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1.	Bureau of National Affairs
1.	BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference Daily Labor Report, The Bureau of National Affairs, September 29, 1992: Pg. A-13 Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As House and Senate conferees prepare to meet Sept. 30 on the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, officials at the DOL's Bureau of Labor Statistics are considering cuts to economic data programs that would be necessary if the agency's final budget comes in under the Bush administration's request. BLS officials contend that their choices are few if they have to cut spending on data series, largely because most of their programs are part of the core of statistics used by policy-makers and private forecasters as they try to get an accurate reading of what has been a hard-to-predict economy. Also, other BLS data programs are mandated by law, such as salary surveys required by the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990. Among the cuts that BLS officials are considering given the possibility of cuts in the final budget bill are: -- Various parts of the Boskin initiative, particularly those designed to improve employment and price programs. -- The national longitudinal survey, a $7 million a year program that yields data used by many private economists to look at labor market changes of demographic groups over time. Last summer, when this program was included in its list of possible cuts, the bureau received letters protesting such a plan from about 40 private economists, mainly from the academic community. -- The federal locality pay program, which just began in fiscal 1992, would be slightly reduced, but only in such a way that BLS could meet its deadline for delivering data to the Office of Personnel Management. Data will be used to help make federal pay more in line with those in comparable jobs in the private sector.
	Bibliography Citation Bureau of National Affairs. "BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference." Daily Labor Report, The Bureau of National Affairs, September 29, 1992: Pg. A-13.

2.	Bureau of National Affairs
2.	Child Care Problems Cut Workforce Ties of 1.1 Million Mothers in 1986, BLS Finds Bureau of National Affairs Pensions and Benefits Daily, December 11, 1991: pg. Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Child Care; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Some 1.1 million young mothers did not seek or hold a job in 1986 because they could not find affordable, quality child care, according to an article in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' October Monthly Labor Review. The group of mothers who could not find child care represented almost 14 percent of the total population of mothers aged 21 to 29 years old in 1986, according to author Peter Cattan. They also accounted for 23 percent of those who were out of the labor force for that year, said Cattan, who is an economist in BLS' Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics. The data were taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, an ongoing sample of U.S. residents who were 21 to 29 years old in 1986. Cattan studied a subsample of respondents consisting of mothers who neither worked nor looked for work for at least part of 1986. A second article in the Bulletin focusing on child care arrangements and costs found that the most prevalent type of care is that provided by relatives. More than 40 percent of 23- to 39-year-old mothers relied on a relative to take care of their child while they work, according to authors Jonathan R. Veum and Philip M. Gleason. Veum and Gleason based their analysis on data from the 1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a sample of 10,466 respondents, as well as the 1983 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, which includes information from regular interviews of women who were 14 to 24 years old in 1968. The 1983 survey included responses from nearly 69 percent of the 5,553 respondents in the 1968 sample.
	Bibliography Citation Bureau of National Affairs. "Child Care Problems Cut Workforce Ties of 1.1 Million Mothers in 1986, BLS Finds." Bureau of National Affairs Pensions and Benefits Daily, December 11, 1991: pg..

3.	Bureau of National Affairs
3.	Economic Statistics, BLS Budget Cuts Said AFfecting Major Data on Employment, Prices, Boskin Initiative Daily Report For Executives, November 19, 1992, Regulation, Economics and Law; 224 Cohort(s): NLS General, NLSY79 Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics is implementing spending cuts mandated by congressional budget actions that will affect major economic data programs for some time to come, according to BLS acting Commissioner William Barron Jr. At a time when labor market data are under intense scrutiny from policy-makers and private analysts, Barron said in a Nov. 18 interview, the bureau has no alternative but to reduce spending on major data series and halt plans for improving some indicators. Many initiatives to improve data programs--including principal economic indicators on employment and prices--are being dropped or postponed indefinitely. Two data series will be eliminated by BLS because funding for them was not provided in the appropriations bill, Barron said. Data collection will stop shortly for the mass layoff/plant closing report, which has had a shaky development from its start in the mid-1980s. The other data series that has been eliminated measures foreign direct investment in the United States. Other budget highlights announced by BLS include: A restructuring of the national longitudinal survey that will reduce data collection efforts from annual to every other year for the youth cohort followed in the series.
	Bibliography Citation Bureau of National Affairs. "Economic Statistics, BLS Budget Cuts Said AFfecting Major Data on Employment, Prices, Boskin Initiative." Daily Report For Executives, November 19, 1992, Regulation, Economics and Law; 224.

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4.	Most Eligible Workers Do Not File for Unemployment, GAO Report Finds BNA Daily Labor Report, March 16, 2006 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Unemployment; Unemployment Compensation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Summary of a GAO report that uses NLSY79 data to discuss factors related to an individual's decision to file for unemployment.
	Bibliography Citation Bureau of National Affairs. "Most Eligible Workers Do Not File for Unemployment, GAO Report Finds." BNA Daily Labor Report, March 16, 2006.

5.	Bureau of National Affairs
5.	Statistics, BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference Daily Report For Executives, September 29, 1992: 189 Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Bureau of Labor Statistics; Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As House and Senate conferees prepare to meet Sept. 30 on the appropriations bill for the Department of Labor, officials at the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics are considering cuts to economic data programs that would be necessary if the agency's final budget comes in under the Bush administration's request. BLS officials contend that their choices are few if they have to cut spending on data series, largely because most of their programs are part of the core of statistics used by policymakers and private forecasters as they try to get an accurate reading of what has been a hard-to-predict economy. Also, other BLS data programs are mandated by law, such as salary surveys required by the Federal Employee Pay Comparability Act of 1990. Among the cuts that BLS officials are considering, given the possibility of cuts in the final budget bill, are: 1) Various parts of the Boskin initiative, particularly those designed to improve employment and price programs. Spending aimed at improving the number of respondents providing data for the "first closing" of the payroll employment survey would be cut back. 2) The national longitudinal survey, a $ 7 million a year program that yields data used by many private economists to look at labor market changes of demographic groups over time. Last summer, when this program was included in its list of possible cuts, the bureau received letters protesting such a plan from about 40 private economists, mainly from the academic community. 3) The federal locality pay program. That program, which just began in fiscal 1992, would be slightly reduced, but only in such a way that BLS could meet its deadline for delivering data to the Office of Personnel Management. Data will be used to help make federal pay more in line with that for comparable jobs in the private sector.
	Bibliography Citation Bureau of National Affairs. "Statistics, BLS Officials Weighing Budget Cuts as House, Senate Near Conference." Daily Report For Executives, September 29, 1992: 189.

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