Collection, Collation, and Reports of Labor Statistics

THE CODE OF THE LAWS
OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TITLE 29 – LABOR
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CHAPTER 1. LABOR STATISTICS
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

§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, 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

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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.)