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FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan

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OPM STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL IV: deliver high quality, cost-effective human resources services to federal agencies, employees, annuitants and the public.
FY 2000 Resource Summary:

Obligations (000): $1,047

Full-Time Equivalents: 11
  • Provide readily accessible primary source data for meeting the workforce information needs of OPM, the other central management agencies, the Congress, the White House, and the public through the Central Personnel Data File and other reporting systems. (Continuing).
OMSOE Goal 10:
FY 1999/2000		 The workforce information needs of OPM, other central management agencies, the Congress, the White House, and the public are met.
Means Blue Arrow Head  Maintain and update data reporting requirements, workforce information systems, the Central Personnel Data File (CPDF), and other reporting systems.
Blue Arrow Head  Maintain and update the Guide to Processing Personnel Actions, EXPRO, the Guide to Personnel Record Keeping, the CPDF Edit Manual, the Guide to CPDF, the Guide to Personnel Data Standards, and the SF-113 Summary Data Reporting System Operating Manual.
Blue Arrow Head  Produce recurring and non-recurring reports for OPM, O&E, agencies, and others, conventionally and electronically.
Blue Arrow Head  Administer Federal record keeping requirements and personnel action documentation.
Blue Arrow Head  Answer questions about the Official Personnel Folder, merged files, medical files, service credit, documentation of personnel actions, and access to the CPDF.
Blue Arrow Head  Respond to and give legal advice on Freedom of Information and Privacy Act requests concerning Governmentwide personnel systems and the release of O&E records and reports.
Blue Arrow Head  Assist OPM and agencies in the techniques of collecting, researching, sampling, and using data from the CPDF.
    
Indicators/Performance Results Blue Arrow Head   Accurate and timely CPDF and other workforce information systems.

In FY 1998, OMSOE published the Fact Book, Work Years & Personnel Costs, Pay Structure of the Federal Civil Service, Occupations of the Federal White-Collar and Blue-Collar Workforce, and four issues of Employment and Trends. These were published on paper and on the web. All manuals on the Workforce Information pages and the statistical data were updated during the year.

Blue Arrow Head   The records of at least 97 percent of employees per major agency are correct on all core elements.

The General Accounting Office (GAO) report of September 1998, OPM’S CENTRAL PERSONNEL DATA FILE, Data Appear Sufficiently Reliable to Meet Most Customer Needs, reported that:

  • The majority of the data elements are 99 percent accurate. Depending on the methodology, 63 percent or 70 percent of the data elements are at least 99 percent accurate, and 35 percent to 44 percent are 100 percent accurate.
  • All of the data used by OPM’s Office of the Acturaries to help estimate the Government’s liability for future retirement payments are 99 percent accurate or more, except adjusted basic pay which is about 94 percent accurate.
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Blue Arrow Head   User satisfaction with OPM’s record keeping requirements, workforce information, and data services.

According to the GAO report, between 67 and 81 percent of respondents said that the CPDF meets their needs to a very great or great extent, and between 72 and 84 percent rated the quality of CPDF products as excellent to very good. Between 72 and 86 percent of respondents said that the explanatory material they receive enables them to use the data correctly to a very great or great extent.

The FY 1998 baseline for technical inquiries is: 50 unique data requests per week; 30 inquiries about personnel documentation or CPDF processes per week; and an average of 11,800 website hits per week.

Blue Arrow Head   Growing interest in data publications on OPM’s website.

Its web files are routinely in the top 25 files downloaded from OPM’s website, and the Workforce Information directory now averages over 11,800 "hits" a week. The Internet has profoundly affected the way OMSOE disseminates data, increasing its audience, while reducing its publication costs. Between October 1, 1997, and September 30, 1998, OMSOE responded to 150 Internet e-mail requests for information.

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