Business and Professional Classification Report

SQ-CLASS-L2
(01-11-2021)

DC

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
U.S. Census Bureau
Washington, DC 20233-0001

The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval number for the
Business and Professional Classificaon
Survey is 0607-0189.

PAST DUE NOTICE
Our records indicate that we have not yet received your Business and Professional Classificaon Survey. If you
have submitted your survey in the past few days, thank you. On average, it should take approximately 13 minutes
to comply with this mandatory survey. Please refer to the back of this letter for a preview of select questions
required to fulfill mandatory survey requirements. The survey can be completed online following these steps:
1. Register OR sign in at https://portal.census.gov
2. Add your authencaon code found below OR locate this report under "My Surveys."
3. Report by clicking on "REPORT NOW." You can return to your account over multiple sessions to complete
the survey.
Authentication Code:

Don’t have an Internet connection? No problem, call our customer help line noted below and our staff will assist
you with satisfying your reporting obligation.
YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW and will be kept strictly CONFIDENTIAL. The U.S. Census Bureau is
authorized to collect this information under Title 13, United States Code (Sections 131, 182, and 193). The same
law requires that you respond (Sections 224 and 225), and assures the confidenality of the informaon you
provide (Section 9). The Census Bureau is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could
identify your business, organization, or institution, and use your responses only to produce statistics.
For assistance with completing this survey, please sign into your Census Bureau account or call our customer help
line at 1-800-253-1882, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time.
Thank you in advance for your time and cooperation, and for helping the U.S. Census Bureau measure America’s
people and economy.
Sincerely,

Carol V. Caldwell
Chief, Economic Stascal Methods Division
U.S. Census Bureau

census.gov

SQ-CLASS-L2
(01-11-2021)

Sample questions from the Business and Professional Classification Survey:
• Which of the following best describes this firm’s primary business? (select from 19 different options)
• What is the firm’s primary business activity?
• What are this firm’s principal lines of merchandise sold, services provided, or products manufactured, and on
average, what percent of total monthly revenues are from each of these lines?
• Does this firm have revenue from e-commerce?
• Is this firm owned or controlled by another company?
• Does this firm own or control any other company that operates under a different EIN?