Linda Gage

Linda H. Gage
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsCalifornia Department of Finance

Linda H. Gage is an American demographer. She is the former state demographer of California, and chief of the Demographic Research Unit of the California Department of Finance, where she worked since 1975.[1] As of 2012, she was retired.[2]

Early life

Gage earned a master's degree in sociology from the University of California, Davis in 1974, specializing in demography.[1][3] She belongs to the advisory board of the program in demographic and social analysis at the University of California, Irvine.[4]

Career

She served the Population Association of America as chair of its Committee on Population Statistics[5] and in 1997, its Committee on Applied Demography,[6] and also chaired the American Statistical Association Section on Government Statistics in 1997.[7] She won the Founder's Award of the American Statistical Association in 2005,[8] and was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff", Choosing the Right Formula: Initial Report, National Academies Press, 2001, doi:10.17226/10178, ISBN 978-0-309-07580-0
  2. ^ Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey, National Academies Committee on National Statistics, retrieved 2019-11-27
  3. ^ "Class Notes Archive 1931-2014", UC Davis Magazine, retrieved 2019-11-28
  4. ^ "Advisory Board", Demographic and Social Analysis, UC Irvine School of Social Sciences, retrieved 2019-11-27
  5. ^ Tributes to Demography and Linda Gage, Population Association of America, retrieved 2019-11-27
  6. ^ Committee on Applied Demography, Population Association of America, retrieved 2019-11-27
  7. ^ GSS Newsletter SSS (PDF), vol. 3, July 1997, p. 18
  8. ^ Founder's Award, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2019-11-27
  9. ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2019-04-25, retrieved 2019-11-27


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