Report on data collecting and data analysis of labour force and other methodology in the USA - discusses data information needs, surveys for population, agricultural enterprise, industrial enterprise and unemployment benefit, etc., state and local level employment and unemployment statistics, etc. Graphs, illustrations, organigrams and references.

This manual is based on the international standards adopted by the 13th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in October 1982. One of its main objectives is to explain the international concepts and definitions in more detail than in the 1982 conference resolution.