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Describes the experiences of statistics instructors on using service learning in teaching statistics courses. Motivation for service learning; Some of the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Morris issues in the statistics course; Description of the service learning project implementation at the University of Minnesota.

Discusses the opportunities and challenges of consulting within an academic unit. Focus on enhancement of services both within and external to the university; Description of growth and activities at the Wright State University Statistical Consulting Center.

Discusses the data quality awareness of the federal statistical agencies of the United States. Formation of Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM) organized by the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB); Objective of the FCSM of improving the data quality of the statistical agencies; Uses of federal statistical data; Policy recommendations.

Looks at the establishment of a biostatistical core unit in a clinical research center. Implementation of policies and procedures that avoided common problems facing consulting organizations and maximized effective collaboration between researchers and statisticians.

Examines the data collection organization effect in the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey in the United States. Use of national samples of households regarding health from the National Opinion Research Center and the Research Triangle Institute; Purpose of combining data from both agencies; Production of national parameter estimates on health measures.

Comments on several considerations for an effective Office of Statistical Policy in the United States. Reference of the data based on the recommendation in reorganization project of the federal statistical system; Background of coordination of the federal statistical activities; Views on the quality of the federal statistical product.

Focuses on the reorganization project for the federal statistical system in the United States. Amount allocation for federal statistical series; Problems concerning statistical program on national policy information; Description of federal statistical system project task forces.

Comments on the purpose of the reorganization of federal statistical system project in the United States. Evaluation on the system of statistical agencies and management; Analysis on the system-wide performance and problems of federal statistics; Issues of statistical coordination.

Focuses on the strategies for improving policy-relevant data of the poor in the United States. Information on poverty and poverty risks; Proposal of strategies for improving data on the poor; Factors involved in the interviewing and data collection process.

Focuses on the distinction between enumerative studies and analytic studies to improve statistical practice. Aims of enumerative and analytic study; Applicability of techniques and methods of inference to enumerative studies; Possibility in enumerative problem to reduce errors of sampling to any specified level.

Focuses on the functions of the Committee on National Statistics established by the National Research Council (NRC). Application of statistics and statistical methodology; Appointment of the NRC committee; Problem of the committee on the confidentiality of statistics.

Focuses on the ubiquity of statistics in the national affairs of the United States. Use of trichotomy in judging statistical relevance; Motivation for solitary exercise; Characteristics of statistics in public affairs.

Focuses on the importance of establishing a university-wide statistical consulting and cooperative research service. Impact of the service on the quality of quantitative research programs; Levels of complexity of statistical consulting needs; Methods of financing statistical consulting and cooperative research services.

Reports developments concerning the federal statistics in the United States. Importance of statistical information in conducting government and business activities; Effort to develop appropriate statistical program; Increase on overall budget for Federal statistical activities.

Focuses on the decentralization of the Federal statistical system in the United States. Establishment of a central office to guide and coordinate the programs and activities of the separate statistical agencies; Preference of the American Statistical Association for the appointment of citizens to review the program; Advantages of a centralized system.

Focuses on the accessibility of Federal Statistical System in the United States. Functional background of the system; Shortcomings; Recommendation on the creation of a single Central Statistical Agency to address the shortcomings of the system; Importance of the creation to the National Data Center.

Focuses on the need to improve the statistical data and methods to devise quantitative information and analytical techniques in the United States. Discrepancies in the statistical system; Factors influencing statistical information; Improvements in the statistics services of the country.

Reports developments related to statistics in the United States as of April 1969. Speakers of the 129th Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association; Allocation of government funds to statistical programs; Introduction of legislative limiting the mandatory questions in the decennial censuses.

Focuses on the importance of training statisticians in the efficient delivery of public health services in the United States. Significance of statistics in policy making; Programs in promoting statistics; Impact of statistics on public health planning.

Focuses on the factors needed in training statisticians for research in public health and medicine in the United States. Classification of statisticians in biomedical sciences and public health; Lists of training programs; Introduction of formal mathematics and statistics courses.

Reports developments related to federal statistical activities in the United States as of October 1965.

Comments on the recommendation for the federal statistical system reorganization in the United States. Criticism on the functions of central coordinating staff; Advantages of decentralized statistical system; Costs of coordination of statistical agencies.

Presents the visit arranged by the Visiting Lecturer Program of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in the United States. Education on the nature and scope of modern statistics; Emphasis on the role of statistics in research and scientific endeavor; Development of programs for the training of statisticians.

Focuses on the federal budget for fiscal year ending June 30, 1967 in the United States. Estimates for statistical programs; Availability of county-by-county statistics of employment, taxable payrolls and employment size; Development of reference service for Federal statistical system.

Reports developments concerning the international statistical activities as of December 1966. Announcement of the location and schedule of the International Statistical Institute meeting; Election of officers for the Royal Statistical Society; Publication of several statistical literature.

Reports the purpose of the statistical reviews of research. Evaluation of the collection and analysis of data; Use of appropriate statistical expertise by research teams throughout the planning of research; Problems faced in research.