Comparing Web Scraped Establishment Survey Frames of Industrial Hemp Growers in Seven States: Costs, Contact Data, and Accuracy of Frame
(Michael Gerling, Chad Garber,Katherine Vande Pol, Tyler Wilson) |
Oct
2024 |
Assessment of an Imputation Process Used in the 2017 Census of Agriculture
(Tara Murphy, Habtamu Benecha, Denise A. Abreu, Darcy Miller) |
May
2024 |
How do Farmers and Ranchers Describe their Race and/or Ethnicity? Qualitative Testing Findings
(Struther Van Horn, Kathy Ott) |
Jun
2023 |
Interviewer and Respondent Behaviors Related to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Disability Questions: Behavior Coding of the Farm Producer Study
(Struther Van Horn, Kathy Ott, Doug Kilburg, Carlos Coleman) |
Mar
2023 |
On Farm Grain Stocks Sample Methodology Review
(Yang Cheng, Leslie Smith, Jeff Bailey, Linda J. Young) |
Jan
2023 |
Bayesian Small Area Models under Inequality Constraints with Benchmarking and Double Shrinkage
(Balgobin Nandram, Nathan B. Cruze, Andreea L. Erciulescu, Lu Chen) |
July
2022 |
The Farm Producer Survey: Unit and Item Nonresponse
(Linda J. Young, Barbara R. Rater) |
July
2022 |
Honey Bees on the Move: From Pollination to Honey Production and Back
(Jennifer K. Bond, Claudia Hitaj, David Smith, Kevin Hunt, Agnes Perez, Gustavo Ferreira) |
June
2021 |
Usability of the 2021 June Area Survey Prescreening Materials
(Heather Ridolfo) |
April
2021 |
Optimal Placement of Instructions and Definitions in Survey
(Heather Ridolfo, David Biagas Jr.) |
April
2021 |
2019 Cognitive Testing of the Agricultural Labor Survey
(Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott) |
April
2021 |
2019 Agricultural Labor Base and Overtime Hours Cognitive Testing Report
(Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott) |
April
2021 |
Behavior Coding of October 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey
(Joseph Rodhouse, Heather Ridolfo, Emilola J. Abayomi, David Biagas Jr.) |
April
2021 |
Behavior Coding of the April 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey
(Heather Ridolfo, David Biagas Jr., Emilola J. Abayomi, Joseph Rodhouse) |
April
2021 |
Respondents’ Reactions to Proposed Text Messaging
(Heather Ridolfo) |
Sept
2020 |
Reporting Contract Labor on the Agricultural Labor Survey
(Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott) |
Sept
2020 |
Cognitive Testing of the April 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey
(Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott) |
Sept
2020 |
Behavior Coding of
October 2017 Agricultural Labor Survey
(Heather Ridolfo, David Biagas Jr., Emilola J. Abayomi, Joseph Rodhouse) |
Sept
2020 |
Revisions to the NASS Confidentiality Pledge: Results of Cognitive Testing
(Heather Ridolfo) |
May
2019 |
Subsampling of Nonrespondents in the 2017 Census of Agriculture
(Benjamin M. Reist, Joseph B. Rodhouse, Shane T. Ball, Linda J. Young) |
April
2019 |
Evaluating the June Area Survey’s Field Enumerator Training
(Michael Gerling, Tyler Wilson, Justin Van Wart, Joseph Rodhouse, Andy Higgins) |
March
2019 |
Findings for the 2018 Agricultural Labor Base Wage Question Experiments
(Benjamin Reist, Tyler Wilson, Heather Ridolfo, Linda J. Young) |
March
2019 |
Preliminary Findings for
the April 2018 Agricultural Labor Base Wage Question Experiment
(Benjamin M. Reist, Tyler Wilson, Shane T. Ball, Linda J. Young) |
Sept
2018 |
Integration of the Cropland Data Layer Based Automatic Stratification
Method Into the Traditional Area Frame Construction Process
(Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang) |
Dec
2017 |
NASS Infographics Usability Testing
(Heather Ridolfo) |
Nov
2017 |
NASS Expert Panel on Publication of Agriculture Census Data on Farm Operator Demographics
(National Agricultural Statistics Service) |
Oct
2017 |
Comparing Geographic
Information System (GIS) Calculated Acreage to Farmer
Reported Acreage Utilizing a Mobile Mapping Instrument
(Claire G. Boryan, Linda A. Lawson, Michael Hyman, Denise A. Abreu, Michael W. Gerling, Rick Hardin) |
July
2017 |
Collecting Data from a Permanent Grid Sampling
Frame via a Mobile Mapping Instrument
(Denise A. Abreu, Linda A. Lawson, Michael Hyman, Rick Hardin, and Michael Gerling) |
April
2017 |
Developing crop specific area frame stratifications based on
geospatial crop frequency and cultivation data layers
(Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang, Patrick Willis, Liping Di) |
Feb
2017 |
USDA Microloans for Farmers:
Participation Patterns and Effects of Outreach
(Sarah Tulman, Nathaniel Higgins, Robert Williams,
Michael Gerling, Charles Dodson, and Bruce McWilliams) |
Dec
2016 |
Introducing a New Integer Calibration Procedure
(Luca Sartore, Kelly Toppin, Clifford Spiegelman) |
July
2016 |
2014 Organic Survey – Results from Cognitive Testing
(Heather Ridolfo) |
Nov
2015 |
2014 Organic Survey – Promotional Materials Usability Testing
(Heather Ridolfo) |
Nov
2015 |
Field Data Collection Using Geographic Information Systems Technologies and iPads on the USDA's June Area Frame Survey
(Michael W. Gerling, Linda Lawson,
Jillayne Weaber, Alan Dotts, Andrew Vardeman, Eric Wilson) |
July
2015 |
Targeted Data Collection Efforts for the 2013 ARMS III
(Melissa Mitchell, Kathy Ott, Heather Ridolfo, Jaki S. McCarthy) |
May
2015 |
Targeted Data Collection Efforts for the 2012 ARMS III
(Melissa Mitchell, Kathy Ott, Jaki S. McCarthy) |
May
2015 |
Using Nonresponse Propensity Scores to
Set Data Collection Procedures for the Quarterly
Agricultural Survey
(Melissa Mitchell, Kathy Ott, Jaki S. McCarthy) |
Nov
2014 |
Reductions in Reporting Errors in Total Acres Operated: Results from Multiphase Question Testing for the 2012 Census of Agriculture
(Zulma T. Riberas, Jaki S. McCarthy, Stephen C. Logan, HoaiNam N. Tran) |
Sept
2014 |
Will They Answer the Phone if They Know
Its Us? Using Caller ID to Improve Response Rates
(Heather Ridolfo, Jeff Boone, Nancy Dickey) |
Aug
2013 |
A New Land Cover Classification Based
Stratification Method for Area Sampling Frame
Construction
(Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang) |
Jul
2012 |
Item Response Rates for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey
III in 2006 and 2007
(Darcy Miller, Terry P. O’Connor) |
June
2012 |
The Effectiveness of Automated Reminder Messages Used on the 2007 Census
of Agriculture and on the National Animal Health Monitoring System 2011
Small Producer Study
(HoaiNam N. Tran, Michael W. Gerling, Jaki S. McCarthy, Terry O'Connor)
|
May
2012 |
Examining
Nonresponse Occurring in the National Agricultural Statistics Service's
2009 Agricultural Resource Management Survey Phase III
(HoaiNam N. Tran, Michael W. Gerling, Melissa Mitchell, Rich Hopper,
Terry O'Connor)
|
April
2012 |
The
Effect of Different Correspondence Methods on Response Rates in the
2010 Census of Agriculture Content Test
(Nancy J. Dickey, Zulma T. Riberas, HoaiNam N. Tran)
|
April
2012 |
April
2011 Labor Estimates Methodology
(Stephen Busselberg)
|
Nov
2011 |
Adjusting
the June Area Survey Estimate of the Number of U.S. Farms for Misclassification
and Non-response
(Kenneth K. Lopiano, Andrea C. Lamas, Denise A. Abreu, Pam Arroway,
Linda J. Young)
|
Nov
2011 |
Annual
Land Utilization Survey (ALUS): Design and Methodology
(Hailin Sang, Pam Arroway, Kenneth K. Lopiano, Denise A. Abreu, Andrea
C. Lamas, Linda J. Young)
|
Nov
2011 |
On
the Feasibility of Using NASS's Sampling List Frame to Evaluate Misclassification
Errors of the June Area Survey
(Denise A. Abreu, Andrea C. Lamas, Hailin Sang, Kenneth K. Lopiano,
Pam Arroway, Linda J. Young)
|
Oct
2011 |
National
Agricultural Statistics Service: Research and Perspective on the Use
of Previously Reported Data During Data Collection
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Terry P. O'Connor)
|
Sept
2011 |
A
Method for Improving List Building: Cluster Profiling
(Will Cecere, Denise A. Abreu, Jaki S. McCarthy, and Thomas Jacob)
|
Sept
2011 |
Monitoring US Agriculture: The US Department of
Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service,
Cropland Data Layer Program
(Claire Boryan, Zhengwei Yang, Rick Mueller, Mike Craig) |
April
2011 |
Data
Tables: Reasons for Nonresponse in the 2009 June Area Survey
(HoaiNam N. Tran, Michael W. Gerling, Melissa Mitchell, Terry P. O'Connor)
|
April
2011 |
Impact
of the Screening Procedures of the June Area Survey on the Numbers of
Farms Estimates
(Denise A. Abreu, Jaki S. McCarthy, Leslie A. Colburn)
|
Dec
2010 |
Comparison
of Methods for Updating Census Based Estimates of Number of Farms to
Non-Census Years
(Michael E. Bellow, Phillip S. Kott)
|
Nov
2010 |
Modeling
Non-response in National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Surveys
Using Classification Trees
(Jaki S. McCarthy, Thomas Jacob, and Amanda McCracken)
|
Nov
2010 |
Technology
Advancing Data Collection: Thin Client Computer Assisted Personal
Interviewing in the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s
2010 Field Data Collection Program
(Michael W. Gerling, James M. Harris)
|
Nov
2010 |
The
Road to Understanding Nonresponse in the June Area Survey
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Terry P. O’Connor)
|
Nov
2010 |
The USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer Program
Transition from Research to Operations
(2006-2009)
(Claire G. Boryan) |
May
2010 |
Does Using a Personalized
Pre-Survey Letter Improve the Response Rate for the June Agricultural
Survey in Louisiana?
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran,Sammye Crawford, Darcy Miller,
Terry P. O’Connor) |
May
2010 |
| Comparison
of the Speed of the 2007 Census of Agriculture Donor Search Method Against
Five Alternative Techniques (Matthew E. Gregg, Michael Hogye) |
Oct
2009 |
Using
FSA Data to Improve the Prices Received for Grain Program
(William Cecere)
|
Oct
2009 |
Using
Respondent Prediction Models to Improve Efficiency of Incentive Allocation
(Morgan S. Earp, Jaki S. McCarthy) |
Oct
2009 |
2007
Classification Error Survey for the United States Census of Agriculture
(Denise A. Abreu, Nancy J. Dickey, Jaki S. McCarthy)
|
Sept
2009 |
Using Previously
Reported Cropland Acreage in Data Collection
(HoaiNam N. Tran, Michael W. Gerling)
|
Sept
2009 |
Previously
Reported Data Usage in NASS Field Offices
(Chris Gottschall)
|
June
2009 |
Exploring
Quarterly Agricultural Survey Questionnaire Version Reduction Scenarios
(Morgan Earp, Scott Cox, Jody McDaniel, Chadd Crouse)
|
May
2009 |
Evaluating
the Asymptotic Limits of the Delete-a-Group Jackknife for Model Analyses
(Phillip S. Kott, Steven T. Garren)
|
May
2009 |
Who Makes Mistakes?
Using Data Mining Techniques to Analyze Reporting Errors in Total Acres
Operated
(Jaki S. McCarthy, Morgan Earp) |
April
2009 |
General
Overview of the NASS Objective Yield and Objective Measurement Programs
(Denise A. Abreu, Zulma T. Riberas)
|
Oct
2008 |
Categorizing Nonresponse Occurring
in the 2007 June Area Survey (California, Kansas, New York, Virginia,
and Washington)
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Morgan S. Earp, Terry P. O'Connor)
|
Sept
2008 |
Categorizing Nonresponse
in Phase III of the 2006 Agricultural Resource Management Survey in
Washington State
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Morgan S. Earp) |
Sept
2008 |
Revising the Estimation
Strategy for the Pesticide Data Program
(Phillip S. Kott)
|
Aug
2008 |
Can Calibration Be Used to
Adjust for 'Nonignorable' Nonresponse?
Extension of Paper presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver,
Colorado.
(Phillip S. Kott and Ted Chang)
|
July
2008 |
Nonresponse
in Phase III of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey in Louisiana
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Morgan S. Earp, Sammye Crawford)
|
June
2008
|
Assessing
the Effect of Calibration on Nonresponse Bias in the 2006 ARMS Phase
III Sample Using Census 2002 Data
(Morgan S. Earp, Jaki S. McCarthy, Nick D. Schauer, Phillip S. Kott)
|
June
2008 |
Pre-Recorded Telephone
Messages As An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards
II
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)
|
May
2008 |
Price
Reactions After the Official Release of the NASS Honey Publication
(Christopher W. Taylor)
|
Jan
2008 |
Assessing
the Effect of Calibration on Nonresponse Bias in the 2005 ARMS Phase
III Sample Using 2002 Census of Agriculture Data
(Morgan S. Earp, Jaki S. McCarthy, Nick D. Schauer, Phillip S. Kott)
|
Jan
2008 |
Building a Better
Delete-a-Group Jackknife for a Calibration Estimator (Like That Based
on Data from the ARMS III) Extension of paper presented at the Workshop
on Calibration and Estimation in Surveys, Ottawa, Ontario.
(Phillip S. Kott)
|
Jan
2008 |
A
Comparison of the Long and Short Forms Used in the 2005 Census Content
Test
(Jaki S. McCarthy)
|
Dec
2007 |
January
2007 Labor Estimates Methodology
(Stephen Busselberg)
|
Nov
2007 |
Using Calibration Weighting
to Adjust for Nonresponse Under a Plausible Model
(with full appendices)
(Ted Chang and Phillip S. Kott)
|
Nov
2007 |
Comparison
of Methods for Estimating Crop Yields at the County Level
(Michael Bellow)
|
Aug
2007 |
Pre-Recorded
Telephone Messages As An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder
Postcards
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)
|
June
2007 |
Supplemental Samples for the
2007 Area Frame: A Design for Estimating Numbers of NML Farms for the
2007 Census of Agriculture
(Raj S. Chhikara, Floyd M. Spears, Charles R. Perry, Phillip S. Kott)
|
March
2007 |
The Effect
of Incentives on Response in 2005 ARMS Phase III Interviews
(Jaki S. McCarthy, Daniel G. Beckler, Kathleen Ott)
|
Dec
2006 |
Using Handheld Global Positioning
System Receivers for the Wheat Objective Yield Survey
(Michael W. Gerling)
|
Sept
2006
|
Using Handheld Global
Positioning System Receivers for the June Area Survey
(Michael W. Gerling)
|
Sept
2006
|
Using Personal Digital Assistants
for the 2004 Cotton Objective Yield Survey
(Kathy Neas, Jubal Molina, Jason Hardegree, Michael W. Gerling)
|
March
2006
|
Indirect Monetary
Incentives for the 2004 ARMS Phase III Core
(Daniel G. Beckler,Kathleen Ott, and Peter Horvath)
|
Nov
2005
|
Using Handheld
Global Positioning System Receivers for Phase II of the Agricultural
Resource Management Survey
(Michael W. Gerling)
|
Oct
2005
|
'No' Is the Easiest
Answer: Using Calibration to Assess Nonignorable Nonresponse in
the 2002 Census of Agriculture Paper presented at the
Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
(Phillip S. Kott)
|
Aug
2005 |
A New Look into Portable Electronic
Devices for Field Data Collection in the National Agricultural Statistics
Service
(Michael W. Gerling)
|
Nov
2004
|
Modeling NML Using the Area Frame
Survey
(Theodore Chang and Phillip S. Kott) |
Aug
2004 |
Cost and
Benefit Analysis of a Cropland Data Layer
(George Hanuschak, Rick Mueller)
|
Nov
2002 |
Developmental Status of
a New Processing System for Agricultural Data
(Dale Atkinson)
|
May
2002 |
Comparing 30 Meter
Imagery From LANDSAT 5 AND 7 for Crop Area Estimation
(Michael E. Craig)
|
April
2002 |
Creating a Cropland
Data Layer for an Entire State
(Rick Mueller and Martin Ozga)
|
April
2002 |
Combined Correlated Unbiased
Estimators of the Mean of a Normal Distribution
(Tim Keller and Ingrid Olkin)
|
March
2002 |
Generalized
Census and Survey Processing System at the National Agricultural Statistics
Service
(Carol C. House)
|
Aug
2001 |
Estimating the Model Variance
of a Randomization-Consistent Regression Estimator
(Phillip S. Kott and K.R.W. Brewer)
|
Aug
2001 |
Women’s Contributions
to the Workforce: Are New Measures Needed?
(Martha S. Farrar and Fred A. Vogel)
|
Aug 2001 |
Using
the Delete-A-Group Jackknife Variance Estimator in NASS Surveys
(Phillip S. Kott)
|
July
2001 |
A
Generalized Edit and Analysis System for Agricultural Data
(Dale Atkinson and Carol House)
|
June
2001 |
Statistical
Aspects of a Census
(Carol C. House)
|
June
2001 |
Using
Respondent Requests for Help to Develop Quality Data Collection Instruments:
The 2000 Census of Agriculture Content Test
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)
|
May
2001 |
Developing a State-of-the-Art
Editing and Imputation System for NASS’ Agricultural Censuses
and Sample Surveys
(Dale Atkinson)
|
Oct
2000 |
Poisson Sampling, Regression
Estimation, and the Delete-a-Group Jackknife
(Phillip S. Kott)
|
Aug
2000 |
Survey Burden
and its Impact on Attitudes Toward the Survey Sponsor
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy and Daniel G. Beckler)
|
June
2000 |
The Theory and Practice of
Maximal Brewer Selection With Poisson PRN Sampling
(Phillip S. Kott And Jeffrey T. Bailey)
|
June
2000 |
Visualization
of a Crop Season
The Integration of Remotely Sensed Data and Survey Data
(Gail Wade and George Hanuschak)
|
April
2000
|
Evaluation
of Integer Weighting for the 1997 Census of Agriculture
(Wendy Scholetzky)
|
Jan
2000 |
Exploring the Relationship
Between Survey Participation and Survey Sponsorship: What do Respondents
and Nonrespondents Think of Us?
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy, Jay V. Johnson, and Kathleen Ott)
|
Oct
1999 |
Appropriate
Role of Remote Sensing in U.S. Agricultural Statistics
(Robert Hale) |
June
1999
|
Using Multi-Phase Sampling
to Limit Respondent Burden Across Agriculture Surveys
(Phillip S. Kott and Matthew J. Fetter)
|
June
1999 |
Evaluation of the AGGIES Automated
Edit and Imputation System
(Todd A. Todaro)
|
Jan
1999 |
Policy Issues Associated
with the Utilization of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the
U.S. National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
(Rich Allen, Ron Bosecker, and George Hanuschak)
|
Oct
1998 |
A (Partially)
Model-Based Look At Jackknife Variance Estimation With Two-Phase Samples
(Phillip S. Kott)
|
June
1997 |
Redrawing
the 1994 Farm Costs and Returns Survey List Frame Sample to Reduce its
Overlap with the 1993 FCRS and Three Other Major 1994 Surveys
(Charles R. Perry, Jameson C. Burt and William C. Iwig)
|
Sept
1995 |
Redrawing
the 1993 Farm Costs and Returns Survey List Frame Sample to Reduce its
Overlap with the 1992 FCRS and Three Other Major 1993 Surveys
(Charles R. Perry, Jameson C. Burt and William C. Iwig)
|
Oct
1994 |
Methods
of Selecting Samples in Multiple Surveys to Reduce Respondent Burden
(Charles R. Perry, Jameson C. Burt and William C. Iwig)
|
Aug
1993 |
Identifying
and Classifying Reasons for Nonresponse on the 1991 Farm Costs and Returns
Survey
(Terry P. O'Connor)
|
Dec
1992 |
Identifying
and Classifying Reasons for Nonresponse on the 1990 Farm Costs and Returns
Survey
(Terry P. O'Connor)
|
Dec
1991 |
Mathematical Formulae For The 1989 Survey Processing System (SPS) Summary
(Phillip S. Kott)
|
May
1990 |
