STATISTICAL ASSISTANT L0390

Definition: This is entry level technical and minor supervisory work in collecting, processing, reviewing, and compiling quantified data.

An employee in this class supervises the collection, processing, and compilation of quantified data and reviews the completed tabulations for accuracy, consistency, and completeness of data presented. Work includes maintaining non-routine contacts with reporting agencies and personnel to clarify or complete inaccurate or atypical information. Work usually involves training subordinates and reporting personnel in the procedures of data reporting and the definition of terms in subject areas to insure the uniformity, relevance, and reliability of data collected and processed. Employees edit tabulations, compilations, and source documents to determine errors, bias, deficiencies, or significant deviations from normal or anticipated parameters. Work usually involves supervising and reviewing the work of assistants engaged in collecting and compiling quantified data for interpretation and analysis, publication, or inclusion in reports. In the absence of supervisory duties, work is correspondingly more difficult and requires the application of program or academic knowledges to prepare reports and compilations. Supervision is received in the form of detailed instructions on new assignments and completed work is reviewed for accuracy and conformance to procedures and instructions.

Examples of Work: Schedules and supervises the collection, processing, and compilation of quantified data.

Edits compilations, tabulations, and source documents for reasonableness, consistency, reliability, and comparability with normal or anticipated parameters.

Contacts reporting agencies or other sources of information to determine possible explanations for atypical, incomplete, or apparently inaccurate data.

Reviews published and unpublished sources of data and extracts data for inclusion in reports and publications.

Trains and instructs subordinates and reporting personnel in reporting procedures, standards, and definitions.

Selects public and private agencies as sources of data within prescribed categories or sample strata, where the categories or samples strata have been clearly defined.

Assigns codes to reporting agencies for purposes of data classification.

Performs computations of complex statistical formulas in accordance with detailed instructions from analytical statisticians.

Performs related work as required.

Required Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities: Knowledge of standard methods, techniques, and procedures for the collection, review, processing, compilation, and editing of quantified or statistical data.

Knowledge of appropriate public and private sources of quantified or statistical data, and of standard methods of selecting sources, including selection of samples according to random techniques or logical criteria.

Knowledge of standard and approved methods and practices of requesting, acquiring, and evaluating quantified or statistical information from public and private data sources.

Knowledge of basic mathematical methods, including intermediate algebra, and of standard office mechanical calculating and adding equipment.

Knowledge of standard coding practices for classification of data.

Some knowledge of supervisory principles and practices.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with public and private reporting agencies and with subordinates and other employes.

Ability to recognize deficiencies and inconsistencies in reported and tabulated data, including deviations from standard or anticipated forms.

Ability to operate standard mechanical calculating, adding, and other office equipment.

Minimum Experience and Training: One year as a Statistical Clerk; or four years of clerical experience involving numerical tabulations and computations, including one year in the collection, compilation, and review of quantified data for purposes of reporting, publication, or statistical analysis. An associate degree which has included at least 12 credit hours in mathematics or statistics may be substituted for the required experience.

Date Established or Last Revised

Class Specification - 1969

Evaluation Guide - 1979

Commonwealth Equivalent PSG ST05