Ana G. Casís was a Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer who directed the 1950 Panamanian census, and later worked for the Inter-American Statistical Institute in Washington, DC.[1] She is also known for her work with Kingsley Davis on urbanization in Latin America,[2] Davis's first work on urbanization.[3]
Casís earned a bachelor's degree in Panama in 1943, and a master's degree at Syracuse University in 1945, with the master's thesis "Population studies in Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico, with special reference to urbanization processes.[4]
^Davis, Kingsley; Casis, Ana (April 1946), "Urbanization in Latin America", The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 24 (2): 186–207, doi:10.2307/3348228, JSTOR3348228
^Hernandez, Donald J. (February 2007), "Davis, Kingsley (1908–1997)", The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Wiley, doi:10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd003