94-23865. Business Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

Business Research Advisory Council; Notice of Meetings and Agenda

    The regular Fall meetings of the Board and Committee of the 
Business Research Advisory Council will be held on October 19 and 20, 
1994. All of the meetings will be held in the Conference Center of the 
Postal Square Building, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE., Washington, DC.
    The Business Research Advisory Board and its committees advise the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics with respect to technical matters associated 
with the Bureau's programs. Membership consists of technical officers 
from American business and industry.
    The schedule and agenda for the meetings are as follows:

Wednesday, October 19, 1994

10:00-12:00 p.m.--Committee on Productivity and Foreign Labor 
Statistics
    1. Election of Chair and new Vice-Chair
    2. Brief report on recent developments in the productivity office
    3. Productivity, unit labor costs, and international 
competitiveness in manufacturing
    4. Report on the Federal Productivity Measurement Program

2:00-4:00 p.m.--Committee on Price Indexes
    1. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the CPI Revision
    2. The Producer Price Indexes (PPI) Program
    3. Election of new Vice-Chair

6:00 p.m.-Committee on Economic Growth
    Delphi exercise addressing the following key issues that underlie 
forthcoming BLS projections:
    1. Female labor force participation
    2. Health care reform
    3. Savings and investment
    4. Industrial restructuring
    5. Personnel supply services

Thursday, October 20, 1994

8:00-9:30 a.m.--Committee on Employment and Unemployment Statistics
    1. Proposal for a National Wage Record Database
    2. Need for Job Vacancy Statistics
    3. Updates:
    a. Status of response to the American Statistical Association 
report on the establishment survey
    b. Standard Industrial Classification revision
    c. Secretary's Job Search Assistance Project
    4. Other business

10:00-12:00 p.m.--Board Meeting
    1. Chairperson's opening remarks
    2. Commissioner Abraham's address and discussion
    3. Business session
    4. Chairperson's closing remarks

1:30-3:00 p.m.--Committee on Compensation and Working Conditions
    1. Report on the Academic Conference of Employee benefits Survey/
Employment Cost Index (EBS/ECI) Integration
    2. New union/nonunion data from the Employee Benefits Survey
    3. New cost level data from the Employment Cost Index
    4. Other business

    The meetings are open to the public. Persons with disabilities 
wishing to attend should contact Constance B. DiCesare, Liaison, 
Business Research Advisory Council, at [phone], for appropriate 
accommodations.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. the 20th day of September 1994.
Katherine G. Abraham,
Commissioner.
[FR Doc. 94-23865 Filed 9-26-94; 8:45 am]
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