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particularly in new statistical approaches including Direct Productivity measurements and Plant productivity surveys. 42 159. Since 1894, the BLS has conducted productivity surveys and productivity statistics studies. There were large expansions in the U.S. productivity statistics programs in the 1930s, after the Productivity and Technological Development Branch was established in 1941, and during the years of World War II. By the mid-1940s the Branch had a staff of almost two hundred and had pioneered in the development of plant level and inter-plant comparisons of productivity statistics as they related to technological development data. 160. For several decades the BLS had training programs for statisticians from abroad. The Bureau was therefore the logical resource for this training. 161. Statisticians from almost every European and other Regional Productivity Centers and many national institutes sent personnel to the BLS for orientation and training in the new Direct Productivity Report techniques evolved in 1945. They were also assisted in global trend and plant-level survey methodology. In a number of cases Productivity Centers requested longer assignments of BLS productivity and labor statisticians to advise in their 42 See BLS, The Productivity Measurement Program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., August 1950. 93

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