The transfer of the census of agriculture from the U.S. Bureau of the Census to the National
Agricultural Statistics service provided an opportunity for the Agency to improve both the census and
its ongoing survey and estimation program through effective integration of the two. This paper
addresses the re-engineering of the census processing system into a generalized edit and analysis
system for use on the broad spectrum of agricultural data. The paper discusses issues such as edit
philosophy, data capture, macro and micro graphical analysis.
