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Appendix B: Organization of the Federal Statistical System
Appendix B: Organization of the Federal Statistical System
Pages 171-196
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, the principal statistical agencies and other recognized statistical units, and a selection of major statistical programs housed or sponsored by other agencies. Structure The United States has a highly decentralized statistical system in contrast with other developed countries (see Norwood, 1995)
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Office headed by the chief statistician, a senior executive civil service position. OIRA also includes clearance officers who review individual survey and other information collection requests from most agencies: SSP staff clear information requests from many of the principal statistical agencies and consult with the OIRA desk officers for the other agencies.
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; reimbursing private organizations for systems development, data collection, and data analysis services; and reimbursing other federal agencies, principally the Census Bureau, for data collection and other services. In dollar terms, the Census Bureau, the National Center for Education Statistics, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Center for Health Statistics planned to allocate the largest amounts of their fiscal 2017 budgets to purchasing statistical services; by percentage of budget authority, the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Center for Health Statistics, the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics planned to be the largest users of purchased services.
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. SSP, the chief statistician's office, establishes statistical policies and standards, identifies priorities for improving programs, evaluates statistical programs for compliance with OMB guidance, reviews statistical agency budgets, approves information collections for many of the principal statistical agencies, provides guidance to OIRA desk officers who review statistical information requests from other federal agencies, and coordinates U.S.
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The BEA director is a career senior executive service appointee, and the agency has a full-time staff of about 499 people and had direct funding in fiscal 2016 of $105.1 million. BEA's history traces back to 1820 when the Secretary of the Treasury was directed by Congress to compile and publish statistics on U.S.
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Its periodic data series cover the administration of law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities, prosecutorial practices and policies, state court case processing, felony convictions, criminal justice expenditure and employment, civil case processing in state courts, and special studies on other criminal justice topics. Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS; https://www.bls.gov/)
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OST-R also includes the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office; the Office of Research, Development, and Technology; the Transportation Safety Institute; and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. BTS's director is a career senior executive service appointee who reports to the assistant secretary.
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In regard to independence, Section 6017 of the FAST Act specified that the BTS director did not need the approval of the department for data collection or analysis or for the substance of any statistical data product or press release. The act charged the BTS director with a "significant role" in allocation of the BTS budget, hiring, and grant and contract awards, with the exception that the secretary was to direct external support functions, such as coordination of activities involving BTS and other departmental administrations.
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, reports to the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics. The administrator of ERS is a career senior executive service appointee; the agency has a full-time staff of about 345 and had direct funding of $85.4 million in fiscal 2016.
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on farm household and business income and crop practices, also funded by the National Agricultural Statistics Service; and (2) the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey, which focuses on American households' food purchase and acquisitions behavior, also funded by USDA's Food and Nutrition Service.
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. The administrator of NASS is a career senior executive service appointee.
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It collaborates with state departments of agriculture and land-grant universities to meet state, local, and national needs for agricultural statistics. Through cooperative agreements going back as far as 1917 and memoranda of understanding, NASS provides data collection and statistical services to other federal agencies, and it provides statistics to the public through trust fund agreements with private producer organizations when federal funding is inadequate.
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. The NCHS director is a career senior executive service appointee.
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. Its director is a career senior executive service appointee.
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ORES is headed by an associate commissioner, who is a career senior executive service appointee; it has a full-time staff of about 66 people and had direct funding of $23.4 million in fiscal 2016. SSA began as the Social Security Board in 1935; it became part of the Federal Security Agency in 1939, part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 1953, and part of DHHS in 1980; it regained
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The director is a career senior executive service appointee. SOI has a full-time staff of approximately 117 employees and had direct funding of $36.9 million in fiscal 2016.
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applies to recognized statistical units in addition to principal statistical agencies. This directive requires a statistical agency or unit's department to recognize the agency or unit's independence (see Appendix A)
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in DHHS. CBHSQ provides national leadership in behavioral health statistics and epidemiology; promotes basic and applied research in behavioral health data systems and statistical methodology; designs and carries out special data collection and analytic projects to examine issues for SAMHSA and other federal agencies; participates with other federal agencies in developing national health statistics policy; and consults and advises the SAMHSA administrator and the DHHS secretary on statistical matters.
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was fielded periodically from 1972 to 1990 and then annually beginning in 1991. Other CBHSQ statistical programs include the Behavioral Health Services Information System and its associated surveys, which are the primary data sources for information on the nation's substance abuse treatment system and outcomes; the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN)
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OTHER STATISTICAL PROGRAMS This section briefly describes eight statistical programs that are conducted or sponsored by agencies of the federal government other than the principal statistical agencies and recognized statistical units. The programs were selected purposively to illustrate the breadth and depth of the federal government's statistical portfolio.
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Similar panel surveys in other countries include the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study; the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement; the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging; the Longitudinal Aging Study in India; the Mexican Health and Aging Study; the New Zealand Health, Work and Retirement Survey; and the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS; http://meps.ahrq.gov/ mepsweb/)
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For the general estimates component, which covers a larger sample of crashes, only basic information is recorded from the police accident reports. The National Automotive Sampling System infrastructure is also used for special studies and surveys, such as the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey, conducted in 2005– 2007, which sampled police accident reports in real time and obtained on-scene information in addition to the information reported by the police.
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develops descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics on a broad range of topics about veterans and VA programs. NCVAS collaborates with other federal agencies to survey and analyze the veteran population and represents the VA in interagency statistical, data science, and data management forums.
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is a longitudinal survey that has followed several thousand families since 1968. It is conducted by the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan with funding from a consortium of federal agencies.
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1: Fundamental responsibilities of federal statistical agencies and recognized statistical units. 79 Federal Register 71609 (December 2, 2014)
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