Federal Statistics Fellowship Program

该奖项延续了美国国家科学基金会对美国统计协会联邦统计奖学金计划的支持。该项目还得到了人口普查局和劳工统计局的支持。该计划的总体目标是促进合作和跨学科的研究工作，以促进与联邦统计机构寻求提供信息的问题相关的方法和社会科学研究的发展和进步。该计划通过将学术研究人员引入支持联邦统计机构，与机构统计学家和社会科学家就共同感兴趣的问题进行合作，实现了这一目标。具体的研究主题可能会有所不同，但可能包括调查方法（包括问卷设计、数据收集、估计和分析）、社会和人口研究（包括对十年一次的人口普查漏数的研究、人口调查的覆盖分析和收集敏感问题数据的特殊问题）以及经济测量和分析(包括工业部门的微观研究、劳动力特征的测量、以及衡量非工资福利)。除基础研究外，研究员计划还旨在实现以下目标：为学术学者提供“亲身”接触联邦机构数据的独特机会；提高各机构收集和传播的数据的质量；发展一个研究小组，以便日后招聘统计学家和其他研究科学家，以协助应付政府的需要；鼓励学术界就收集和分析数据的问题进行方法论和实质性研究，这些数据为作出可能对社会产生重大影响的决定提供基本信息；增加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。研究员计划直接惠及由该计划支持的研究人员和参与的联邦统计机构。

This award continues NSF support for the American Statistical Association's Federal Statistics Fellowship Program. The Fellows Program also is supported by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The overall objective of the program is to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research efforts that will 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 goal by bringing academic researchers into the supporting Federal statistical agencies to work with agency statisticians and social scientists on problems of mutual interest. Specific research topics will vary but are likely to include survey methodology (including questionnaire design, data collection, estimation, and analysis), social and demographic studies (including research on the decennial Census undercount, coverage analysis of demographic surveys, and special problems of collecting data on sensitive issues), and economic measurement and analysis (including micro level studies of industry sectors, measurement of labor force characteristics, and measurement of non-wage benefits).In addition to basic research, the Fellows Program aims to achieve the following goals: provide academic scholars with the unique opportunity to have "hands-on" access to federal agency data; bring about an improvement of the quality of the data collected and disseminated by agencies; develop a research group of personnel for the future recruitment of statisticians and other research scientists to help fill government needs; 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 increase the interaction and collaborative research and education among federal agencies and between federal agencies and academic institutions. The Fellows Program directly benefits both the researchers supported by the program and the participating Federal statistical agencies.