71 Pa. Stat. § 973
The bureau shall collect, compile, and publish all statistics and useful data and information relating to labor, coal mining, oil and gas production, manufacturing industries, commercial operations, public service companies, municipalities, maritime interests, and other business of the State; and, in order to facilitate the duties herein imposed, all persons, associations, copartnerships, and corporations, engaged as herein described within this Commonwealth, and municipal and other public officers, are hereby required to furnish such statistical information as the Secretary of Commerce or the chief of such bureau may require. The Secretary of Commerce shall have a complete, summarized, and systematized report of the statistics and information collected and compiled by the bureau published annually, and shall otherwise provide means for making such information available for the use and benefit of the public as he may find necessary.
71 P.S. § 973