Daniel is a senior fellow at NORC who consults on issues of survey design and survey methods. He has managed and carried out methodological research on federal survey programs and is particularly interested in nonsampling error issues in surveys. He has also managed sample surveys at several federal statistical agencies.
Before his appointment as Senior Fellow, he was the NORC Director of the Center for Excellence in Survey Research. He has considerable experience in sample surveys on education related topics. Before his appointment at NORC, he was the director of statistical services at Mathematica Policy Research. He has over 30 years of experience managing large-scale sample surveys onmany topics. Including holding various positions on the staff of the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Before his private sector positions, he was program director of the elementary and secondary sample survey studies program at the National Ceneter for Education Statistics, where he was responsiblefor the Schools and Staffing Survey System. He was a member of the OECD committee that developed and reported school and teacher data for national comparisons. He served as the U.S. Department of Education’s liaison to the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas. He served for 20 years on the Office of Management and Budget’s Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology.
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Education
PhD
The George Washington University
MS
Michigan State University
BS
Wayne State University
Appointments & Affiliations
Founders Award Committee
American Statistical Association
Chair, Panel on Transparency and Reproducibility of Federal Statistics for the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
National Academy of Sciences
Member, Panel to Review and Evaluate the 2014 SIPP Content and DESIGN
National Academy of Sciences
Member, Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities
National Academy of Sciences
Member, Panel to Review the Children’s Study Research Plan
National Academy of Sciences
Chair, Advisory Board for the Department of Statistics
George Mason University
Member, External Advisory Committee
University of Michigan, Survey Research Center
Member, Board of Overseers for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics
National Science Foundation
Member, External Advisory Committee for the Census of Agriculture
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Chair
Office of Management and Budget, Subcommittee on Measuring and Reporting Data Quality in Federal Data Collection Programs
Member, Morris Hansen Memorial Lecture Committee
Washington Statistical Society
Associate Editor for Survey Methodology
Statistics Canada
Associate Editor for Journal of Official Statistics
Statistics Sweden
Honors & Awards
Founders Award | 2019
American Statistical Association
Fellow | 1990
American Statistical Association
Elected Member | 1991
International Statistical Institute
Bronze Medal | 1989
U.S. Census Bureau
Project Contributions
Publications
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American Statistical Association Honors Five Members of NORC Senior Staff for Their Industry Contributions
Press Release | July 27, 2018
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opens in new tab"The 2014 Redesign of the Survey of Income and Program Participation: An Assessment."
Journal Article | September 13, 2017
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opens in new tab"The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People."
Book | November 6, 2011
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"Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report: 2009 Sample Rotation and Project Documentation."
Project Report | October 5, 2009
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"2008 SESTAT Response Rate Calculations Guidelines."
Project Report | October 5, 2009
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"National Agricultural Workers Survey: Current Analysis Weights."
Project Report | October 5, 2009
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opens in new tab"The National Children’s Study Research Plan: A Review."
Project Report | February 13, 2008
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opens in new tab"Who Shared in the Growth of Wealth in the 1990s? Subpopulation Trends in U.S. Household Wealth Holdings."
Book | October 5, 2006