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Ruth Ann Killion (1949–2021) was an American government statistician who worked for the
United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureau is part of the ...
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Education and career

Killion was born on November 2, 1949, in
Springfield, Illinois Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest o ...
, where her father was a minister. She was educated at
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, earning a master's degree in statistics there in 1973. She worked for many years in the Census Bureau, and as executive director of the Office for Research, Planning, and Evaluation of the
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. At the Census Bureau, she served as chief of the statistical research division, of the decennial statistical studies division, of the planning, research and evaluation division, and of the demographic statistical methods division. She retired from the Census Bureau in 2019, and died on November 23, 2021.


Recognition

In 2016, Killion was elected as a
Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Killian, Ruth Ann 1949 births 2021 deaths American statisticians American women statisticians Florida State University alumni United States Census Bureau people Fellows of the American Statistical Association People from Springfield, Illinois