[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 82 (Wednesday, April 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 23475]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-11355]


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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 19, 20, and 21. All of the meetings will be 
held in the Conference Center of the Postal Square Building (PSB), 2 
Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Washington, DC.
    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 19, 1998

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Statistics--
Meeting Room 3

1. Discuss methods for estimating fatality rates by State
2. Review worker demographic and injury and illness characteristic 
information from the 1996 Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
3. Discuss strategies for special epidemiological studies as followback 
surveys to the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
4. Discuss the increase in the occurrence of injuries and illnesses 
with restricted work activity

1:30 p.m.--Committee on Prices and Living Conditions--Meeting Room 3

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

Wednesday, May 20, 1998

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics--Meeting 
Room 10

1. Union membership as measured by the Current Population Survey 
(CPS)--Federal employee membership in CPS compared to Office of 
Personnel Management data
2. Local Area Unemployment Statistics data on the Internet--outlook for 
easier access to these data
3. Job Opening and Labor Turnover Survey--plans for FY 1999
4. Wage data from the Occupational Employment Statistics Survey--what 
data are available
5. Longitudinal Database--status of project
6. Supplements to the Current Population Survey
7. Current Employment Statistics--discussion of fluctuations in Average 
Weekly Hours and Average Hourly Earnings series related to varied 
length of bi-monthly and monthly payrolls

1:30 p.m.--Committee on Foreign Labor Statistics--Meeting Room 10

1. Report on recent developments in the Office of Productivity and 
Technology
2. International comparisons of unit labor costs in manufacturing
Committee on Productivity, Technology and Growth--Meeting Room 10
1. Recent trends in productivity measures for major sectors of the U.S. 
economy
2. The new BLS industry productivity data set
3. Review of 1996-2006 projections publications
4. Overview of the Office of Employment Projections internet site
5. Discussion of information technology worker job market

Thursday, May 21, 1998

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Compensation and Working Conditions (Formerly 
Wages and Industrial Relations--Meeting Room 3

1. Factors explaining wage variation in the National Compensation 
Survey
2. Office of Compensation and Working Conditions compensation data on 
the internet
3. Benefits in the National Compensation Survey

    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 22nd day of April, 1998.
Katharine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 98-11355 Filed 4-28-98; 8:45 am]
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