National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS) Research File
Unclassified.
The NAWS Sponsor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20210; the
office of the System Manager, currently Aguirre International, 480 East 4th
Avenue, Unit A, San Mateo, CA, 94401-3349; and in two locations of the NAWS
Co-Sponsor, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH):
1) The Division of Surveillance, Health Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies,
NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45226, and 2) The Division of
Safety Research, NIOSH, 1095 Willowdale Road,--mail stop 180-p, Morgantown,
West Virginia 26505.
The respondents in the National Agricultural Workers Survey. These will
be randomly selected individuals who are engaged in crop activities. There will
be approximately 4,000 individuals per year included in the file.
The system will contain records of the employment history and living
conditions of crop workers and their families. It will also contain information
about the wages, working conditions and recruitment procedures, and health and
occupational injury experienced by crop workers. The records will contain the
names, and addresses of the respondents in the NAWS. All of this data will have
been obtained in a personal interview with the respondents.
5 U.S.C. 301.
To gather and analyze farm worker data on all demographic, employment,
wage and working conditions, health, safety, educational, social service, and
housing issues. The demographic characteristics of farmworkers have been
gathered by the federal government continuously throughout the postwar period.
Until 1987 they were gathered by the Current Population Survey through a
supplement and then elaborated by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS). In
1987, the OASP/DOL assumed the responsibility to carry out this national
survey, initially to accomplish the mandate of the Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1986 to measure the supply of the farm labor during fiscal years
1990 through 1993. Along with the task of carrying out the labor supply
estimate assigned to OASP came the responsibility and the associated resources
of the traditional survey on farmworkers.
None, except for those universal routine uses listed in the General
Prefatory Statement to this document with the following limitations: The
Routine Uses listed at paragraphs 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, and 11 in the General
Prefatory Statement to this document are not applicable to this system of
records. The records also may be disclosed where required by law.
None.
In the initial stages the information will be stored on interview
questionnaires which will be handled by Aguirre International of San Mateo
California. This company will transfer the questionnaires as quickly as
possible to their San Mateo Offices where they will be kept in locked filing
cabinets. The information will be entered onto computer and stored on computer
tape by the System Manager, currently Aguirre International, the System Sponsor
OASP/DOL and by the System Co-Sponsor NIOSH.
By names of respondents.
The practice and procedure of the Assistant Secretary for Policy
prohibits the transfer of any record filed with a personal identifier to any
location outside of the contractors' (currently Aguirre International)
premises. At all the other system locations, including OASP/DOL, only files
without personal identifiers will be stored. At all locations, files will be
maintained with secure password protection.
Names will be removed from the records and destroyed not later than
four years after the collection of the data.
The NAWS Sponsor, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20210; the
System Manager, currently Aguirre International, 480 East 4th Avenue, Unit A,
San Mateo, CA, 94401-3349; and the NAWS Co-Sponsor, the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): 1) The Division of Surveillance, Health
Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Drive, Cincinnati,
Ohio 45226, and 2) The Division of Safety Research, NIOSH, 1095 Willowdale
Road,--mail stop 180-p, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505.
Individuals wishing to inquire whether this system of records contains
information about them should contact OASP/DOL. Individuals must furnish the
following information for their records to be located and identified:
a. full name
b. year of interview
Individuals wishing to request access to their own records should
contact OASP/DOL and comply with the requirements of the DOL regulation at 29
CFR part 71.2.
To seek amendment of record procedures individuals should direct their
requests to OASP/DOL.
The information in this system will be received from respondents.
None.
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