Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions

A Message from the Director, U.S. Census Bureau:

We are requesting your cooperation with the Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions (Form F-10) for the quarter ended XXXXX, XX, XXXX. We have selected your system(s) for this quarterly survey, which provides national summary data on the revenues, expenditures, and composition of assets of the largest defined benefit public employee pension systems for state and local governments. This survey currently consists of a panel of 100 pension systems, which comprise 88.4 percent of financial activity among such entities, based on the 2012 Census of Governments.

Please complete this survey online using your existing username and password to log in at https://respond.census.gov/qspp.

We estimate this survey will take between 30 minutes and 2 hours to complete, with an average of 45 minutes. Additional information about the authority, confidentiality, and burden of this data collection can be found at the end of this email.

 

For assistance with completing this survey, please call us on 1-888-529-1963, Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time or email ewd.pensions@census.gov.

Thank you in advance for your time and cooperation, and for helping the U.S. Census Bureau measure America’s people, places, and economy. Your response makes a difference.

 

 

 

OMB Number

 

      This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The eight-digit OMB approval number is 0607-0143 and appears at the upper right of the login screen. Without this approval, we could not conduct this survey.

  

Authority and Confidentiality

 

Title 13, United States Code, Sections 161 and 182, authorizes the Census Bureau to conduct this collection and request your voluntary assistance. These data are subject to provisions of Title 13, United States Code, Section 9(b), exempting data that are customarily provided in public records from rules of confidentiality.

Burden Estimate Statement

We estimate this survey will take between 30 minutes and 2 hours to complete, with an average of 45 minutes, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information.