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29 USC Sec. 1 01/07/2011

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TITLE 29 - LABOR

CHAPTER 1 - LABOR STATISTICS

SUBCHAPTER I - BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

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Sec. 1. Design and duties of bureau generally

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The general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics

shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United

States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the

most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially

upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of

laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material,

social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.

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(June 13, 1888, ch. 389, Sec. 1, 25 Stat. 182; Feb. 14, 1903, ch.

552, Sec. 4, 32 Stat. 826; Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, 33 Stat. 136;

Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, Sec. 3, 37 Stat. 737.)

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CODIFICATION

Act June 27, 1884, created Bureau of Labor in Department of the

Interior.

Section 1 of act June 13, 1888, created Department of Labor and

outlined its general design and duties, and section 9 of that act

transferred Bureau of Labor to Department of Labor.

Act Feb. 14, 1903, placed Department of Labor under jurisdiction

and made it a part of Department of Commerce and Labor.

Act Mar. 18, 1904, changed name of Department of Labor to Bureau

of Labor in Department of Commerce and Labor.

Act Mar. 4, 1913, created Department of Labor and transferred

Bureau of Labor from Department of Commerce and Labor to newly

created Department of Labor, redesignating such transferred Bureau

as Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and

agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to

Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 6

of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the

Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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29 USC Sec. 2 01/07/2011

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TITLE 29 - LABOR

CHAPTER 1 - LABOR STATISTICS

SUBCHAPTER I - BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

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Sec. 2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the direction of the

Secretary of Labor, shall collect, collate, and report at least

once each year, or oftener if necessary, full and complete

statistics of the conditions of labor and the products and

distribution of the products of the same, and to this end said

Secretary shall have power to employ any or either of the bureaus

provided for his department and to rearrange such statistical work,

and to distribute or consolidate the same as may be deemed

desirable in the public interests; and said Secretary shall also

have authority to call upon other departments of the Government for

statistical data and results obtained by them; and said Secretary

of Labor may collate, arrange, and publish such statistical

information so obtained in such manner as to him may seem wise.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall also collect, collate,

report, and publish at least once each month full and complete

statistics of the volume of and changes in employment, as indicated

by the number of persons employed, the total wages paid, and the

total hours of employment, in the service of the Federal

Government, the States and political subdivisions thereof, and in

the following industries and their principal branches: (1)

Manufacturing; (2) mining, quarrying, and crude petroleum

production; (3) building construction; (4) agriculture and

lumbering; (5) transportation, communication, and other public

utilities; (6) the retail and wholesale trades; and such other

industries as the Secretary of Labor may deem it in the public

interest to include. Such statistics shall be reported for all such

industries and their principal branches throughout the United

States and also by States and/or Federal reserve districts and by

such smaller geographical subdivisions as the said Secretary may

from time to time prescribe. The said Secretary is authorized to

arrange with any Federal, State, or municipal bureau or other

governmental agency for the collection of such statistics in such

manner as he may deem satisfactory, and may assign special agents

of the Department of Labor to any such bureau or agency to assist

in such collection.

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(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, Sec. 4, 37 Stat. 737; July 7, 1930, ch.

873, 46 Stat. 1019.)

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AMENDMENTS

1930 - Act July 7, 1930, inserted second par.

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TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and

agencies of Department of Labor, with certain exceptions, to

Secretary of Labor, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 6

of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out in the

Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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CENSUS DATA ON WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES; STUDY AND REPORT

For provisions requiring Bureaus of Labor Statistics and the

Census to include certain data on women-owned businesses in census

reports, and requiring a study and report on the most cost

effective and accurate means to gather and present such data, see

section 501 of Pub. L. 100-533, set out as a note under section 131

of Title 13, Census.

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR OLDER AMERICANS

Pub. L. 100-175, title I, Sec. 191, Nov. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 967,

provided that: "The Secretary of Labor shall, through the Bureau of

Labor Statistics, develop, from existing data sources, a reweighted

index of consumer prices which reflects the expenditures for

consumption by Americans 62 years of age and older. The Secretary

shall furnish to the Congress the index within 180 days after the

date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1987]. The Secretary shall

include with the index furnished a report which explains the

characteristics of the reweighted index, the research necessary to

develop and measure accurately the rate of inflation affecting such

Americans, and provides estimates of time and cost required for

additional activities necessary to carry out the objectives of this

section."

PRISON STATISTICS REPORT

Joint Res. June 17, 1940, ch. 389, 54 Stat. 401, authorized

Bureau of Labor Statistics to furnish a report to Congress before

May 1, 1941, on kind, amount, and value of all goods produced in

State and Federal prisons.

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29 USC Sec. 2a 01/07/2011

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TITLE 29 - LABOR

CHAPTER 1 - LABOR STATISTICS

SUBCHAPTER I - BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

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Sec. 2a. Omitted

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CODIFICATION

Section, act Feb. 24, 1927, ch. 189, title IV, 44 Stat. 1222,

which related to collection of statistical reports through local

special agents, was from an appropriations act for the Departments

of State, Justice, the Judiciary, and Departments of Commerce and

Labor for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928, and was not

repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.