Supervisory and Regulatory Survey

SAMPLE
Supervisory and Regulatory Survey
(FR 3052; OMB No. 7100-0322)

Topics covered by the FR 3052 survey may include:
Written qualitative questions or questionnaires may include categorical questions, yes-no
questions, ordinal questions, and open-ended questions. Written quantitative surveys may
include dollar amounts, percentages, numbers of items, interest rates, and other such information;
adequate data of this sort would not be available from any other source on a time-sensitive basis.
Before conducting a survey, the Federal Reserve reviews any information to be collected on a
case-by-case basis to determine if the information is available by other means or sources.
Institutions may also be required to provide copies of existing documents (for example,
pertaining to practices and performances for a particular business activity). Less formal
information collection studies, such as focus groups or cognitive interviews, use a set of
structured qualitative and quantitative questions as a guide to more extended discussion of the
questions and answers. The size of the samples and the length of the data collection period may
vary depending on the particular informational needs.