Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop (1998)
Chapter: Front Matter
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COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS 1996-1997
NORMAN M. BRADBURN (Chair),
National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
JULIE DAVANZO, RAND,
Santa Monica, California
WILLIAM F. EDDY,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
JOHN F. GEWEKE,
Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
JOEL B. GREENHOUSE,
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
ERIC A. HANUSHEK,
W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Rochester
RODERICK J.A. LITTLE,
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
CHARLES F. MANSKI,
Department of Economics, Northwestern University
WILLIAM NORDHAUS,
Department of Economics, Yale University
JANET L. NORWOOD,
The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
EDWARD B. PERRIN,
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington
PAUL ROSENBAUM,
Department of Statistics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
KEITH F. RUST,
Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland
FRANCISCO J. SAMANIEGO,
Division of Statistics, University of California, Davis
MIRON L. STRAF, Director
ANDREW WHITE, Deputy Director
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Acknowledgments
The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) thanks the many people who participated in the workshop on national statistics on health and social welfare programs, including those who prepared papers for presentation, those who served as formal discussants for the papers, and the many others who contributed to the lively and informative discussions at the workshop. We especially thank committee member Charles Manski of Northwestern University for serving as chair.
We also gratefully acknowledge the commitment and support of those who worked collaboratively to organize the workshop and prepare this report. Constance Citro of the CNSTAT staff took the major responsibility for organizing the workshop, working with Charles Manski and CNSTAT director Miron Straf and consulting with Joan Turek and James Scanlon of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Karen Huie made all of the logistical arrangements for the workshop. John Pepper of the Department of Economics, University of Virginia, prepared a first draft of the workshop summary, and all three editors—Constance Citro, Charles Manski, and John Pepper—contributed to the final version of the report. Eugenia Grohman of the staff of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education edited the report, and Agnes Gaskin of the CNSTAT staff prepared it for publication.
NORMAN BRADBURN, CHAIR
COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS
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