Robert M. Groves

Robert Groves (2009)

Robert M. Groves (born September 27, 1948 ) is an American statistician and sociologist . From 2009 to 2012 he was the head of the American Census Bureau , the United States Census Bureau . He has been Provost at Georgetown University since 2012 .

Life

Robert Groves grew up in a suburb of New Orleans in Metairie , Louisiana , and graduated from De La Salle High School in New Orleans in 1966. Groves graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in sociology in 1970. In 1973 he obtained a master's in statistics and sociology from the University of Michigan and received his doctorate there in 1975 in sociology. In the following years he was a researcher and lecturer at various American and international universities and research institutions, including visiting professor at the Center for Surveys, Methods and Analyzes (ZUMA) in Mannheim in 1987 and 1997 , today part of the GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences .

Groves worked as Associate Director for the Census Bureau from 1990 to 1992 . There he came into conflict with his employer, the then Minister of Commerce Robert A. Mosbacher , because he had proposed using statistical methods to compensate for the chronic underrepresentation of minorities and the socially disadvantaged in the census. The Republican administration under George HW Bush feared that this would improve the Democrats' election chances . Groves then returned to the University of Michigan.

On April 2, 2009, he was proposed by President Barack Obama as director of the Census Bureau. The Senate confirmed him on July 13, 2009 by 76 votes to 15 and he was officially installed two days later.

Groves was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010, and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011 .

On August 20, 2012, he took over the post of Provost at Georgetown University in Washington, DC

Groves is married and has two sons.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michelle Krupa: Census Boss Plans Special Efforts , The Times-Picayune (August 19, 2009)
2. ↑ Groves' CV from the University of Michigan ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 2, 2010; PDF; 120 kB). 
3. ↑ David Stout: Obama's Census Choice Unsettles Republicans , The New York Times (April 2, 2009)
4. ↑ Groves Nomination: Debate & Cloture Vote (accessed February 18, 2010)
5. ↑ Groves' curriculum vitae ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 108 kB) on the website of the US Census Bureau (accessed February 2, 2010). 
6. ↑ US Census Bureau director Robert Groves to be next Provost (accessed March 7, 2018)