An Alternative to the Reinterview Survey Used to Measure Coverage Error in the United States Census of Agriculture
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In 1997, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) was granted the responsibility of conducting the Census of Agriculture. This census was previously conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Since NASS conducts many ongoing sample surveys on the Census of Agriculture’s target population, the opportunity arose to investigate alternative data sources to measure various aspects of the Census of Agriculture. This paper will examine the methodology and results of utilizing an existing area frame survey to replace the independent reinterview survey designed to measure classification error and duplication. The area frame survey successfully measured classification error and duplication comparable to results from the operational CES while utilizing less resources and reducing response burden.
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