3 Letter - Past Due

The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval number for the 2022 Annual
Integrated Economic Survey is 0607-XXXX

PAST DUE NOTICE
The U.S. Census Bureau recently requested your response to the 2022 Annual Integrated
Economic Survey dress rehearsal. Our records indicate that your mandatory response is now
past due. Please use the log in information below and submit your response within 7 days of
receipt.
Username: [insert username]
Password: [insert password]
Website: https://respond.census.gov/aies
Title 13, United States Code, Sections 131 and 182, authorizes this collection. Sections 224 and
225 require your response. The U.S. Census Bureau is required by Section 9 of the same law to
keep your information confidential and use your responses only to produce statistics. The Census
Bureau is not permitted to publicly release your responses in a way that could identify your
business, organization, or institution. Per the Federal Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2015,
your data are protected from cybersecurity risks through screening of the systems that transmit
your data.
What is the Annual Integrated Economic Survey?
This is the dress rehearsal phase of a newly redesigned survey combining the previously
administered annual surveys listed below. This pilot survey will replace mandatory reporting
obligations for the following (note that you may not have been asked to report in all of these
every year):
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Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS)
Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS)
Annual Services Report/Service Annual Survey (SAS)
Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)
Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES)
Report of Organization
Manufacturers’ Unfilled Orders Survey (M3UFO)

Data compiled from this survey contribute to the official statistics used to measure economic
performance in the United States, such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and will provide
the nation’s policymakers and business leaders like you with key yearly measures of economic
activity including the only comprehensive national and subnational data on business revenues,
expenses, and assets on an annual basis.
For assistance with completing this survey, please call our customer help line at 1-877-787-9860,
Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern time.
Thank you in advance for your time and participation, and for helping the U.S. Census Bureau
measure America’s people and economy.
Sincerely,

Stephanie L. Studds
Assistant Associate Director for Economic Programs
U.S. Census Bureau
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