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Jennifer Giarratano, 404-413-0028
Andrew Young School
ATLANTA—Robert M. Groves, director of the U.S. Census Bureau and former director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, will present the 7th Annual W.J. Usery Distinguished Lecture at 2 p.m. April 15 on the 7th floor Seminar Room of the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, 14 Marietta Street.
In “What is Quality? Government Statistics and the Larger Social Science World,” Groves will discuss the 2010 Census operations and the use of census statistics in making decisions.
Groves began his tenure as director of the Census Bureau on July 15, 2009, two days after the U.S. Senate confirmed his appointment by President Barack Obama. A professor at the University of Michigan and former research professor at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland, Groves had joined the Census Bureau as its Associate Director for Statistical Design, Methodology and Standards from 1990 to 1992 while on loan from the University of Michigan.
His book “Survey Errors and Survey Costs” (Wiley-Interscience, 1989) was named “one of the 50 most influential books in survey research” by the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and “Nonresponse in Household Interview Surveys” (Wiley-Interscience, 1998), written with Mick Couper, received the 2008 AAPOR Book Award.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical Association and the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research, Groves has received a number of awards recognizing his contributions in the development of economic statistics. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Michigan.
Find his biography at http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/pdf/GrovesBio_on_letterhead.pdf and The Director’s Blog he writes at http://blogs.census.gov/2010census/.