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November 1984, Vol. 107, No. 11

A century of wage statistics:
the BLS contribution

H.M. Douty
Assistant Commissioner, Wages and Industrial Relations, Bureau of Labor Statistics


Knowledge of the structure of and trends in wages is vital to appraisal of the economic status of the working population; over its first century of life, the Bureau has developed a consistent body of information on wages, and progressively more sophisticated techniques to analyze it.

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