Abbott, Edith, 87 Addams, Jane, 63 Booz-Allen and Hamilton Survey, 254-255 Clague, 207-209 Lubin, 170-175 Meeker, 108-111 Moore, 217-218, 223, 256 Stewart, 120-121, 135-138 Administrative Procedures Act, 210, 241 Advisory Committee on Employment Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Advisory groups (BLS) (See also Business Agency for International Development, Agricultural Adjustment Act, 144 Bureau of Animal Industry, 48 Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher American Association for Labor Legisla- American Association of Public Employ- American Economic Association, 90, American Engineering Standards Com- American Federation of Labor, 44, 45, American Federationist, 120, 156 Conventions, 2, 5, 19, 24, 69, 134 American Management Association American Smelting and Refining Com- American Social Science Association, 41 Advisory Committee to the Secre- BLS press conferences, 222, 223 tics and Information Services, 145 Moore's resignation, 225 Recommendations for appointment, 142, 176 Technical advisory committee to Amiss, Herman L., 135 Andrews, John B., 59-60, 101 Anthracite coal strike (1902), 28–29, 46 Appropriations, 260 Clague, 178, 193, 207-208 Lubin, 170-172 Meeker, 81, 107, 108-109 Neill, 73-74 Recent period, 1965-85, 220, 234, Stewart, 115, 122, 125, 136–138 Arbitration Act of 1888, 14, 26, 27, 28 Association for the Promotion of Profit Automobile Manufacturers' Association, Babson Statistical Organization, 134–135 Baldwin, Charles E., 135, 139 Baruch, Bernard, 101 Berridge, William A., 129, 131, 180 Du Bois, W.E.B., 32-33, 76 Family expenditure survey (1934-36) Lubin, 145-146 Office of Economic Research, 185 Booz-Allen and Hamilton surveys, 185, Borah, William E., 68, 77 Bowen, J. Chester, 129, 135 Brennan, Peter J., 226 Brookings Institution, The, 11, 129, 141, Budget, Bureau of the (See also Office of Blue-collar surveys, 200 Cost-of-living index, 122 Interagency Price Committee, 199 Job vacancy statistics, 191 Survey of professional, administra- Unemployment statistics, 166, 181, Budgets, standard, BLS. See Prices and Budgets, WPA, for "basic maintenance" Burdetsky, Ben, 217, 218 Independence and integrity, Clague, 179, 204, 209-210, 211 Hinrichs' nomination, 175-177 Korean War controversy, 194 Moore, 218, 224-225 Neill, 45, 64-65, 67-69, 70, Reader's Digest charges, Release of statistics, 188-190, 221-226 Shiskin, 218-219 Stewart, 117, 118, 126, 139 Urban poverty area studies, 244 Wright, 3, 11, 23-24, 37–38, 42, Investigations and examinations of: Advisory Committee on Advisory Committee to the Committee on Government Statistics and Information Gordon Committee, 189-190 House Subcommittee on Over- staffing, 207-209 Joint Economic Committee, Mills Committee, 154–156 Legislation: Organic Act, 1884, 1, 3-4 Dept. of Commerce and Labor, Dept. of Labor, 1913, 75 Role, 258-261 Booz-Allen and Hamilton reports, 185, 254-255 in Dept. of Commerce and in Dept. of Labor, 80, 87-89, Hoover Commission, 181 Neill, 44 in New Deal years, 144-148 Program and organization con- Roosevelt, Theodore, 20-21, 43-44 Shiskin, 219 Standard budgets, 233-234 in World War I, 101-108 in World War II, 148-149 Burns, Arthur F., 190-191, 217, 221, 242 CPI, housing costs, 229-230, 233 Carnegie Institution of Washington, 33, Carter, Jimmy, 219, 220, 231 Catholic University of America, 41, 45, 79 Census, Bureau of the, 32, 33, 38, 64, 100, 124, 131, 199 Bureau of Efficiency recommenda- Cost-of-living reports, 121-122 Current Population Survey, 188, Establishment of, 15-17 Exchange with BLS (1959), 166, 188 Force, 166, 181, 187 Unemployment statistics, 130, 181, Urban poverty area studies, 243-244 Central Bureau of Planning and Statis- Central Statistical Board, 145, 150, Chaney, Lucian W., 58, 101 Child labor, 29-31, 47, 62-69, 85-86, 90 Civil Service Commission (See also Office of Personnel Management), 246, 250 Bureau programs, 186-205 Clark College (Worcester, Mass.), 41, 140 Colorado mining areas, 25, 95-96 Economic growth studies, 206-207 Price studies, 89,90 Productivity data, 135 Commerce and Labor, Dept. of, 34, 44, Bureau of Labor in, 33, 62, 72-73 Establishment of, 18-21 Commission on Industrial Relations, Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government. Committee on Government Operations, Committee on Government Statistics Service, House, 224 Committee on the Integrity of Federal Commons, John R., 12, 26, 116, 180 Confidentiality, voluntary reporting, BLS Congressional Budget Office, 215 Consumer expenditure studies and surveys: Continuing expenditure survey, Cost-of-production studies, 34 Federal employees, 106, 123, 149 studies, 36-37, 102, 104-106, 122, Survey of Urban and Rural Con- sumers (1935-36), 150 Adjustment following World War II, Carter administration criticism, 220 102-107, 117, 122, 124, 149-158 Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers and Consumer General Motors, contract with United Auto Workers, 179, 193 Indexation uses, 149, 179, 214-215, 229 Interim or temporary revision Korean War controversy, 194–195 Population coverage, 194, 195, 196, Quality change, 71, 155, 157, 158, 36-38, 94-95, 102-107, 121-124 Bureau programs, 187, 201, 207, 247 Guideposts policy, 203 Release of data, 225 Council of National Defense (World War Council on Economic Policy, Subcom- Couzens, James, 129, 141 Croxton, Fred C., 51, 70 Current Population Survey, household Exchange with Census, 166, 188 |