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Abstract
The authors regret that the above paper contained an error in the calculation of the survey expansion
weights (Lambert et al., 2014, p. 110). Using the notation of the paper, the expansion factor for the
lth stratum was introduced as wl =agbh=ngh, where g indexes states and h indexes farm size class.
This is in fact the correct expression if Sinkhorn’s (1964) RAS method were used. However, Ireland
and Kullback’s (1968) cross-entropy method was used to estimate the expansion factors, and division
of variables a and b by the survey response frequency (ngh) is unnecessary. The typographical error
has no bearing on the empirical analysis.
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