@article{Hurley:143322,
      recid = {143322},
      author = {Hurley, Ray and Smith, Richard K.},
      title = {New Approaches and Methods for the 1950 Census of  Agriculture},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics Research},
      address = {1951-10},
      number = {1489-2016-125458},
      series = {Vol. 3, No. 3},
      pages = {6},
      year = {1951},
      abstract = {The agricultural censuses are one of the basic foundations  of not only our statistics relating
to crops, livestock,  and farms generally but also of large blocks of  agricultural economics
research. Agricultural statisticians  and researchers necessarily have a keen interest in any
new  methods of obtaining or new developments in tabulating and  publishing census data.
As State and county materials from  the 1950 Census of Agriculture are now being released,
the  following article is timely. Ray Hurley, Statistician in  Charge of the Agricultural
Census, Bureau of the Census,  and R. K. Smith, Vice Chairman of the U. S. D. A.'s  Crop
Reporting Board, describe some of the new approaches  used by the Census to assure a more
complete coverage of  farms, some of the new sampling techniques, and the use of  State
"economic areas" as the basis for publishing certain  kinds of census data. The discussion
of the techniques used  to obtain a more adequate coverage of both farms and  subject matter,
is not an attempt to evaluate the internal  accuracy of the answers obtained—that task
is still in  process. A note has been added, over the signature of Dr.  Hagood, describing the
new concept or definition of farm  population used in the 1950 Population Census and  briefly
summarizing its effect.-0. V. Wells.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/143322},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.143322},
}