[1] In the mid-1980s she began the National Science Foundation/American Statistical Association/BLS Senior Research Fellow Program.
In the late 1980s she began the BLS Behavioral Science Research Center.
She retired as associate commissioner of the Office of Survey Methods Research at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the first decade of the 2000s.
While at the Bureau of Labor Statistics she also chaired the Current Population Survey Redesign and the FedStats R&D Working Group.
In 1989 she became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, which she also became a lifetime member of at some point.