Federal Statistics Fellowship Program

该奖项继续支持美国统计协会的联邦统计奖学金计划。 该计划还得到了美国人口普查局、劳工统计局和国家教育统计中心的支持。 该计划的总体目标是促进合作和跨学科的研究工作，这将继续刺激方法和社会科学研究的发展和进步，这些研究与联邦统计机构寻求提供信息的问题有关。 该计划通过将学术研究人员带入支持联邦统计机构，与机构统计人员和社会科学家就共同感兴趣的问题进行长达一年的合作来实现这一目标。该研究奖学金计划的几个具体目标包括：为学术学者提供独特的机会，通过设立研究奖学金，使具有不同学术背景的科学家进入联邦机构，从而获得这些机构的数据;提高每个机构收集和传播的数据的质量;建立一个人员研究小组，以便今后征聘统计人员和其他科学研究人员，帮助满足政府的需要;鼓励学术界对收集和分析数据的问题进行方法和实质性研究，这些数据为作出可能对社会产生重大影响的决策提供了基本信息;加强联邦机构之间以及联邦机构与学术机构之间的互动和合作研究与教育。

This award continues NSF support for the American Statistical Association's Federal Statistics Fellowship Program. The program also is supported by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Center for Education Statistics. The general objective of the program is to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research efforts that will continue to stimulate the development and advancement of methodology and social science research relevant to issues on which Federal statistical agencies seek to provide information. The program accomplishes this by bringing academic researchers into the supporting federal statistical agencies to work with agency statisticians and social scientists for up to one year on problems of mutual interest.Several specific objectives of this research fellowship program include: to provide academic scholars with the unique opportunity to have "hands on" access to federal agency data through the establishment of research fellowships that bring scientists with diverse academic backgrounds to the agencies; to bring about an improvement of the quality of the data collected and disseminated by each agency; to develop a research group of personnel for the future recruitment of statisticians and other research scientists to help fill government needs; to stimulate methodological and substantive research in academia on the problems of collecting and analyzing data that provide the basic information for making decisions that can have significant effects on society; and to increase the interaction and collaborative research and education among federal agencies and between federal agencies and academic institutions.