1. Philip Morris Hauser was a demographer and pioneer in urban studies who was a president of the American Sociological Association, the American Statistical Association and the Population Association of America.

1. Philip Morris Hauser was a demographer and pioneer in urban studies who was a president of the American Sociological Association, the American Statistical Association and the Population Association of America.
Philip Hauser attended the University of Chicago and received a Bachelor's degree in 1929.
Philip Hauser was studying at Chicago at the time of the rise of the Chicago School of Sociology.
In 1932, Hauser was first named as an instructor at the University of Chicago, a position which he retained throughout the course of his graduate studies.
From 1934 to 1937, Philip Hauser went on leave to serve as a researcher for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
Philip Hauser worked at the United States Census Bureau from 1938 to 1947, first as Assistant Chief Statistician for Population then taking on the role of Deputy Director in 1946.
In 1947, Philip Hauser returned to the University of Chicago as a professor of sociology.
Philip Hauser remained as acting director of the Census Bureau from 1949 to 1950.
Philip Hauser was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1965, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972, and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1976.
Philip Hauser was the founder of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago, over which he served as director for some 30 years.
Philip Hauser was 85 years old at the time of his death.