The 2021 recipient of the Waksberg Award is Sharon Lohr, who will give the Waksberg Invited Address at the Statistics Canada 2021 Symposium and write a paper planned for publication in the December 2022 issue of Survey Methodology.

Survey Methodology established an annual invited paper series in honor of Joseph Waksberg in 2001 to recognize his contributions to survey statistics and methodology. Each year, a prominent survey statistician is chosen to write a paper that reviews the development and current state of an important topic in survey statistics and methodology and reflects the mixture of theory and practice that characterized Waksberg’s work.

Waksberg was a giant in survey sampling for nearly seven decades, beginning at the US Census Bureau in 1940 and then moving to Westat in 1973, where he served as chair of the board from 1990 until his death in 2006.

The award includes an honorarium made possible by a grant from Westat.