Reflections on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Monthly Labor Review

It is an honor to comment on directions for the Monthly Labor Review MLR over its next 25 years. The MLR is the federal government\u27s oldest continuous publication—first printed in 1915 and now published online by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), one of the nation\u27s oldest statistical agencies, established in 1884. BLS embodies the standards articulated by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) in the fifth edition of its quadrennial volume Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency (National Research Council, 2013). P&P lays down four principles: that a statistical agency produce data relevant to policy issues, earn credibility with data users, earn the trust of data providers (e.g., households, businesses), and maintain independence from political and other undue external influence

44 Years and Counting: CNSTAT’s Role in Federal Statistics

Copyright 2016 Constance F. CitroNotes for a live in-class discussion on a variety of topics on the federal statistical system with one of the foremost experts on it, Connie Citro (CNSTAT).The development of the 2016 version of the course is sponsored by the National Science Foundation as part of the NSF-Census Research Network (NCRN), under grant #1131848 to the Cornell node, with additional support for network-wide dissemination through the NCRN coordinating grant #1237602, the office of the Kenneth F. Kahn Dean of the ILR School, and the Labor Dynamics Institute. Previous versions of this course also received funding from the National Science Foundation Information Technologies Research Program under grant SES #042788