Susan Schechter Bortner

This article is about the statistician. For the domestic violence activist, see Susan Schechter.

Susan Schechter Bortner (published as Susan Schechter) is an American survey statistician, formerly in US Government service and now a researcher at NORC at the University of Chicago, a private nonprofit social research organization.

Education and career

Schechter graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Maryland in 1972.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in criminology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a master's degree in human development from Antioch University.[2][3]

Her positions in government service included working as a survey researcher in the National Center for Health Statistics, as a senior statistician in the Office of Management and Budget, focusing on the classification of race and ethnicity, and in the United States Census Bureau, where she headed the American Community Survey from 2006 to 2010. After more than 25 years of government work, she moved to NORC at the University of Chicago in 2010, where she became Project Director for the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.[2][3]

Recognition

Schechter was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2005.[4] She chaired the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association in 2006.[5] In 2017, NORC gave her their Norman Bradburn Career Achievement Award.[3]

Selected publications

• Willis, Gordon B.; Schechter, Susan (June 1997), "Evaluation of cognitive interviewing techniques: do the results generalize to the field?", Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 55 (1): 40–66, doi:10.1177/075910639705500105, S2CID 144872655
• Sirken, Monroe G.; Herrmann, Douglas J.; Schechter, Susan; Schwarz, Norbert; Tanur, Judith M.; Tourangeau, Roger (1999), Cognition and Survey Research, Wiley[6]
• Wallman, K. K.; Evinger, S.; Schechter, S. (November 2000), "Measuring our nation's diversity: developing a common language for data on race/ethnicity", American Journal of Public Health, 90 (11): 1704–1708, doi:10.2105/ajph.90.11.1704, PMC 1446413, PMID 11076235

References

1. "Susan Schechter Bortner, Montgomery Blair High Class of 1972", Montgomery Blair High School, High School Network, retrieved 2021-05-13
2. "Susan Schechter: Senior Fellow, Health Care", Experts, NORC, retrieved 2021-05-13
3. Susan Schechter Awarded the Norman Bradburn Career Achievement Award by NORC at the University of Chicago, NORC, 2 January 2018, retrieved 2021-05-13
4. List of ASA Fellows Who Are Members of the SRMS, ASA Survey Research Methods Section, retrieved 2021-05-13
5. Past Chairs of the Social Statistics Section, ASA Survey Research Methods Section, retrieved 2021-05-13
6. Reviews of Cognition and Survey Research:
   • Czaja, Ronald (September 2000), Contemporary Sociology, 29 (5): 760–762, doi:10.2307/2655276, JSTOR 2655276
   • Ghosh, Subir (March 2001), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 96 (453): 352, JSTOR 2670385
   • Ziegel, Eric R. (August 2000), Technometrics, 42 (3): 326, doi:10.2307/1271121, JSTOR 1271121, S2CID 119688069