U-M prof chosen for Census Bureau

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | Source: Detroit Free Press
A top University of Michigan professor is moving from Ann Arbor to Washington, D.C., to take a top spot in Barack Obama's administration.

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Thursday picked University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves -- who in the 1990s had a run-in with Republicans over the suggested use of sampling to correct undercounts of minority populations -- to head the Census Bureau.

Even before the announcement was made, Groves, 60, a sociology professor and director of the Survey Research Institute at U-M, was being criticized by congressional Republicans. They remembered him advocating statistical sampling in the decennial count of the U.S. population when he was an associate census director.

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