1.   Andrew Sum of Northeastern concluded that two months ago, after analyzing Census data and labor statistics.

2.   Also on Wednesday labor market statistics and government deficit figures are due for release.

3.   Computer software would make it relatively easy to develop standards based on federal labor statistics, he said.

4.   Its agricultural records and labor statistics, along with penal registration lists and personal data of party functionaries, were stored electronically.

5.   Katharine Abraham, the commissioner of labor statistics, told Congress on Friday that many of these people were being drawn into the labor force by the buoyant economy.

6.   Monthly changes large enough to be statistically meaningful, Katharine G. Abraham, the commissioner of labor statistics, said ruefully, tend also to defy belief.

7.   On Wednesday, labor market statistics are due out.

8.   She is Janet Norwood, former commissioner of labor statistics at the U.S. Department of Labor, who is now a senior fellow at the Urban Institute.

9.   She was the first one to serve as commissioner of labor statistics.

10.   Still, if the shutdown drags on, the release may be postponed, said Philip Rones, chief of labor force statistics at the BLS.