[Federal Register: April 26, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 79)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics

 
Labor Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

    The Spring meetings of committees of the Labor Research Advisory 
Council will be held on May 11, 12, and 13. All of the meetings will be 
held in 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

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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 11, 1999

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics--Meeting 
Room 1, PSB

1. Report on Y2K status
2. New 1997 Occupational Employment Statistics data
3. Status of Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
4. Report on pilot study of collecting all employee earnings and hours 
in the Current Employment Statistics program

1:00 p.m.--Committee on Occupational Safety and Health Statistics--
Meeting Room 1, PSB

1. Review of the worker demographic and case characteristic data from 
the 1997 Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
2. Demonstration of worker demographic and case characteristics 
profiles system
3. Review and discussion of potential followback/special studies
4. Report on fatal and non-fatal injuries to young workers
5. Status of FY 2000 safety and health statistics budget

Wednesday, May 12, 1999

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Productivity, Technology and Growth--Room 2195, 
2nd Floor, PSB

1. Recent developments in the Office of Productivity and Technology
2. Presentation of research results on the accuracy of BLS productivity 
data for major sectors
    --Overview of the research
    --Role of prices in measuring business sector productivity
    --Analysis of industry multifactor productivity series, in relation 
to possible measurement bias
3. New employment projections, 1998-2008
4. Special projections-related projects
5. Long-term labor force projections
6. New study of high-tech employment

Thursday, May 13, 1999

9:30 a.m.--Committee on Compensation and Working Conditions--Meeting 
Room 1, PSB

1. Demonstration of the National Compensation Survey (NCS) occupational 
wage estimator
2. Discussion of stock option test plans
3. Update on the status of National Compensation Survey national data

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

1. Status of the Consumer Price Index research series
2. Status of the joint initiative on pharmaceutical price measurement 
issues
3. Report on recent Import and Export Price Indexes results

    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 16th day of April, 1999.
Katharine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 99-10378 Filed 4-23-99; 8:45 am]
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