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Find your place at NCHS
Join ob体育's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and help us measure the nation's health.
Skills and qualifications
Experience we need
NCHS is looking for people with a wide range of statistical experience.
Data collection design and development
- Question development and evaluation
- Questionnaire design
- Survey design and sampling
Data processing and analysis
- Data analytics and visualization from large complex surveys
- Statistical computing
- Small-area estimation
- Life-table analysis
- Quality control and handling missing data
- Statistical disclosure limitation and confidentiality
- Linking information from multiple data sources
Relevant coursework
If you would like a career in health statistics, consider relevant courses like—
- Data and statistical analysis
- Data science
- Demography
- Statistical theory and modeling
- Survey design and sampling methods
- Biostatistics
Courses in behavioral science, epidemiology, mathematics, and computer science also are highly beneficial.
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