Constance F. Citro
Born
Constance Ann Forbes

(1942-06-09) June 9, 1942 (age 81)
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
  • Statistics
  • Political science
InstitutionsNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Constance Ann Forbes Citro (born June 9, 1942)[1] is an American political scientist and statistician. She is the former director of the Committee on National Statistics[2] of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and works as a senior scholar for the Committee on National Statistics.[3]

Education and career

Constance Ann Forbes was born on June 9, 1942, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Gilbert B. Forbes, a pediatrician, and Grace Moehlman Forbes.[1] She was the granddaughter of Baptist minister and theological scholar Conrad Henry Moehlman.[4]

She studied political science as an undergraduate at the University of Rochester,[3] graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1963.[4] Her father was on the faculty of the U of R Medical School, and numerous relatives were graduates, including both her parents, her late husband, Joseph F. Citro (1941-2020), whom she married on June 19, 1965, and their son Jeremy F. Citro.[1] She went to Yale University for a master's degree and Ph.D. in political science, studying under James David Barber.

Citro joined the Committee on National Statistics in 1984 and directed the committee from 2004 to 2017.[3] She was previously vice president of Mathematica Policy Research, vice president of Data Use and Access Laboratories (DUALabs), and social science analyst with the US Census Bureau.

Recognition

Citro became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1987.[5] She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[6]

She won the 1997 Roger Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics, for contributions including directing panel studies on poverty measurement, microsimulation for social welfare programs, and the 1990 and 2000 censuses.[7] She also won the Waksberg Award in survey methodology in 2014.[8]

In 2018 the American Statistical Association established an annual award, the Links Lecture Award, "to honor the contributions of Constance Citro, Robert Groves, and Fritz Scheuren". [9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Your Classmates" (PDF), The Rochester Alumni–Alumnae Review, p. 23, October–November 1942
  2. ^ Committee on National Statistics
  3. ^ a b c CNSTAT staff, Committee on National Statistics, retrieved November 6, 2018
  4. ^ a b "Constance A. Forbes Fiancee of J. F. Citro", The New York Times, April 3, 1964
  5. ^ ASA Fellows List, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on April 25, 2019, retrieved November 6, 2016
  6. ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on July 29, 2017, retrieved November 6, 2018
  7. ^ "Kudos to Connie Citro!", Newsletter of the American Statistical Association, vol. 3, no. 2, July 1997
  8. ^ Waksberg Award, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on September 23, 2017, retrieved November 6, 2018
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