Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) 

Charter of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee

The members of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee are:

  • Professor Joseph G. Altonji, Department of Economics, Yale University
  • Professor Ernst R. Berndt, Professor of Applied Economics, Sloan School, MIT
  • Dr. Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Professor F. Jay Breidt, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
  • Professor Don A. Dillman, Departments of Sociology and Community and Rural Sociology, Washington State University
  • Professor Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Department of Economics, Princeton University
  • Professor Robert M. Groves, Director, Survey Research Center and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
  • Professor Bronwyn H. Hall, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Professor John C. Haltiwanger, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
  • Professor Valerie A. Ramey, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
  • Dr. Richard D. Rippe, Economic Consultant
  • Professor Joseph Sedransk, Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
  • Professor Matthew D. Shapiro (FESAC Chairperson), Department of Economics and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
  • Professor Kirk M. Wolter, Senior Fellow, National Opinion Research Center (NORC); Director, Center for Excellence in Survey Research; and Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago

The Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee meets twice yearly. The planned meeting schedule through 2009 is as follows:

  • December 11, 2009

Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee Meetings

June 19, 2009 - Canceled

December 12, 2008

June 13, 2008 - Canceled

December 14, 2007

  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Measuring Labor Composition: A Comparison of Alternate Methodologies (PDF)
    • Assessing Nonresponse Bias in Estimates of Employment (PDF)
    • Issues Related to Achieving Target Response Rates for Economic Surveys at the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF)
  • FESAC Statement on Data Sharing (PDF)

June 8, 2007

December 15, 2006

June 9, 2006

  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented:
    • Services Producer Price Indices: Past, Present, and Future (PDF)
      • Addendum (PDF)
    • Plans for New PPI Service Sector Aggregation Indexes (PDF)
    • Outliers and Influential Observations in Establishment Surveys (PDF)

December 9, 2005

  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Treatment of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI (PDF)
    • Discrepancy in CPS-CES (PDF)

June 10, 2005

  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Comparison of BEA and BLS NAICS-based Output Measures (PDF)
    • Progress Toward Completing Historical Production Accounts using the North American Industry Classification System (PDF)
    • Births and Deaths in Business Surveys (PDF)

December 14, 2004 

  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal Income, CPS Money Income, and Beyond (PDF)
    • Response Rates and Nonresponse in Establishment Surveys – BLS and Census Bureau (PDF)
    • Perspective on Response Rates and Nonresponse in Establishment Surveys (PDF)
    • Development of an ECI excluding Workers Earning Incentive Pay (PDF)

June 11, 2004 - Canceled

October 17, 2003

  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Imputation in Three Federal Statistical Agencies (PDF) 
    • Examining the Discrepancy in Employment Growth between the CPS and the CES (PDF)

March 21, 2003

  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented:
    • The Consumer Expenditure Survey in Comparison: Focus on Personal Consumption Expenditures (PDF)
    • Changes to Editing Strategies when Establishment Survey Data Collection Moves to the Web (PDF)
    • Should Benefit Usage Be Held Constant when Calculating the ECI? A Theoretical Perspective (PDF)

For more information on the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, please contact advisorycommittees@bls.gov

 

Last Modified Date: April 17, 2009