The Research and Development Division of NASS conducts applied research on the use of statistical methodology and information technology to improve the nation's agricultural statistics system of the future. A fully searchable historic archive of over 750 research reports has been established on a set of three CD's.
Pre-Recorded Telephone Messages As An Alternative To Follow-Up Survey Reminder Postcards
(Jaki Stanley McCarthy)
June 2007
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)
Mar 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
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
On Calibration Weighting
(Phillip S. Kott)
Aug 2003
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)
May 2003
Cost and Benefit Analysis of a Cropland Data Layer
(George Hanuschak, Rick Mueller)
Nov 2002
Randomization-Assisted Model-Based Survey
Sampling
(Phillip S. Kott)
June 2002
Developmental Status of a New Processing System for Agricultural Data
(Phillip S. Kott)
May 2002
Developmental Status of a New Processing System for Agricultural Data
(Michael E. Craig)
April 2002
Creating a Cropland Data Layer for an Entire State
(Rick Mueller and Martin Ozga)
April 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
(Martha S. Farrar and Fred A. Vogel)
Aug 2001
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
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
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
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