Agricultural Statistics 2000

ISI - INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

An International Conference on Agricultural Statistics

~ March 18 - 20, 1998 ~

~ Proceedings ~

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Marcel P.R. Van den Broecke

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Table of Contents

*Introduction* (title, dedication, preface, table of contents)	page-i
*Agricultural Statistics 2000: Opening Remarks*
~ Fred Vogel, Program Chair, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA ~ Marcel P.R. Van den Broecke, Director, International Statistical Institute ~ Donald M. Bay, Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA	page-1
*Agricultural Statistics Requirements and Uses*
Agricultural Statistics for Public Policy Issues ~ Keith Collins, United States Department of Agriculture	page-7
Agricultural Statistics for Private Sector and Global Marketing ~ Daniel G. Amstutz, North American Export Grain Association	page-13
Agricultural Statistics for Environmental Monitoring and Policy ~ Kevin Parris, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development	page-16
Agricultural Statistics for Rural Development ~ Ray D. Bollman, Statistics Canada	page-29
International Standards and Definitions for Agricultural Statistics and Requirements for World Census of Agriculture ~ L. Odell Larson & Pratap Narain, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	page-42
Discussion ~ Michael Ward, The World Bank	page-51
*Sources of Agricultural Statistics - Part 1*
Experience with Annual Censuses of Agriculture ~ Glen Sward, Geoff Heffernan & Alan Mackay, Australian Bureau of Statistics	page-59
Experiences with Census of Agriculture in Africa ~ Ben Kiregyera, FAO Consultant, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania	page-71
Agricultural Census and Improvement of Rural Statistics in China ~ Zhu Xiangdong, State Statistical Bureau, People’s Republic of China	page-83
Sampling Strategy for Agricultural Censuses and Surveys in Developing Countries ~ Isidoro P. David, Asian Development Bank	page-96
Integration of Administrative Data with Survey and Census Data ~ Michael Trant & Patricia Whitridge, Statistics Canada	page-107
Discussion ~ Bal B.P.S. Goel, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute	page-115
*Sources of Agricultural Statistics - Part 2*
Crop Cutting vs. Farmer Reports - Review of Swedish Findings ~ Lars Hagblad, Statistics Sweden	page-123
Agrometeorological Crop Yield Forecasting Methods ~ René Gommes, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	page-133
Statistics Canada’s Near Real-Time Crop Condition Assessment Program Utilizing NOAA AVHRR Data - Remote Sensing, GIS and the Internet ~ Gordon C. Reichert, Paul R. Nixon & Richard N. Dobbins, Statistics Canada	page-142
Data Collection for Environmental Monitoring of the Agriculture Industry ~ Sarah Coleman, Nicholas Stathis, Geoff Heffernan & Alan Mackay, Australian Bureau of Statistics	page-149
Surveys for Farm Structure, Agricultural Accounts and Total Income of Agricultural Households ~ Berkeley Hill, Wye College, University of London, UK	page-162
Discussion ~ Ulf Jorner, Statistics Sweden	page-173
*Advancements in Survey Methodology and Analysis*
The National Resources Inventory and its Role in U.S. Agriculture ~ J. Jeffery Goebel, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA	page-181
Land Cover and Land Use Classification using TER-UTI ~ Christian Gay & Jean-Claude Porchier, Service Central des Enquêtes et Études Statistiques, France	page-193
Utilization of Document Imaging Technology by the 1996 Canadian Census of Agriculture ~ Mel Jones & Ivan Green, Statistics Canada	page-202
New Methods of Editing and Imputation ~ Svein Nordbotten, University of Bergen, Norway	page-220
Partial Overlap Samples and Combining Information ~ Wayne A. Fuller, Iowa State University, USA	page-229
Small Area Estimation in India - Crop Yield and Acreage Statistics ~ B.D. Tikkiwal, Institute of Developmental Research and Statistics, India & G.C. Tikkiwal, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur, India	page-238
Discussion ~ Francisco Javier Gallego, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission	page-251
*Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems for Agricultural Statistics*
New Elements for Harmonized Approaches on Land Cover/Land Use Information Systems ~ Jean Meyer-Roux & A. Annoni, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, C. Vidal & D.W. Heath, Statistical Office of the European Communities, & C. Duhamel, CESD-Communautaire	page-257
Area Frame Sample Designs: A Comparison with the MARS Project ~ Elisabetta Carfagna, University of Bologna, Italy	page-261
Remote Sensing in Mexico ~ Juan Manuel Galarza & Guillermo Arita, Centro de Estadística Agropecuaria, Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería y Desarrollo Rural, México	page-278
Crop Monitoring in Morocco Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems: From a Management Perspective ~ Seghir Bouzaffour, Ministry of Agriculture, Morocco & George Hanuschak, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA	page-282
GIS Use in the Framework of a National Statistical Office: Establishment of Land Use Statistics and Geocoding of National Censuses ~ Rainer Humbel, Swiss Federal Statistical Office	page-291
Discussion ~ George Hanuschak, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA	page-305
*Future Perspectives for Agricultural Statistics*
Issues and Concerns for Developed Countries ~ Andreas Lindner, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development	page-311
Issues and Concerns for Emerging Market Countries ~ Irena Ore›nik, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia	page-323
Issues and Concerns for Developing Countries ~ Ladislav Kabat, L. Naiken, A. David Marshall & Pratap Narain, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations	page-332
Technological Trends in Statistics: the Dutch Perspective ~ Wouter J. Keller, Statistics Netherlands & Marcel P.R. Van den Broecke, International Statistical Institiute	page-341
Trends Affecting Agricultural Statisticians ~ Rich Allen, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA	page-343
Discussion ~ Kelley White, Economic Research Service, USDA	page-351
*Agricultural Statistics 2000: Closing Remarks* ~ Fred Vogel, Program Chair, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA	page-355
*Contributed Papers*
Spatial Sampling Strategies ~ Luis Ambrosio Flores & Luis Iglesias Martínez, U.P.M. Madrid, Spain & Robert P. Haining, University of Sheffield, England	page-359
Eurostat’s Input and Candidate Countries: Agricultural Statistics ~ Giuseppe Calo, Statistical Office of the European Communities	page-361
Issues on a Food Consumption Survey in Korea ~ Ji-Hyeon Choi, Korea Rural Economic Institute	page-364
How GIS Technology Can Answer Information Needs on Agricultural New Open Markets ~ Marie-Christine Delucq & Damien Lepoutre, GEOSYS, Ramonville, France	page-366
Inequality in Israeli Agriculture ~ Elana Dror & Haim Regev, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel	page-369
Linux: International UNIX and Freeware for Statisticians ~ Charles M. Fleming & Jameson Burt, National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA	page-371
Maize Yield Forecast Based on Cob Size ~ Bal B.P.S. Goel, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute	page-374
Sampling Design for a Farm Household Economy Survey in Korea ~ Jongwoo Jeon, Seoul National University & Kyu Seong Kim, University of Seoul, Republic of Korea	page-377
The Argentine National Census of Agriculture of 1998 ~ Delia Keller, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, Argentina	page-379
Experiences with Census of Agriculture in Korea ~ Dong-Keun Kim, Agricultural Statistics & Information Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry, Korea	page-381
A New Estimating Method for Normal Yield of Rice ~ Fumio Nakayama & Koji Kitamura, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, Japan	page-383
Making Objective Crop Forecasts ~ G.S. Ram, Ministry of Agriculture, India	page-385
Unbiased Estimation of Production Total Using Specific Sampling Designs ~ M. Ruiz Espejo, UNED, Madrid, Spain, & Housila P. Singh & Rajesh Singh, Vikram University, India	page-387
Estimation of Per-Farm Indexes for Each Product Sector from a Farm Management Survey ~ Shomei Tsukibayashi, Aichi University, Japan	page-389
The Evolution of the Official Australian Agricultural Statistics Collection System ~ Edward Whybrow, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Australia	page-391
Market Information Service for Fresh Food in Japan ~ Masao Yoshida, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan	page-394

*Appendix A:* Index of Authors and Presenters	page-399
*Appendix B:* Conference Program	page-401
*Appendix C:* Conference Participants (alphabetically, by country, map of countries represented)	page-405

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