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Title: Statistics, BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference
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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. |
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Bureau of National Affairs. "Statistics, BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference." Daily Report For Executives, September 29, 1992: 189. |