Eric Rancourt, Survey Methodology Management Board Chair
Statistics Canada recently appointed Jean-François Beaumont, senior statistical adviser at Statistics Canada, as the new editor of Survey Methodology. Beaumont has been associated with the journal for 20 years; he served as assistant editor from 2000–2010 and associate editor from 2010–2020. He succeeds Wesley Yung, who has been editor since 2015.
Survey Methodology has evolved tremendously over the past 45 years under the leadership of its previous editors: M.P. Singh (1975–2005), John Kovar (2006–2009), Michel Hidiroglou (2010–2015), and Yung (2016–2020). In the first years after its creation, the journal published papers mainly from Statistics Canada’s authors but soon acquired the worldwide reputation of a high-quality journal for survey statisticians and methodologists. Today, Survey Methodology publishes innovative theoretical and applied statistical research papers from international authors on issues relevant to the activities of national statistical offices.
There is a new publication landscape with many players in the field, and authors have heightened expectations in terms of review expediencies. While navigating this new ecosystem, members of the Survey Methodology Management Board are confident the journal will continue to flourish under the editorship of Beaumont and keep its same essential core value of scientific rigor.
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