The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall have charge of the compilation, analysis and interpretation of the statistical data regarding labor in the various industries, businesses and occupations. It shall prepare and keep up to date indexes of prices and of the cost of living; it shall make an analysis of day’s wages and shall establish the relation of these to the cost of living; and shall make surveys of an economic-social nature in regard to the living and working conditions of industrial and agricultural workmen.
History —Apr. 14, 1931, No. 15, p. 168, added as § 15b on May 13, 1943, No. 144, p. 444, § 3, eff. 90 days after May 13, 1943.