Form Attachment II Attachment II OES New Workforce Information

Occupational Employment Statistics – New Workforce Information
«Merge Record #»
O.M.B. Control #1221-0141
Expires 2/28/2015

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We would like your response even if you do not have any of the requested information.
You can respond by telephone. Call Merrill S. Huhtala, OES Program Manager, at 207-621-5196.
Please respond by March XX to reduce follow-up costs.

Instructions: Please consider the 12 data elements that appear in Column A and, for each item, answer the
questions that appear at the top of Columns B and C (if relevant). If you do not know the answer to the question,
write “DK” in the box. When finished, please answer the questions on the back of the page.
A. Employee information
(excluding contract
workers)

1

Job Title

3

Wages

2

4
5
6
7
8
9

Job Description
Part-time or full-time status

(excluding contract workers)
Hourly or salaried status
Permanent or temporary status
(excluding contract workers)
Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA) exemption status

Hours paid for each pay period
Hire date

10

Gender

11

Birth year or birthdate

12

Race and ethnicity

B. Does your company
record this information
about its employees?
Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Part-time
Both

Hourly

Permanent
Both
Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Birth year
Both

Race
Both

Full-time
Neither

Neither

Temporary
Neither

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Salaried

Both

C. If you record this information, would
your company be willing to provide it
to OES if requested?

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

Birthdate
Neither

Ethnicity

Neither

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

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14. For those elements on the previous page for which your company would NOT be willing to provide data (items
checked “No” in Column C), would you please tell us why? (Please check all applicable boxes.)
It is company policy not to respond to such
requests

Privacy/confidentiality concerns

It would require too much effort

Other: _________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

It would take too much time

Instructions: For questions 15 through 18, please answer as if you were willing to provide all of the data
requested, even if you reported that your company would NOT be willing to do so (i.e., “no” answers in Column C).
15. Which department or position within your company would best be able to provide the requested data?
Human Resources

Payroll

Other:________________________________________________________________________________

16. About how much time would it take to produce a report containing this information? ______________________________
17. What would be the preferred method for transmitting a report containing those data elements that are
available for your employees?
Secure file upload

Secure email

Phone

Other:____________________________________________________________

18. OES is working with a number of business software providers to integrate the production of the OES report
into their software. To help us better focus our efforts, please tell us what business software or service you use for
your human resources and/or payroll data.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Please return this questionnaire in the enclosed return envelope by March XX. You can view the data currently
produced by OES at http://www.bls.gov/oes. If necessary, please update your contact information in the space
below. Thank you for your help in this important research effort.
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Name: ____________________________________________
Title: _____________________________________________
Phone: ___________________________________________
Email: ____________________________________________

Confidentiality Statement. 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 of 2002 (Title 5 of Public Law 107-347) and other applicable Federal laws, your responses will not be disclosed in
identifiable form without your informed consent. This report is authorized by law 29 U.S.C. 2.
Public Burden Statement. Your voluntary cooperation is needed to make the results of this survey comprehensive, accurate, and timely. We estimate
that completing this form will take an average of 20 minutes. This estimate takes into account time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data
sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information. If you have any comments regarding this survey,
including suggestions for reducing the burden, send them to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Occupational Employment Statistics, Extra Data
Elements Project, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 2135, Washington, DC 20212. The OMB control number for this voluntary survey is 1220-0141 and
expires on 02/28/2015. Without a currently valid number BLS would not be able to conduct this survey.