The ASA Fellow Award—Revisited
Robert Starbuck
T
he 2009 ASA Fellow awards were presented The percentages of Fellows awarded by employ-
during JSM in Washington, DC. Here, I ment sector relative to the percentages of ASA mem-
present a brief update to previous articles on bership by sector are shown in Figure 2.
this subject appearing in Amstat News. A few correc-
tions have been made to previous counts of Fellow
nominees and awardees.
Employment Sector
In the range of years shown, the percentages of ASA
members by employment sector have remained rela-
R
a
tio
tively stable: 42% academe, 47% business/industry,
and 11% government.
The counts of ASA Fellow awards given by
employment sector since 2004 are presented in
Table 1 and Figure 1.
Year
Table 1—Counts and Percentages of ASA Fellow Awards
Figure 2. % of ASA Fellows awarded / % of ASA
Employment Sector
membership, by employment sector
Business/
Year Academe Industry Government Total
2004 36 (64.3) 11 (19.6) 9 (16.1) 56
The counts and percentages of Fellow nomina-
2005 38 (67.9) 8 (14.3) 10 (17.9) 56
tions by employment sector are shown in Table 2.
2006 50 (83.3) 5 ( 8.3) 5 ( 8.3) 60
2007 37 (62.7) 11 (18.6) 11 (18.6) 59
Table 2—Counts and Percentages of
2008 32 (60.4) 13 (24.5) 8 (15.1) 53
ASA Fellow Nominations
2009 35 (61.4) 16 (28.1) 6 (10.5) 57
Employment Sector
Business/
Year Academe Industry Government Total
2004 44 (58.7) 16 (21.3) 15 (20.0) 75
2005 51 (57.3) 22 (24.7) 16 (18.0) 89
2006 81 (73.0) 19 (17.1) 11 ( 9.9) 111
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t
2007 79 (65.8) 22 (18.3) 19 (15.8) 120
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rce
2008 60 (64.5) 18 (19.4) 15 (16.1) 93
2009 59 (62.1) 23 (24.2) 13 (13.7) 95
Year
So, how have the nominations fared in each of
the employment sectors? As shown in Table 3 and
Figure 3, nominations submitted in 2009 from the
business/industry sector had a greater chance of suc-
Figure 1. % of ASA Fellows awarded, by
employment sector
cess than nominations from the two other sectors,
and government had the lowest chance of success.
AUGUST 2009 AmstAt News 5
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