[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 54 (Thursday, March 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13395-13396]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7089]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics


Business Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

    The regular Spring meetings of the Business Research Advisory 
Council and its committees will be held on April 9 and 10, 1997. All of 
the meetings will be held in the Conference Center of the Postal Square 
Building, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Washington, DC.
    The Business Research Advisory Council and its committees advise 
the Bureau of Labor Statistics with respect to technical matters 
associated with the Bureau's programs. Membership consists of technical 
officers from American business and industry.
    The schedule and agenda for the meetings are as follows:

Wednesday, April 9, 1997

10:00-11:30 a.m.--Committee on Compensation and Working Conditions

1. Update on National Compensation Survey (NCS) activities
2. NCS marketing materials
3. NCS Calibration

1:00-2:30 p.m.--Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics

1. Welcome and introductions
2. Longitudinal establishment (ES-202) data
3. Current Population Survey (CPS) longitudinal data

3:00-4:30 p.m.--Committee on Productivity and Foreign Labor Statistics

1. Report on recent developments in the Office of Productivity and 
Technology

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2. Development of the new industry productivity database
3. Re-design of the Hours at Work Survey
4. International comparisons of labor force, employment and 
unemployment; recent results and current issues

Thursday, April 10, 1997

8:30-10:00 a.m.--Committee on Employment Projections

1. Overview of the staffing, organization, and mission of the Office of 
Employment Projections (OEP)
2. Progress on the 1996-2006 projections
3. Establishment of a long-term plan for the Committee's 
``contribution-relationship'' to the OEP Program

10:30-12:30 p.m.--Council Meeting

1. Chairperson's opening remarks
2. Commissioner Abraham's address and discussion
3. Report on the National Longitudinal Surveys
4. Chairperson's closing remarks

1:30-3:00 p.m.--Committee on Price Indexes

1. Update on program developments
    a. Producer Price Indexes
    b. The Consumer Price Index
2. Other business

1:30-3:00 p.m.--Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Statistics

1. Report on the industry summary data from the 1995 Survey of 
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
2. Status of the 1996 Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
3. Impact of the North American Industry Classification Structure 
(NAICS) on the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
    a. Sampling and estimation effects
    b. Discontinuity in series
4. Update on the activities of the ad hoc committee on standardizing 
workplace injury and illness coding
5. Fiscal Year 1998 budget request for the Occupational Safety and 
Health Statistics program
6. Recent information releases on workplace hazards

    The meetings are open to the public. Persons with disabilities and 
those wishing to attend these meetings as observers should contact 
Constance B. DiCesare, Liaison, Business Research Advisory Council, at 
(202) 606-5903, for appropriate accommodations.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. the 10th day of March 1997.

Katharine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 97-7089 Filed 3-19-97; 8:45 am]
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