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Friday, November 6, 2009

USA: Research Fellowship Program at National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)

Overview

This program allows selected Fellows and Associates the opportunity to engage in research of large-scale agricultural survey operations, including design, collection, quality control, forecasting, estimation, and analysis. Research takes place at NASS’ Research and Development Division, 3251 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax, Virginia, so participants have access to extensive NASS data and staff interaction.

Fellowship program applicants should have:

A PhD

An established and recognized research record
Considerable expertise in their area of proposed research

Associate program applicants should have:

A PhD or at least two years of graduate study in an appropriate field


Applicants may request to work in a specific area or on a special problem, propose a broad area of learning, or seek an open program of research related to an area of expertise. All requests will be competitively evaluated by a panel of individuals from the ASA and NASS based on the proposal content, its applicability to NASS programs, and facilities and personnel available to assist in the proposed research. A research report is expected of participants upon completion of the program.

To assist research, NASS has actively maintained list and area sampling frames; survey design capability; computation and analysis capabilities using PCs and a mainframe network; and largescale data collection capability. The organizational structure of NASS features a large number of field offices capable of carrying out surveys utilizing an extensive corps of field and telephone enumerators. There are also a number of regularly scheduled surveys that provide vehicles for evaluating single- or multiple-frame methodologies.

All participants are reimbursed by the ASA and are on a cooperative work arrangement with NASS. Fellow’s stipends arecommensurate with current faculty salary and include an appropriate moving and travel allowance. There is the possibility of an arrangement under the Inter-Government Personnel Act, where the stipend supplements an existing sabbatical; however, the selection will not depend on this arrangement. Associates’ stipends are set at the equivalent GS rating, depending on academic and other background, and include a moving and travel allowance. Positions typically are an academic year of 9–12 months. They may be extended up to one additional year under special circumstances. Special appointments covering one or several shorter periods of 2–3 months also will be considered.

Application deadline: Not specified.

Please directly contact the NASS program:

Phillip S. Kott
Chief Research Statistician
USDA /NASS/RDD
3251 Old Lee Highway, Room 305
Fairfax, VA 22030-1504
(703) 877-8000, Ext. 102


Send Application
Applications should be sent electronically
in one PDF file to joyce@amstat.org.
One paper copy should be mailed to
ASA/USDA-NASS Fellows Program
American Statistical Association
732 North Washington Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-1943



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