Employment market information and analysis.
Section 8
SEC. 8. Employment market information and analysis.— The Service shall collect and disseminate such detailed information on the situation of the employment market as may be useful to other public agencies in social and economic planning and to employers in organizing productive enterprises. Such information shall contain material pertaining to— the current and prospective labor requirements classified according to agricultural, industrial needs, including the number and type of workers needed, classified on an agricultural, industrial, occupational or regional basis; and the current and prospective labor supply, including details as to the number, sex, skills, occupations, industries, areas of residence of the workers, and of the number, location, and characteristics of applicants for employment. The Service shall, on the basis of the information in its possession, cooperate with other public agencies in the formation, coordination and application of policy in regard to— the distribution of industry; public works and public investments; technological progress in relation to production and employment; migration; housing; and general community organization and planning affecting the availability of employment. The Service shall, as soon as practicable, and in cooperation with other public agencies, draw up annually a man power budget as a part of the general economic survey which shall include detailed material concerning the anticipated volume and distribution of labor demand and supply.