<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Toppin, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sartore, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spiegelman, C.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Design Weight and Calibration</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JSM 2017</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Calibration</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dual System Estimation; Weights; Census of Agriculture</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Submitted</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.niss.org/sites/default/files/Toppin_CaRC_20170926.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts the U.S. Census of Agriculture in years ending in 2 and 7. Population estimates from the census are adjusted for undercoverage,&amp;nbsp;non-response and misclassification and calibrated to known population totals. These&amp;nbsp;adjustments are reflected in weights that are attached to each responding unit. Calculating these&amp;nbsp;weights has been a two-part procedure. First, one calculates initial (Dual System Estimation or&amp;nbsp;DSE) weights that account for under-coverage, non-response and misclassification. and in the second&amp;nbsp;step, calibration is used to adjust the weights by forcing the weighted estimates obtained in the&amp;nbsp;first step to match known population totals. Recently, a calibration algorithm, Integer Calibration&lt;br /&gt;
(INCA), was developed to produce integer calibrated weights as required in NASS publications.&amp;nbsp;This paper considers combining the two steps of calculating weights into one. This new algorithm&amp;nbsp;is based on a regularized constrained dual system estimation methodology, which combines&amp;nbsp;capture-recapture and calibration (CaRC).&lt;/p&gt;
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