Barbara Everitt Bryant was appointed to run the agency just before the 1990 Census and sought to modernize the bureau while navigating criticism over the undercounting of minority groups.
Dr. Bryant started her career in survey research relatively late, at age 44, after raising three children, volunteering for community groups and completing a PhD in communications. Over the next three decades, she rose to become a senior vice president at Market Opinion Research, a Michigan polling firm, where she led studies for presidential commissions on women’s rights, world hunger and outdoor recreation.By December 1989, when President George H.W.
Most of the planning for the 1990 Census was completed before Dr. Bryant joined the bureau.
Mosbacher disagreed, rejecting the adjustment method in 1991. Altering the figures opened the census process to political manipulation, he said, and was unreliable for certain states and local communities, even if it proved more accurate on a national level.said the decision not to adjust the census numbers would cost his city “a billion dollars over the next 10 years.”
The oldest of three children, Barbara Alice Everitt was born in Ann Arbor on April 5, 1926, and grew up in Upper Arlington, Ohio. Her mother, Dorothy, was a homemaker; her father,, was a telecommunications expert who taught at Ohio State University and became a dean at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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