Noah Bassel
Noah is a senior statistician in the Statistics & Data Science department. He has over 10 years of experience in statistical analysis and survey design, with a focus on sample design, weighting, model-assisted estimation, analysis of complex survey data, estimation of variance.
Noah also provides expertise in sampling and statistical analysis of rare populations, both via traditional survey sampling and small area methods. Noah is part of a team of statisticians overseeing sampling and weighting for the 2024 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) a nationally representative study that documents the use and availability of childcare and early education (CCEE) across the United States. He is the lead architect of sample design and weighting for the household survey component of the 2024 NSECE and provides statistical expertise for analysis of survey data from the 2012 and 2019 NSECE. Other current projects include the 2025 Survey of Consumer Finance and Reproductive Health Experiences & Access (RHEA) Survey.
Prior to joining NORC, Noah had an accomplished career as a mathematical statistician at the US Census Bureau’s Economic Statistical Methods Division, where he specialized in establishment surveys. He won the Census Bureau’s Bronze Medal Award in 2020 for his 2019 redesign of the Annual Survey of Local Government Finances, collaborated in research on the use of small area methods in the Bureau’s local government surveys, and was part a division-wide team charged with researching the production of synthetic microdata from the Economic Census.
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Education
MA
Columbia University
BA
Yale University
Honors & Awards
Bronze Medal Award | 2020
U.S. Census Bureau