Grant Community.com

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Descriptions

17.004:  Productivity and Technology Data

Objectives:  To provide and analyze data on productivity in major sectors of the U.S. economy and specific industries and develop productivity and other measures for selected countries.

PROGRAM AND AWARD	FINANCIAL AND INFORMATION CONTACTS
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS	FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFO.
APPLICATION AND AWARD PROCESS	INFORMATION CONTACTS
RELATED PROGRAMS	ASSISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS
PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS	POST ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS

17.004 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

Applicant Eligibility:  Not applicable.

Beneficiary Eligibility:  Not applicable.

Credentials/Documentation:  None.

17.004 APPLICATION AND AWARD PROCESS:

Preapplication Coordination:  None. This program is excluded from coverage under E.O. 12372.

Application Procedure:  Not applicable.

Award Procedure:  Not applicable.

Deadlines:  Not applicable.

Range of Approval/Disapproval Time:  Not applicable.

Appeals:  Not applicable.

Renewals:  Not applicable.

Criteria for Selecting Proposals:  Not applicable.

Examples of Funded Projects:  Not applicable.

Range and Average of Financial Assistance:  Not applicable.

17.004 RELATED PROGRAMS:

• 11.025 Measures and Analyses of the U.S. Economy;
• 17.006 Employment Projections Data.

17.004 PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

17.004 FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFO:

Federal Agency:  BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Type of Assistance:  Dissemination of Technical Information.

Obligations:  (Salaries and Expenses) FY 99 $7,474,000; FY 00 est $7,785,000; and FY 01 est $9,262,000.

Budget Account Number:  16-0200-0-1-505.

Authorization:  Public Laws 54-249, 62-426, 71-537, 76-77, and 94-206, 29 U.S.C. 1, 29 U.S.C. 2b.

Regulations, Guidelines, and Literature:  "BLS Handbook of Methods"; "Major Programs Bureau of Labor Statistics"; "BLS Publications on Productivity and Technology"; "Estimating Capital Inputs for Productivity Measurement: An Overview of Concepts and Methods"; "Manufacturing Costs, Productivity, and Competitiveness, 1979-93"; "Improvements to the Quarterly Productivity Measures"; "The Impact of Research and Development on Productivity Growth"; "Trends in Multifactor Productivity, 1948-81"; "Productivity and Costs in the Business Economy and Major Sectors"; "Recent Changes in the Growth of the U.S. Multifactor Productivity"; "Labor Composition and U.S. Productivity Growth, 1948-90"; "Measurement of Productivity Growth in U.S. Manufacturing"; "Difficulties in the Measurement of Service Outputs"; "BLS Modernizes Industry Labor Productivity Program"; "Multifactor Productivity: Cotton and Synthetic Broadwoven Fabrics"; "Multifactor Productivity in Railroad Transportation"; "Productivity Growth Improves in House furnishings Industry"; "Federal Productivity Measurement Program: The Final Results"; "Multifactor Productivity: Refrigeration and Heating Equipment Industry"; "Productivity in the Fabricated Plate Work Industry"; "Productivity Trends in the Mobile Homes Industry"; "Productivity Trends in Two Retail Trade Industries"; "The Changing Family in International Perspective."; "International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing"; "Comparative Labor Force Statistics, 10 Countries"; "Manufacturing Multifactor Productivity in Three Countries"; "International Comparisons of Unemployment"; "Consumer Price Indexes, Sixteen Countries"; "Consumer Price Indexes in Nine Countries, Percent Change from Previous Period"; "Unpublished Comparative Gross Domestic Product Per Capita and Per Employed Person, Fourteen Countries"; "U.S. and Foreign Productivity and Unit Labor Costs"; "BLS Completes Major Expansion of Industry Productivity Series"; "Measuring State and Local Government Labor Productivity: Examples from Eleven Services"; "The Accuracy of the BLS Productivity Measures"; "How Price Indexes Affect BLS Productivity Measures"; "International Labor Productivity and Per Capita Income"; "Possible Measurement Bias in Aggregate Productivity Growth"; "Productivity by Industry".

17.004 INFO CONTACTS:

Regional or Local Office:  Contact the nearest regional office of the Bureau of Labor Statistics listed in Appendix IV of the Catalog.

Headquarters Office:  Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Productivity and Technology, 2 Massachusetts Ave., NE., Washington, DC 20212. Phone: (202) 691-5600. Contact: Office of the Associate Commissioner.

(See Appendix IV for more contact info.)

17.004 ASSISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS:

Formula and Matching Requirements:  Not applicable.

Length and Time Phasing of Assistance:  Not applicable.

Uses and Use Restrictions:  Provides for: (a) Productivity studies presenting indexes of output per hour of all persons for the business sector and for major sub-sectors; (b) multifactor productivity indexes (output per unit of combined labor and capital inputs) for private business, private nonfarm business, manufacturing, and major industries, and indexes of output per unit of capital; (c) multifactor productivity measures for selected industries including capital, labor, energy, materials, and purchased business services inputs; (d) industry productivity studies presenting output per employee-hour, output per employee, unit labor costs, and related data for selected industries; and (e) international comparisons of productivity, labor costs, and the labor force and unemployment.

17.004 POST ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Reports:  Not applicable.

Audits:  Not applicable.

Records:  Not applicable.