Economics and Statistics Services (ESS) Reports

The typical home of a hired farmworker, compared with a rural farm and nonfarm home, was more likely to have fewer rooms, be part of a multiunit structure (although most [...]

This report summarizes the impact of omitting acreage questions and modifying the operation description section in cattle surveys. Results indicated that acreage questio [...]

The loan-grant program for rural water and waste water disposal facilities of the Farmers Home Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is described. Using c [...]

Excerpts from the report Conclusions: The study draws the following specific conclusions from its analysis. 1. In the near term, the coordination of government policie [...]

Excerpts from the report: The Statistical Reporting Service, presently part of the Economics and Statistics Service (ESS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), h [...]

Excerpts from the Introduction: The sampling strategy and techniques employed in the June Enumerative Survey (JES) provides a capability to obtain accurate crop acreage [...]

Nigeria is simultaneously the largest food producer and the third largest food importer in Africa. A combination of factors has given rise to this contradictory state of [...]

A variety of Chinese sources were used to estimate China's cotton acreage and production by province for selected years from 1957 to 1980. Peculiarities of Chinese data [...]

OSTI abstract: The report is a layman's description of the COALTOWN simulation model. COALTOWN simulates future employment, population, wages, migration, state and loca [...]

Introduction: This document contains a series of briefing sheets on current modeling activity in ESS. It was compiled for an administrative briefing on this topic. The [...]