Carmen A. Miró

Carmen A. Miró (19 April 1919 – 18 September 2022)[1] was a Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer. She has been called Latin America's top expert in population,[2] and "probably the most outstanding figure that the Panamanian social sciences have produced".[3]

Carmen A. Miró
Born(1919-04-19)19 April 1919
Panama
Died18 September 2022(2022-09-18) (aged 103)
Education
Occupation(s)Sociologist, statistician, demographer
Parent
AwardsElected Fellow of the American Statistical Association

Life and career

Miró was the daughter of poet Ricardo Miró.[4] She studied business at the University of Panama, and went on to graduate studies at the London School of Economics.[2]

From 1946 to 1956, she headed the Panamanian Department of Statistics and the Census.[4] During this time she was also a professor of statistics at the University of Panama.[5] In 1957 she became the founding director of the Center for Latin American Studies of Demography of the United Nations (CELADE), now the Population Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.[6] She continued to direct CELADE until 1976. After four years at El Colegio de México she returned to Panama,[2] where she became affiliated with the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA) "Justo Arosemena".[4]

In 1984, she stood for election as vice president of Panama, but was unsuccessful.[4] Miró turned 100 in April 2019,[7] and died on 18 September 2022, at the age of 103.[8]

Recognition

In 1953, Miró was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for her many contributions to the greater effectiveness of the recent Censuses of the Americas" and for creating "a comprehensive and useful statistical system for her country".[5]

Miró has honorary doctorates from the University of Havana, from the National University of Córdoba, and from the Latin American Social Sciences Institute. In 1984 she won the United Nations World Population Prize.[4] In 2016 El Colegio de México gave her their Daniel Cosío Villegas Prize.[4][2][9]

An anthology of her collected writings was published in 2015.[3]

References
  1. Muere Carmen Miró, pionera en estudios demográficos en Panamá (in Spanish)
  2. Carmen A. Miró, primera Directora del CELADE, galardonada por El Colegio de México por su contribución a la demografía en la región (in Spanish), United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 17 February 2017, retrieved 18 January 2019
  3. Gandásegui, Marco A. (11 December 2015), "Publican antología de Carmen A. Miró", La Estrella de Panamá (in Spanish)
  4. Castillo Fernández, Dídimo (January 2018), "Carmen A. Miró y la demografía latinoamericana", Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos (in Spanish), El Colegio de Mexico, A.C., 33 (1): 253–258, doi:10.24201/edu.v33i1.1808, JSTOR 26250526
  5. "Election of New Fellows", The American Statistician, 8 (1): 17–18, February 1954, doi:10.1080/00031305.1954.10482018, JSTOR 2681662
  6. About CELADE, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 16 February 2017, retrieved 18 January 2019
  7. Carmen A. Miró, una panameña ejemplar, en sus 100 años
  8. Muere Carmen Miró, pionera en estudios demográficos en Panamá. 18 September 2022
  9. Gandásegui, Marco A. (January–April 2018), "Carmen A. Miró: Premio Daniel Cosío Villegas", Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos (in Spanish), 33 (1 (97)): 259–262, doi:10.24201/edu.v33i1.1809, JSTOR 26250527
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.