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PANEL ON ALTERNATIVE CENSUS METHODOLOGIES
KEITH F. RUST (Chair),
Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland
RONALD F. ABLER,
Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.
ROBERT M. BELL,
RAND, Santa Monica, California
GORDON J. BRACKSTONE,
Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
JOHN L. CZAJKA,
Mathematics Policy Research, Inc., Washington, D.C.
MICHEL A. LETTRE,
Maryland Office of Planning, Baltimore
D. BRUCE PETRIE,
Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
NATHANIEL SCHENKER,
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
STANLEY K. SMITH,
Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville
LYNNE STOKES,
Department of Management Science and Information Systems, University of Texas, Austin
JAMES TRUSSELL,
Office of Population Research, Princeton University
ALAN M. ZASLAVSKY,
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
ANDREW A. WHITE, Study Director
MICHAEL L. COHEN, Senior Program Officer
AGNES E. GASKIN, Senior Project Assistant
COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS
NORMAN M. BRADBURN (Chair),
National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
JULIE DAVANZO,
RAND, Santa Monica, California
WILLIAM F. EDDY,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
JOHN F. GEWEKE,
Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
JOEL B. GREENHOUSE,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
ERIC A. HANUSHEK,
W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Rochester
RODERICK J.A. LITTLE,
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan
CHARLES F. MANSKI,
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin
WILLIAM NORDHAUS,
Department of Economics, Yale University
JANET L. NORWOOD,
Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
EDWARD B. PERRIN,
Department of Health Services, University of Washington
PAUL ROSENBAUM,
Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
KEITH F. RUST,
Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland
FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGO,
Division of Statistics, University of California, Davis
MIRON L. STRAF, Director