February 1994 — 1994-02-04

___________________________________________________________ Advance copies of this statement are made available to the press under lock-up conditions with the explicit understanding that the data are embargoed until 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. ____________________________________________ It is again a pleasure for my colleagues and I to be the past few years, BLS and our partners at the Bureau of years ago. We are very pleased to report to you that the gain overall, we did continue to see strength in many of the what we would have obtained had the new survey been in place some of the details of the household survey data is that we count of persons who had given up looking for work due to