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.
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