<?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%">Benecha, H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abreu, D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Abernethy, J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sartore, L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Young, L. Y.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"> Evaluation of a New Approach for Estimating the Number of U.S. Farms</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%">Agriculture</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Area-frame</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BigData</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Capture-Recapture</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">List Frame</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Logistic Regression</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Misclassification Error</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">NASS</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/Benecha_Estim_Farms_20170929.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;USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) employs the June Area Survey (JAS) to produce annual&amp;nbsp;estimates of U.S. farm numbers. The JAS is an area-frame-based survey conducted every year during the first two&amp;nbsp;weeks of June. NASS also publishes an independent estimate of the number of farms from the quinquennial Census&amp;nbsp;of Agriculture. Studies conducted by NASS have shown that farm number estimates from the JAS can be biased,&amp;nbsp;mainly due to misclassification of agricultural tracts during the pre-screening and data collection processes. To adjust&amp;nbsp;for the bias, NASS has developed a capture-recapture model that uses NASS’s list frame as the second sample, where&amp;nbsp;estimation is performed based on records in the JAS with matches in the list frame. In the current paper, we describe&amp;nbsp;an alternative capture-recapture approach that uses all available data from the JAS and the Census of Agriculture to&amp;nbsp;correct for biases due to misclassification and to produce more stable farm number estimates.&lt;/p&gt;
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