The 2019 Links Lecture was awarded to Bruce Meyer, McCormick Foundation Professor at The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, for adding important links in the progress of official statistics through research and advisory activities. Meyer’s lecture is titled “Linking Data to Improve Income Statistics,” and will take place October 18 at the National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
Meyer has worked extensively to explore ways to improve official statistics by linking data from multiple survey and administrative sources. He also served on the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.
Mary Bohman, deputy director at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, will serve in the program as the “connector” in relating the points in Meyer’s lecture to the work of agencies engaged in the production of official statistics.
The Links Lecture is sponsored by the American Statistical Association to bring more visibility to issues surrounding the advancement of official statistics, such as the following:
- The statistical use of administrative records and alternative data sources
- Record linkage
- Statistical methods for creating blended estimates
- Privacy, confidentiality, researcher access, and reproducibility of results
The lecture series also celebrates a group of statisticians who have been critical links in envisioning the future of official statistics: Constance Citro, Robert Groves, and Fritz Scheuren.
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