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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principle Federal agency charged with disseminating statistics in the broad area of labour economics. In particular BLS publishes the principle Federal economic indicators on unemployment and inflation in the U.S. BLS attempts to provide data providers with as many options as possible for submitting their reports such as over the Internet. The BLS approach to Internet data collection is to provide a singular, manageable, secure architecture for all surveys. This paper will explore the editing strategy used by BLS on the Internet. The paper will summarise the types of edits used in post collection review and the strategy employed to incorporate edits into web-based instruments. Edit experience from two Internet survey instruments will be discussed including implementation strategies, edit failure experience, and comparisons with edit failures of data collected by standard protocols. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract. Sustainability as it applies to agriculture has traditionally been evaluated by measuring production output and capabilities. Concerns about agriculture's affect on the environment broadened the scope of sustainability measurements. More recent efforts have attempted to link agricultural sustainability to economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social equity. This paper examines one human dimension of agriculture which is the labour force and shows that most conventional measurements are inadequate because little is known about the characteristics of hired farm worker households, especially their income. Furthermore, the measurements also fail to link the production aspects of agriculture to the household supplying the labour. A first effort to obtain this linkage via a census of agriculture integrated with a sample survey is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract. Nowadays the use of labour statistics goes well beyond just monitoring the labour market; they are becoming well integrated into several aspects of government decision-making and influence financial markets. The methods used for their release and further dissemination are therefore tightly a matter of public concern. Virtually all international recommendations and guidance on labour statistics are restricted to the collection and processing operations. Only recently has attention been given at an international level to developing a code of best practice for dissemination - even though dissemination practices have a big influence on the reputation of statistics and the agency which releases them. Besides the distribution of data on paper and by electronic means, guidelines of good dissemination practice should include topics such as user-friendliness, the provision of meta-data, publicity for statistical products and relationships with users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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