Katherine Wallman

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Katherine Wallman
Chief Statistician of the United States
In office
November 1992 – January 3, 2017
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded byHermann Habermann
Succeeded byNancy Potok
Personal details
BornNew Jersey, U.S.
Died(2024-01-17)January 17, 2024[1]
EducationWellesley College (BA)

Katherine K. Wallman was an American statistician who served as the Chief Statistician of the United States from 1992 to 2017.[2] In that role at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, she provided coordination, guidance, and oversight for the Federal Statistical System of the United States.[3]

She held a BA in sociology from Wellesley College.[4]

In 1983 Wallman was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] She was the president of the American Statistical Association in 1992,[6] and Chairwoman of the United Nations Statistical Commission in 2004-5.[2] She has made several appearances on C-SPAN.[7]

Wallman organized efforts to pass and implement the 2002 CIPSEA law which standardized confidentiality-protection and information-sharing by U.S. federal government statistical agencies.[8]

She died in January, 2024.

Works[edit]

  • Wallman, Katherine K; Harris-Kojetin, Brian A; U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Implementing the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (PDF), retrieved 2013-12-05

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "ICPSR Mourns the Passing of Katherine K. Wallman". www.icpsr.umich.edu. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Brief Bio: Katherine K. Wallman, Chief Statistician, U.S. Office of Management and Budget" (PDF), UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, retrieved 2013-12-05
  3. ^ Wallman, Katherine K. "Statistical Programs of the United States Government" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  4. ^ "Remembering Katherine Wallman". Census.gov. US Census Bureau.
  5. ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-10-22.
  6. ^ "Katherine K. Wallman's biosketch". The Albany Chapter of The American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  7. ^ "Katherine Wallman - Bio". C-SPAN Video Library. Retrieved 2013-12-08.
  8. ^ CIPSEA at 15 Years: Benefits to Federal Statistics—A Seminar in Honor of Katherine K. Wallman at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

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