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Biographical Sketches of
Pane! Members and Staff
GRAHAM KALTON (Chair) is a senior statistician and senior vice president of
Westat. He is also a research professor in the Joint Program in Survey Method-
ology at the University of Maryland. Previously he was a research scientist in the
Survey Research Center and a professor of biostatistics and statistics at the Uni-
versity of Michigan, professor of social statistics at the University of
Southampton, and reader in social statistics at the London School of Economics.
His research interests are in survey sampling and general survey methodology.
He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served as president of the
International Association of Survey Statisticians and president of the Washington
Statistical Society. He is a past member of the Committee on National Statistics
and has served as chair or a member of several of its panels. He received a B.Sc.
in economics and an M.Sc. in statistics from the University of London and a
Ph.D. in survey methodology from the University of Southampton.
DAVID M. BETSON is an associate professor of economics at the University of
Notre Dame. His previous positions have been as a visiting scholar at the Joint
Center for Poverty Research of the University of Chicago and Northwestern
University, a research associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty at the
University of Wisconsin, and an economist in the Office of the Assistant Secre-
tary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare. His research examines the effects of governments on the distribu-
tion of economic well-being with special reference to the measurement of pov-
erty and the analysis of child support policy. He received a Ph.D. degree in
economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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CONSTANCE F. CITRO is a senior program officer for the Committee on Na-
tional Statistics. She is a former vice president and deputy director of Mathe-
matica Policy Research, Inc., and was an American Statistical Association/Na-
tional Science Foundation research fellow at the Bureau of the Census. For the
committee, she has served as study director for numerous panels, including the
Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance, the Panel to Evaluate the Survey of
Income and Program Participation, the Panel to Evaluate Microsimulation Mod-
els for Social Welfare Programs, and the Panel on Decennial Census Methodol-
ogy. Her research has focused on the quality and accessibility of large, complex
microdata files, as well as analysis related to income and poverty measurement.
She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. She received a B.A.
degree from the University of Rochester and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political
science from Yale University.
MICHAEL L. COHEN is a senior program officer for the Committee on National
Statistics, currently assisting the Panel on Alternate Census Methodologies and
the Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. He previously
directed the Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense
Systems. Previously, he was a mathematical statistician at the Energy Informa-
tion Administration, an assistant professor in the School of Public Affairs at the
University of Maryland, a research associate at the Committee on National Statis-
tics, and a visiting lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Princeton University.
His general area of research is the use of statistics in public policy, with particular
interest in census undercount, model validation, and robust estimation. He re-
ceived a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and a
Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University.
NANCY E. DUNTON is a principal social scientist at the Midwest Research
Institute. Formerly, she was a senior research scientist with the New York State
Department of Social Services and the New York State Council on Children and
Families. Her work focuses on outcome indicators and social demography, with
a special emphasis on children's policy issues. She received a Ph.D. degree in
sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
WAYNE A. FULLER is a distinguished professor in the Department of Statistics
and Economics at Iowa State University. He is a fellow of the American Statis-
tical Association, the Econometric Society, and the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics and is the author of Introduction to Statistical Time Series and Mea-
surement Error Models. He also has an active research program in survey sam-
pling. He has held offices in national and international statistical organizations
and has previously served on National Research Council panels.
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THOMAS B. JABINE is a statistical consultant who specializes in the areas of
sampling, survey research methods and statistical policy. He was formerly a
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.
SYLVIA T. JOHNSON is professor of research methodology and statistics in the
School of Education at Howard University, where she is also editor-in-chief of
the Journal of Negro Education. She has served on the faculties of Roosevelt,
Trenton (NJ) State, and Western Illinois universities and Augustana and Chicago
City Colleges and as a visiting scholar at the Educational Testing Service. She is
currently a principal investigator at the Center for Research on the Education of
Students Placed at-Risk (CRESPAR), a joint activity of Howard University and
Johns Hopkins University, and chairman of the Design and Analysis Committee
of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). She has served as
a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the National Adult Literacy
Survey and the Graduate Record Examination and as a trustee of the College
Board. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and chairs its
Division 15 Committee on Members and Fellows. She is a member of the
American Educational Research Association and the National Council on Mea-
surement in Education. In addition, she has served on the editorial boards of the
Educational Researcher and the Journal of Applied Measurment in Education.
Dr. Johnson received a Ph.D. degree in educational measurement and statistics
from the University of Iowa.
THOMAS A. LOUIS is professor and head of the division of biostatistics at the
University of Minnesota School of Public Health and professor of statistics in the
School of Statistics. His research interests include Bayes and empirical Bayes
methods, research synthesis, risk assessment, analysis of longitudinal and spatial
data, and sequential design of experiments. He is codirector of the statistical
center for Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS and for 6 years
directed the statistical center for the school's Cancer Prevention Research Unit.
He is a senior associate editor of CHANCE, on the editorial board of Statistics
Neerlandica, and on the board of the Medical Follow-up Agency of the Institute
of Medicine. He is a member of the International Statistics Institute, a fellow of
the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, and a trustee of the National Institute for Statistical Sci-
ences. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in mathematical
statistics from Columbia University.
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SALLY C. MORTON is head of the Statistics Group at RAND in Santa Monica,
California. She is a lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of
California, Los Angeles. Previously she taught at the RAND Graduate School of
Public Policy Studies and the School of Business of the University of Southern
California, visited the Centre for Mathematical Analysis at Australian National
University and the University of Southampton, and worked at the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center. She serves as an editor of Statistical Science and as an
associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, is past
chair of the association's Section on Statistical Graphics, and is a member of the
Caucus for Women in Statistics and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Her
health policy research concerns homelessness, severe mental illness, and out-
comes research and quality of care in the areas of childbirth and AIDS. Her
methodological research concentrates on meta-analysis, nonparametric regres-
sion, and the sampling of vulnerable populations. She received a Ph.D. in Statis-
tics from Stanford University.
JEFFREY S. PASSEL is a principal research associate at the Urban Institute.
Previously, he was assistant division chief for estimates and projections in the
Population Division of the Bureau of the Census, and he also directed the re-
search on demographic methods for measuring census undercount. His research
interests include the demography of immigration, particularly the measurement
of illegal immigration; the effects and integration of immigrants into American
society; and measuring and defining racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
He is a member of a number of professional societies and has served in various
capacities in the Population Association of America, the American Statistical
Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He
received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
an M.A. in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in
social relations from the Johns Hopkins University.
J.N.K. RAO is professor of statistics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada,
and a consultant to Statistics Canada. Formerly, he was a professor at the Univer-
sity of Manitoba and Texas A&M University. His research interests include
survey sampling theory and methods, particularly small-area estimation. He is a
fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Statistical Association, and
the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He received a Ph.D. degree in statistics
from Iowa State University.
ALLEN L. SCHIRM is senior researcher at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Formerly, he was Andrew W. Mellon assistant research scientist and assistant
professor at the University of Michigan. His principal research interests include
small-area estimation and sample and evaluation design, with application to wel
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fare, food and nutrition, and education policy. He is a member of the American
Statistical Association, the American Economic Association, and the Population
Association of America. He received an A.B. in statistics from Princeton Univer-
sity and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
MICHELE VER PLOEG, a research associate for the panel, is also serving as
study director for the Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of
Changes in Social Welfare Programs of the Committee on National Statistics.
Her research interests include the effects of social policies on families and chil-
dren, the outcomes of children who experience poverty and changes in family
composition, and individuals' education attainment choices. She received a B.A.
in economics from Central College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in consumer
economics and housing from Cornell University.
PAUL R. VOSS is professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. For the past 21 years he has been affiliated with the Wisconsin Applied
Population Laboratory and is currently its director. He also is affiliated with the
Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty. His research involves modeling
small-area population change for purposes of population estimation and projec-
tion, and he also has studied and written about the demographic composition of
small-area migration streams. He is a member of the U.S. Department of
Commerce's Advisory Committee for the 2000 Census as well as the Census
Bureau's Advisory Committee of Professional Associations. He received a Ph.D.
degree in sociology (demography) from the University of Michigan.
JAMES H. WYCKOFF is associate professor of public administration and policy
at the University at Albany, of the State University of New York. His research
involves applied public economics and public policy, with particular focus on the
economics of education. He was an American Statistical Association Fellow at
the Census Bureau. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
ALAN M. ZASLAVSKY is associate professor of statistics in the Department of
Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He was formerly on the faculty
of the Department of Statistics at Harvard. His research interests include mea-
surement of quality in health care, census methodology, estimation and correc-
tion of census undercount, small-area estimation, microsimulation, design and
analysis of surveys, and Bayesian methods. He has served on two other panels of
the Committee on National Statistics concerned with planning for the 2000 cen-
sus. He received a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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MEYER ZITTER is an independent demographic consultant. Formerly, he was
chief of the Census Bureau's Population Division and also 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 Inter-
national Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has a B.B.A. degree
from City College of New York.
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