(Dollars in
Millions) |
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FY 2000 |
FY 2001 |
Change |
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Labor Force Statistics |
$171.0 |
$204.6 |
$33.6 |
1/ |
Prices and Cost of Living |
128.8 |
135.4 |
6.6 |
|
Compensation and Working Conditions |
68.9 |
71.2 |
2.3 |
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Productivity and Technology |
7.8 |
9.3 |
1.5 |
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Employment Projections |
5.0 |
6.7 |
1.7 |
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Executive Direction and Staff Services |
24.7 |
26.5 |
1.8 |
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Consumer Price Index Revision |
7.0 |
0.0 |
-7.0 |
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Total, Budget Authority |
$413.2 |
$453.7 |
$40.5 |
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Full Time Equivalents * |
2,500 |
2,497 |
-3 |
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* Includes 61 reimbursable FTE in FY 2001.
1/ Increase includes $20.7 in budget authority
for activities transferred from ETA ($10 million general funds and $10.7
million in trust funds). The trust fund amount will be replaced with funding
generated by fees on employers requesting foreign labor certification under the
Administration's legislative proposal. For further details, see the ETA
section.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact finding
agency in the Federal government in the broad field of labor economics. The BLS
provides general purpose statistics that provide some of the major indicators
used in: developing economic and social policy; making decisions in the
business and labor communities; developing legislative and other programs
affecting labor; conducting research on labor market issues; and projecting
Federal expenditures and receipts. The direct request for the BLS is $453.7
million, an increase of $40.5 million and 3 FTE below the FY 2000 level. The
FTE reduction is due to the completion of the current cycle of updating the
Consumer Price Index, which will finish a seven year cycle in FY 2000.
Labor Force Statistics This program provides
comprehensive and timely information on the labor force, employment,
unemployment, and related labor market characteristics at the national level;
industrial and occupational employment at the state level; labor force and
unemployment figures at state and local levels. The BLS is continuing to
develop monthly estimates on the numbers of separations, new hires, and current
job openings for an all-industry total and major industry groupings. The BLS
also will complete work on the multi-year effort to replace the Standard
Industrial Classification (SIC) system with the new North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS). The proposed new system reflects technological
and economic changes that have occurred over the past 20 years that are not
reflected in the current classification system. The FY 2001 request includes
$2.4 million and 8 FTE for working with the States to improve the quality,
quantity, and timeliness of local labor force estimates produced by the Local
Area Unemployment Statistics program, consistent with the Workforce Investment
Act (WIA) mandates to improve labor market information. The FY 2001 request
also includes $4.3 million and 5 FTE to develop a time-use survey that will
provide nationally representative estimates of how Americans spend their time
in an average week. This survey will contribute knowledge in many areas such as
time invested in the care of the young and the elderly in our society,
variations between single-parent and two-parent families, and time invested in
skill acquisition.
Prices and Living Conditions This program
provides comprehensive and detailed measures of price change, including the
Consumer Price Index (CPI), for many geographic areas within the United States
as well as estimates of consumers' incomes and expenditures for analysis of
price behavior and consumer spending patterns, the interpretation of price
movements in relation to other major economic changes, and the formulation and
evaluation of economic policy. The 2001 request includes $2.0 million and 17
FTE to extend the Producer Price Index (PPI) coverage for the first time to the
construction sector of the U.S. economy; and to enhance coverage of the service
sector in the PPI and BLS productivity data. The PPI changes may in turn lead
to further improvement of the CPI.
Compensation and Working Conditions This
program provides for the development of a comprehensive body of reliable
information on employee compensation and working conditions, including the
Employment Cost Index (ECI) annual reports on workplace injuries and illnesses,
and workplace fatalities. In FY 2001 the BLS will begin increasing the ECI
sample, which will allow the BLS to produce annual cost levels and quarterly
indices of changes in employer costs of wages and benefits by major industry
and occupational groups with greater precision. The BLS is continuing a
multi-year project that will culminate in the integration of the current
Employment Cost Index, Employee Benefits Survey, and Occupational Compensation
Survey Program into a single unified program of compensation statistics, the
National Compensation Survey.
Productivity and Technology The Productivity
and Technology program measures productivity movements in major sectors of the
economy and in individual industries, identifies the sources of productivity
growth and investigates the nature of technological change and its effect on
employment. This program also develops international comparisons of
productivity, hourly compensation, unit labor costs, and employment and
unemployment for foreign countries. The FY 2001 request includes an increase of
$1.2 million and 10 FTE to develop practical solutions to difficult conceptual
issues in the measurement of service-sector output and productivity and to
develop new industry labor and multi-factor productivity series in the
service-producing sector among other activities.
Employment Projections The Employment
Projections program develops information about the labor market for ten years
in the future including labor force trends by sex, race, and age; employment
trends by industry and occupation; and on the implications of these data for
employment opportunities of specific groups in the labor force such as youth,
the disadvantaged, and college graduates. The information is published in the
Occupational Outlook Handbook, Occupational Outlook Quarterly and
other special reports. The FY 2001 request includes $1.4 million and 7 FTE that
will allow the BLS to provide technical guidance for a new Federal-State
cooperative employment projections program, also linked to WIA mandated
improvements to labor market information.
Executive Direction and Staff Services This
activity provides for agency-wide policy and management direction including all
centralized support services in the administrative, publications, and computer
systems support areas as well as the Survey Design Research Center. The request
includes $500 thousand to research ways to expand the Nation's ability to
measure discrimination in labor markets and employment relationships.
Consumer Price Index Revision (CPIR) Begun in
FY 1995, BLS will complete the revision in FY 2001. The BLS released the
revised index based on the new market basket with data for January 1998,
introduced the revised housing sample with data for January 1999 and will
complete the revision in FY 2001 with remaining funds which were provided in FY
2000. The periodic revision of the CPI ensures accurate, reliable, and timely
CPI data.
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FY 2000 |
FY 2001 |
Change |
Employ. & Unemployment Estimates for States and Local
Areas |
87,300 |
87,300 |
0 |
Consumer Price Indexes |
5,400 |
5,400 |
0 |
Employment Cost Index Schedules |
12,000 |
14,050 |
2,050 |
Productivity Series Maintained |
5,110 |
5,534 |
424 |
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