STATISTICIAN (HEALTH) RECENT GRADUATE
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The CPSC is seeking recent graduates under the Pathways Program. T.....
The CPSC is seeking recent graduates under the Pathways Program. This position is provided for recent graduates with a desire to work in the consumer product safety field and/or public sector and assignments are designed to complement the graduates educational field while meeting the expressed needs of the agency and CPSC organizations.
As a Statistician (Health) Recent Graduate, you will:
- Learn and apply subject matter knowledge about how the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) data are reported and collected, along with automatic data processing skills, to develop and maintain quality control systems for the NEISS and any related follow-back or special surveillance studies. Collaborate with non-statistical staff to gather quality control requirements when appropriate and provide training for end users.
- Maintain the sample design of the NEISS to provide a basis for interpretation and estimation of the frequency and severity of injuries as reported by the NEISS. The NEISS is a statistically stratified sample of hospital emergency departments (EDs) drawn from across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico. Each ED in the NEISS sample reports all consumer product-related injuries and illnesses seen in the ED to our agency. The probability-based design of the NEISS allows the Commission, other public health and safety agencies and public data users to compute national injury estimates specific to product groups, age and other characteristics.
- Periodically compute and implement weights based on the NEISS sample design and sample non-response. Develop and maintain generalized mathematical formulas and indices to provide a basis for interpretation and estimation of the frequency and severity of product related injuries as reported by the NEISS.
- Learn and apply knowledge of automatic data processing, demographic data, and of Commission databases to provide annual computer-generated tables of summary data for internal and external dissemination, such as product summary reports and Annual Report tables, which may include coefficients of variation and population rates.
- Combine knowledge of automatic data processing with knowledge of statistical theory to develop computer programs for use by Commission staff in the evaluation of data trends for individual products as well as for product groups. Develop presentations explaining the use of the computer programs as well as the interpretation of the results of the computer programs.
- For special projects, learn and use survey questionnaire software to develop survey instruments. Serve as a technical consultant to other Directorate analysts on the use of such questionnaires and create automated programs to perform cursory checks on completed interview data and output analysis data sets.
- Occasionally prepare correspondence, documents and oral presentations to acquaint data users with the limitations and potential uses of Commission data.
Starting at $55,924 Per Year (GS 07-11)
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