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Research Reports, by Date

Date

A New Land Cover Classification Based Stratification Method for Area Sampling Frame Construction
(Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang)

July
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

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

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

 

 


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