Summer at Census

Recognized scholars in the following and related fields applicable to censuses and large-scale sample surveys are invited for short-term visits (one to three days) primarily between May and September:

  • Statistics
  • Survey methodology
  • Data Science
  • Demography
  • Economics
  • Geography
  • Social and behavioral sciences
  • Computer science

Scholars engage in collaborative research with Census Bureau researchers and present a seminar based on their research.

Scholars are identified through an annual Census Bureau-wide solicitation by the Center for Statistical Research and Methodology.

Summer at Census Seminars

2016
  • January 2025
  • January 2024
  • January 2023
  • January 2022
  • January 2021
  • January 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009

2016

 

Themes

Statistical Computing [1]

Statistical Disclosure Control & Privacy and Confidentiality [2]

Ranking Methods [3]

Measurement of Income and Poverty [4]

Small Area Estimation [5, 14,]

Measurement of Families [6, 7, 8, 9]

Applied Microeconomics [11]

Measurement of Race and Ethnicity [12]

Time Series & Seasonal Adjustment [13, 27, 34]

Migration [15, 16, 37]

Geography/Spatial Methods [17, 32, 33, 36]

Survey Methodology: Data Collection [18, 20, 21]

Sampling and Estimation [19, 25]

Administrative Records Data & Data Integration [22, 23]

Healthcare Measurement [24]

Missing Data [26]

Labor Market Measurement [28, 31]

Offshoring and Innovation [29]

Usability Testing [30]

Big Data [35]

May

[1] Yinglei Lai / The George Washington University (May 16-18)
“Exploration of Concordant Changes among Multiple Data Sets”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng)

[2] Sughashis Ghoshal / North Carolina State University (May 17-19)
“Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Data-Science”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Klein, Roy)

[3] Philip L.H. Yu / The University of Hong Kong (May 23-25)
“Rank Aggregation using Distance-Based Models”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Klein, Mathew); Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research (Sinha)

[4] Randall Akee / University of California, Los Angeles (May 23-25)
“Land Titles and Dispossession: Allotment on American Indian Reservations”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Porter, Jones)

[5] Domingo Morales / University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain (May 31-June 3)
“Multivariate Fay-Herriot Models for Small Area Estimation”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Franco, Maples)

June

[6] John Iceland / The Pennsylvania State University (June 7-9)
“Did We Win the War on Poverty? No, but...”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Divison (Vespa, Mykyta, Renwick, Kreider)

[7] Wendy Manning / Bowling Green State University (June 7-9)
“Measuring Cohabitation in National Surveys”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Divison (Vespa, Mykyta, Renwick, Kreider)

[8] Sheela Kennedy / University of Michigan (June 7-9)
“The Changing Transition to Adulthood in the U.S.: Trends in Demographic Role Transitions and Age Norms since 2000”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Divison (Vespa, Mykyta, Renwick, Kreider)

[9] Sharon Sassler / Cornell University (June 7-9)
“A Cross-National Comparison of the Consequences of Partnered Childbearing for Mother's Mid-Life Health”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Vespa, Mykyta, Renwick, Kreider)

[10] Vitaly Shmatikov / Cornell Tech (June 14)
“Machine Learning and Privacy: Friends or Foes?”
Hosts: Center for Disclosure Avoidance Research (McKenna, Dajani); Associate Director for Research and Methodology (Abowd); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Winkler)

[11] Henry Schneider / Cornell University (June 14-15)
“Promoting Best Practices in a Multitask Workplace: Experimental Evidence on Checklists”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Basker)

[12] Carolyn Liebler / University of Minnesota (June 20-24)
“The Occupational Structure of the American Indian and Alaska Native Workforce”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Porter)

[13] Christoph Sax / Christoph Sax Data Analytics LLC (June 20-24)
“R-Development: User Interfaces and Package Creation”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Livsey, Monsell)

[14] Zhuoquiong He / University of Missouri-Columbia (June 20-24)
“Assessing and Adjusting Nonresponse Bias in Small Area Estimation via Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Models”
Hosts: Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Cheng, Gilary); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Maples)

[15] Elizabeth Fussell / Brown University (June 27-July 1)
“Disasters and Residential Change in the U.S., 1997-2013: Migrants' Reason for Moving, Socio-demographic Selection, and Residential Outcomes”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Gardner); Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (O'Hara, Alexander, Massey)

[16] Narayan Sastry / University of Michigan (June 27-July 1)
“The Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Population: Results from the American Community Survey”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Gardner); Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (O'Hara, Alexander, Massey)

[17] Scott Holan / University of Missouri (June 28-30)
“Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Models for High-Dimensional Areal Data with Application to Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics”
Hosts: Geography Division (Ratcliffe, Anacker, Henrie)

July

[18] Don Dillman / Washington State University (July 11-13)
“The Promises and Perils of Web-Push Methodologies”
Hosts: Decennial Statistical Studies Division (Tersine, Bentley, Poehler); Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Tancreto); American Community Survey Office (Hughes)

[19] Bikas Sinha / Indian Statistical Institute (July 12-13)
“Randomized Response & A New Hartely-Politz-Simmons Technique”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[20] Deirdre Giesen / Statistics Netherlands (July 12-14)
“Response Burden in Official Business Surveys: Relevance, Concepts & Measurement”
“Management of Response Burden in Official Business Surveys”
Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Willimack)

[21] Joe Murphy / Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International (July 13-15)
“Methods and Technology for Monitoring Survey Data Quality during Data Collection”
Hosts: Associate Director for Demographic Programs (Boggess, Parker, Fields); Demographic Statistical Methods Division (Barnes)

[22] Thurston Domina / University of North Carolina (July 18-22)
“Beyond Tracking and Detracking: The Dimensions of Organizational Differentiation in Schools”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Porter)

[23] Emily Penner / University of California, Irvine (July 18-22)
“The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Porter)

[24] Bernard Black / Northwestern University (July 18-22)
“The Effect of Health Insurance on Near-Elderly Health and Mortality”
Hosts: Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division (Udalova)

[25] David Haziza / University of Montreal (July 19-21)
“Multiply Robust Imputation Procedures for the Treatment of Item Nonresponse in Surveys”
Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Thompson)

[26] Donald Rubin / Harvard University (July 18-22)
“A New Class of Models for Missing Data”
Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Tran); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

[27] Susie Fortier / Statistics Canada (July 19-22)
“Various Algorithmic Approaches for the Balancing Problem”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Monsell); Economic Statistical Methods Division (McDonald-Johnson, Imel, Lytras)

[28] Alexander Bartik / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (July 25-29)
“Winners and Losers from Productivity and Amenity Changes: Evidence from Longitudinal Census Data and a Natural Resource Boom”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Flanagan-Doyle, Alexander, O'Hara, Gathright)

[29] Wolfgang Keller / University of Colorado (July 25-28)
“International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (Zolas, Kamal, Goldschlag, Tello-Trillo)

August

[30] Marti Hearst / University of California, Berkely (August 2-5)
“Seeking Simplicity in Search User Interfaces”
“DesignITRight: How and Why to Integrate User-Centered Design into All Phases of IT Development”
Hosts: Center for Survey Measurement (Wang); Economic Statistical Methods Division (Willimack)

[31] Andre Kurman / Drexel University (August 1-5)
“Downward Wage Rigidity in the United States”
Hosts: Center for Economic Studies (McEntarfer, Spletzer)

[32] Daniel Goldberg / Texas A&M University (August 8)
“Geocomputational Approaches for Geocoding and Addressing”
Hosts: Geography Division (Ratcliffe, Irbie, Namie)

[33] Werner Kuhn / University of California-Santa Barbara (August 8-12)
“Exploring the Notion of Spatial Data Lenses”
Hosts: Geography Division (Ratcliffe, Trainor)

[34] Anand Vidyashankar / George Mason University (August 9-12)
“Implicit Networds in High Dimensional Problems”
Hosts: Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (McElroy, Livsey, Ben-David, Winkler)

[35] Roberto Rigobon / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (August 22)
“Big Data in Economic Measurement”
Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Hogue); Center for Statistical Research and Methodology (Wright)

September

[36] Fang Qiu / University of Texas at Dallas (September 12-16)
“Curve Matching Approaches to Waveform Classification: A Case Study Using ICESat”
Hosts: Geography Division (Ratcliffe, Liadis, Desch, Sheppard)

[37] Jennifer Van Hook / The Pennsylvania State University (September 19-23)
“Moving to the Land of Milk and Cookies: How Migration and Settlement in the U.S. Shapes Children's Diets”
Hosts: Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications (Leach)

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