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Gertrude Bancroft

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Gertrude Bancroft
Born(1908-12-23)December 23, 1908
DiedJanuary 28, 1985(1985-01-28) (aged 76)[2]
Academic career
FieldEconomic statistics
InstitutionUnited States Census Bureau
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania

Gertrude Bancroft McNally (December 23, 1908 – January 28, 1985) was an American economist who was chief of the economic statistics section of the United States Census Bureau until 1951,[3] later associated with the Social Science Research Council,[4] and special assistant to the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.[5]

Bancroft earned a master's degree in economics in 1934 from the University of Pennsylvania with a thesis on The effect of the War of 1812 on price relations in Philadelphia.[6] In 1958 she published the book The American Labor Force: Its Growth and Changing Composition (Wiley). This book, part of the Census Monograph Series produced by the Social Science Research Council in cooperation with the Census Bureau, analyzes the results of the 1950 United States Census and associated data to measure the growth and makeup of workers and unemployed people within the US, and discover patterns of change in which kinds of people were working and what they did between 1940 and 1950.[7]

In 1962, she was honored by the American Statistical Association by election as one of their Fellows for "distinguished service to the field of labor force statistics both in the development of objectively measurable concepts and in the promotion of public understanding of the uses and limitations of labor force data".[8]

References

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  1. ^ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906. FamilySearch. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  2. ^ United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011. FamilySearch. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  3. ^ Key Personnel (PDF), United States Census Bureau
  4. ^ Author affiliation for The American Labor Force
  5. ^ Author affiliation for "Patterns of Female Labor Force Activity" (1968), Industrial Relations 7 (3): 204–218, doi:10.1111/j.1468-232X.1968.tb01076.x.
  6. ^ Worldcat record for The effect of the War of 1812 on price relations in Philadelphia, G. Bancroft, 1934.
  7. ^ Reviews of The American Labor Force:
  8. ^ "New ASA Fellows", The American Statistician, 16 (4): 31, October 1962, doi:10.1080/00031305.1962.10479584, JSTOR 2681426