COPAFS is the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics and comprised of the membership of more than 60 organizations, including professional associations, businesses, research institutes, and others interested in federal statistics. As a member of COPAFS, the ASA has two representatives from the Government Statistics Section who represent the association by attending COPAFS' quarterly meetings and reporting back to the membership. Highlights of the March 7, 2008, meeting held at the Bureau of Labor Statistics follow. Cynthia Glassman, undersecretary for economic affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce, was joined by Chief Economist Joe Kennedy and Steve Landefeld of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to describe the work of the department's Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation in the 21 st Century Economy.
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