EPA Issues Supplemental Guidance on Measuring and Reporting Job Estimates

Washington, Aug. 25 – The Environmental Protection Agency, in anticipation of the upcoming Oct. 10 reporting deadline for recipients of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, has issued supplementary guidance concerning situations in which a recipient uses a statistical methodology to support job estimate reporting. In question and answer format, EPA addresses the top five questions grantees have asked in regard to the use of statistical methods in estimating job impacts of the Recovery Act.

Q. What types of jobs-related data should recipients collect, whether through comprehensive reporting or statistical samples?