This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BE0CAE.B8A9A700 BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1998: Initiating a review of the agency's internal data-security controls, BLS Commissioner Katharine Abraham says the agency has suspended the loading of supplemental materials into its Internet Web site until it finds a way to prevent a repeat of the premature release of some October employment figures. Abraham says she will report to the secretary of labor in about 2 weeks on the agency's initial examination of release procedures, and that a comprehensive review also will begin at all information dissemination activities. "The early post of pre-release data that occurred on Wednesday (November 4) was accidental and resulted from inadequate internal control over the handling of supplemental information," Abraham said. ... "It was with a certain amount of trepidation that we decided to forgo the final clearance and move ahead to release the report, " Deborah Klein, BLS associate commissioner of publications and special projects told the Bureau of National Affairs November 6. ... Klein said that "once we realized that a substantial number of people had seen the (inadvertently released) data, we felt that we had no choice but to release all of the report." ... (Daily Labor Report, page A-13, Text E-96). __While BLS has "rigorous, centralized procedures" governing release of the data included in its news releases, including their posting on the Web site, "the same procedures have not been applied uniformly to the handling of supplementary materials," Commissioner Abraham said. BLS has allowed the offices in charge of each of its major statistical programs to design procedures for loading its own supplemental data onto a computer server that stores and delivers data to the Web site, she explained. The BLS employee who loaded the information onto the server Wednesday thought he had clearance to do so, but didn't know that the data would then be automatically posted on the Web site as well, she said. ... (The Washington Post, Nov. 7, page H3). __The Labor Department suspended the posting of supplemental employment numbers on its BLS Internet Web site for at least 2 weeks, following a premature release of data last week that briefly roiled financial markets. The BLS issues a monthly employment report, which contains information on the nation's jobless rate and a tally of jobs added to the economy, in the form of a news release. Additional supplementary data are released electronically for those who follow the economy closely . This includes charts and analytical tables that break down various changes and trends concerning job creation. Data that were prematurely released contained information on payroll, employment, hours and earnings for October. ... (The Wall Street Journal, page A2). The federal government's three major statistical agencies say they are at or near schedule to ensure their computer systems are year 2000 compliant before the Office of Management and Budget deadline of March 1999. These agencies - the Labor Department's BLS and the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau - produce most of the U.S. statistical releases relied on by policymakers and business leaders. ... At a September House hearing, Joel C. Willemssen, director of civil agencies information systems for the GAO, voiced concern that BLS deadlines for compliance are a little tight. BLS has 23 mission-critical systems. Fifteen are currently Y2K compliant and eight are not, according to John Sinks, director of survey processing at BLS. Of the non-compliant systems, :"some we are replacing, and some we are putting in patches," Sinks said. He also said "We expect to meet the OMB mandated deadline for March 1999 for implementations of all mission critical systems. We are adopting what we feel is an appropriate strategy." ... (Daily Labor Report, page C-1). The Wall Street Journal's feature "Tracking the Economy" (page A2) shows nonfarm productivity for the 3rd quarter of this year, to be released Tuesday, as predicted to be 2.0 percent above the previous quarter. Producer prices for October, to be released Friday, are estimated to go up 0.1 percent. 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[PEN-L:970] BLS Daily Report
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