The 32nd Annual Morris Hansen Lecture will take place on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 3:30-5:30 pm (ET). This year’s topic is “Challenges in Measuring Income and Poverty: Why Is It So Hard? Why Is It So Important?” The keynote speaker will be Dr. Constance F. Citro, a senior scholar with the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT). A discussion will follow with Dr. Marina Gindelsky of the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and Dr. Jonathan L. Rothbaum of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Event Details
- Thursday, September 26, 2024; 3:30-5:30 pm
- USDA Headquarters, 1400 Independence Ave. SW, Jefferson Auditorium, South Building, Washington, DC
- A catered reception will follow at the USDA Whitten Building Patio; 5:30-6:30 pm
- Register: 32nd Annual Morris Hansen Lecture and Reception
Event Sponsorship
The Morris Hansen Lecture Series is sponsored by the Washington Statistical Society (WSS), Westat, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The lecture series was established by WSS in 1990 with a financial grant from Westat. The series seeks to achieve balance between theory, applications and policy, and to highlight the range of disciplines that inform survey practice.
This series was created to honor Morris Hansen, a former Westat Chairman of the Board, whose pioneering contributions to survey sampling and related statistical methods established many standards and methods, many still in use, for the conduct of surveys.
