Survey Statistician

• Develops both broad and detailed plans and procedures for the conduct of surveys and for the analysis and preparation of estimates forecasts and reports.
• In cooperation with more senior staff members devises new or improved methods and techniques for assembling computing and summarizing data.
• Prepares reports and formulates and recommends new or revised survey forms and questionnaires to facilitate the gathering of data.
• Examines listings and tabulations recognizing deviations and trends and verifying the accuracy of data.
• Analyzes summarized survey indications and prepares estimates forecasts and supporting analytical and interpretative comments for reports.
• Analyzes current indications in relation to historical records and other existing conditions affecting items surveyed.
• Reads and interprets regression and correlation charts.
• Prepares final recommendations for estimates and/or forecasts and writes analytical and interpretive comments to substantiate conclusions.
• Establishes guidelines for machine and other editing.
• Examines survey forms and questionnaires obtained by mail telephone electronic and enumerative survey methods from farmers merchants processors and dealers in agricultural products.
• Determines validity and representative quality of reports.
• Assures comparability of indications.

• You must be a US Citizen or US National.
• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
• Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify including your rights and responsibilities visit a condition of employment for accepting this position you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period unless previous federal service is creditable. During this time your employment will be evaluated and we may consider: your performance and conduct the needs and interests of the agency whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification in writing that your continued employment advances the public interest.

Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including time-in-grade restrictions specialized experience and/or education as defined below.

Basic Requirements:

1. Degree: that included 15 semester hours in statistics (or in mathematics and statistics provided at least 6 semester hours were in statistics) and 9 additional semester hours in one or more of the following: physical or biological sciences medicine education or engineering; or in the social sciences including demography history economics social welfare geography international relations social or cultural anthropology health sociology political science public administration psychology etc. Credit toward meeting statistical course requirements should be given for courses in which 50 percent of the course content appears to be statistical methods e.g. courses that included studies in research methods in psychology or economics such as tests and measurements or business cycles or courses in methods of processing mass statistical data such as tabulating methods or electronic data processing.

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2. Combination of education and experience -- courses as shown in A above plus appropriate experience or additional education. The experience should have included a full range of professional statistical work such as (a) sampling (b) collecting computing and analyzing statistical data and (c) applying statistical techniques such as measurement of central tendency dispersion skewness sampling error simple and multiple correlation analysis of variance and tests of significance.

The experience offered in combination with educational courses to meet the requirements in paragraph B above should include evidence of statistical work such as (a) sampling (b) collecting computing and analyzing statistical data and (c) applying known statistical techniques to data such as measurement of central tendency dispersion skewness sampling error simple and multiple correlation analysis of variance and tests of significance.

Without other indications of statistical experience work required in the processing of numerical or quantified information by other than statistical methods is not considered appropriate qualifying experience. Examples of such nonqualifying work include statistical clerical work; statistical drafting; calculation of totals averages percentages or other arithmetic summations; preparation of simple tables or charts; or verification of data by simple comparison or proofreading.

In addition to meeting the basic requirements described above applicants must also meet additional qualification requirements as stated below.