2010 and 2011 - Census Bureau

sAng nguyen retires
Sang Nguyen
her professional excellence in
developing a multi-directorate
corporate hiring program to
recruit highly skilled economists
to the Census Bureau.
Lynn Riggs was recognized
for her role on the Data
Management Pilot Requirements
and Evaluation Team, which
successfully demonstrated a
new concept for a processing
environment to manage, control,
share, and work on internal
datasets.
Michele Yates was recognized
for her role on the Document
Management Governance and
Support Team, which was instrumental
in providing leadership,
accountability, and oversight
to the Economic Directorate’s
Document Management System.
rdc AnnuAl reseArcH
conFerences
The RDC Annual Research
Conference features research
from current or recent projects
carried out in a Research Data
Center (RDC) or at CES.
CES’ longest serving economist retired in September 2011.
Dr. Sang V. Nguyen began his career at CES in 1982, the year
CES was founded. Among his many accomplishments, Sang
authored over two dozen journal articles—including highly
cited research published in the RAND Journal of Economics and
the International Journal of Industrial Organization—as well
as numerous book chapters and working papers. Some of his
research relied on the Ownership Change Database, which he
helped develop, and which tracks owners of manufacturing
plants from 1963 to 2002. Sang also served as the editor of the
CES discussion paper series from 1990 to 2009, and as a branch
chief in LEHD. To honor his career and accomplishments, CES
staff presented Sang with a bound volume of some of his most
prominent works. A second copy of the nearly 600 page Selected
Works of Sang V. Nguyen resides in CES’ library.
The 2010 RDC Conference
was held November 18, 2010,
at the University of Maryland,
and was hosted by the Center
for Economic Studies in collaboration
with the Maryland
Population Research Center and
the Department of Economics
at the University of Maryland.
Census Bureau Director Robert
Groves kicked off the conference
with a discussion on the future
of research at the Census Bureau.
Rebecca Blank, Undersecretary
for Economic Affairs at the
Commerce Department, gave
the keynote speech on “Using
Data to Address Policy Issues:
Perspectives from the Policy
World.” RDC and CES researchers
presented 18 papers and 16
posters on a variety of topics,
grouped by the restricted-access
Census Bureau data used:
• Business data and/or linked
employer-employee data
• Individual and household data
• Health data, including projects
using data from the
National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) and the
Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ).
There were also three information
sessions focused on these
three types of data available in
the RDCs. Guidance was provided
on submitting proposals
and conducting research in an
RDC.
The 2011 RDC Conference was
held on September 15, 2011, at
the University of Minnesota, and
was hosted by the Minnesota
Census RDC and the Minnesota
Population Center. The keynote
address on “The History and
Future of Large-Scale Census
Data” was given by Steven
Ruggles, University of Minnesota
Regents Professor of History,
and Director of the Minnesota
Population Center. RDC and CES
researchers presented 20 papers
at six sessions organized around
the data used, including LEHD
10 Research at the Center for Economic Studies and the Research Data Centers: 2010–2011 U.S. Census Bureau