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Comments on Prewitt: “ Thank you Morris et al., for Westat et al ."

Comments on Prewitt: “ Thank you Morris et al., for Westat et al .". Hansen Lecture Series, October 9, 2012 Margo Anderson University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee margo@uwm.edu. Merriam Webster on Politics…. the art or science of government;

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Comments on Prewitt: “ Thank you Morris et al., for Westat et al ."

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  1. Comments on Prewitt: “Thank you Morris et al., for Westat et al." Hansen Lecture Series, October 9, 2012 Margo Anderson University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee margo@uwm.edu

  2. Merriam Webster on Politics… • the art or science of government; • the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy; and • the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government.

  3. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation

  4. Social Science and Statistical Policy

  5. Unemployment, 1890-1990

  6. Van Kleeck on Measuring Unemployment, 1923 • “If the facts [data on employment and unemployment] are to be useful …they must be widely enough scattered geographically not to be over-influenced by condition which may be merely local in one section of the country; they must be made available by some central agency which can correlate and interpret them; and, perhaps most important of all, they must be made public with sufficient promptness to be approximately true measures of the state of employment at the time when they are issued. Thus the problem of extending and improving employment statistics is less statistical in its nature than it is administrative. It demands a machinery strong enough and simple enough to work smoothly and rapidly without breakdowns.”

  7. Thank you…. • Morris… • And Ken….. • And to all of you….

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