Patrick Cardiff Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Va

Quantitative analysis of macro and micro problems.

Arlington, Va

Recent publications, unaffiliated, referencing some statistical methods and economic estimates: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3952171https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3638413https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3739892

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Provided technical assistance to the Mongolia Civil Service Commission team on the design of the Civil Service Census.

Belgrade, Serbia

With the faculty of the Department of Economics and CEVES, consolidated and rationalized various sources of firm data to construct a national business frame. Delivered advice on frame development, sample design and sample selection.

Port Of Spain, Trinidad And Tobago

Carried out qualitative/quantitative data collection, analyzed, interpreted results, and wrote the Final Evaluation for the (13-country, 3-year) Caribbean Labor Market Information System (CLMIS) project.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Designed the overall survey research approach for the Client Service Charter (CSC) Project, (Tanzania) President's Management Program.

Suitland, Md

Managed and analyzed large multi-year, multi-source and multi-user survey databases; performed econometric analysis of micro- and macro-level data; conducted poverty simulation modeling using multiple statistical mainframe and PC tools; created survey sampling weights and sampling frames for poverty surveys with complex designs. Coordinated the acquisition of administrative data; ensured the understanding of data, its relation to the measurement of income and poverty, and impacts on it from policy changes and secular forces; answered formal and informal inquiries from the public; managed data for internal and external uses.

Washington, Dc

Directed research on farm workers in the United States using data from the National Agriculture Workers Survey (NAWS) and other comparative sources; established warehousing for the storage, retrieval, and use of data; maintained the statistical integrity of the NAWS, documenting the data collection process, the sampling design and estimation methodologies, and calculating complex variances for the precision of estimates; developed funding sources for the NAWS; provided expert recommendations on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the economics of farm worker labor.

Cairo, Egypt

Managed the design, implementation and analysis of the Household Income, Expenditure and Consumption Survey (HIECS) as principal advisor to the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) under interagency agreement between the US Census Bureau and the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Served as liaison among contracting parties and international organizations.Developed host country institutional capabilities through on-the-job and formal training, including skills in statistical organization, planning and management. Advised host country counterparts on survey best practices as they relate to sample design, questionnaire design, field procedures, quality control, data processing, and analysis, dissemination, and use of results.

Washington, Dc

Conducted research to provide solutions to new and existing needs and problems in price measurement and price behavior analysis.Prepared articles and reports, presented findings of empirical research, and organized dissemination strategies for associated surveys.Established and maintained relationships for the interchange of information with officials of government and private agencies engaged in related research.Acted as BLS consultant under contract with USAID to provide technical assistance to developing country statistical agencies in the collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of economic data:6/92: El Salvador Household Budget Survey6/91 - 6/93: 1990 Belize Household Expenditure Survey 12/91 - 12/92: 1992 Kenya Urban Household Budget Survey6/93 - 1/94: 1990-1991 HIECS in Egypt

Nairobi, Kenya

Helped design and test the survey instruments for the urban CPI – these were used for the broader-based Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (2006)

Belmopan, Belize

Managed various aspects of data collection of household expenditures for Belize CPI update of market basket weights

Arusha, Tanzania

Taught junior college Micro- and Macro-economic Theory, emphasis on agricultural development, Mathematics and Geography, managed school (and farm) budget.