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— October 9, 2018 —
We call your attention to the forthcoming CNSTAT Public Seminar, Leverage and Integrating Data for
Disasters, Friday, October 19, 2018, beginning at 2 pm (refreshments available at 1:30 pm) and followed
by a reception at 4:30 pm, in the Auditorium of the NAS Building, 2101 Constitution Ave., NW. Visit
this site for the agenda and a registration link. More information is available in the attached flyer. We
hope to see many of you there.
We welcome three new CNSTAT members:
• Diana Farrell, JPMorgan Chase Institute, Washington, DC
• Daniel Kifer, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The Pennsylvania State
University
• C. Matthew Snipp, School of the Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
The continuing CNSTAT members are:
• Robert M. Groves (chair), Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Department of
Sociology, Georgetown University
• Mary Ellen Bock, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
• Anne C. Case, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Michael E. Chernew, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
• Janet Currie, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
• Donald A. Dillman, Department of Sociology, Washington State University
• Thomas L. Mesenbourg, Retired, Formerly U.S. Census Bureau
• Sarah M. Nusser, Department of Statistics, Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology, Iowa
State University
• Colm A. O'Muircheartaigh, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The University of
Chicago
• Jerome P. Reiter, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
• Roberto Rigobon, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Judith A. Seltzer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
(For biographical information on current CNSTAT members, visit this site.)
We congratulate William (Bill) Nordhaus, Sterling professor of economics at Yale University, on
receiving the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, together with New York University
professor of economics Paul Romer. The award, announced on October 8, 2018, honors the pair’s
research, which explains how “nature and knowledge” influence long-term sustainable economic growth.
Bill, who has long advocated a carbon tax to limit harmful emissions, was recognized “for integrating
climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis,” according to the Swedish Academy’s press
release. His colleague shared half of the award “for integrating technological innovations into long-run
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macroeconomic analysis.” Bill first began work on the relationship between the economy and the
environment in the 1970s. Twenty years later, he pioneered an integrated quantitative assessment model
describing “the global interplay between the economy and the climate.” The model is now widely used by
economists and policymakers to assess possible outcomes of climate policy intervention on the economy.
Bill is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and served on CNSTAT from 1993-1999. He
presented his climate change analysis model at a CNSTAT public seminar, chaired the CNSTAT panel
that produced Nature’s Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the
Environment in 1999, and played a key role in a CNSTAT workshop that helped jump-start the American
Time Use Survey (see Time-Use Measurement and Research: Report of a Workshop [2000]).
We congratulate the following members of the CNSTAT community whose election as fellows of the
American Statistical Association in 2018 was announced at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver,
BC, July 31, 2018:
• Michael E. Davern, NORC at the University of Chicago, “For outstanding contributions to
improvements in the quality of federal statistics and to more effective use of survey and
administrative data in support of public health policy and research and for exceptional
organizational and team leadership in advancing these ends.”
• Donsig Jang, NORC at the University of Chicago, “For outstanding contributions to survey
methods; for effective leadership of large-scale national survey projects; and for service to the
profession.”
• Michael Jay Messner, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “For leadership in applying
innovative statistical methods to support regulations that ensure drinking water safety; for
developing and promoting best practices for planning environmental research and statistical
analyses; for teaching and mentoring nonstatisticians at EPA; for management and dissemination
of statistical resources across the federal statistical community; and for dedicated service to the
ASA.”
• Kristen Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “For broad-ranging contributions to survey
methodology, especially in the areas of nonresponse analysis, interview process, and use of
paradata; for service to the profession, especially in design of multiple federal and state-level
statistical surveys; and for spearheading the training of the new generation of survey statisticians
and methodologists.”
• Aleksandra B. Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University, “For contributions to the integration of
formal privacy methods, such as differential privacy, into the theory and practice of modern
statistical disclosure limitation—especially as regards genome-wide association studies, graph
models, and contingency tables—and for work within ASA and in the broader community in
educating statisticians about privacy and confidentiality.”
We also congratulate the following individuals who received awards from ASA or its sections at the 2018
JSM in Vancouver:
• John Eltinge, U.S. Census Bureau, for his selection to give the 2018 Deming Lecture; the title of
his lecture was “Improving the Quality and Value of Statistical Information: 14 Questions on
Management.”
• Albert Madansky, The University of Chicago, recipient of the W.J. Dixon Award for Excellence
in Statistical Consulting—Al served on the CNSTAT panel that produced The Bicentennial
Census: New Directions for Methodology in 1990, rereleased in 2015 in a 30th anniversary
edition.
• Sally C. Morton, Virginia Tech, and Paul R. Rosenbaum, University of Pennsylvania, recipients
of Long-Term Excellence Awards from the ASA Health Policy Statistics Section—both are
former CNSTAT members.
• Susan A. Murphy, Harvard University and former CNSTAT member, for her selection to give
the 2018 Fisher Lecture; the title of her lecture was “The Future: Stratified Micro-Randomized
Trials with Applications in Mobile Health.”
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• Colm O’Muircheartaigh, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and CNSTAT
member, recipient of the Monroe G. Sirken Award in Interdisciplinary Survey Methods
Research.
We thank for their service to the statistical community through editorship:
• Michael L. Cohen, CNSTAT Senior Program Officer, who edited Statistics and Public Policy
from 2016-2018.
• Roderick Little, University of Michigan and former CNSTAT member, who edited Journal of
Survey Statistics and Methodology, from 2016-2018.
Finally, and very importantly, we thank the federal statistical, research, and evaluation agencies that
contribute core funding to CNSTAT. These funds enable CNSTAT to maintain a core staff, organize an
active program of seminars and other events, and convene workshops on topics of broad interest to the
federal statistical community. Core contributors for 2018 are:
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, DHHS
• Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, DHHS
• Behavioral and Social Research Division, National Institute on Aging, DHHS
• Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice
• Bureau of Economic Analysis, Department of Commerce
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Department of Transportation
• Economic Research Service, USDA
• Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy
• Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
• Forest Inventory and Analysis, U.S. Forest Service
• Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics, NSF
• National Center for Education Statistics , Department of Education
• National Center for Health Statistics, DHHS
• National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF
• National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA
• Office of Policy Development and Research, HUD
• Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, SSA
• Statistics of Income Division, IRS
• U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Research and Evaluation Division, DHS
RECENTLY RELEASED REPORTS
(available as free PDFs)
Improving Data Collection and Measurement of Complex Farms, the final report of a consensus panel
of CNSTAT, chaired by Catherine Kling (Cornell University) and sponsored by the National Agricultural
Statistics Service (NASS) and Economic Research Service (ERS), was released in prepublication format
on October 2, 2018. Free PDFs are available here, printed copies will be available shortly.
America’s farms and farmers are integral to the U.S. economy and, more broadly, to the nation’s
social and cultural fabric. A healthy agricultural sector helps ensure a safe and reliable food supply,
improves energy security, and contributes to employment and economic development, traditionally in
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small towns and rural areas where farming serves as a nexus for related sectors from farm machinery
manufacturing to food processing. The agricultural sector also plays a role in the nation’s overall
economic growth by providing crucial raw inputs for the production of a wide range of goods and
services, including many that generate substantial export value. If the agricultural sector is to be
accurately understood and the policies that affect its functioning are to remain well informed, the
statistical system’s data collection programs must be periodically revisited to ensure they are keeping up
with current realities. This report reviews current information and makes recommendations to NASS and
ERS to help identify effective methods for collecting data and reporting information about American
agriculture, given increased complexity and other changes in farm business structure in recent decades.
A Letter Report concerning the proposed inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2020 census was
issued by the CNSTAT Task Force on the 2020 Census on August 7, 2018, in response to the initial
Federal Register notice required under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Office of Management and
Budget approval of the 2020 census. The Task Force concluded that the Department of Commerce’s
decision to add the question is inconsistent with the “proper performance of the functions” of the Census
Bureau. The Task Force noted that the American Community Survey already meets the stated need for
citizenship data and that adding the question without proper testing would impair the quality of the 2020
census as a whole. Furthermore, adding the citizenship question and using the method described in the
Secretary of Commerce’s memo and the Census Bureau’s review would create a new register of citizens.
Such a register has unclear statistical purposes, and it could not under current law be used for
nonstatistical purposes, such as law enforcement against individuals, and still comport with the Bureau’s
mission as a federal statistical agency. While citizenship is an important public policy topic and worthy of
high-quality data collection, adding this question to the 2020 census risks undermining the credibility of
the Census Bureau and the decennial census, the trust of its respondents, and the independence of the
Census Bureau’s professional staff to develop, produce, and disseminate objective information while
protecting the confidentiality of respondents.
Read the Task Force's letter. More information on the Task Force.
RECENTLY RELEASED REPORTS NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINTED FORM
Letter Report on the 2020 Census (released August 17, 2018)
Improving Health Research on Small Populations: Proceedings of a Workshop, released May 4, 2018.
Reengineering the Census Bureau’s Annual Economic Surveys, released May 3, 2018.
Modernizing Crime Statistics—Report 2: New Systems for Measuring Crime, released March 21, 2018.
Measuring the 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce Population: Evolving Needs, released
January 9, 2018.
A Smarter National Surveillance System for Occupational Safety and Health in the 21st Century,
released January 9, 2018.
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Reminder: PDF versions of CNSTAT and National Academies reports are available for free download at
The National Academies Press website, http://www.nap.edu. The download site asks for your e-mail and
a password. If you don’t have an NAP account and don’t want to have one, then provide your e-mail and
click “I don’t have an account;” on the next page click “accept NAP policies” and “log in as guest”.
Reminder: Slides from previous CNSTAT public seminars are available on the CNSTAT public seminars
and symposia page. Presentations from the October 2017 CNSTAT meeting public seminar, “New
Directions for Federal Statistics,” are available here. Presentations and posters from the Big Data Day
event on May 11, 2018, are available here.
Slides from several major workshops are available on the presentations page on the CNSTAT website.
This page also includes a section on “Multiple Data Sources Presentations,” which links to presentations
from workshops and meetings for CNSTAT’s Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social
Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods.
The 27th Annual Morris Hansen Lecture, sponsored by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the
Washington Statistical Society, and Westat, will be held on Thursday, October 11, 2018, at the USDA
News from CNSTAT • 10/9/2018 • Page 5Jefferson Auditorium on Independence Ave. (between 12th and 14th Streets) from 3:30–5:30 p.m.,
followed by a reception on the Whitten Building patio. The lecture honors Morris Hansen, who made
pioneering and long-lasting contributions to survey sampling and related statistical methods during his
long and distinguished career at the U.S. Census Bureau and at Westat. Elected to the National Academy
of Sciences in 1976, he served on the CNSTAT panel that produced the 3-volume report, Incomplete Data
in Sample Surveys (1983).
The title of this year’s lecture is “How Errors Cumulate: Two Examples,” presented by Roger
Tourangeau, vice president, Westat, and former member of CNSTAT. Discussion will be presented by
Kristen Olson, associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Jill
Dever, senior research statistician, Division for Statistical and Data Sciences, RTI International. Please
pre-register for this event to help facilitate access to the building at
https://www.nass.usda.gov/morrishansen/.
Abstract: Are there systematic relationships between different sources of survey errors? This
talk examines two cases in detail—how coverage, selection, and nonresponse errors in non-
probability web panels cumulate and whether there is a relationship between response
propensities and data quality. With non-probability web panels, there seems to be overlap in the
variables that affect someone’s propensity to have Internet access, to join a web panel, and to
respond to specific survey requests. As a result, the different forms of errors accentuate each
other and produce larger errors than surveys based on probability samples, even ones with very
low response rates. Weighting helps reduce the biases from non-probability web panels but does
not eliminate them. With nonresponse and data quality, unit and item nonresponse seem to be
related, but there is less evidence that reluctant or hard-to-reach respondents provide less accurate
answers than other respondents. Thus, there is at least partial independence between nonresponse
and measurement error.
The Inaugural ASA Links Lecture, sponsored by the American Statistical Association and hosted by
CNSTAT, will be held on Monday, November 5, 2018, in Room 100 of the Keck Center of the National
Academies at 500 5th Street, NW, Washington, DC. The lecture will take place between 3:00 and 4:30
pm and be followed by a reception. Doors will open at 2:30. For those unable to attend in person, the
lecture will also be available by webcast. More information is available in the attached flyer. To register,
visit the CNSTAT web site.
Applications for the position of deputy director of the National Center for Science and Engineering
Statistics (NCSES) are invited, with a closing date of October 17, 2018. Here is the link to the formal
vacancy announcement posting on USAJOBS: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/508645400.
Emilda Rivers, NCSES director, notes that “There are important opportunities and challenges ahead,
and NCSES needs outstanding visionary, effective, and collaborative applicants. Please share this
opportunity widely and feel free to direct candidates or questions to me (erivers@nsf.gov).”
CNSTAT is looking for Program Officers or Senior Program Officers. For further information visit the
NASEM career page and contact Brian Harris-Kojetin.
CNSTAT holds three regular meetings each year, with its spring and fall meeting dates following a set
formula; our May meetings are always the Thursday–Friday preceding Mother’s Day and our October
meetings are always the second-to-last Thursday–Friday of the month. Here are the next three meetings:
CNSTAT’s 137th meeting will be held October 18-19, 2018, at the National Academy of Sciences
Building at 2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. On the 19th, the meeting will feature a
luncheon with statistical agency heads (members of the ICSP), followed by a public seminar, beginning
News from CNSTAT • 10/9/2018 • Page 6with light refreshments at 1:30 pm and ending with a reception at 4:30 pm. The seminar topic is
“Leveraging and Linking Data for Disasters.” See top of p. 1 for the agenda and registration link. See
also attached flyer.
CNSTAT’s 138th meeting will be held February 7-8, 2019, at the National Academies’ Beckman Center
in Irvine, C.A. It will be in retreat format; it will not have a public seminar or agency head lunch.
CNSTAT’s 139th meeting will be held May 9-10, 2019, at the National Academy of Sciences Building at
2101 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. On the 10th, the meeting will feature a luncheon with
statistical agency heads (members of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, ICSP), followed by a
public seminar, beginning at 1:30 pm, with refreshments, and ending with a reception at 4:00 pm.
[Listed by sponsor agency, beginning with federal departments. Unless otherwise noted, meetings are in
Washington, D.C., and include open sessions. For further information, contact the person listed as the
study director or project assistant (e-mail addresses follow the formula of first initial plus last name as in
oneword@nas.edu). Also see the CNSTAT web site under “Our Work.”]
CNSTAT Core Sponsors
Challenges and New Approaches for Protecting Privacy in Federal Statistical Programs: A
Workshop
Sponsors: CNSTAT Core Sponsors (see p. 3 above)
Duration: August 2018–December 2019
Study director: Nancy Kirkendall; project assistant: Anthony Mann
Chair: Jerome P. Reiter (Duke University)
Publication planned: Workshop proceedings
Upcoming meeting: Workshop scheduled for June 6-7, 2019
Department of Agriculture
Improving Consumer Data for Food and Nutrition Policy Research
Sponsor: Economic Research Service (Consumer Data and Nutrition Research [CDNR] Program)
Duration: October 2017–December 2019
Study director: Christopher Mackie; senior program officer: Nancy Kirkendall; project assistant: Michael
Siri
Chair: Marianne Bitler (University of California, Davis)
Publication planned: Consensus report
Upcoming meetings: Third meeting held September 20-21, 2018, in Washington, DC;
fourth meeting TBD
Panel on Improving Data Collection and Reporting about Agriculture with Increasingly Complex
Farm Business Structures
Sponsor: National Agricultural Statistics Service and Economic Research Service
Duration: September 2015–March 2019
Study director: Christopher Mackie; project assistant: Michael Siri
Chair: Catherine Kling (Iowa State University)
News from CNSTAT • 10/9/2018 • Page 7Publication: Final consensus report issued in prepublication format on October 2, 2018; free PDFs are
available here, printed copies will be available shortly
Meetings: Sixth and final meeting (closed) held March 26-27, 2018, at NORC in Chicago, IL
Workshop on Model-Based Methods for Producing Estimates of Livestock with Appropriate
Measures of Uncertainty
Sponsor: National Agricultural Statistics Service
Duration: September 2014–September 2019
Study director: Nancy Kirkendall; project assistant: Anthony Mann
Chair: TBD
Publication planned: Workshop proceedings
Upcoming meeting: Workshop scheduled for March 12, 2019
Department of Commerce
Workshop on Improving the American Community Survey
Sponsor: U.S. Census Bureau
Duration: April 2018 –March 2019
Study director: Daniel Cork; senior program officer: Michael Cohen; project assistant: Anthony Mann
Chair: Warren Brown (Cornell University)
Publication planned: Workshop proceedings
Meeting: Workshop held September 26-27, 2018, in Washington, DC. See this site for more information.
Department of Education
Committee on Developing Indicators of Educational Equity (see listing under “The Atlantic
Philanthropies et al.” below)
Department of Health and Human Services
Committee on Building an Agenda to Reduce the Number of Children in Poverty by Half in 10
Years (led by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families, with CNSTAT)
Sponsors: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation; Foundation for Child Development
Duration: October 2016–April 2019
Study director: Suzanne Le Menestrel (BCYF); senior scholar: Constance Citro; senior program officer:
Christopher Mackie; associate program officer: Elizabeth Townsend (BCYF); research associate:
Dara Shefska (BCYF); project assistant: Pamella Atayi (BCYF)
Chair: Greg Duncan (UC Irvine)
Publication planned: Final consensus report is being readied for review
Meetings: Closed electronic meetings held in August 2018.
Workshop on Approaches to Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States
Sponsor: Office of Women’s Health
Duration: September 2018-December 2019
Study director: TBD
Chair: TBD
Publication planned: Workshop proceedings
Upcoming meetings: TBD
News from CNSTAT • 10/9/2018 • Page 8Workshop on Social Science Modeling for Big Data in the World of Machine Learning
Sponsor: National Institute on Aging, Division of Behavioral and Social Research
Duration: 15 months
Study director: TBD
Chair: TBD
Publication planned: Workshop proceedings
Upcoming meetings: TBD
Department of Labor
Panel on Contingent Work and Alternate Work Arrangements
Sponsor: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Duration: September 2018-March 2020
Study director: Chris Mackie; project assistant Anthony Mann
Chair: TBD
Publication planned: Consensus report
Upcoming meetings: TBD
Department of Transportation
Standing Committee for Improving Motor Carrier Safety Measurement (joint with the
Transportation Research Board)
Sponsor: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Duration: October 2017–September 2020
Study director: Michael Cohen; TRB Studies and Special Programs Division director: Tom Menzies;
project assistant: Michael Siri
Co-chairs: Joel Greenhouse (Carnegie Mellon) and Sharon Lise-Normand (Harvard Medical School)
Publications: Standing committees do not issue reports; they meet for discussion; they also identify topics
for separate workshops or consensus panels.
Upcoming meetings: The standing committee is meeting primarily by teleconference; it also held an on-
site meeting, July 18, 2018, at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA.
National Science Foundation
Committee on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science (led by the Board on Behavioral,
Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, with the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, CNSTAT,
and the Division of Earth and Life Sciences)
Sponsor: NSF director’s office (congressionally mandated)
Duration: August 2017 – March 2019
Study director: Jennifer Heimberg (DELS); board director: Michelle Schwalbe (BMSA); senior program
officer: Adrienne Stith Butler (BBCSS); senior program officer: Michael Cohen (CNSTAT)
Chair: Harvey Fineberg (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation)
Publication planned: Final report is being drafted
Upcoming meetings: Fifth (and final) meeting held July 26-27, 2018, in Woods Hole, MA.
News from CNSTAT • 10/9/2018 • Page 9Panel on Transparency and Reproducibility for NCSES Statistics
Sponsor: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Duration: September 2018-November 2020
Study director: TBD
Chair: TBD
Publication planned: Consensus report
Upcoming meetings: TBD
Workshop on Implications of Convergence for Measuring the Science and Engineering Workforce
and the S&E Enterprise
Sponsor: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Duration: September 2018-August 2019
Study director: TBD
Chair: TBD
Publication planned: Workshop proceedings
Upcoming meetings: TBD
Workshop on Transparency and Reproducibility in Federal Statistics
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Duration: March 2016–December 2018
Study director: Michael Cohen; project assistant: Michael Siri
Chair: William Eddy (Carnegie Mellon University)
Publication planned: Workshop proceedings is in response to review
Meeting: Workshop held June 21-22, 2017, in Washington, DC
The American Educational Research Association, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Ford
Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education,
the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the W.T. Grant Foundation
Committee on Developing Indicators of Educational Equity
Sponsors: See above list
Duration: December 2016–March 2019
Study director: Judith Koenig; senior scholar: Constance Citro; senior program officer: Jordyn White;
project assistant: Kelly Arrington
Chair: Christopher Edley, Jr. (The Opportunity Institute, Berkeley, CA)
Publication planned: Final consensus report is being drafted
Upcoming meetings: Fifth and final in-person meeting (closed) held September 18-19, 2018, in
Washington, DC, and Irvine, CA
News from CNSTAT • 10/9/2018 • Page 10• CONTACT INFORMATION for CNSTAT •
Committee on National Statistics Dr. Brian Harris-Kojetin, Director
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences bkojetin@nas.edu
and Education (202) 334-2077 or 3096
The National Academies of Sciences, Rebecca Krone, Program Coordinator
Engineering, and Medicine rkrone@nas.edu
500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC 20001 (202) 334-2515 or 3096
http://www.nationalacademies.org/cnstat Dr. Constance F. Citro
Senior Scholar and Newsletter Editor
ccitro@nas.edu (202) 334-3009
– See our website for previous issues of News from CNSTAT, under “CNSTAT News” –
The Committee on National Statistics was established in 1972 at the National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine to improve the statistical methods and information on which public policy
decisions are based. The committee carries out studies, workshops, and other activities to foster better
measures and fuller understanding of the economy, the environment, public health, crime, education,
immigration, poverty, welfare, and other public policy issues. 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, a
National Agricultural Statistics Service cooperative agreement, and several individual agreements.
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