Acknowledgments
The Committee on National Statistics thanks the many people who contributed their time and expertise to the preparation of this report. We are most appreciative of their cooperation and assistance.
In expressing our gratitude to the staff, a special measure of recognition is due to Margaret E. Martin and Miron L. Straf, coeditors of the report. Linda Ingram and Flossie Wolf assisted the committee in various ways throughout the preparation of the report, and Eugenia Grohman offered comments and guidance in editing the report for publication. We also are indebted to those who reviewed the report and many others who offered valuable comments and suggestions.
It is also appropriate in our twentieth anniversary year that we recognize the many federal agencies that support the Committee on National Statistics. These agencies include the National Agricultural Statistics Service and the Economic Research Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture; the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of the Census, and the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce; the Defense Manpower Data Center and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Defense; the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education; the Energy Information Administration in the U.S. Department of Energy; the Health Care Financing Administration, the National Center for Health Statistics, the National Institute on Aging, the Office of Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the Public Health
Service, and the Social Security Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; the Bureau of Mines in the U.S. Department of the Interior; the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the U.S. Department of Justice; the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U.S. Department of Labor; the Internal Revenue Service in the U.S. Department of the Treasury; the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, the Program in Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics in the Social Sciences, the Science Resources Studies Division, and the Statistics and Probability Program in the U.S. National Science Foundation; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and the Statistical Policy Branch of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Without their support and their commitment to improving the national statistical system the committee work that is the basis of this report would not have been possible.
