Objective 2.1: Economy & State & Local Government Metrics

Produce accurate, timely, and relevant benchmark measures of the U.S. economy and state and local governments

Other Information:

The economic census provides the nation with comprehensive, detailed, and authoritative facts about the structure of the U.S. economy. In doing so, the economic census directly supports the Department of Commerce’s mission to promote job creation and improved living standards for all Americans. The census of governments provides authoritative benchmark data in areas of public finance and employment; local government organization, powers and activities; state, federal, and local fiscal relationships; and property tax administration. It is the only source of comprehensive and uniformly classified data on the economic activities of state and local governments. Strategies and means: * Determine the content and design of the economic census and census of governments to increase the relevance and usefulness of the data. * Develop complete mail lists for the economic census and census of governments. * Develop and deploy a streamlined and standardized system to collect and process economic census and census of governments data and integrate the data with data from administrative records, to achieve increased efficiencies and facilitate reporting by respondents. * Conduct, process, publish, and disseminate information from the economic census and census of governments on schedule. Measuring performance: * Percent of businesses and percent of governments reporting in the 2007 Economic Census and the 2007 Census of Governments. * Percent of 2007 Economic Census and Census of Governments data disseminated to the public. * Cost, across entire 2007 Economic Census and Census of Governments cycles, to profile each $100 billion in nominal 2007 Gross Domestic Product. * Change in percent of 2007 Economic Census and Census of Governments data collected electronically compared with 2002.

Stakeholder(s):

• State Governments


• Local Governments

Indicator(s):

Indicator:1

Content