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

该奖项延长了一年的美国统计协会项目，题为“现场研究计划，以提高劳动统计的质量”。接下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的现场研究项目合并。该项目于1987年由劳工统计局发起，将高级研究员和助理带到该局，为期一年。其基础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，使研究员和同事了解只有在大型联邦统计机构才可能遇到的方法问题和政策问题，并使政府社会科学家了解可能适用于其工作的新理论发展。在劳工统计局的住所允许研究员和同事进行研究，如果没有该项目提供的劳工统计局的数据资源，即使不是不可能，也很难进行研究。

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.