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
Publications
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WATCH: Jim Neumeister on Equity-Focused Education Research
August 28, 2024
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Live Crime Tracker Shows Major Crime Declines in First Half of 2024 with Local Variability
Press Release | August 26, 2024
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City-Funded Preschool Helps Alleviate Shortage, Improves Child & Family Outcomes
NORC Article | August 22, 2024
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U.S. History Teachers Report Little Outside Interference Despite Political Polarization
NORC Article | August 19, 2024
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“Evaluation of Pennsylvania Community Violence Intervention Programs: PCCD VIP Grants Survey Report”
Project Report | August 15, 2024
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“Evaluation of Pennsylvania Community Violence Intervention Programs - PCCD VIP Grants Survey Report: Executive Summary”
Project Report | August 15, 2024
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NORC Evaluation Finds City-Funded Preschool Helps Alleviate Shortage, Improves Child & Family Outcomes
Press Release | August 12, 2024
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WATCH: Susan Paddock on AI & Equity
August 7, 2024