Carmen A. Miró
{{short description|Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer (1919–2022)}}
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| name = Carmen A. Miró
| birth_place= Panama
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| occupation= Sociologist, statistician, demographer
| father = Ricardo Miró
| awards= Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
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Carmen A. Miró (19 April 1919 – 18 September 2022)[https://www.tvn-2.com/nacionales/muere-carmen-miro-pionera-estudios_1_2006770.html Muere Carmen Miró, pionera en estudios demográficos en Panamá] {{in lang|es}} was a Panamanian sociologist, statistician, and demographer.
She has been called Latin America's top expert in population,{{r|villegas}} and "probably the most outstanding figure that the Panamanian social sciences have produced".{{r|anthology}}
Life and career
Miró was the daughter of poet Ricardo Miró.{{r|scielo}}
She studied business at the University of Panama, and went on to graduate studies at the London School of Economics.{{r|villegas}}
From 1946 to 1956, she headed the Panamanian Department of Statistics and the Census.{{r|scielo}} During this time she was also a professor of statistics at the University of Panama.{{r|fasa}} 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.{{r|cepal}} She continued to direct CELADE until 1976. After four years at El Colegio de México she returned to Panama,{{r|villegas}} where she became affiliated with the Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos (CELA) "Justo Arosemena".{{r|scielo}}
In 1984, she stood for election as vice president of Panama, but was unsuccessful.{{r|scielo}} Miró turned 100 in April 2019,[https://www.laestrella.com.pa/opinion/columnistas/190425/100-miro-carmen-panamena-ejemplar Carmen A. Miró, una panameña ejemplar, en sus 100 años] and died on 18 September 2022, at the age of 103.[https://www.tvn-2.com/nacionales/muere-carmen-miro-pionera-estudios_1_2006770.html Muere Carmen Miró, pionera en estudios demográficos en Panamá]. 18 September 2022
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".{{r|fasa}}
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.{{r|scielo}} In 2016 El Colegio de México gave her their Daniel Cosío Villegas Prize.{{r|scielo|villegas|edu}}
An anthology of her collected writings was published in 2015.{{r|anthology}}
References
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{{citation|url=https://www.cepal.org/en/acerca-de-poblacion-y-desarrollo|title=About CELADE|publisher=United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean|access-date=18 January 2019|date=16 February 2017}}
| last = Gandásegui | first = Marco A.
| date = January–April 2018
| issue = 1 (97)
| journal = Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos
| jstor = 26250527
| language = Spanish
| pages = 259–262
| title = Carmen A. Miró: Premio Daniel Cosío Villegas
| volume = 33| doi = 10.24201/edu.v33i1.1809
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| date = February 1954
| issue = 1
| journal = The American Statistician
| jstor = 2681662
| pages = 17–18
| title = Election of New Fellows
| volume = 8| doi = 10.1080/00031305.1954.10482018
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| last = Castillo Fernández | first = Dídimo
| date = January 2018
| doi = 10.24201/edu.v33i1.1808
| issue = 1
| pages = 253–258
| journal = Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos
| jstor = 26250526
| language = Spanish
| publisher = El Colegio de Mexico, A.C.
| title = Carmen A. Miró y la demografía latinoamericana
| volume = 33| doi-access = free
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{{citation|url=https://www.cepal.org/es/noticias/carmen-miro-primera-directora-celade-galardonada-colegio-mexico-su-contribucion-la|title=Carmen A. Miró, primera Directora del CELADE, galardonada por El Colegio de México por su contribución a la demografía en la región|language=Spanish|publisher=United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean|access-date=18 January 2019|date=17 February 2017}}
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Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics
Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Category:Academic staff of El Colegio de México
Category:Panamanian women centenarians
Category:Panamanian sociologists
Category:Panamanian women academics
Category:University of Panama alumni