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  <title><![CDATA[  Data Sharing Activity ]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2003-11-18-03-28612</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will provide to the 
Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau) data collected from the Benchmark 
Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the United States1997 and the 
Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad1999 for statistical 
purposes exclusively. In accordance with the requirement of Section 
524(d) of the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical 
Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA), we provided the opportunity for public 
comment on this datasharing action (see the July 7, 2003 edition of 
the Federal Register (68 FR 40241)). Through the use of these shared 
data, the Census Bureau will augment its existing research and 
development (R&D)related data collected in the Survey of Industrial 
Research and Development, which is funded by the National Science 
Foundation (NSF). The Census Bureau will also identify data quality 
issues arising from reporting differences in the BEA and Census Bureau 
surveys and improve its survey sample frames. The NSF will be <script type="text/javascript">
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