[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 90 (Friday, May 9, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25667-25668]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12165]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics


Labor Research Advisory Council; Meetings and Agenda

    The Spring meetings of committees of the Labor Research Advisory 
Council will be held on May 20, 21, and 22. All of the meetings will be 
held in the Conference Center of the Postal Square Building (PSB), 2 
Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Washington, D.C.
    The Labor 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 union research 
directors and staff members. The schedule and agenda of the meetings 
are as follows:

Tuesday, May 20, 1997

9:30 a.m.  Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics--Meeting 
Room 6, PSB
    1. Welfare reform and employment surveys
    2. Current Employment Statistics (CES) Revision update
    3. Standard Occupational Classification Revision
    4. North American Industry Classification Structure (NAICS) Update

1:30 p.m.  Committee on Foreign Labor Statistics--Meeting Room 6
    1. Report on recent developments in the Office of Productivity and 
Technology
    2. International comparisons of labor force, employment and

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unemployment: recent results and current issues

Committee on Productivity, Technology and Growth--Meeting Room 6
    1. New industry productivity database: Plans for extension of 
coverage
    2. Hours at Work Survey: Redesign of the survey
    3. Changes in procedures for the 1996-2006 projections
    4. Use of the labor requirements tables in job impact studies

Wednesday, May 21, 1997

9:30 a.m.  Committee on Prices and Living Conditions--Meeting Room 6
    1. Update on program developments
    a. Producer Price Indexes
    b. The Consumer Price Index
    2. Other business

1:30 p.m.  Committee on Wages and Industrial Relations--Meeting Room 6
    1. Update on National Compensation Survey (NCS) activities
    2. NCS Marketing materials
    3. NCS Calibration

Thursday, May 22, 1997

10:00 a.m.  Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Statistics--
Meeting Room 6
    1. Report on summary information from the 1995 Survey of 
Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
    2. Report on the 1994 Bulletin--Occupational Injuries and 
Illnesses: Counts, Rates, and Characteristics
    3. Report on the activities of the ad hoc committee on standardized 
coding of occupational injury and illness characteristics
    4. Discussion of injury and illness followback survey requirements
    5. Internet status report/demonstration

    The meetings are open to the public. Persons planning to attend 
these meetings as observers may want to contact Wilhelmina Abner on 
(Area Code 202) 606-5970.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 5th day of May 1997.
Katharine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 97-12165 Filed 5-8-97; 8:45 am]
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