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Revising
the Estimation Strategy for the Pesticide Data Program
(Phillip
S. Kott)
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Aug
2008
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Can Calibration Be
Used to Adjust for 'Nonignorable' Nonresponse?
Paper
presented at the
Joint Statistical Meetings, Denver, Colorado.
(Phillip
S. Kott and Ted Chang)
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July
2008
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Nonresponse in Phase
III of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey in Louisiana
(Michael
W. Gerling, HoaiNam N. Tran, Morgan S. Earp, Sammye Crawford)
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June
2008
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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)
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June
2008
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Pre-Recorded Telephone
Messages As An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards
II
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)
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May
2008
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Price
Reactions After the Official Release of the NASS Honey Publication
(Christopher
W. Taylor)
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Jan
2008
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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)
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Jan
2008
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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)
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Jan
2008
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January 2007
Labor Estimates Methodology
(Stephen Busselberg)
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Nov
2007
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Using Calibration Weighting to Adjust for Nonresponse Under
a Plausible Model
(with full appendices)
(Ted Chang and Phillip
S. Kott)
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Nov
2007
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Comparison of
Methods for Estimating Crop Yields at the County Level
(Michael Bellow)
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Aug
2007
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Pre-Recorded Telephone
Messages As An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)
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June
2007
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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)
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March
2007
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The Effect of
Incentives on Response in 2005 ARMS Phase III Interviews (16.3 MB)
(Jaki S. McCarthy, Daniel G. Beckler, Kathleen Ott)
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Dec
2006
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Using
Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for the Wheat Objective
Yield Survey
(Michael
W. Gerling)
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Sept
2006
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Using
Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for the June Area Survey
(Michael
W. Gerling)
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Sept
2006
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Using
Personal Digital Assistants for the 2004 Cotton Objective Yield Survey
(Kathy
Neas, Jubal Molina, Jason Hardegree, Michael W. Gerling)
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March
2006
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Indirect Monetary
Incentives for the 2004 ARMS Phase III Core
(Daniel G.
Beckler, Kathleen Ott,
and Peter
Horvath)
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Nov
2005
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Using Handheld Global
Positioning System Receivers for Phase II of the Agricultural Resource
Management Survey
(Michael
W. Gerling)
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Oct
2005
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'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)
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Aug
2005
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A New Look into
Portable
Electronic Devices for Field Data Collection in the National
Agricultural Statistics Service
(Michael
W. Gerling)
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Nov
2004
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Modeling NML
Using the Area Frame Survey
(Theodore Chang and Phillip S. Kott) |
Aug
2004 |
Pilot Research Project:
Investigation of Very High Resolution Spaceborne Imagery for Citrus
Tree Counting
(George
Hanuschak and Rick Mueller, Claire Boryan, Mike Craig, Mike Fleming)
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May
2003
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Cost
and Benefit
Analysis of a Cropland Data Layer
(George
Hanuschak, Rick Mueller)
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Nov
2002
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Developmental Status of a New
Processing System for Agricultural Data
(Dale
Atkinson)
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May
2002
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Comparing
30
Meter Imagery From LANDSAT 5 AND 7 for Crop Area Estimation
(Michael E.
Craig)
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April
2002
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Creating
a
Cropland Data Layer for an Entire State
(Rick Mueller
and Martin Ozga)
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April
2002
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Generalized
Census and Survey Processing System at the National Agricultural
Statistics Service
(Carol C. House)
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Aug
2001
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Estimating the Model Variance of a
Randomization-Consistent Regression Estimator
(Phillip S. Kott and K.R.W. Brewer)
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Aug
2001
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Women’s Contributions to the
Workforce: Are New Measures Needed?
(Martha S. Farrar and Fred A. Vogel)
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Aug 2001
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Using
the Delete-A-Group Jackknife Variance Estimator in NASS Surveys
(Phillip S. Kott)
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July
2001
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A
Generalized Edit and Analysis System for Agricultural Data
(Dale
Atkinson and Carol House)
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June
2001
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Statistical
Aspects of a Census
(Carol
C. House)
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June
2001
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Using
Respondent Requests for Help to Develop Quality Data Collection
Instruments: The 2000 Census of Agriculture Content Test
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)
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May
2001
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Developing a State-of-the-Art
Editing and Imputation System for NASS’ Agricultural Censuses and
Sample Surveys
(Dale
Atkinson)
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Oct
2000
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Poisson Sampling, Regression
Estimation, and the Delete-a-Group Jackknife
(Phillip S. Kott)
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Aug
2000
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Survey Burden and
its Impact on Attitudes Toward the Survey Sponsor
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy and Daniel G. Beckler)
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June
2000
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The Theory and Practice of Maximal
Brewer Selection With Poisson PRN Sampling
(Phillip S. Kott And Jeffrey T. Bailey)
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June
2000
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Visualization of
a Crop Season
The Integration of Remotely Sensed Data and Survey Data
(Gail
Wade and George Hanuschak)
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April
2000
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Evaluation of
Integer Weighting for the 1997 Census of Agriculture
(Wendy
Scholetzky)
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Jan
2000
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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)
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Oct
1999
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Appropriate
Role
of Remote Sensing in U.S. Agricultural Statistics
(Robert Hale)
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June
1999
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Using Multi-Phase Sampling to
Limit Respondent Burden Across Agriculture Surveys
(Phillip S. Kott and Matthew J. Fetter)
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June
1999
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Evaluation of the AGGIES Automated
Edit and Imputation System
(Todd
A. Todaro)
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Jan
1999
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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)
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Oct
1998
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A (Partially)
Model-Based Look At Jackknife Variance Estimation With Two-Phase Samples
(Phillip
S. Kott)
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June
1997
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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)
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Sept
1995
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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)
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Oct
1994
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Methods of
Selecting Samples in Multiple Surveys to Reduce Respondent Burden
(Charles R. Perry, Jameson C. Burt and William C. Iwig)
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Aug
1993
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