Statistician I — Survey Research & Analytics (R)

NORC at the University of Chicago; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 93,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement program

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental leave

Tuition assistance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

NORC at the University of Chicago is seeking a Statistician I to join the Statistics and Data Science department in Chicago. This hybrid role supports AmeriSpeak, NORC’s probability-based research panel, and contributes to survey research across health, society, economics, and education portfolios.

The position focuses on sample selection, weighting, variance estimation, data processing, and analysis, with supervision.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in statistics or related field required.
• Coursework or applied experience in survey statistics and weighting.
• Experience with complex survey data is preferred.
• Proficiency in R; SAS and/or Python a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support AmeriSpeak survey operations and methodology, including sampling and weighting.
• Write programs to extract, manipulate data, and perform analyses.
• Assist with survey statistics tasks and data analysis.
• Contribute to reports and technical documentation with clear methods.

Skills

R

SAS

Python

Survey statistics

Weighting

Data visualization

Education

Master's degree in statistics or related field

Tools

SAS

Python

Job description

NORC at the University of Chicago is seeking a Statistician I to join the Statistics and Data Science department in Chicago. This hybrid role supports AmeriSpeak, NORC’s probability-based research panel, and contributes to survey research across health, society, economics, and education portfolios.

The position focuses on sample selection, weighting, variance estimation, data processing, and analysis, with supervision.