Committee: Addressing Priority Technical Issues for the Next Decade of the American Community Survey

Committee Membership Information


Project Title:	Addressing Priority Technical Issues for the Next Decade of the American Community Survey
PIN:	DBASSE-CNSTAT-11-06
Major Unit:	Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Sub Unit:	Committee on National Statistics
RSO:	Marton, Krisztina
Subject/Focus Area:	Behavioral and Social Sciences

Committee Membership

Date Posted: 08/14/2012

Dr. Alan M. Zaslavsky - (Chair)
Harvard Medical School

Chair
Alan M. Zaslavsky (Chair) is chair of statistics in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. His statistical research interests include surveys, census methodology, small-area estimation, official statistics, missing data, hierarchical modeling, and Bayesian methodology. His research topics in health care policy focus on measurement of the quality of care provided by health plans through consumer assessments and clinical and administrative data. Currently his major projects include survey implementation for the Medicare system, methodology for surveys in psychiatric epidemiology, and studies on determinants of quality of care for cancer. Other research interests include measurement of disparities in health care, and privacy and confidentiality for health care data. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a member of the Committee on National Statistics, and a member of the Committee on Geographic Adjustment Factors in Medicare Payment. His past CNSTAT activities include serving as chair of the Panel to Review Alternative Data Sources [principally the ACS and state tests] for the Limited-English Proficiency Allocation Formula under Title III, Part A, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, serving on the steering committee for the Future of Federal Household Surveys Workshop [which addressed the role of the ACS], and serving on the Committee to Update the Fourth Edition of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency. He was a member of the Panel on Correlation Bias and Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census, the Panel on Research on Future Census Methods, the Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas [which considered the role of the ACS], and the Panel on Alternative Census Methodologies. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He received an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.S. from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Michael Davern
National Opinion Research Center

Michael Davern is senior vice president and director of the Public Health Research Department in the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago. His expertise includes survey research, public health data, linking surveys with administrative data, and Census Bureau data, and the use of these data for policy research simulation and evaluation. Prior to this appointment, he was at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where he was an assistant professor of health policy and management and research director of the State Health Access Data Assistance Center. He also codirected the U.S. Census Bureau Research Data Center at the university. He previously served as a statistician for the Labor Force and Transfer Programs Statistics Branch of the U.S. Census Bureau. A major focus of his work has involved applying state-level data to health policy issues and helping states monitor trends in health insurance coverage rates. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Jeffrey Hardcastle
University of Nevada, Reno

Jeffrey Hardcastle is the Nevada State demographer, and is located at the University of Nevada, Reno, in the Nevada Small Business Development Center. He is responsible for producing annual state, county, city, and unincorporated town estimates; population projections; age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin estimates and projections; disseminating data to interested parties and the general public; networking with other state agencies; representing the State of Nevada to the Federal–State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates (FSCPE) and Federal–State Cooperative Program for Population Projections (FSCPP). He served two terms as Chair of FSCPE Steering Committee and two terms as Chair of FSCPP. He served as Nevada’s Governor’s Liaison for 2010 Census and participated in the Census Bureau’s Local Update of Census Address Program and Count Review, and identified and corrected errors that could impact approximately $28 million annually in federal funding for Nevada. He provided two case studies for the CNSTAT Workshop on the Benefits and Burdens of the ACS. He received an M.A. in sociology from the University of Denver and in regional planning from the University of Colorado.

Dr. Scott H. Holan
University of Missouri-Columbia

Scott Holan is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research interests include time series analysis, spatial-temporal models, econometrics, Bayesian methodology, nonparametric and semiparametric methods, signal processing, functional data analysis and data confidentiality. He is a principle investigator for a grant that forms a joint National Science Foundation/Census Bureau research node to develop new data analysis and modeling methodologies for the American Community Survey. In 2005 he was awarded a research fellowship by the American Statistical Association/National Science Foundation/Bureau of Labor Statistics to work on problems involving seasonality and data confidentiality. In 2006, he was awarded a National Institute of Statistical Science new researcher fellowship to conduct research on data confidentiality. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Steering Committee for a Review of the Confidentiality Criteria for Statistics from the Survey of Earned Doctorates. He has a Ph.D. in statistics from Texas A&M University.

Dr. James S. House
University of Michigan

James S. House (NAS/IOM) is the Angus Campbell distinguished university professor of survey research, public policy, and sociology and research professor in the Department of Epidemiology, at the University of Michigan. He is also research professor affiliate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research. He directed for 10 years the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research. He has previously held positions at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests include social psychology, political sociology, social structure and personality, psychosocial and socioeconomic factors in health, survey research methods, and American society. Dr. House is a member of several professional associations and societies, including: the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Sociological Association. He has served as editor or associate editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Work & Stress, and Journal of Occupational Behavior; and has served on the editorial board of Sociometry, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and Annual Review of Sociology. He has previously served on the NRC Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life; IOM Membership Committee; IOM Membership Section Leaders; and has served as an NAS section liaison for the social and political sciences. Dr. House received a B.A. in history from Haverford College, and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan.

Mr. David Hubble
Westat, Inc.

David Hubble is senior statistician at Westat with extensive experience in designing, planning, and conducting demographic surveys and census evaluations at the U. S. Census Bureau. At Westat his work has involved the National Assessment of Education Progress, the Minnesota Adult Tobacco Survey, and other survey design and technical assistance projects. His work covers many aspects of survey implementation, including survey design, sampling frame creation, sample selection, data collection methods, missing data mitigation, weighting procedures, estimation techniques, variance estimation, methodological investigations, and experimental designs. He was a member of the Panel to Review Alternative Data Sources for the Limited-English Proficiency Allocation Formula under Title III, Part A, Elementary and Secondary Education Act. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in statistics, from Boston University.

Dr. Linda A. Jacobsen
Population Reference Bureau, Inc.

Linda A. Jacobsen has been vice president of Domestic Programs at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) since 2005. Before that time, she was a senior executive and chief demographer for two leading marketing information companies, the research director at American Demographics magazine, and a faculty member at Cornell University and the University of Iowa. She is a demographer with more than 25 years of experience analyzing U.S. population trends and their implications. She is co-author of PRB's recent Population Bulletin, “U.S. Economic and Social Trends Since 2000,” and has been a featured speaker on U.S. demographic trends at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and at Harvard University’s Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress. She has also been interviewed on NBC, CBS, CNN, and NPR, as well as by many newspapers. She has extensive research experience with the American Community Survey (ACS) and co-authored two of the U.S. Census Bureau’s handbooks for understanding and using ACS data. Jacobsen is chair of the Government and Public Affairs Committee of the Population Association of America, and a member of the board of directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Michael W. Link
A.C. Nielsen Company

Michael W. Link is chief methodologist for research methods at The Nielsen Company. He has a broad base of experience in survey research, having worked in academia (University of South Carolina, 1989-1999), not-for-profit research (RTI International, 1999-2004), government (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004-2007), and the private sector (Nielsen, 2007-present). His research centers around developing methodologies for confronting some of the most pressing issues facing survey research, including techniques for improving survey participation and data quality (use of address-based sampling, impact of call screening technologies), methodological issues involving use of multiple modes in data collection (web, mail, CATI, field, mobile, meters), and obtaining participation from hard-to-survey populations (linguistically isolated, racial and ethnic groups). His research articles have appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly and other leading scientific journals. In 2011 he, along with several research colleagues, received AAPOR’s Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award for their work on address- based sampling designs. His current research focuses on emerging technologies, such as mobile and social platforms, as vehicles for measuring and understanding public attitudes and behaviors. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Jennifer H. Madans
National Center for Health Statistics

Jennifer Madans is co-deputy director and associate director for science at the National Center for Health Statistics, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was a lecturer in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine and in the Department of Demography at Georgetown. She served on the NAS Committee to Develop Criteria for Evaluating the Outcomes of Approaches to Prevent and Treat Obesity. She was a member of several CDC committees and chairs the Interagency Coordinating Committee of NCHS and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the Health Interview Survey Scientific Advisory Committee. In addition to several student prizes, she received the Public Health Service Superior Service Award, NCHS Directors Award in Methodological Statistics, and NCHS Elijah White Memorial Award. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and member of the American Sociological Association, the Population Association of America, the American Public Health Association, the Society for Epidemiological Research, and the Gerontological Society of America. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan.

Dr. David A. Plane
University of Arizona

David Plane is a professor in the Department of Geography & Regional Development at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the dynamics of migration systems and methods for analyzing human population distribution and redistribution. Currently he is interested especially in the migration across the life-cycle and the linkages between urban hierarchies and migration patterns. A recent paper reporting on this research was published in the special spatial demography issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). His major interests are population (migration), transportation, regional science, regional development, and quantitative modeling. He has a Ph.D. in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jerome P. Reiter
Duke University

Jerome P. Reiter is Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer associate professor of statistical science and director of Data Services Core of the Duke Social Science Research Institute. He participates in both applied and methodological research in statistics. He is most interested in applications involving social science and public policy. His methodological research focuses mainly on statistical methods for protecting data confidentiality, for handling missing data, and for making causal inferences. He is also the principal investigator of the Triangle Census Research Network, a $3 million center funded by the National Science Foundation to improve the practice of data dissemination among federal statistical agencies. He has served on three CNSTAT panels including the Panel on the Census Bureau’s Reengineered Survey of Income and Program Participation, and the Panel on Confidentiality Issues Arising from the Integration of Remotely Sensed and Self-Identifying Data. He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard.

Dr. Joseph J. Salvo
New York City Department of City Planning

Joseph J. Salvo is director of the Population Division at the New York City Department of City Planning, where he was previously deputy director and senior demographer. His background includes a year at the U.S. Census Bureau in 1981-82. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Urban Affairs and Planning Department at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He has broad experience in immigration, the application of small-area data for policies and programs, and the use of census data. As past president of the Association of Public Data Users, he has experience with the Census Bureau’s Master Address File and TIGER geographic database, as well as the American Community Survey. He is a recipient of the Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York, as well as a fellow of the American Statistical Association. He is currently serving on the panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey. Previously he served on the Panel on Functionality and Usability of Data from the American Community Survey and the Panel on the Research on Future Census methods. As member of the CNSTAT Panel on Research on Future Census Methods, he chaired the Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA) working group jointly sponsored by that panel and the Panel to Review the 2000 Census. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Fordham University.

Mr. Robert L. Santos
The Urban Institute

Robert Santos is a senior institute methodologist at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. Previously he worked at NuStats, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. His professional credits include more than 40 reports and papers and leadership roles in survey research associations. He has served as a member of the Census Advisory Committee of Professional Associations and on the editorial board of the Public Opinion Quarterly, and held numerous elected and appointed leadership positions in both the American Statistical Association and the American Association for Public Opinion Research. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a recipient of the 2006 Founder’s Award for excellence in survey statistics and contributions to the statistical community. He is a member of the CNSTAT Panel on Redesigning the BLS Consumer Expenditures Survey and the planning committee for a Conference on Using Census Data for Transportation Applications. Previously he was a member of the Panel to Assess the Benefits of the American Community Survey for the NSF Science Resources Statistics Division and a member of the Committee on Social Security Representative Payees. He received an M.A. in statistics from the University of Michigan.

Committee Membership Roster Comments

Note (08-16-2012): There has been a change in Committee Membership with the following additions: Michael Davern, Jeffrey Hardcastle, Scott H. Holan, James S. House, Michael W. Link, Jennifer H. Madans, David A. Plane and Jerome P. Reiter.