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1218-0209 199712-1218-002
Historical Active 199702-1218-005
DOL/OSHA
OSHA Data Collection System
Extension without change of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved without change 02/06/1998
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 12/05/1997
Approved as amended by DOL's 2/5/98 memorandum to OMB. In addition, DOL/OSHA will meet the following conditions: 1) Approval through December 1998 will allow OSHA to continue work on the validation study of data quality in this initiative, which OMB strongly endorses. DOL intends to continue with the on-site records audits and to complete the anlaysis by the end of May, and will brief OMB in June on the results of this analysis. OMB recommends that these audits of quality be made an ongoing part of the Data Initiative. 2) Initial results of the analysis of Overlap firms (surveyed by both BLS and OSHA) indicate that there may be insufficient consistency between the two data sets. DOL (BLS and OSHA) shall investigate the sources and reasons for data discrepencies through further analysis of the Overlap firms. This additional analysis shall be completed prior to the next request for PRA clearance of the Data Initiative. OMB will forward specific issues for DOL to consider in this work separately. 3) DOL will complete comparison of the Data Initiative data with data from the IMIS system by September 1998, and will report on this analysis as part of the next request for clearance. 4) DOL will not field the 1998 Data Initiative until it has developed and OMB concurs with a policy on how DOL will treat non-responding firms and how this treatment will be communicated to survey recipients. 5) Given the problems that the data quality analysis shows with smaller firms and the ongoing work being done on data quality, OMB does not at this time approve expansion of the Data Initiative to firms with fewer than 50 employees (with the exception of logging firms). Expansion from 60+ to 50+ employers should be sufficient and allows for comparisons with BLS and other standards sample strata. DOL may pilot test collection from firms with 40-49 employees to determine the quality of these data. 6) DOL will continue to explore means of collecting this information less than annually from the universe, including sampling and rotating SIC codes as well as other means of reducing burden while maintaining data quality.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
01/31/1999 01/31/1999 02/28/1998
80,000 0 80,000
35,000 0 35,000
0 0 0