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Title/Author(s)	Date
2007 Classification Error Survey for the United States Census of Agriculture (Denise A. Abreu, Nancy J. Dickey, Jaki S. McCarthy)	Sept 2009
2014 Organic Survey – Promotional Materials Usability Testing (Heather Ridolfo)	Nov 2015
2014 Organic Survey – Results from Cognitive Testing (Heather Ridolfo)	Nov 2015
2019 Agricultural Labor Base and Overtime Hours Cognitive Testing Report (Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott)	April 2021
2019 Cognitive Testing of the Agricultural Labor Survey (Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott)	April 2021
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)	June 2001
A Method for Improving List Building: Cluster Profiling (Will Cecere, Denise A. Abreu, Jaki S. McCarthy, and Thomas Jacob)	Sept 2011
A (Partially) Model-Based Look At Jackknife Variance Estimation With Two-Phase Samples (Phillip S. Kott)	June 1997
A New Land Cover Classification Based Stratification Method for Area Sampling Frame Construction (Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang)	July 2012
A New Look into Portable Electronic Devices for Field Data Collection in the National Agricultural Statistics Service (Michael W. Gerling)	Nov 2004
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
Appropriate Role of Remote Sensing in U.S. Agricultural Statistics (Robert Hale)	June 1999
April 2011 Labor Estimates Methodology (Stephen Busselberg)	Nov 2011
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
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
Assessment of an Imputation Process Used in the 2017 Census of Agriculture (Tara Murphy, Habtamu Benecha, Denise A. Abreu, Darcy Miller )	May 2024
Bayesian Small Area Models under Inequality Constraints with Benchmarking and Double Shrinkage (Balgobin Nandram, Nathan B. Cruze, Andreea L. Erciulescu, Lu Chen)	July 2022
Behavior Coding of October 2017 Agricultural Labor Survey (Heather Ridolfo, David Biagas Jr., Emilola J. Abayomi, Joseph Rodhouse)	Sept 2020
Behavior Coding of October 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey (Joseph Rodhouse, Heather Ridolfo, Emilola J. Abayomi, David Biagas Jr.)	April 2021
Behavior Coding of the April 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey (Heather Ridolfo, David Biagas Jr., Emilola J. Abayomi, and Joseph Rodhouse)	April 2021
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
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
Categorizing Nonresponse in Phase III of the 2006 Agricultural Resource Management 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
Cognitive Testing of the April 2018 Agricultural Labor Survey (Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott)	Sept 2020
Collecting Data from a Permanent Grid Sampling Frame via a Mobile Mapping Instrument (Denise A. Abreu, Linda A. Lawson, Michael Hyman, Rick Hardin, and Michael Gerling)	April 2017
Combined Correlated Unbiased Estimators of the Mean of a Normal Distribution (Tim Keller and Ingrid Olkin)	March 2002
Comparing 30 Meter Imagery From LANDSAT 5 AND 7 for Crop Area Estimation (Michael E. Craig)	April 2002
Comparing Geographic Information System (GIS) Calculated Acreage to Farmer Reported Acreage Utilizing a Mobile Mapping Instrument (Claire G. Boryan, Linda A. Lawson, Michael Hyman, Denise A. Abreu, Michael W. Gerling, Rick Hardin)	July 2017
Comparing Web Scraped Establishment Survey Frames of Industrial Hemp Growers in Seven States: Costs, Contact Data, and Accuracy of Frame (Michael Gerling, Chad Garber, Katherine Vande Pol, Tyler Wilson)	Oct 2024
Comparison of Methods for Estimating Crop Yields at the County Level (Michael Bellow)	Aug 2007
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)	Nov 2002
Creating a Cropland Data Layer for an Entire State (Rick Mueller and Martin Ozga)	April 2002
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
Developing a State-of-the-Art Editing and Imputation System for NASS’ Agricultural Censuses and Sample Surveys (Dale Atkinson)	Oct 2000
Developing crop specific area frame stratifications based on geospatial crop frequency and cultivation data layers (Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang, Patrick Willis, Liping Di)	Feb 2017
Developmental Status of a New Processing System for Agricultural Data (Dale Atkinson)	May 2002
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
Estimating the Model Variance of a Randomization-Consistent Regression Estimator (Phillip S. Kott and K.R.W. Brewer)	Aug 2001
Evaluating the Asymptotic Limits of the Delete-a-Group Jackknife for Model Analyses (Phillip S. Kott, Steven T. Garren)	May 2009
Evaluating the June Area Survey’s Field Enumerator Training (Michael Gerling, Tyler Wilson, Justin Van Wart, Joseph Rodhouse, Andy Higgins)	March 2019
Evaluation of Integer Weighting for the 1997 Census of Agriculture (Wendy Scholetzky)	Jan 2000
Evaluation of the AGGIES Automated Edit and Imputation System (Todd A. Todaro)	Jan 1999
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)	May 2009
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
Field Data Collection Using Geographic Information Systems Technologies and iPads on the USDA's June Area Frame Survey (Michael W. Gerling, Linda Lawson, Jillayne Weaber, Alan Dotts, Andrew Vardeman, Eric Wilson)	July 2015
Findings for the 2018 Agricultural Labor Base Wage Question Experiments (Benjamin Reist, Tyler Wilson, Heather Ridolfo, Linda J. Young)	March 2019
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)	Aug 2001
Honey Bees on the Move: From Pollination to Honey Production and Back (Jennifer K. Bond, Claudia Hitaj, David Smith, Kevin Hunt, Agnes Perez, and Gustavo Ferreira)	June 2021
How do Farmers and Ranchers Describe their Race and/or Ethnicity? Qualitative Testing Findings (Struther Van Horn, Kathy Ott)	June 2023
Identifying and Classifying Reasons for Nonresponse on the 1990 Farm Costs and Returns Survey (Terry P. O'Connor)	Dec 1991
Identifying and Classifying Reasons for Nonresponse on the 1991 Farm Costs and Returns Survey (Terry P. O'Connor)	Dec 1992
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)	Nov 2005
Integration of the Cropland Data Layer Based Automatic Stratification Method Into the Traditional Area Frame Construction Process (Claire G. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang)	Dec 2017
Interviewer and Respondent Behaviors Related to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Disability Questions: Behavior Coding of the Farm Producer Studys (Struther Van Horn, Kathy Ott, Doug Kilburg, Carlos Coleman)	Mar 2023
Introducing a New Integer Calibration Procedure (Luca Sartore, Kelly Toppin, Clifford Spiegelman)	July 2016
Item Response Rates for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey III in 2006 and 2007 (Darcy Miller, Terry P. O’Connor)	June 2012
January 2007 Labor Estimates Methodology (Stephen Busselberg)	Nov 2007
Mathematical Formulae For The 1989 Survey Processing System (SPS) Summary (Phillip S. Kott)	May 1990
Methods of Selecting Samples in Multiple Surveys to Reduce Respondent Burden (Charles R. Perry, Jameson C. Burt and William C. Iwig)	Aug 1993
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
Monitoring US Agriculture: The US Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Cropland Data Layer Program (Claire Boryan, Zhengwei Yang, Rick Mueller, Mike Craig)	April 2011
NASS Expert Panel on Publication of Agriculture Census Data on Farm Operator Demographics (National Agricultural Statistics Service)	Oct 2017
NASS Infographics Usability Testing (Heather Ridolfo)	Nov 2017
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
"'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
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
On Farm Grain Stocks Sample Methodology Review (Yang Cheng, Leslie Smith, Jeff Bailey, Linda J. Young)	Jan 2023
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
Optimal Placement of Instructions and Definitions in Survey Questionnaires (Heather Ridolfo and David Biagas Jr.)	April 2021
Poisson Sampling, Regression Estimation, and the Delete-a-Group Jackknife (Phillip S. Kott)	Aug 2000
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
Preliminary Findings for the April 2018 Agricultural Labor Base Wage Question Experiment (Benjamin M. Reist, Tyler Wilson, Shane T. Ball, Linda J. Young)	Sept 2018
Pre-Recorded Telephone Messages As  An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards (Jaki Stanley McCarthy)	June 2007
Pre-Recorded Telephone Messages As  An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards II (Jaki Stanley McCarthy)	May 2008
Previously Reported Data Usage in NASS Field Offices (Chris Gottschall)	June 2009
Price Reactions After the Official Release of the NASS Honey Publication (Christopher W. Taylor)	Jan 2008
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
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
Reductions in Reporting Errors in Total Acres Operated: Results from Multiphase Question Testing for the 2012 Census of Agriculture (Zulma T. Riberas, Jaki S. McCarthy, Stephen C. Logan, HoaiNam N. Tran)	Sept 2014
Reporting Contract Labor on the Agricultural Labor Survey (Heather Ridolfo, Kathy Ott)	Sept 2020
Respondents’ Reactions to Proposed Text Messaging (Heather Ridolfo)	Sept 2020
Revising the Estimation Strategy for the Pesticide Data Program (Phillip S. Kott)	Aug 2008
Revisions to the NASS Confidentiality Pledge: Results of Cognitive Testing (Heather Ridolfo)	May 2019
Statistical Aspects of a Census (Carol C. House)	June 2001
Subsampling of Nonrespondents in the 2017 Census of Agriculture (Benjamin M. Reist, Joseph B. Rodhouse, Shane T. Ball, Linda J. Young)	April 2019
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
Survey Burden and its Impact on Attitudes Toward the Survey Sponsor (Jaki Stanley McCarthy and Daniel G. Beckler)	June 2000
Targeted Data Collection Efforts for the 2012 ARMS III (Melissa Mitchell, Kathy Ott, Jaki S. McCarthy)	May 2015
Targeted Data Collection Efforts for the 2013 ARMS III (Melissa Mitchell, Kathy Ott, Heather Ridolfo, Jaki S. McCarthy)	May 2015
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)	Dec 2006
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 Farm Producer Survey: Unit and Item Nonresponse (Linda J. Young and Barbara R. Rater)	July 2022
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)	June 2000
The USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer Program Transition from Research to Operations (2006-2009) (Claire G. Boryan)	May 2010
Usability of the 2021 June Area Survey Prescreening Materials (Heather Ridolfo)	April 2021
Using Calibration Weighting to Adjust for Nonresponse Under a Plausible Model (with full appendices) (Ted Chang and Phillip S. Kott)	Nov 2007
USDA Microloans for Farmers: Participation Patterns and Effects of Outreach (Sarah Tulman, Nathaniel Higgins, Robert Williams, Michael Gerling, Charles Dodson, and Bruce McWilliams)	Dec 2016
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)	Oct 2005
Using Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for the June Area Survey (Michael W. Gerling)	Sept 2006
Using Handheld Global Positioning System Receivers for the Wheat Objective Yield Survey (Michael W. Gerling)	Sept 2006
Using Multi-Phase Sampling to Limit Respondent Burden Across Agriculture Surveys (Phillip S. Kott and Matthew J. Fetter)	June 1999
Using Nonresponse Propensity Scores to Set Data Collection Procedures for the Quarterly Agricultural Survey (Melissa Mitchell, Kathy Ott, Jaki S. McCarthy)	Nov 2014
Using Personal Digital Assistants for the 2004 Cotton Objective Yield Survey (Kathy Neas, Jubal Molina, Jason Hardegree, Michael W. Gerling)	March 2006
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)	May 2001
Using the Delete-A-Group Jackknife Variance Estimator in NASS Surveys (Phillip S. Kott)	July 2001
Visualization of a Crop Season The Integration of Remotely Sensed Data and Survey Data (Gail Wade and George Hanuschak)	April 2000
Who Makes Mistakes? Using Data Mining Techniques to Analyze Reporting Errors in Total Acres Operated (Jaki S. McCarthy, Morgan Earp)	April 2009
Will They Answer the Phone if They Know It’s Us? Using Caller ID to Improve Response Rates (Heather Ridolfo, Jeff Boone, Nancy Dickey)	Aug 2013
Women’s Contributions to the Workforce: Are New Measures Needed? (Martha S. Farrar and Fred A. Vogel)	Aug 2001