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CLYDE TUCKER
Senior Survey Methodologist
Bureau of Labor Statistics

Clyde Tucker has been at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for over 20 years, where he currently serves as the Senior Survey Methodologist.  He co-chaired the interagency research group that revised the methodology for collecting information on race and ethnicity in all Federal surveys, including Census 2000.  He is the chair of the committee overseeing the design of the Current Population Survey.  He is a past winner of both the Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics from the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Innovator Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.    His research interests include telephone survey design, survey nonresponse, and measurement error.  He has a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in political science, both from the University of Georgia, and is an elected Fellow of ASA and is president of the Washington Statistical Society. Since 1984, he has served as a statistical consultant on national election decision desks for television networks.  He managed the decision teams for Voter News Service from 1994 to 2002 and in 2004 headed the decision desk for CNN.