The adequacy of the Department of Labor's (DOL) efforts to comply with Public Law 94-311 which directed several of the larger Federal agencies to improve their collection, analysis and publication of Hispanic statistics in such areas as decennial censuses, vital statistics, and unemployment data was evaluated. Data were gathered from interviews with Federal officials, demographers, economists, representatives of Hispanic organizations, administrators of employment training programs, and other users of unemployment data. Various documents were also reviewed, including available literature, Government publications, DOL correspondence, and congressional hearings. As of January 1978, 18 months after the law's enactment, most of DOL's efforts, which were still in the planning stages, were not adequate to comply fully with the intent of the law. Data indicated that: DOL had not added Hispanic unemployment statistics to its "Handbook of Labor Statistics", a widely used reference work; it had no plans to publish monthly unemployment rates for Hispanics, but planned to continue publishing quarterly and annual data for Hispanics; it did not plan to identify Hispanics in all its detailed unemployment tabulations which identify whites and blacks; its plans to identify the extent of Hispanic unemployment in selected states and local areas did not encompass enough geographic localities to facilitate a close examination of the extent of Hispanic unemployment in states and local areas. DOL's failure to respond may be due in part to the low priority it has assigned to P.L. 94-311. (NQ)