The U.S. Census Bureau seeks comments on the Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) by October 20, 2025.
The Bureau has conducted the AEIS since “survey year 2023 (collected in calendar year 2024)… on an annual basis. The AIES was created to integrate seven annual business surveys into one comprehensive survey… the AIES were the Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS), Annual Wholesale Trade Survey (AWTS), Service Annual Survey (SAS), Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM), Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES), Manufacturers’ Unfilled Orders Survey (M3UFO), and the Report of Organization.” The combined survey “provides the only comprehensive national and subnational data on business revenues and expenses on an annual basis” and “covers domestic, nonfarm employer businesses with operations during the survey year. Nonemployer businesses are not within the scope of the AIES.”
This next round of the AEIS will begin to use 2022 NAICS codes (instead of 2017 codes), “implement a modular and subsampled content strategy,” “collect North American Product Classification System (NAPCS)-based data from retail, wholesale, and services businesses,” and collect capital expenditures by type (structures and equipment).”
- Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Annual Integrated Economic Survey https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/21/2025-16018/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-for
