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29 USC 2: Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics
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CHAPTER 1-LABOR STATISTICS
SUBCHAPTER I-BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
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§2. Collection, collation, and reports of labor statistics
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.
(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, §4, 37 Stat. 737 ; July 7, 1930, ch. 873, 46 Stat. 1019 .)
EDITORIAL NOTES

AMENDMENTS
1930-Act July 7, 1930, inserted second par.
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES

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, §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

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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.
EXECUTIVE DOCUMENTS

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, §§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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