A.6. Burden Hour
estimates:
a.
Number of Respondents: 53
a.1.
% Received Electronically 100%
b.
Frequency: Monthly
c.
Average Response Time: 4 Hours
d. Total
Annual Burden Hours: 1,696
Hours
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A7. Does the collection
of information employ statistical methods?
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No
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Yes (Complete Section B
and attach OCEO review sheet).
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A.8.
Abstract: On August 5, 2011, the President announced
the Gold Card Initiative, a high-priority joint effort of two
Department of Labor agencies (the Employment and Training
Administration, ETA, and the Veterans’ Employment and
Training Service, VETS) to provide intensive employment services
more quickly and easily to unemployed, post-9/11-era veterans, in
anticipation of changes in U.S. military needs overseas. The Gold
Card Initiative began in November 2011. At that time, however,
the LERS did not include data elements to collect information on
the target population and the services they received under the new
initiative. To collect this data, a data element has been
proposed as part of the information collection request (ICR)
(control number 1205-0240) that was prepared to make this and
other revisions to the LERS. However, while collection of the
additional data will begin in July 2012, it will not be reported
to ETA until November 14, 2012 (the established reporting date for
the LERS, which remains unchanged in this ICR).
This
request is for a two-question survey to be completed on a
monthly basis, for eight months, to obtain information on
post-9/11-era veterans receiving services. Respondents to the
survey are staff responsible for reporting under the Wagner-Peyser
Act, or for administering Jobs for Veterans’ State Grants in
53 state and territorial jurisdictions. This data will
provide information on each of these jurisdictions on
post-9/11-veterans served through the Wagner-Peyser Employment
Service under the new Gold Card Initiative.
The
information to be collected through the monthly survey is needed
for two purposes: 1) to provide sufficient data to develop
performance benchmarks for the forthcoming data items in the LERS
and 2) to provide more “real-time” data on service
levels so that federal and state program managers can assess
levels of service, and if needed, provide timely technical support
and assistance to the states to better serve these individuals.
The monthly data collection is needed to collect and
provide data sooner than would be available through the
LERS, to have sufficient data points to understand service
levels in the near term for technical assistance, and to establish
valid performance expectations when the new data element is
implemented in LERS.
The
survey consists of two questions: 1) the number of post-9/11
era veterans served through the Wagner-Peyser Employment Service
and 2) the number of those veterans who received intensive
services, and one demographic identifier: 1) the two letter state
code. The respondents to the survey would be state-level
workforce personnel responsible for submitting the LERS (including
the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands).
At the local One-Stop level as the staff who handle intake
will report to their Workforce Investment Boards and State
counterparts the participation and service rates in their local
area.
The
monthly surveys would begin in May 2012 and continue through
December 31, 2012. The monthly survey would provide sufficient
data points to understand variations across the workforce system
in the program’s performance and ability to meet its goal in
serving this small, high-priority population.
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