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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 966

To require the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to conduct

time use surveys of unremunerated work performed in the United States

and to calculate the monetary value of such work.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 18, 1993

Miss COLLINS of Michigan (for herself, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. FAZIO, Mrs. KENNELLY, Mr. RICHARDSON, Mr. MFUME, Mrs. COLLINS of Illinois, Mr.

HASTINGS, Mr. JEFFERSON, Ms. E.B. JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CONYERS,

Mr. STOKES, Mr. DELLUMS, Mr. FORD of Tennessee, Mr. OWENS, Mr.

TOWNS, Mr. WHEAT, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. PAYNE of

New Jersey, Mr. WASHINGTON, Ms. NORTON, Ms. WATERS, Mr.

BLACKWELL, Mr. CLAYTON, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr.

FIELDS of Louisiana, Mr. HILLIARD, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mrs. MEEK, Mr.

RUSH, Mr. SCOTT, Mr. WATT, Mr. WYNN, Ms. SLAUGHTER, Mrs.

SCHROEDER, Ms. PELOSI, Mrs. UNSOELD, Mrs. LOWEY, Mrs. MINK, Ms.

DELAURO, Ms. CANTWELL, Ms. ESHOO, Mrs. THURMAN, Ms.

VELA ́ZQUEZ, Ms. WOOLSEY, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. PETERSON of Florida, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. STUPAK, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. BREWSTER, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. MILLER of California, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. BACCHUS of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on Education and Labor

A BILL

To require the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to conduct time use surveys of unremunerated work

performed in the United States and to calculate the

monetary value of such work.
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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Unremunerated Work

5 Act of 1993’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

7 The Congress finds the following:

(1) Women perform 2 8 ⁄3 of the work in the world

9 relating to the production of goods and services.

10 (2) The United Nations General Assembly in

11 1985 adopted a resolution which included part of the

12 Forward Looking Strategies for the Advancement of

13 Women, which states that ‘‘the remunerated and, in

14 particular, the unremunerated contributions of

15 women to all aspects and sectors of development

16 should be recognized, and appropriate efforts should

17 be made to measure and reflect these contributions

18 in national accounts and economic statistics and in

19 the gross national product’’.

20 (3) The resolution also states that ‘‘concrete

21 steps should be taken to quantify the unremunerated

22 contribution of women to agriculture, food produc23 tion, reproduction, and household activities’’.
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1 (4) The unremunerated contribution by women

2 to the economy of the United States should be

3 recognized.

4 SEC. 3. CALCULATION OF MONETARY VALUE OF

5 UNREMUNERATED WORK.

6 (a) TIME USE SURVEYS OF UNREMUNERATED

7 WORK.—The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Sta8 tistics shall periodically conduct time use surveys of

9 unremunerated work performed in the United States, in10 cluding household work, work related to child care and

11 other care services, agricultural work, work related to food

12 production, work related to family businesses, and volun13 teer work.

14 (b) MONETARY VALUE OF UNREMUNERATED

15 WORK.—On the basis of the time use surveys of

16 unremunerated work conducted under subsection (a), the

17 Commissioner shall calculate the monetary value of such

18 unremunerated work. Separate monetary values shall be

19 calculated for men and women.

20 (c) INCLUSION IN GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT.—Be21 ginning three years after the date of the enactment of this

22 Act, the monetary value of the unremunerated work cal23 culated pursuant to subsection (b) shall be included in sta24 tistics used to determine the annual gross national product

25 of the United States.
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1 (d) METHOD OF CALCULATION.—Not later than 90

2 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Com3 missioner shall submit a report to the Congress describing

4 the method by which the Commissioner will conduct time

5 use surveys of unremunerated work performed in the

6 United States and calculate the monetary value of such

7 unremunerated work.

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