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Date: November 14, 1997
Census Director to Participate in Panel on "The Census Undercount"
PRINCETON, N.J. -- A panel discussion on "The Census Undercount" will be held at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, November 20, at 4:00 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
Panelists will include Martha Farnsworth Riche, the director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census since 1994. The latest in a long line of census directors that began with Thomas Jefferson, she started her career as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1961, then moved to the private sector in 1978 as a founding editor of American Demographics, the nation's first magazine devoted to interpreting demographic and economic data for corporate and public executives.
Joining Riche on the panel is James Trussell, director of the Princeton University Office of Population Research and a professor of economics and public affairs. His field of interest is demography, and he has published books and articles on contraceptive technology, models of fertility, nuptiality, and mortality; methods of estimating demographic parameters from inaccurate and incomplete data; teenage fertility; AIDS; nutrition; infant and child mortality, and contraceptive failure.
The discussion will be moderated by Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School and the former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. Krueger, whose primary research and teaching interests are in the general areas of labor economics, industrial relations, and social insurance, is the editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the University's Survey Research Center are sponsoring the panel.
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