| Sumario: | In 1979 the National Commission on Employment and Unemployment Statistics, called the Levitan Commission for its chair, professor Sar A. Levitan, made almost one hundred recommendations for improving statistics compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The two secretaries of labor who have held the post since then, Ray Marshall and Raymond Donovan, reported to Congress on the desirability, feasibility, and cost of implementing each recommendation. The writers survey changes that have been made or are contemplated based on the commission's recommendations, including expanded data, conceptual changes, and data presentation in the Current Population Survey; documentation changes and modernization of the Current Employment Statistics survey; improved timeliness of the ES-202 Report, which sets industry employment benchmarks; and changes to improve the Local Area Unemployment Statistics program.
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