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1.	Bureau of National Affairs
1.	Economic Statistics, BLS Budget Cuts Said AFfecting Major Data on Employment, Prices, Boskin Initiative Daily Report For Executives, November 19, 1992, Regulation, Economics and Law; 224 Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79 Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics is implementing spending cuts mandated by congressional budget actions that will affect major economic data programs for some time to come, according to BLS acting Commissioner William Barron Jr. At a time when labor market data are under intense scrutiny from policy-makers and private analysts, Barron said in a Nov. 18 interview, the bureau has no alternative but to reduce spending on major data series and halt plans for improving some indicators. Many initiatives to improve data programs--including principal economic indicators on employment and prices--are being dropped or postponed indefinitely. Two data series will be eliminated by BLS because funding for them was not provided in the appropriations bill, Barron said. Data collection will stop shortly for the mass layoff/plant closing report, which has had a shaky development from its start in the mid-1980s. The other data series that has been eliminated measures foreign direct investment in the United States. Other budget highlights announced by BLS include: A restructuring of the national longitudinal survey that will reduce data collection efforts from annual to every other year for the youth cohort followed in the series.
	Bibliography Citation Bureau of National Affairs. "Economic Statistics, BLS Budget Cuts Said AFfecting Major Data on Employment, Prices, Boskin Initiative." Daily Report For Executives, November 19, 1992, Regulation, Economics and Law; 224.

2.	Bureau of National Affairs
2.	Statistics, BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference Daily Report For Executives, September 29, 1992: 189 Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As House and Senate conferees prepare to meet Sept. 30 on the appropriations bill for the Department of Labor, officials at the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics are considering cuts to economic data programs that would be necessary if the agency's final budget comes in under the Bush administration's request. BLS officials contend that their choices are few if they have to cut spending on data series, largely because most of their programs are part of the core of statistics used by policymakers and private forecasters as they try to get an accurate reading of what has been a hard-to-predict economy. Also, other BLS data programs are mandated by law, such as salary surveys required by the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990. Among the cuts that BLS officials are considering, given the possibility of cuts in the final budget bill, are: 1) Various parts of the Boskin initiative, particularly those designed to improve employment and price programs. Spending aimed at improving the number of respondents providing data for the "first closing" of the payroll employment survey would be cut back. 2) The national longitudinal survey, a $ 7 million a year program that yields data used by many private economists to look at labor market changes of demographic groups over time. Last summer, when this program was included in its list of possible cuts, the bureau received letters protesting such a plan from about 40 private economists, mainly from the academic community. 3) The federal locality pay program. That program, which just began in fiscal 1992, would be slightly reduced, but only in such a way that BLS could meet its deadline for delivering data to the Office of Personnel Management. Data will be used to help make federal pay more in line with that for comparable jobs in the private sector.
	Bibliography Citation Bureau of National Affairs. "Statistics, BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference." Daily Report For Executives, September 29, 1992: 189.

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