Naomi D. Rothwell

Naomi Doniger "Donny" Rothwell (died July 12, 2000)[1] was the chief of the Center for Survey Methods Research for the United States Census Bureau, where in the mid-1960s she began the use of behavioral research to understand census response rates.[2] She was also the co-author of The Psychiatric Halfway House: A Case Study (with Joan M. Doniger, C. C. Thomas, 1966).[3]

Education and career

Naomi Doniger graduated in 1939 from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in agriculture,[1][4] married George James Rothwell, and soon afterwards began working for the federal government in the State Department, Army, and Department of Agriculture.[1] In 1946 she was working in Moscow for the United States Foreign Service.[5] She became a Board Member of Woodley House, a halfway house in Washington, DC, founded by her sister Joan Doniger. She and her sister recorded their experiences in their book.[1]

By 1960, she was working at the Census Bureau, where she "had a major role in the enumerator training program" for the 1960 census.[6] She worked at the bureau for 31 years before retiring.[1] She also served as secretary-treasurer of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.[7]

Recognition

She was a recipient of the Department of Commerce Gold Medal.[1] In 1981 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Naomi D. 'Donny' Rothwell, Census Official", Obituaries, The Washington Post, 15 July 2000
  2. ↑ Keane, John G. (1988), "Counting the hard-to-enumerate population", Proceedings of the Annual Research Conference, Volume 4, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1988, pp. 9–13 See in particular p. 12.
  3. ↑ Reviews of The Psychiatric Halfway House:
    • Martin, Eugene V. (June 1967), The American Journal of Nursing, 67 (6): 1301–1302, doi:10.2307/3420678, JSTOR 3420678
    • Edwards, Griffith (December 1967), Psychiatric Services, 18 (12): 382–382, doi:10.1176/ps.18.12.382
  4. ↑ "The Graduates of the Class of 1939", Cornell Daily Sun, p. 8, 16 June 1939
  5. ↑ "Visitors" (PDF), The American Foreign Service Journal, 23 (1): 67, January 1946
  6. ↑ U.S. Bureau of the Census (1963), "Acknowledgements", U.S. Census of Housing: 1960, Vol. II, Metropolitan Housing, Part 1, United States and Divisions (PDF), U.S. Government Printing Office, p. iii
  7. ↑ "American Association for Public Opinion Research Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference", The Public Opinion Quarterly, 43 (3): 419–434, Autumn 1979, JSTOR 2748239
  8. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 17 November 2017
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