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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.

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