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Activity Number:
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533
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #306322 |
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Title:
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Record Linkage and Automatic Maintenance Activities
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Author(s):
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Holly Smith*+ and Denise Abreu and Kara Daniel and Stan Hoge and Bill Iwig
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Companies:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Agricultural Statistics Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service and National Agricultural Statistics Service
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Address:
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1400 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC, 20250-2023,
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Keywords:
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maintenance updates ; record linkage ; list frame
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Abstract:
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The National Agricultural Statistics Service's mission is to provide timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture. To achieve this goal, NASS needs a reliable and efficient list sampling frame of agricultural producers in the United States. In 1997, responsibility for the Census of Agriculture was transferred to NASS from the U.S. Census Bureau. NASS's annual survey program has grown to include economic and environmental statistics. These responsibilities created the need to handle list maintenance activities more efficiently. This paper provides an overview of NASS and its procedures for utilizing record linkage for list-building and maintenance. It describes how NASS reviews records and highlights features of its RecLink application and discusses current record linkage projects utilized for maintaining demographic and control data updates.
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