2007 Classification Error Survey for the United States Census of Agriculture
(Denise A. Abreu, Nancy J. Dickey, Jaki S. McCarthy)

Sept
2009

A Comparison of the Long and Short Forms Used in the 2005 Census Content Test
(Jaki S. McCarthy)

Dec
2007

A Generalized Edit and Analysis System for Agricultural Data
(Dale Atkinson and Carol House)

A Method for Improving List Building: Cluster Profiling
(Will Cecere, Denise A. Abreu, Jaki S. McCarthy, and Thomas Jacob)

A (Partially) Model-Based Look At Jackknife Variance Estimation With Two-Phase Samples
(Phillip S. Kott)

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

A New Look into Portable Electronic Devices for Field Data Collection in the National Agricultural Statistics Service
(Michael W. Gerling)

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)

Annual Land Utilization Survey (ALUS): Design and Methodology
(Hailin Sang, Pam Arroway, Kenneth K. Lopiano, Denise A. Abreu, Andrea C. Lamas, Linda J. Young)

Appropriate Role of Remote Sensing in U.S. Agricultural Statistics
(Robert Hale)

April 2011 Labor Estimates Methodology
(Stephen Busselberg)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Categorizing Nonresponse in Phase III of the 2006 Agricultural Resource Managment Survey in Washington State
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Morgan Earp)

Sept
2008

Categorizing Nonresponse in the 2007 June Area Survey (California, Kansas, New York, Virginia and Washington State)
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Morgan Earp, Terry P. O'Connor)

Sept
2008

Combined Correlated Unbiased Estimators of the Mean of a Normal Distribution
(Tim Keller and Ingrid Olkin)

Comparing 30 Meter Imagery From LANDSAT 5 AND 7 for Crop Area Estimation
(Michael E. Craig)

Comparison of Methods for Estimating Crop Yields at the County Level
(Michael Bellow)

Comparison of Methods for Updating Census Based Estimates of Number of Farms to Non-Census Years
(Michael E. Bellow, Phillip S. Kott)

Nov
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

Cost and Benefit Analysis of a Cropland Data Layer
(George Hanuschak and Rick Mueller)

Creating a Cropland Data Layer for an Entire State
(Rick Mueller and Martin Ozga)

Data Tables: Reasons for Nonresponse in the 2009 June Area Survey
(HoaiNam N. Tran, Michael W. Gerling, Melissa Mitchell, Terry P. O’Connor)

Developing a State-of-the-Art Editing and Imputation System for NASS’ Agricultural Censuses and Sample Surveys
(Dale Atkinson)

Developmental Status of a New Processing System for Agricultural Data
(Dale Atkinson)

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)

Estimating the Model Variance of a Randomization-Consistent Regression Estimator
(Phillip S. Kott and K.R.W. Brewer)

Evaluating the Asymptotic Limits of the Delete-a-Group Jackknife for Model Analyses
(Phillip S. Kott, Steven T. Garren)

Evaluation of Integer Weighting for the 1997 Census of Agriculture
(Wendy Scholetzky)

Evaluation of the AGGIES Automated Edit and Imputation System
(Todd A. Todaro)

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

Exploring Quarterly Agricultural Survey Questionnaire Version Reduction Scenarios
(Morgan Earp, Scott Cox, Jody McDaniel, Chadd Crouse)

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)

General Overview of the NASS Objective Yield and Objective Measurement Programs
(Denise A. Abreu, Zulma T. Riberas)

Oct
2008

Generalized Census and Survey Processing System at the National Agricultural Statistics Service
(Carol C. House)

Identifying and Classifying Reasons for Nonresponse on the 1990 Farm Costs and Returns Survey
(Terry P. O'Connor)

Identifying and Classifying Reasons for Nonresponse on the 1991 Farm Costs and Returns Survey
(Terry P. O'Connor)

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

Indirect Monetary Incentives for the 2004 ARMS Phase III Core
(Daniel G. Beckler, Kathleen Ott, and Peter Horvath)

Item Response Rates for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey III in 2006 and 2007
(Darcy Miller, Terry P. O’Connor)

January 2007 Labor Estimates Methodology
(Stephen Busselberg)

Methods of Selecting Samples in Multiple Surveys to Reduce Respondent Burden
(Charles R. Perry, Jameson C. Burt and William C. Iwig)

Modeling NML Using the Area Frame Survey
(Theodore Chang and Phillip S. Kott)

Aug
2004

Modeling Non-response in National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Surveys Using Classification Trees
(Jaki S. McCarthy, Thomas Jacob, and Amanda McCracken)

Nov
2010

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)

"'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)

Nonresponse in Phase III of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey in Louisiana
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Morgan S. Earp, Sammye Crawford)

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)

Poisson Sampling, Regression Estimation, and the Delete-a-Group Jackknife
(Phillip S. Kott)

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)

Pre-Recorded Telephone Messages As  An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)

Pre-Recorded Telephone Messages As  An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards II
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)

Previously Reported Data Usage in NASS Field Offices
(Chris Gottschall)

Price Reactions After the Official Release of the NASS Honey Publication
(Christopher W. Taylor)

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)

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)

Revising the Estimation Strategy for the Pesticide Data Program
(Phillip S. Kott)

Statistical Aspects of a Census
(Carol C. House)

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)

Survey Burden and its Impact on Attitudes Toward the Survey Sponsor
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy and Daniel G. Beckler)

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 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

The Effect of Incentives on Response in 2005 ARMS Phase III Interviews
(Jaki S. McCarthy, Daniel G. Beckler, Kathleen Ott)

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

The Road to Understanding Nonresponse in the  June Area Survey
(Michael W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Terry P. O’Connor)

Nov
2010

The Theory and Practice of Maximal Brewer Selection With Poisson PRN Sampling
(Phillip S. Kott And Jeffrey T. Bailey)

Using Calibration Weighting to Adjust for Nonresponse Under a Plausible Model
(with full appendices)
(Ted Chang and Phillip S. Kott)

Using FSA Data to Improve the Prices Received for Grain Program
(William Cecere)

Oct
2009

Using Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for Phase II
of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey
(Michael W. Gerling)

Using Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for the June Area Survey
(Michael W. Gerling)

Using Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for the Wheat Objective Yield Survey
(Michael W. Gerling)

Using Multi-Phase Sampling to Limit Respondent Burden Across Agriculture Surveys
(Phillip S. Kott and Matthew J. Fetter)

Using Personal Digital Assistants for the 2004 Cotton Objective Yield Survey
(Kathy Neas, Jubal Molina, Jason Hardegree, Michael W. Gerling)

Using Previously Reported Cropland Acreage in Data Collection
(HoaiNam N. Tran, Michael W. Gerling)

Sept
2009

Using Respondent Prediction Models to Improve Efficiency of Incentive Allocation
(Morgan S. Earp, Jaki S. McCarthy)

Oct
2009

Using Respondent Requests for Help to Develop Quality Data Collection Instruments: The 2000 Census of Agriculture Content Test
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)

Using the Delete-A-Group Jackknife Variance Estimator in NASS Surveys
(Phillip S. Kott)

Visualization of a Crop Season
The Integration of Remotely Sensed Data and Survey Data
(Gail Wade and George Hanuschak)

Who Makes Mistakes? Using Data Mining Techniques to Analyze Reporting Errors in Total Acres Operated
(Jaki S. McCarthy, Morgan Earp)

April
2009

Women’s Contributions to the Workforce: Are New Measures Needed?
(Martha S. Farrar and Fred A. Vogel)