On-Site Research Program to Improve the Quality of Labor Statistics

该奖项将美国统计协会题为“提高劳动统计质量的现场研究计划”的项目延长一年。未来几年的计划是与人口普查局和国家教育统计中心进行的类似现场研究项目合并。该计划于1987年由劳工统计局发起，将高级研究员和助理人员吸引到该局，为期最长一年。其广泛的目标是帮助弥合学术学者和政府科学家之间的差距，让研究员和同事接触到可能只在大型联邦统计机构遇到的方法问题和政策问题，并让政府社会科学家接触到可能适用于他们的工作的新理论发展。在该局居住使研究员和同事能够进行研究，如果没有该方案提供的劳工统计局数据资源，即使不是不可能，也是很难进行的。

This award extends for one year the American Statistical Association project entitled "On- Site Research Program to Improve the Quality of Labor Statistics". The plan for subsequent years is to effect a merger with similar on- site research programs conducted at the Bureau of Census and the National Center for Education Statistics. The program, which was initiated at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1987, brings senior research fellows and associates to the Bureau for periods of up to one year. Its broadbased goal is to help bridge the gap between academic scholars and governmental scientists by exposing the fellows and associates to the methodological problems and policy issues likely to be encountered only in a large scale Federal statistical agency and by exposing government social scientists to new theoretical developments which might have application to their work. Residence at the Bureau allows fellows and associates to carry out research that would be difficult if not impossible to do without the ready access to the data resources of the Bureau of Labor Statistics which the program provides.