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Activity Number:
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556
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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| Abstract - #304453 |
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Title:
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Overview of the Census of Agriculture
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Author(s):
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Chris S. Messer*+
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Companies:
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National Agricultural Statistics Service
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Address:
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USDA/NASS, Room 5348A South Building, Washington, DC, 20250-2001,
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Keywords:
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census of agriculture ; Census List ; Not-on-List ; data collection methods ; quality measures ; response rate
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Abstract:
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The census of agriculture is conducted every five years and relies heavily upon comprehensive project management to accomplish the tasks required to ensure the high data quality standards. These tasks begin with a thorough evaluation of the most recently conducted census of agriculture. This paper describes the major steps involved to conduct the census of agriculture focusing on building the census mail list and measures of incompleteness (not-on-mail list); marketing the census of agriculture; utilization of various data collection methods; data analysis; summarization; and dissemination of results.
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