 2020 Census and select a new sample of PSUs that reflect the characteristics of an up-to-date population.

 

BLS Use of the CIPSEA Pledge 2023

TITLE OF SURVEY	OMB NUMBER	CIPSEA PLEDGE
Producer Price Index Survey	1220-0008	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C.3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Report on Employment, Payroll, and Hours	1220-0011	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
International Price Program – U.S. Export and Import Price Indexes	1220-0025	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Consumer Price Index Commodities and Services Survey	1220-0039	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44. U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Report on Occupational Employment	1220-0042	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent except in the case of state and local governments. The BLS publishes statistical tabulations from this report that may reveal the information reported by state and local governments. Upon request, however, the BLS will hold the information provided by state and local governments on this report in confidence. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses	1220-0045	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) – Labor Market Information (LMI) Cooperative Agreement	1220-0079	Upon receipt by the BLS of the Unemployment Information (UI) for the LAUS program, the BLS will use the UI data for exclusively statistical purposes and will hold this information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law.
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) – Labor Market Information (LMI) Cooperative Agreement	1220-0079	Upon receipt by the BLS of the QCEW files, the BLS will use the QCEW data for exclusively statistical purposes and will hold this information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)	1220-0109	We want to reassure you that your confidentiality is protected by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act, the Privacy Act, and other applicable Federal laws, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees and agents, will, to the full extent permitted by law, use the information you provide for statistical purposes only, will hold your responses in confidence, and will not disclose them in identifiable form without your informed consent. All the employees who work on the survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its contractors must sign a document agreeing to protect the confidentiality of your data. In fact, only a few people have access to information about your identity because they need that information to carry out their job duties. Some of your answers will be made available to researchers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other government agencies, universities, and private research organizations through publicly available data files. These publicly available files contain no personal identifiers, such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and places of work, and exclude any information about the States, counties, metropolitan areas, and other, more detailed geographic locations in which survey participants live, making it much more difficult to figure out the identities of participants. Some researchers are granted special access to data files that include geographic information, but only after those researchers go through a thorough application process at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those authorized researchers must sign a written agreement making them official agents of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and requiring them to protect the confidentiality of survey participants. Those researchers are never provided with the personal identities of participants. The National Archives and Records Administration and the General Services Administration may receive copies of survey data and materials because those agencies are responsible for storing the Nation’s historical documents.
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI)	1220-0133	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Cognitive and Psychological Research	1220-0141	For Cog Labs collected in the laboratory at the BLS: The BLS, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data. For Cog Labs collected outside of the BLS laboratory: Current approved pledge for that survey (if it has an approved OMB number) or the above confidentiality statement.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)	1220-0157	We want to reassure you that your confidentiality is protected by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act, the Privacy Act, and other applicable Federal laws, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees and agents, will, to the full extent permitted by law, use the information you provide for statistical purposes only, will hold your responses in confidence, and will not disclose them in identifiable form without your informed consent. All the employees who work on the survey at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its contractors must sign a document agreeing to protect the confidentiality of your data. In fact, only a few people have access to information about your identity because they need that information to carry out their job duties.Some of your answers will be made available to researchers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other government agencies, universities, and private research organizations through publicly available data files. These publicly available files contain no personal identifiers, such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and places of work, and exclude any information about the states, counties, metropolitan areas, and other, more detailed geographic locations in which survey participants live, making it much more difficult to figure out the identities of participants. Some researchers are granted special access to data files that include geographic information, but only after those researchers go through a thorough application process at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those authorized researchers must sign a written agreement making them official agents of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and requiring them to protect the confidentiality of survey participants. Those researchers are never provided with the personal identities of participants. The National Archives and Records Administration and the General Services Administration may receive copies of survey data and materials because those agencies are responsible for storing the Nation’s historical documents.
Consumer Price Index Housing Survey	1220-0163	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
National Compensation Survey	1220-0164	Private industry forms: The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data. Government forms: The BLS publishes statistical tabulations from this survey that may reveal the information reported by individual state and local governments. Upon your request, however, the BLS will hold the information provided on this survey form in confidence.
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)	1220-0170	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.
Occupational Requirements Survey (production)	1220-0189	Private industry forms: The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data. Government forms: The BLS publishes statistical tabulations from this survey that may reveal the information reported by individual state and local governments. Upon your request, however, the BLS will hold the information provided on this survey form in confidence.
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Business Supplement	1220-0198	The Bureau of Labor Statistics, its employees, agents, and partner statistical agencies, will use the information you provide for statistical purposes only and will hold the information in confidence to the full extent permitted by law. In accordance with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (44 U.S.C. 3572) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in identifiable form without your informed consent. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015, Federal information systems are protected from malicious activities through cybersecurity screening of transmitted data.

Last Modified Date: May 28, 2024