Among the other clerks at the Census Bureau were Benjamin Tepping, Joseph Steinberg, Samuel Greenhouse, William N. Hurwitz, Margaret Gurney, and Marvin Schneiderman[4]—all of whom became distinguished statisticians.

In the early 1960s he and John Neter studied memory recall errors in a consumer survey of home repair costs.

Neter and Waksberg conducted an experiment sponsored by the United States Census Bureau to study the tendency of people to misreport the time period when expenditures occurred.

[6] Their work is also relevant to conditioning effects in panel surveys where participants' reports of their characteristics may (incorrectly) change over time, leading to biases in estimates.

With his colleagues, Waksberg helped introduce address-list sampling as a way of reducing the number of households inadvertently omitted by field listers.

This research led to much of the information being collected from a sample of persons rather than the full population in order to reduce the number of interviewers.

[14] After 33 years of service, Waksberg retired from the Census Bureau and joined Westat, a statistical research firm in Rockville MD USA.

[1] While at Westat he and Warren Mitofsky developed the Mitofsky-Waksberg (MW)[15] method of random digit dialing (Waksberg, 1978).

The issue in Maryland was that precincts whose party vote-split changed substantially from the previous election were thrown out as being either outliers or errors.

The reported vote in those precincts turned out to be correct, and their removal produced an incorrect prediction in the governor's race.