Faith M. Williams

Her doctoral dissertation was The Food Manufacturing Industries in New York and its Environs: Present Trends and Probable Future Developments.

There, with Carle C. Zimmerman of Harvard University, she coordinated a massive survey of international home living conditions and expenses, published in 1935 as Studies of Family Living in the United States and Other Countries: An Analysis of Material and Method.

[1] Later, at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with Aryness Joy Wickens and Stella Stewart, Williams became one of the primary people in charge of the BLS cost-of-living index, later to become the United States Consumer Price Index.

[8] Williams' husband was demographer Frank Lorimer, who had studied at Columbia at approximately the same time as she did.

[9] In 1946, Williams was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, two years after her husband attained the same honor.