U-M prof chosen for Census Bureau
A top University of Michigan professor is moving from Ann Arbor to Washington, D.C., to take a top spot in Barack Obama’s administration.Excerpt:WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday picked University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves — who in the 1990s had a run-in with Republicans over the suggested use of sampling to correct undercounts of minority populations — to head the Census Bureau.Even before the announcement was made, Groves, 60, a sociology professor and director of the Survey Research Institute at U-M, was being criticized by congressional Republicans. They remembered him advocating statistical sampling in the decennial count of the U.S. population when he was an associate census director.Read the rest of the story here.
A top University of Michigan professor is moving from Ann Arbor to Washington, D.C., to take a top spot in Barack Obama’s administration.
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday picked University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves — who in the 1990s had a run-in with Republicans over the suggested use of sampling to correct undercounts of minority populations — to head the Census Bureau.
Even before the announcement was made, Groves, 60, a sociology professor and director of the Survey Research Institute at U-M, was being criticized by congressional Republicans. They remembered him advocating statistical sampling in the decennial count of the U.S. population when he was an associate census director.
Read the rest of the story here.
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