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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee and Presenters
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Steering Committee and Presenters
Pages 105-116
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She has published widely on issues of demographic methods, data quality, and population and development in the former Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. She has consulted with Statistics South Africa, Statistics Estonia, the China National Bureau of Statistics, the Turkish Statistical Institute, and the U.S.
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He has more than 35 years of experience in survey methodology, complex survey design, and data analysis and has written more than 100 publications related to these areas. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
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David Dolson (Member, Steering Committee) is director of the Social S urvey Methods Division at Statistics Canada, where he is responsible for all statistical and survey methods in support of the Census of Population and National Household Survey, as well as the program of postcensal surveys, the Geography Division, and the population estimates program.
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His primary research interests include survey sampling, alternative data sources, measurement error, incomplete data, survey optimization, survey cost structures, regression trees for complex survey data, and variance function models. He has served as an associate editor for many journals, including Survey Methodology Journal and the Journal of Official Statistics. In addition, he cochairs the advisory board for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and is a member of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
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Previously, he worked for the U.S. Census Bureau on aspects of designing, planning, and conducting census evaluations and large-scale demographic surveys, including the American Community Survey.
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She has additional affiliations with the Maryland Population Research Center, the Institute for Social Research in Michigan, and the German Institute for Employment Research, where she heads the statistical methods group. Prior positions include the Institute for Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Her work in CARRA focuses on integrating administrative data into Census Bureau operations and products to reduce respondent burden and data collection costs and improve data quality. She holds a Ph.D.
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An applied statistician, he has focused his research on the design of complex surveys across a wide range of populations and topics and on fundamental issues of data quality, including the impact of errors in responses to survey questions, cognitive aspects of question wording, and latent variable models for nonresponse. He joined the Harris School faculty in 1998 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was the first director of the Methodology Institute and a faculty member of the Department of Statistics since 1971.
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Current and recent project sponsors include the Lumina Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Lemelson Foundation, U.S. Census Bureau, the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness, and the Public Forum Institute.
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He presently serves on the board of directors of the Advertising Research Foundation and the Council of American Survey Research Organizations. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Haverford College, a master's degree in education from Harvard University, and a Ph.D.
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It also evaluates ongoing statistical programs and tracks the statistical policy and coordinating activities of the federal government, serving a unique role at the intersection of statistics and public policy. The committee's work is supported by a consortium of federal agencies through a National Science Foundation grant.
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