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APPENDIX
Biographical Sketches of
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NORMAN M. BRADBURN is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake distinguished
service professor in the Department of Psychology and the Harris Graduate School
of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, as well as senior vice
president for research at the National Opinion Research Center. He is an author-
ity on nonsampling errors in surveys and has written extensively on questionnaire
design. He has been active in the developing field of research applying cognitive
psychological principles to the study of response errors in surveys. He received
B.A. degrees from the University of Chicago and Oxford University and M.A.
and Ph.D. degrees in clinical and social psychology from Harvard University.
ROBERT M. BELL is a senior statistician and head of the statistics group at the
RAND Corporation. He has worked on a number of different projects, mainly in
health and education. His areas of expertise include survey design, survey analy-
sis, and general experimental design issues. He received a B.S. degree in math-
ematics from Harvey Mudd College, an M.S. degree in statistics from the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and a Ph.D. degree in statistics from Stanford University.
GORDON }. BRACKSTONE is assistant chief statistician responsible for sta-
tistical methodology, computing, and geography at Statistics Canada. His profes-
sional work has been in survey methodology, particularly the assessment of the
quality of census and survey data. He is a fellow of the American Statistical
Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He
received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in statistics from the London School of Eco-
nom~cs.
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CLIFFORD C. CLOGG is a demographer and statistician at Pennsylvania State
University. He is a former chairman of the Committee on Population Statistics of
the Population Association of America and a member of the Census Advisory
Committee; he was the coordinating and applications editor of the Journal of the
American Statistical Association. His areas of specialization are categorical data
analysis and social statistics. He received a B.A. degree from Ohio University,
and an M.S. degree in statistics and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the
University of Chicago.
TlIOMAS B. LABILE is a statistical consultant who specializes in the areas of
sampling, survey research methods, and statistical policy. He was formerly
statistical policy expert for the Energy Information Administration, chief math-
ematical statistician for the Social Security Administration, and chief of the Sta-
tistical Research Division of the Bureau of the Census. He is a fellow of the
American Statistical Association and a member of the International Statistical
Institute. He has a B.S. degree in mathematics and an M.S. degree in economics
and science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
KATHERINE S. NEWMAN is a professor of anthropology at Columbia Uni-
versity. She specializes in cultural analyses of work and mobility in the suburban
middle class and in inner-city communities. She has written extensively on the
topic of downward mobility and is currently engaged in a study of minority youth
in low-wage, service-sector jobs in the Harlem section of New York and Oak-
land, California. She has a B.A. degree from the University of California, San
Diego, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the University of
California, Berkeley.
ANU PEMMARAZU is a senior project assistant with the Committee on Na-
tional Statistics, National Research Council. She is also currently working with
the Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense Systems and
previously worked on the Panel on the National Health Care Survey. She re-
ceived a B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland, College
Park.
D. BRUCE PETRIE is assistant chief statistician of the Social, Institutions, and
Labor Statistics Field at Statistics Canada. He is responsible for social statistics,
which includes the census of population, demography, education, health, justice,
labor, and household surveys, including Canada's equivalent of the Current Popu-
lation Survey. He has a bachelor of commerce degree from Dalhousie University
and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Western Ontario.
PETER A. ROGERSON is professor and chair of geography at the State Uni-
versity of New York, Buffalo. His areas of specialization include internal migra
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lion, mathematical demography, and estimates and projections. He was formerly
a research trainee at the Census Bureau in the Census Bureau/American Statisti-
cal Association program on economic-demographic modeling. He received a
B.A. degree from the State University of New York, Albany, an M.A. degree
from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. degree in geography from the State
University of New York, Buffalo.
KEITH F. RUST is an associate director at Westat, Inc., and formerly was with
the Australian Bureau of Statistics. He is the director of sample design and
statistical operations for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, as
well as the sampling coordinator for the Third International Mathematics and
Science Study. His work deals mainly with educational surveys; he has expertise
in the areas of variance estimation and inference for complex samples. He is a
member of the Committee on National Statistics, the editorial board of the Jour-
nal of Official Statistics, and the faculty of the University of Maryland-University
of Michigan Joint Program in Survey Methodology. He received a B.A. degree
from Flinders University of South Australia and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in bio-
statistics from the University of Michigan.
NORA CATE SCHAEFFER is professor of sociology at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. Her areas of expertise include respondent behavior and
interviewer-respondent interaction. Her past research has concentrated on a num-
ber of different areas in survey methodology dealing with nonsampling error,
both nonresponse and response errors of various kinds. She is on the editorial
board of Public Opinion Quarterly, Sociological Methodology, and Sociological
Methods Research. She has an A.B. degree from Washington University and a
Ph.D. degree in sociology from the University of Chicago.
EDWARD A. SCHILLMOELLER is senior vice president of the A.C. Nielsen
Company, where he directs all statistical operations and activities of the media
research division. His work includes both continuous and ad hoc household
surveys of television audiences. His interests are sample design and survey
methods. He received a degree in mathematics from Iowa State University and
an M.B.A. degree in statistics from the University of Chicago.
DUANE L. STEFFEY is a study director with the Committee on National Statis-
tics, National Research Council. He is on leave from San Diego State University,
where he is an associate professor of mathematical sciences. He has published
research on statistical methods, particularly on hierarchical Bayesian modeling,
and has engaged broadly in interdisciplinary research and consulting. He re-
ceived a B.S. degree and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics, all from Carnegie
Mellon University.
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MICHAEL F. WEEKS is director of Survey Research Associates, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of Battelle Memorial Institute. His areas of expertise include
survey methods and operations. In particular, he is interested in survey methods
aimed at reducing nonsampling error and making survey operations more effi-
cient and more cost-effective. He is on the editorial board of Public Opinion
Quarterly. He received a B.A. degree from Davidson College and an M.A.
degree from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.
ALAN M. ZASLAVSKY is an associate professor of statistics at Harvard Uni-
versity. His research interests include methods for estimating and correcting
census undercount, applications of hierarchical Bayes methods, microsimulation
modeling, and missing data. He has an A.B. degree from Harvard College, an
M.S. degree from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. degree in applied math-
ematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MEYER ZITTER is an independent demographic consultant and was formerly
with the Bureau of the Census. He was chief of the Bureau's population division
in the year leading to the 1980 census and later served as assistant director for
international programs. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association
and a member of the International Statistical Institute and the International Union
for the Scientific Study of Population. He received a B.B.A. degree from City
College of New York.
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