Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC)

Charter of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee

The members of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee are:

  • Professor Joseph G. Altonji, Department of Economics, Yale University
  • Professor Ernst R. Berndt, Professor of Applied Economics, Sloan School, MIT
  • Dr. Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
  • Professor F. Jay Breidt, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
  • Professor Don A. Dillman, Departments of Sociology and Community and Rural Sociology, Washington State University
  • Professor Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Department of Economics, Princeton University
  • Professor Bronwyn H. Hall, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • Professor John C. Haltiwanger, Department of Economics, University of Maryland
  • Professor Valerie A. Ramey, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
  • Dr. Richard D. Rippe, Economic Consultant
  • Professor Joseph Sedransk, Department of Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
  • Professor Matthew D. Shapiro (FESAC Chairperson), Department of Economics and Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
  • Professor Kirk M. Wolter, Senior Fellow, National Opinion Research Center (NORC); Director, Center for Excellence in Survey Research; and Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago

Scheduled Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee Meetings

The Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee meets twice yearly. The planned meeting schedule through 2009 is as follows:

December 11, 2009 - Canceled

Previous Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee Meetings

June 19, 2009 - Canceled
December 12, 2008
June 13, 2008 - Canceled
December 14, 2007
  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Measuring Labor Composition: A Comparison of Alternate Methodologies (PDF)
    • Assessing Nonresponse Bias in Estimates of Employment (PDF)
    • Issues Related to Achieving Target Response Rates for Economic Surveys at the U.S. Census Bureau (PDF)
  • FESAC Statement on Data Sharing (PDF)
June 8, 2007
December 15, 2006
June 9, 2006
  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented:
    • Services Producer Price Indices: Past, Present, and Future (PDF)
      • Addendum (PDF)
    • Plans for New PPI Service Sector Aggregation Indexes (PDF)
    • Outliers and Influential Observations in Establishment Surveys (PDF)
December 9, 2005
  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Treatment of Owner-Occupied Housing in the CPI (PDF)
    • Discrepancy in CPS-CES (PDF)
June 10, 2005
  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Comparison of BEA and BLS NAICS-based Output Measures (PDF)
    • Progress Toward Completing Historical Production Accounts using the North American Industry Classification System (PDF)
    • Births and Deaths in Business Surveys (PDF)
December 14, 2004
  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal Income, CPS Money Income, and Beyond (PDF)
    • Response Rates and Nonresponse in Establishment Surveys – BLS and Census Bureau (PDF)
    • Perspective on Response Rates and Nonresponse in Establishment Surveys (PDF)
    • Development of an ECI excluding Workers Earning Incentive Pay (PDF)
June 11, 2004 - Canceled
October 17, 2003
  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented: 
    • Imputation in Three Federal Statistical Agencies (PDF) 
    • Examining the Discrepancy in Employment Growth between the CPS and the CES (PDF)
March 21, 2003
  • Agenda (PDF)
  • Papers presented:
    • The Consumer Expenditure Survey in Comparison: Focus on Personal Consumption Expenditures (PDF)
    • Changes to Editing Strategies when Establishment Survey Data Collection Moves to the Web (PDF)
    • Should Benefit Usage Be Held Constant when Calculating the ECI? A Theoretical Perspective (PDF)

For more information on the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, please contact advisorycommittees@bls.gov

 

Last Modified Date: November 9, 2009