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B-146830 1 (1971-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafij0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (W4 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 i CIVIL DIVISION LM095599 B-146830 JUL . I Dear Mr. Secretary: We have surveyed the program activities of the Bureau of Domestic Commerce (BDC), Department of Commerce, giving primary attention to the issuance of publications by BDC. During our survey we noted that some of the BDC publica- tions contained considerable information that duplicated data presented in publications issued by other Government agencies, primarily the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. For example, duplicative statistical information was presented in two BDC publications entitled Construction Review and Industry Profiles. We believe that cognizant BDC and Census officials should establish effective coordination to eliminate the duplication of published information. These publications are discussed further in the following paragraphs. CONSTRUCTION REVIEW This BDC publication is a monthly report on the building materials and construction industries. We were informed by a BDC official that, in earlier years, the report had contained several articles of an analytical nature and had less emphasis on statistical data. Currently the monthly report generally consists of one feature article and statistical data consisting of many tables. For example, the April 1971 issue contains 39 statistical tables which make up 90 percent of the content of the report. Of the tables in this publication, 10 are very similar to, and are based on, statistical tables published in three reports by Census as part of a series of construction reports and one table is taken from a Census housing report. An additional 11 tables are based on other data obtained from Census. We were not able to readily determine whether the latter data had been published by Census. Source data for eight other tables were obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, which also had published the material, and the data, some of which had been published, for the remaining nine tables were received from various Government agencies and private industry. 6 6 c/ I 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-197

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